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The Present and Future of HabitRPG 4 Feb 2013 | 11:15 pm
HabitRPG has been on the world stage for 25 days now. In that short time about 30,000 adventurous souls have joined HabitRPG. HabitRPG has begun a revolution. Formed an international alliance against ...
Rant: Backbone, Angular, Meteor, Derby 4 Jan 2013 | 11:17 pm
Disclaimer: This post is Meteor & Backbone beef. Both Meteor and Backbone are absolute genius, and far beyond anything I could dream to create. But IMO there are better tools. Prepare yourselves *gulp...
Derby & Meteor: Holy Sh** Programming Just Got Easy 3 Jan 2013 | 02:47 am
I've been using Derby for a while, and have been monitoring it's direct competitor Meteor with hawk-eyes to make sure I'm in the right camp. The concenus is unanimous in both camps - web development i...
New Year's Resolutions: Improve Habits With an RPG 29 Dec 2012 | 11:52 pm
chest.png 2013 is around the corner and you have a bucket list of habits to change with your New Year's resolutions. Spend more time with your family, get fit, lose weight, quit smoking, get out of d...
Finding Jobs as a Freelance Web Developer 2 Nov 2012 | 07:16 am
meetup_logo.png TL;DR - There is a silver bullet, and it's traditional networking. Meetup.com, Coworking spaces, etc. Every week on Hacker News, I see "Ask HN: How do you find freelancing gigs?". Th...
Gittip + GitHub For Project Royalties 8 Oct 2012 | 05:20 am
github-logo-transparent.png Gittip (an awesome project) has potential beyond its intent. I want to discuss one such possible project: taking revenue made by commercial open-source GitHub projects and...
Node.js PaaS Hosting Comparison 15 Aug 2012 | 09:11 pm
nodejitsu.png TL;DR: Nodejitsu. Ok, but let's do a fair comparison. I'm coming from the standpoint of DerbyJS deployment, and a desire for Socket.io to work (even if it has to fall back on XHR polli...
Node.js Frameworks Comparison 11 Aug 2012 | 09:41 am
nodejs_frameworks.jpeg The Node crowd is pretty DIY, so many Node developers eschew using frameworks beyond Express. Express gives you the most control, but requires the most development overhead. Yo...
Reading Workflow Protip: How I Keep Up With Content Overload 10 Aug 2012 | 09:43 pm
reading_workflow.jpeg This is going to sound complex at first, but this workflow has helped me substantially in managing my daily news & articles overflow. Hopefully it will help you too. read more
Agile trick: Workflowy + Pivotal Tracker 10 Aug 2012 | 05:27 am
workfowy_plus_pivotal.jpeg I use Workflowy a lot for for self-management & brainstorming while coding. If the project is also managed in Pivotal Tracker by a project manager, maintaining both causes ...
