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Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-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

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
FIRST_NAME = 'FIRST_NAME'
LAST_NAME = 'LAST_NAME'
PHONE = 'PHONE'
EMAIL = 'EMAIL@provider.com'
PARTY_SIZE = 2
SCHEDULE_RANGE = { :start_time => '19:00', :end_time => '20:30' }
@claviska
claviska / pretty-buttons.less
Last active October 21, 2022 22:25
A Less mixin' for pretty buttons with Bootstrap 3
.pretty-buttons(@color, @background, @text-shadow: none) {
color: @color;
#gradient > .vertical(lighten(@background, 5%), darken(@background, 5%), 0%, 100%);
border-color: darken(@background, 10%);
border-bottom-color: darken(@background, 20%);
text-shadow: @text-shadow;
.box-shadow(inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, .1));
&:hover,
@tinabeans
tinabeans / template.html
Last active February 13, 2024 09:18
A super-barebones single-column responsive email template, assuming a max-width of 540px. Read about it on the Fog Creek blog.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Single-Column Responsive Email Template</title>
<style>
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 541px) {
.content {
anonymous
anonymous / Makefile
Created December 15, 2013 11:53
Hedging client for Bitstamp
HEDGE = node bithedge
all:
npm install bitstamp
hedge:
$(HEDGE) old >|old.txt
cat old.txt
$(HEDGE) cancel `cat old.txt`
$(HEDGE) balance >|balance.txt
@branneman
branneman / better-nodejs-require-paths.md
Last active April 27, 2024 04:16
Better local require() paths for Node.js

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

@subudeepak
subudeepak / WebSockets.md
Last active May 31, 2024 09:36
The problems and some security implications of websockets - Cross-site WebSockets Scripting (XSWS)

WebSockets - An Introduction

WebSockets is a modern HTML5 standard which makes communication between client and server a lot more simpler than ever. We are all familiar with the technology of sockets. Sockets have been fundamental to network communication for a long time but usually the communication over the browser has been restricted. The general restrictions

  • The server used to have a permanent listener while the client (aka browser) was not designated any fixed listener for a more long term connection. Hence, every communication was restricted to the client demanding and the server responding.
  • This meant that unless the client requested for a particular resource, the server was unable to push such a resource to the client.
  • This was detrimental since the client is then forced to check with the server at regular intervals. This meant a lot of libraries focused on optimizing asynchronous calls and identifying the response of asynchronous calls. Notably t
angular.module('utils.filters', [])
.filter('removeAccents', removeAccents);
function removeAccents() {
return function (source) {
var accent = [
/[\300-\306]/g, /[\340-\346]/g, // A, a
/[\310-\313]/g, /[\350-\353]/g, // E, e
/[\314-\317]/g, /[\354-\357]/g, // I, i
/[\322-\330]/g, /[\362-\370]/g, // O, o
var active = false;
function changeRefer(details) {
if (!active) return;
for (var i = 0; i < details.requestHeaders.length; ++i) {
if (details.requestHeaders[i].name === 'Referer') {
details.requestHeaders[i].value = 'http://www.google.com/';
break;
}
@jonhoo
jonhoo / README.md
Last active July 19, 2021 10:49
Distributed RWMutex in Go