TheMonarch

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by TheMonarch 14y ago
What is "Accelerator for websites"?
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Using it for my blog, and planning to use for my company's site soon. We'll have 2-3 web roles, SQL Azure, and possibly 2 worker roles in the future. Table storage for logging, and blob storage for cached versions of custom minification and
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
I also skip the "objectives" section when I read resumes.
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
I agree, the assertion that you shouldn't test is absurd. For example, TDD can save you time by catching bugs for you. When Iv'e worked on apps without tests, I have to test manually each time I make a build, which gets annoying. That's tim
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Seeking freelance work. Key skills: Full stack asp.net mvc, javascript, coffeescript, SQL, Azure, c#. Very strong SQL and data skills.
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
I just want excuses to mess with Clojsure and NoSQL this year. Now I need ideas that are interesting enough that I'll be motivated to build them out. Anyone have some throwaways ideas?
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Well, there is no guidebook for this kind of thing. I don't know what to tell you. THere are probably people who know how to accomplish what you are trying to do, but I don't know how to advise you past this point. The takeaway is that whil
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
I agree with this, if everything works with the company's current process, there will be no way to convince people to change, and there wouldn't be any reason to. Try to maybe focus on fixing problems that your company actually has.
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Why are the rockstar dev's not interested in things like automated builds, and unit tests? Are they really "rockstar" dev's? It might be political. Maybe they like being the only ones who know how to build the product, or that it has to be
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Very high level documentation is good. Things like, what are the steps to get the app to build, what tools do you need to install, frameworks, etc. What's the directory structure, so that a newcomer knows how to approach the project. I'm a
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Have you read the Pragmatic Programmer? They talk about how to handle a situation like this. From what I remember it said to build a pocket of excellence in your dev workspace first, and then expose everyone else to it. Set up the CI/build
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
I doubt a lot of it too. Same thing as people who underexaggerate how much they studied for a test in high school and college.
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Tried but it didn't seem to work. I'm using Chrome, and I typed in Atmosphere. It took me to another page asking me to enter the artist name again. After 3 tries it finally showed an empty box for "Atmosphere", with a very slow resizing ani
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
meetup.com uses Java. And Google if you count Android.
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
You could try Orchard CMS on Azure websites. It is a CMS, but it has an out of the box "Blog" recipe that let's you get started without writing any code. Azure websites is cheap (and free if you use the free tier). You can deploy with git,
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Just wanted to say that the landing page could do a better job explaining what this tool is. It took me almost 30 minutes before I figured out what this new product did. I didn't know what these "tags" were that kept getting mentioned.
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by TheMonarch 14y ago
Will this help at all if I want to let my marketing dept. publish Doubleclick For Publishers ads flash ads in certain spots on a large-ish website? I would say no, but I'm not sure how DFP works (marketing dept has expressed interest in mov
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by TheMonarch 15y ago
Haven't had problems like this since WinXP.
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by TheMonarch 15y ago
Bulk email, or employee day to day email?