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How to make your first contribution to open source. 15 essential tools every lean startup can't live without - We Love Lean. Lean Canvas If you’re an early stage startup the last thing you want to have to do is write a 30 page business plan.

15 essential tools every lean startup can't live without - We Love Lean

Wouldn’t it be great if you document your business model on one page, allowing you to focus on actually building your business? This great tool lets you adopt the principles of the business model canvas using a simple web interface. Create multiple canvases if you like, collaborate and share with others, and re-visit later. Adapted from the Business Model Toolbox, this is the brainchild of Ash Maurya, author of Running Lean and a successful blog. Understanding the MVP - Connecting Continuous Delivery to the Lean Startup Movement.

SVEN DUPLIC. Rob's Ruminations - Skill-Testing Questions: Mandatory Knowledge for Rails Beginners. Ruby Rogues 042 - Producing Content with Peter Cooper. Interview With Konstantin Haase » RubySource. How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify. (Update February 26, 2013: I have since this post sold Freelancify.com to a new owner) Before I begin, I’d like to recognize Josh Crews ( for convincing me to learn Ruby on Rails; without him and his hours of volunteered mentership and help, I wouldn’t be writing this today.

How I Learned Enough Ruby On Rails In 12 Weeks To Launch Freelancify

Rob's Ruminations - Rails is Definitely Not for Beginners. Cloud9 - Your code anywhere, anytime. Interpreted Languages: PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby (Sheet One) - Hyperpolyglot. Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice. If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn’t involve compilers or gates or time complexity.

Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice

It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don’t teach them and this results in lots of unnecessary pain and suffering. This post aspires to be README.txt for your career as a young engineer. The goal is to make you happy, by filling in the gaps in your education regarding how the “real world” actually works. It took me about ten years and a lot of suffering to figure out some of this, starting from “fairly bright engineer with low self-confidence and zero practical knowledge of business.” I wouldn’t trust this as the definitive guide, but hopefully it will provide value over what your college Career Center isn’t telling you. 90% of programming jobs are in creating Line of Business software: Economics 101: the price for anything (including you) is a function of the supply of it and demand for it.

Agile - What's in it for me? : Andy Jeffries : Ruby on Rails, MySQL and jQuery Developer. Let's start with what Agile means at a very basic level.

Agile - What's in it for me? : Andy Jeffries : Ruby on Rails, MySQL and jQuery Developer

The four key elements are: Individuals and interactions over processes and toolsWorking software over comprehensive documentationCustomer collaboration over contract negotiationResponding to change over following a plan The normal introduction then proceeds with we understand that there is value in the items on the right, there is more value in the items on the left.

The working practices then extend these key principles in ways that provide a real business benefit along with a cleaner/more transparent and positive development environment. The Ruby on Rails World. 24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development. One of the nicer things about developing on the Ruby platform is the sheer amount of meticulously categorized, highly reusable code wrapped up in the form of aptly named 'gems'.

24 Extremely Useful Ruby Gems for Web Development

I'm sure you've heard of popular frameworks like Sinatra or the super popular Rails that ship as gems but you're missing an entire spectrum of others that handle issues at a much lower level. Start using these and watch your productivity shoot through the roof! I'm well aware that some of the gems listed here have Rails, or parts of Rails, as a dependency. That doesn't mean that they are any less useful or need to be sneered at. Upload files in your Ruby applications, map them to a range of ORMs, store them on different backends. Related reading Kaminari is a Scope & Engine based, clean, powerful, customizable and sophisticated paginator. A simple, unobtrusive model based Ruby authentication solution. 5 Useful Online Tools To Test Websites. If you are a web designer or a web developer then you must know just how important it is to ensure that the final product is devoid of any bugs/errors.

5 Useful Online Tools To Test Websites

The following five websites help developers and designers to validate websites and check the website code for any sort of error. The W3C Markup Validation Service allows users to validate their websites by either providing a link to the HTML, XHTML, SMIL, and MathML file or by either uploading one in the same format, as mentioned before. If you just need to check a specific part of code, you may manually punch in the code in the “Direct Input” tab to validate it. There are various options available such as the Character Encoding option, showing source, showing outline or cleaning up markup by HTML-Tidy that you can choose before clicking “Check” to validate the code.

W3C Markup Validation Service The website also breaks down the HTML Standards into smaller subtopics such as Titles, Sub-headings, Navigation Bars, etc and gives you a rating.