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Hello, I’m Barry Frost. I live in Virginia Water in the UK. I’m CTO of Global Personals and lead our globaldev development team. Read more about me or this site.

My latest article is ‘Switching from Chrome to Safari’, posted 14 November.

  1. 20 May

    1. 15:59
      KickoffLabs
      Landing pages, forms and email marketing for startups
    2. 15:57
      Mailgun
      Send, receive and track emails via API. HTTP or SMTP interface, server-side MIME, automated bounce/unsubscribe/complaint handling, full tracking.
    3. 08:23
      'Black Swan' by Thom Yorke

  2. 16 May

    1. 19:51
      Windsor Then and Now
      Photos of Windsor from history
    2. 19:44
      Prototypr
      iOS apps prototyping tool for Mac
    3. 07:55
      formtastic
      Rails form builder plugin with semantically rich and accessible markup

  3. 15 May

    1. 07:56
      timblair/kanbantool · GitHub

  4. 07 May

    1. 15:03
      AWS SDK for Node.js

  5. 05 May

    1. 20:19
      gtdfh
      Getting Things Done For Hackers
    2. 20:18
      rack-attack
      Rack middleware for blocking and throttling
    3. 20:17
      How do you estimate on an Agile project?
      ThoughtWorks PDF book
    4. 08:53
      Briefs
      iOS prototyping tool for Mac

  6. 01 May

    1. 18:20
      The power of Keynote
      Using Keynote for wireframing and prototyping web/mobile apps
    2. 18:10
      Hammer for Mac
      Static site generator app that compiles SASS, HAML, CoffeeScript, Markdown, etc.
    3. 11:32
      'Such Great Heights' by Iron & Wine
    4. 10:23
      globaldev/regulate · GitHub

  7. 30 April

    1. 16:48
      Betaworks - A New Medium Company
      Incubator/umbrella for interesting companies, including Instapaper.
    2. 16:11
      Alfred-for-Trello
      Add cards to your chosen Trello list via Alfred
    3. 10:02
      Handle
      Email triage/daily todo service that connects to Gmail (and Exchange?)

  8. 25 April

    1. 21:46
      Sidekiq
      Simple, efficient message processing for Ruby

  9. 24 April

    1. 09:38
      The ‘Oblivion’ Graphics
      Video with scenes of "computer" graphics used in the Oblivion film

  10. 22 April

    1. 12:22
      OpenMenu
      Content management system for restaurants to publish menus

  11. 19 April

    1. 18:37
      Kevin Eldon's Amish Sex Pistols side by side with Bill Grundy original
    2. 17:52
      Harrison Ford Won't Answer Star Wars Questions

  12. 17 April

    1. 16:21
      Transitional Interfaces
      Adding small amounts of animation greatly helps UX and UI design

  13. 13 April

    1. 19:03
      Content parity on the web
      Advocating having one website and not creating a cutdown version for mobile users

  14. 12 April

    1. 09:49
      Hacker Jobs Meets... Barry Frost - CTO of Globaldev
      Interview questions from Steve

  15. 09 April

    1. 13:15
      The median Facebook user only has around 100 friends
      ...not 190, which is the average (via @ignorethecode)

  16. 08 April

    1. 20:19
      Yoda and I (Star Wars, Withnail and I mashup)
    2. 12:16
      Helios 🚀
      Open-source framework that provides essential backend services for iOS apps, from data synchronization and user accounts to push notifications, in-app purchases, and passbook integration.

  17. 05 April

    1. 09:40
      Hey Startups, I’m calling bullshit. You don’t understand sales
      Sales 101: prospecting, pipeline, objection handling and closing

  18. 02 April

    1. 12:17
      Dashing
      Ruby Dashboard framework

  19. 30 March

    1. 12:46
      Quadrocopter Pole Acrobatics

  20. 20 March

    1. 16:16
      jq
      jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. Curl some JSON from an API and then pipe to jq to query it

  21. 17 March

    1. 18:14
      The Trello Tech Stack
    2. 17:58
      25 things I wish I knew before moving to San Francisco
    3. 17:42
      Why We (Still) Believe in Working Remotely
    4. 17:41
      Screencast: using ruby to add schema-less data to PostgreSQL
      With hstore you can add schema-less data to PostgreSQL. This allows you to store model attributes without creating separate database columns. Watch how to do this using the activerecord-postgres-hstore gem.
    5. 17:38
      Programming Your Culture
      Or... "Why dogs at work and yoga aren’t culture"
    6. 17:18
      The Paperless Puzzle
      Achieving a paperless office with a Doxie Go and Hazel
    7. 17:16
      Wallboard
      Web browser for OS X designed to be used primarily with information radiators. It has no UI; instead, upon startup, it fills every attached screen with a full-screen WebKit browser
    8. 16:53
      The Little MongoDB Book
    9. 16:45
      Our 10 Step Engineering Hiring Process at Mixer Labs
    10. 16:42
      Inbox Zero for Life
      The same approach to email triage I've been following for a few years
    11. 16:39
      Eye-Friendly for Mac OS X
      Change screen resolutions via a hotkey. Useful for Retina Macs
    12. 16:37
      Why firing brilliant assholes is required to build a great engineering culture
      Joe Stump's approach to build a team
    13. 16:35
      My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers
    14. 16:29
      A standing desk for $22
      Build your own standing desk from Ikea parts for super cheap.
    15. 16:27
      What's the difference between unit, functional, acceptance, and integration tests?
    16. 16:12
      Zapier
      Automation service, similar to IFTTT