Anyone who writes web applications has likely built forms for users to enter their e-mail address. It’s considered a part of our basic identity now – like our name and address. It’s expected we have them. But then, inevitably, once we’ve collected e-mails from all our customers and we go to use them – we [...]

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I’ve been a part of discussions on how to define ‘seed’ data versus ‘testing’ data on a Ruby on Rails project. Here’s a summary of what I’ve seen work well — please comment if you have anything to add. Data loading is done for 2 purposes: First, to load data that will seed the system [...]

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I saw this on Quora today and thought it was the best answer ever. The question, as you can see, was “Who is the Mayor of Palo Alto as of March 10, 2011?” The answer, contributed by Mayor Sid Esponisa himself, is “Me.”

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“We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 per day.” I really loved this blog post. It hits the nail on the head for a lot of reasons. The writing style is good and catchy. The content is real and valuable. It’s worth checking out if you’re looking to develop income at any [...]

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A lot of people are now using OmniAuth for Oath processing to connect applications to twitter, facebook, linkedin or any number of other SAAS applications. It’s easy and it works well. I’m using it for some work I’m doing with a client of mine (Practically Green – a great little eco-startup) and ran into an [...]

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I saw this question on Quora and it caught my eye because it’s focused on the area I’m interested in professionally — how to build and launch new businesses that make a real impact. One of the answers, though, I think got it all wrong: “Selling the engineer on the vision is key, but it [...]

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I worked for a couple large companies doing development early in my career. There main frustrations I felt were: 1. Raises were based more on how the company was doing rather than individual contribution. I remember one year my entire department was given a 4% raise. Everyone got the same regardless of how hard they [...]

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Being able to focus on what you need to have in place for the future is a good thing. It’s good in that you can’t be successful without it. The challenge is that thinking 3 steps ahead too often will get you into trouble as you can lose site of the things you need to [...]

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I have a lot of people ask me about resources to help them learn and come up to speed on rails. I found this list of resources on Quora recently and thought it was worth reposting here to give it a wider audience. I’ve also annotated the list a bit to say something about each [...]

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Here’s the question: “If you’re a software engineer or developer and your asked to do a project for a lean startup to incubate and you’re asked to reduce your price in exchange for equity, what ratio of discount to equity is reasonable. An example might be a 50% discount for 30% in the company.” If [...]

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