Bookmarks
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HTML5Pattern
Regexes for use in HTML5 input fields for things like postcodes and credit card numbers. Useful regex resource in its own... -
The Real Life Social Network v2
Slide deck by an ex-Google+ designer on the challenges of designing social networks that respect our individual groups of...Categories
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Choose Cheapium instead of Freemium
Advocates charging a small amount is better than free so as to raise the barrier to entry, signalling desirability, funding... -
Note to entrepreneurs: Your idea is not special
Opinions of a Brad Feld (VC): the best executors are often not the first to implement an idea -
Performance is a Feature
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TripAdvisor Architecture
Insight into TA’s systems and development methodologies. Useful extra detail in the comments.Categories
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Ways to Acquire Users (for Free)
Spencer Fry (Carbonmade) suggestions include viral, micro sites, giveaways, following competitors and then eventually payingCategories
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Mastering Git Basics by Tom Preston-Werner
~1 hour video by GitHub’s TomCategories
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Conference organiser's handbook
Focuses on cheap and cheerful events organised by volunteers (rather than Future of Xs)Categories
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SublimeVideo
Free HTML5 video playerCategories
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Starting your Startup
Lessons from Joe Stump on starting and growing a startupCategories
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How To Scale a Development Team
Adam Wiggins from Heroku describes his stages of dev team growth from homebrew through to specialised teamsCategories
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Sprite Cow - Generate CSS for sprite sheets
Gives you background-position, width and height for sprites within an imageCategories
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Book of Speed
Free, in-progress book on site performance and optimisationCategories
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Aha! Moments When Learning Git
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Using OS X with an SSD plus HDD setup
Keep the OS on the SSD and then symbolic link to hefty folders on the HDDCategories
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How to keep things secure in your Dropbox
Instructions on creating a sparse bundle disk image that can be stored in Dropbox with a nice strong password.Categories
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Implementing bookmarklets in JavaScript
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Yes, You Can Run 18 Static Sites on a 64MB Link-1 VPS
Squeeze more performance out of a VPS - worthwhile tips and advice even if you have a bigger serverCategories
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A Whole Bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements Can Do
Clever uses for :before and :after. The multiple backgrounds on an element is especially useful.