Links Archives

  1. A Rebase Workflow for Git →

    This looks more complicated than the merge workflow. It is. It is not hard. It is valuable.

    We have our pull command set up to pull --rebase, this is a great overview of why you (almost) always want to rebase. (thanks Sandy)

  2. The Eyes Have It →

    The next morning the strangest thing happened. I was standing on the station platform in Milsons Point waiting for the train, reading a (Kindle) book on my iPad, and for the first time ever I could see the pixels. I mean I obviously had seen them before, but now I was noticing them every time I looked at the screen. My eyes were tripping over the slightly blurry sub-pixel text rendering when they should have been flowing easily from word to word.

    Same thing happened to me. I wasn’t unhappy with the iPad 2 screen, but now it looks terrible.

  3. Cache them if you can →

    Some great tips, as usual, from Steve. I’d also point out that you need a strategy for how to you plan to update the resources you are telling browsers to cache. I typically favor the “update a query string var” approach.

  4. In-Flight Wi-Fi Usage Growth →

    I’ll go to great lengths to book a long flight with Wi-Fi. For me it’s the difference between unproductive versus being more productive than usual. Best thing to ever happen to air travel.

    It’s the exact opposite for me. I’m incredibly productive on planes because I don’t have an internet connection (and the associated interruptions of email, etc.).

  5. Why PHP Strings Equal Zero →

    I ran into this about 6 months ago in some code I was working on. I think that calling intval() on any non-empty string should return 1, not 0. Of course, the number of programming languages I’ve written is intval('none').

  6. Why an Accelerator? →

    Bottom line. Should you do an accelerator?

    Maybe. It’s really your decision. Techstars Boulder’s deadline is 3/16/12. Get on it.

    But, if you get in, and decide to do it, then do it 120%. Work harder than everyone else. Push yourself and your team. Become great. Don’t be one of the forgotten companies.

    Great post from Micah. As a mentor since 2007 I’ve been amazed at the value that TechStars provides – I highly recommend looking into it closely if you’re at all curious or interested.

  7. The Showstopper →

    To beat Facebook in the general social networking stakes, either Facebook has to get complacent, or your idea has to transform the social space entirely.

    Some good notes from Charles here.

    However what’s glossed over in the larger discussion of James Whittaker’s post is a commentary on how Google has been willing to harm their core app – what users really value – in the pursuit of Facebook; purity of search has been all but forgotten.