j5eb6ach

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Approaches to web content strategy(richardingram.co.uk)
1 points by j5eb6ach 16y ago|0 comments
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
tl;dr: When hiring a programmer, choose substance over style
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
One peril of cloud computing: an S3 outage is currently affecting Heroku, and Realized is unavailable at the moment.
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Review my startup: Realized(blog.newforge-tech.com)
9 points by j5eb6ach 16y ago|3 comments
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Remove functionality to improve usability(blog.newforge-tech.com)
1 points by j5eb6ach 16y ago|0 comments
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
"Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs" by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah takes you step by step through exactly what its title says.
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
Having Basecamp walk the plank in the 'trailer' is engaging. But isn't Google Apps the real competition?
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
Because of its searchable Knowledge Base for customer self-help, we also chose to use Tender (the SaaS platform used by New Relic).
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How to Support 5,000 Customers with No Support Staff(lewsblog.newrelic.com)
28 points by j5eb6ach 16y ago|8 comments
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Git workflow for a staging environment with Heroku and GitHub(blog.newforge-tech.com)
2 points by j5eb6ach 16y ago|0 comments
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
Grocery stores figured this out years ago with self-checkout. Scanning each item can be tedious (looking up produce codes, etc.), and yet many customers prefer to scan their own items. I do not mind at self-checkout when an employee helps t
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Rails: Unit testing validations and database constraints(blog.newforge-tech.com)
1 points by j5eb6ach 16y ago|0 comments
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
A priceless quote: "Never in the history of man has a software developer said "I'm stuck doing Ruby for my day job but I'm really hoping to find a job in .NET or Java.""
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Tom Preston-Werner: Semantic Versioning(semver.org)
3 points by j5eb6ach 16y ago|0 comments
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
From a broader perspective, I expect that the Rails versioning nomenclature will conform to SemVer ( http://semver.org/ ). Yesterday, wycats tweeted that he believes strongly in SemVer, in regards to Bundler.
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
SkyMarshall said Those will all teach you what not to do, which is just as, if not more important in investing and trading than what to do. Anyone can notice the successful investment decisions after the fact: buying Apple Inc on March 6,
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
If users were the customers ... really gets to the core of the problem that Facebook has evolved itself into. Instead, users are the product. Advertisers are the customers. Too bad the original article failed to clearly make this point
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
No doubt about the fact that ( more employees == more inefficiency ) for the corporation. But the benefit to the 20 members of the community that have gone from zero income to working is enormous.
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by j5eb6ach 16y ago
We have a situation of 'haves' and 'have nots'. A corporation of 100 employees has every reason to prefer that those employees work at 120% (50 hrs/wk). Our society would benefit if instead the corporation hired 20 additional employees, and