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Lessons from the field on API strategy, design, governance and AI integration.
Launching Your Startup’s Business Model
Seth Godin has a great definition of business model: A business model is the architecture of a business or project. It has four elements: What compelling reason exists for peopl...
Slicehost Releases Running Slice Cloning and Increases Bandwidth
I’ve been using Slicehost for 2 years now, and as an anniversary present they have released 2 new features: Slice cloning from running slices – You can now create a ...
Recruiting Volunteers to Your Cause
Are you launching a cause that will require volunteers? Whether you are launching a new church, para-church ministry, non-profit, or a PTA/school project, you’ll want to c...
Twitter Can Launch Ideas Faster
Twitter has been in the media recently. Not just the expected online and print sources, but often in local news segments. Local news anchors now use Twitter to talk about...
Product Audit: Customer Experience
Applications can get familiar and outdated. What worked for your first set of customers may not work for your current, less experienced ones. Or, perhaps your users are getting ...
Launching a Startup Requires Patience
I’ve had some recent discussions with some entrepreneurs about the cost and time it takes to launch a startup. These have been interesting discussions, as they have alread...
Architecting Your Startup
Seth Godin recently posted an article titled “Is architect a verb?”: Design carries a lot of baggage related to aesthetics. We say something is well-designed if it l...
37signals on Rails Optimizations
There is a great post at the 37signals blog about how they optimized Basecamp using New Relic. One thing I found most interesting: MySQL optimizations: We’ve been working with...
Raising Exceptions within Your Rails Application
Clemens Kofler has a great post about when to raise exceptions within your Rails application: Over the years I’ve come up with a little rule of thumb for exceptions: Libraries...
Ruby Microframework Footprints
I’ve been looking for a microframework for Ruby that is simple like Camping but supports RESTful resources like Rails. A tip from the Denver Rails UG pointed me to Sinatra...
Microsoft Hailstorm for 2008
Anyone noticed the striking similarities the Windows Live APIs have to Hailstorm? George Moore, General Manager, Live Platform Services posted an interesting article outlining t...
Subdomains and Rails
I was trying to setup the proper environment settings in Rails 2 to support cross-subdomain cookie sharing (so the user doesn’t have to login again if they manage multiple...