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Even Boring Form Data Can Be Interesting (For A Developer)
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Follow me on Twitter. Even Boring Form Data Can Be Interesting (For A Developer). August 17, 2011. What could be more boring than capturing credit card data on a form? If youre an Australian you know all about this. For everybody else, it stands for Australian Business Number which is an 11 digit number, provided by the government to every company. Its not secret (. You can look them up online. The Interesting Thing About A Credit Card Number…. Its an interesting story. Just like any piece of data, you w...
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Why Developers Never Use State Machines
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Follow me on Twitter. Why Developers Never Use State Machines. September 1, 2011. A few months ago I saw a great little blog post about state machines on the Shopify blog. The message was that state machines are great and developers should use them more – given my recent experiences with state machines at CrowdHired. I could certainly agree with that. But it got me thinking, how many times in my developer career have I actually used a state machine (. We Dont Need One Until We Do. And all that jazz.
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What Is A Startup (Or A Startup Idea)?
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Follow me on Twitter. What Is A Startup (Or A Startup Idea)? November 23, 2011. Is a startup all about the idea? Is it a bunch of people hacking together? It is not quite a company in the traditional sense of the word (. At least not yet. I like to think of a startup as a series of assumptions. Your startup idea is just one assumption or alternatively there are many assumptions inherent in your idea. Lets take a simple one were all familiar with:. People want to connect with their friends online. We have...
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Follow me on Twitter. Ruby & (Ampersand) Parameter Demystified. April 17, 2013. Recently I was asked a question about ‘& parameters’ when you define and/or call methods which take a block e.g.:. Def blah(&block) yadda(block) end def yadda(block) foo(&block) end def foo(&block) block.call end blah do puts hello end. As you pass this parameter around, sometimes the ampersand appears in front of it, but other times it doesn’t, seemingly with no rhyme of reason. As we dig into crazy metaprogramming. Will be ...
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Working with/in New Media – can it pay the bills? | New Media: The Internet, [my]self and beyond
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New Media: The Internet, [my]self and beyond. If Mary Poppin’s spoonful of sugar remedy isn’t working, don’t despair there’s an iPhone App for everything now. May 2, 2011 · 4:43 pm. Working with/in New Media – can it pay the bills? It’s all down to who you know and you are only as good as your last job. Gill (2007, 25). Finally, someone who doesn’t preface this train of thought with it’s not. Something we should all get used to; check out Brave New Talen. Consequently, the findings and advice given in.
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When Developers Go To Great Length To Save Typing 4 Letters
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Follow me on Twitter. When Developers Go To Great Length To Save Typing 4 Letters. August 24, 2011. Is a great platform. Long before I joined and when I say long, I mean in startup terms (. Ie a few weeks before I joined :). 8211; the decision was made that CrowdHired would be hosted on Heroku. Shortly after I came on board, Heroku released their new Cedar stack. And we quickly migrated across to that. I find it kinda amusing that were currently in alpha. Just include the gem and then use the. We know th...
