I’m very pleased today to announce the release of Capsule, the developer’s code journal. Capsule replaces the scratch document you have…
How to best provide support for the software you create is an interesting point of deliberation. I’ve gone through various stages and…
Finding and hiring talented people is by far the hardest and most important part of my job. I’ve had great and terrible success with almost every approach.
One of my favorite “Texts from Xcode”.
Happy Friday!
This is really cool – I’d love to see it for more pitchers.
Hadn’t thought of programming this way before but I completely agree. One big example for me is with legal contracts. Thinking of them as “this part does this, this part does that” makes them much easier to understand and negotiate.
One of the things I enjoy most is incorporating a good idea from one language/project/etc. into another (obviously, you need exposure to other languages/projects/ideas to do this). You can see examples of this in the code I’ve written that interacts with WordPress and how it’s adopted more of an MVC style over time.
I really do miss the BlackBerry keyboard. I’m a passable typist on the iPhone, but I had to correct 8 typos while just writing this. That didn’t happen when I typed on a BlackBerry.
If my memory serves me, there are a good portion of participants who wear nothing but a backpack for this event.
Clear backpacks: harder to hide bombs in, easier targets for for bag-snatchers. Discuss…
I talked to anyone who would listen about the need for alternative WP Admin interfaces at various WordCamps over the last year. I thought hard about hiring someone just to create one as a plugin. Awesome to see Ghost taking the reins here.
I’m a tremendous fan of jQuery, but there are situations where you just need to insert a little JavaScript into a webpage/app and adding an additional library is overkill. This is a great reference map of jQuery methods to native JS methods.
Pretty cool to see plugins for Capsule already popping up. This one creates a Gist from a Capsule post.
This is pretty great. (thanks Rafe)
Back in January I said I didn’t expect Amazon to be creating original content. Looks like I was wrong on that one.
How very cool – happy Friday!
When I heard about the 78 year old who was knocked over by the bomb blast, only to get up and finish the marathon, I thought of my parents. Because that’s what they would do. That’s the kind of people they are, and that’s the kind of people their parents were. They’re Boston people.
Great piece by Steve.