Scaling Lesson #23742 (5)
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GitHub was created as a side project, but it seems to have struck a nerve and gained traction quickly. As such, a lot of the infrastructure decisions were made not figuring on this sort of growth: One of the major pieces of the infrastructure is how we store the repositories. The way it was originally setup worked great for a while, but it wasn’t sustainable. As an example, lets take my github-services repository. Here’s where ...
Browser Support Is Too Hard (1)
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Supporting multiple browsers is too hard. I give up. From now on, I will only support the latest browser. No, not the latest version of each browser, but rather just the most recently released browser. For now, I will support Firefox 3 as it was just recently released. Safari 4 is in the works, so when that comes out I’ll update my apps to that. Also, I’ll be sure to add sniffers and detectors to ...
Apply a Noise Gate to Your Life (19)
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Chances are you’ve heard — or rather, not heard — the effects of a noise gate, but unless you’re into audio engineering, you probably didn’t realize it. Ever been at a concert or listen to a radio broadcast where it sounds great when there’s music playing or a voice speaking, but no hiss in the pauses between? Unless the signal happens to be really clean, odds are that was a noise gate at work, removing ...
JavaScript Micro-Templating (22)
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I've had a little utility that I've been kicking around for some time now that I've found to be quite useful in my JavaScript application-building endeavors. It's a super-simple templating function that is fast, caches quickly, and is easy to use. I have a couple tricks that I use to make it real fun to mess with. Here's the source code to the templating function (a more-refined version of this code will be in my ...
libxml-ruby is back! (1)
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Anyone who’s had to parse XML using Ruby has understood that REXML is more experiment than library. Alternatives have been few and far between, and most of us have settled for parsing documents with Hpricot and made do. Well here comes Charlie Savage with some great news. Not only is he promising to maintain libxml-ruby — the Ruby bindings for libxml2, one of the finest open source XML libraries — but he’s announcing v0.8.0, including ...
Ruby Patterns: Query Method (1)
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ReinH Blog (7)
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What are patterns? Patterns are learnable and reusable answers to common programming questions. They are decisions made in response to a number of different concerns (or tensions). A well written pattern resolves each of the tensions harmoniously and provides a set of repeatable steps for its reapplication. Let’s look at a situation where various tensions pull us towards the need to make a harmonious design decision and attempt to derive a pattern for future use. ...
LiquidID: OpenID + Email Aliasing = Less Spam, Safer Logins (43)
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A new OpenID provider called LiquidID has just launched a service which offers email aliasing and redirection in addition to providing you with an OpenID. The aliasing service sits on top of OpenID and generates email aliases for you which can then be passed on to any OpenID-enabled web services. LiquidID will receive the emails sent from the services on your behalf and redirect them to you. However, if a particular email alias ever becomes ...
Sexy Forms in Rails (7)
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I’ve been meaning to release this for quite a while now, I’ve finally got around to packaging it up for some form of public consumption. Basically, I got sick of having to manually create label tags for each of my form inputs. They should be there by default so that users with visual or other impairments have enough additional information to use the site. I’m also lazy, and would have a tendency to forget to ...
Am I Too Naked (10)
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Shel Israel and Robert Scoble talked about the value of blogging and transparency in their seminal work, Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers. But now I’m wondering if maybe I’ve gone too naked. I finished a conference call a few hours ago with someone who said something that took me aback. Essentially, she said that I share so much on my website that she wonders what else I have ...
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Jeremy Weiss said:
interesting concept. I've thought about this a lot lately... Any thoughts?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hiring_a_community_manager.php (130)
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You know what little startup companies need these days? They need to hire more people! It may be a frightening thought, but in an increasingly social world - being social is becoming an important full time job. "Community Manager" is a position increasingly being hired for at large corporations (see Jeremiah Owyang's growing list of people with that kind of job) but what about smaller companies? We asked a number of people what they thought ...
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Asfaq said:
Do companies in India employ people specifically for such roles?
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Andrew Louis said:
Really well written piece. This is a cut above the shrill material of the blogosphere.Introspective, good primary research, well organized sections, etc.
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lkratz said:
interessant ... Amélie ?
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Nico B said:
...and do news-sites need one, two or three?
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Nate said:
Interesting. I've very rarely heard community manager as a role in startups. Then again, the idea of product manager at a startup is often split into 3 or more roles: product marketer, product planner, program manager, project manager.
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dekrazee1 said:
This is what I do. Now, any questions? :)
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al said:
Nice article about Community Managers. By the way, take a look at 'Office Space' video-fragment attached, it's TERRIFIC!
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StreetForce1 said:
Yes every company needs a Mike Street aka super community guy!
Easier Capistrano Deployments from Github (2)
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EdgeCase - Home (5)
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A couple of weeks ago we at Edgecase decided that we would like to start using Github as our main repo for our git versioned projects. I really wanted to take advantage of the great user experience and the administration aspects that Github had to offer. As we started the process of moving our projects to Github we ran into a bit of an issue that took a little “tweaking” to get right, but in ...
Jester In The News (1)
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Jester is seeing a little action nowadays. The Google Code Blog has a post today about Google Gears on Rails, a Rails plugin by Michael Marcus and Rui Ma, that extends Jester to wrap over Google Gears. It effectively lets your controllers read and write directly to your users’ machines, so they can use your app offline. Check out the install and usage instructions for details, and listen to the Google Developer Podcast episode where ...
Internal Bacterial Imbalance Leads to Asthma (9)
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A once-ubiquitous symbiotic intestinal microbe, H. pylori, is now found in just one-fifth of young Americans, thanks to antibiotics. Its disappearance may be linked to a rise in asthma rates, researchers suggest.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (1)
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Power Beyond All Reason: JavaScript & Ruby (1)
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Chapter 1. What's the point of Test-Driven Development? (3)
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Software Development as a Learning Process A worthwhile software project is attempting something that nobody has done before (or at least that nobody in the organisation has done before). Something will be different: the people involved, the application domain, the technology being used, or (more likely) a combination of these. In spite of the best efforts of our discipline, all but the most routine projects have elements of surprise. Interesting projects, the ones that are ...
How to Connect With Humanity When You Feel All Alone (13)
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“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” - Eric Fromm The recent death of my Auntie Kerry put me in a state of mind that I think we all go through at different times in our lives: the feeling of utter isolation, of complete loneliness. There are times when we feel that even if we are surrounded by other people in our lives, we are alone. We must ...
