I don’t usually play games on my mobile but this thing – Subway Surfers – somehow caught on and became a part of my life for a few weeks. People like the game for various reasons but I have one specific reason. In fact this particular reason is why I stuck to the game and [...]
Moot.it is a new forum/comment platform – you can say like Disqus but still vastly different from it. What’s most interesting are two things: the way they’ve scaled. 8 days = 8000 forums the time it has taken them to get their product out I’m guessing that by now, you’ve heard a lot about Moot. [...]
You hear this quite often: the glories of a “full-stack” developer who knows the in-and-out of most programming languages, databases, servers and whatnot. Startup CTOs are often full-stack – they are mostly familiar with a lot of stuff about programming, design, production and many times, even marketing and community management. You’re building your startup. Actually, [...]
You’ve heard it all the time: anything that’s measured, improves. You can’t optimize a thing unless you really measure its impact. Should you make the size of the download button larger? Should you change the typeface? Should you do this, do that? There are a ton of things you can optimize through A/B tests. Services [...]
In order to make money, you have to have a way for your customers to pay you. If you’re operating online, having people mail you checks just isn’t going to cut it. That means that you need to make sure that you get a reliable payment processor you can work with. But how do you [...]
We don’t generally think deep enough about user signups. Developers are internet-savvy and we don’t bat an eyelid when we signup for stuff. Social signups have made life easier so we take the signup process very much for granted. But ask a guy who’s running an email subscription service about how hard and important it [...]
Choosing whether or not to make your work available under an open source license is only complicated by the number of different open source licenses currently available: the BSD license alone has four versions that a coder might consider using. The Big Open Source Questions The big questions that you have to consider when deciding [...]
Even if you’re pretty good about following The Pragmatic Programmer‘s advice to learn a new programming language, you may find yourself needing to pick up a new language in a hurry. It is possible to learn a new programming language fairly quickly, especially if you’ve already got a good grounding in a couple of different [...]
If you are still talking about what stack to use, which language to (re)learn, what framework to adopt to create your app, you are wasting time. Too many of us fall into this trap. Of course, it’s natural. We want to start with the best tools, never be limited with what we’ve chosen and get [...]
Most of us fear a little discomfort. We fear the judgement of other people. We fear public failure. I am the same way. But I’ve come to believe that many of us actually fear success. We are scared of the problems and responsibilities that might come with a massively successful idea. So we hold back. [...]
