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GVRV / about.md
Created August 13, 2011 07:47 — forked from jasonrudolph/about.md
Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer
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GVRV / install-ruby.sh
Created October 30, 2012 07:57
install rvm and ruby 1.9.2 on Ubuntu 12.04
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# according to http://octopress.org/docs/setup/rvm/
# !! notice the line about bash and zsh!!!
sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion
bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer)

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discussions around concrete examples, not handy-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

// put this as the filter and enable 'regex'
^((?!extensions::).)*$
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GVRV / HT spec.md
Last active August 29, 2015 14:04 — forked from tjstebbing/HT spec

Hudson Taylor

Hudson Taylor (HT) is a library for building software systems with a Service Oriented Architecture. It comprises of server library for providing services with well documented and defined APIs, and a client library for calling services. All service APIs have Schemas that both document expectations as well as validate and pre-process incoming data.

HT can be used within a single process to logically partition services from the beginning. This means that your project has clean internal interfaces and

FWIW: I didn't produce the content present here. I've just copy-pasted it from somewhere over the Internet, but I cannot remember exactly the original source. I was also not able to find the author's name, so I cannot give him/her the proper credit.


Effective Engineer - Notes

What's an Effective Engineer?

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GVRV / bret_victor-reading_list.md
Created August 9, 2019 17:48 — forked from nickloewen/bret_victor-reading_list.md
Bret Victor’s Reading List

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.


Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★