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The secret life of a startup employee: it’s like being a firefighter led by an arsonist
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Why most unit testing is a waste (PDF)
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Showing Passwords on Log-In Screens
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An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media
A note of caution about this previously-linked article on social media usage among teens: Teens’ use of social media is... -
A Teenager’s View on Social Media
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Names are more important than domain names
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HTML5 vs Native: The Mobile App Debate
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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 -
Building Great Software Companies
Collection of articles and tips from Joel Spolsky and his Fog Creek colleagues. -
Things that make your web service RESTful (and not)
Tom Insam’s thoughts and debunking of what REST actually means (see also his REST vs non-REST follow-up) -
Instapaper’s Arment: Seek Money From Customers, Not VCs
“Venture Capital Is Like Having Another Boss” -
Elements Of Twitter Style
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Side effects of developing for yourself
Make something you would actually use: “If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase...Categories
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Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile
An entertaining and probing opinion piece on agile: what works, when and how. Required reading.Categories
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Coding Horror: Hardware is Cheap, Programmers are Expensive
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Is scheduled downtime okay?
Opinions on what consitutes downtime and how much is acceptable -
What Makes for a Good Blog?
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ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers
Almost there. Brackets will always be “(” and “)”.Categories
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The PHP Benchmark
Advice and best practices for PHP operations, such as looping over a hashCategories
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Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS
I totally agree. Now, where are these mythical creatures hiding?