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Simply put, if you’re interested in startups you need to attend the Chicago Lean Startup Circle Meetup. It’s the easiest way to hear from the horse’s mouth how to take your startup idea and to turn it into a real company with paying customers.
Before I get into last week’s meetup, I’d like to give a little more context of the LSC.
Tags: incubators, lean startup, lean startup circle chicago
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This is really a screenshot from my phone.
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Tags: iphone
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This post concerns a tweet that I made earlier today. While reading though Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp’s “Introducing HTML5″ I began to wonder, “are the barriers to entry for HTML rising for beginners?”
Tags: beginners, html5
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I’ve done my own startups and have worked on other people’s startups. I’ve been increasingly around the lean startup methodology (if you’re in Chicago, you should definitely join the Lean Startup Circle) where one researches a problem, proposes a solution, and pivots due to customer feedback. In this methodology, you are reasonably sure that people will use the product that you’ve created.
On the other hand there is the idea of scratching your own itch. You know that it’s an problem that you, yourself have had and you sure as hell wish there was a solution to the problem. So you create your own.
And without further ado, I introduce Packio
Tags: mvp, packio, rails, toy apps, web applications
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As Apple’s ascent has transformed it from a company returning from the brink of disaster into an object of serious academic study, the idea of design-driven innovation has become a veritable zeitgeist among those interested in technology and business. In short, everyone wants to know why Apple is so great - from the idea that Steve Jobs is one of the great men of history, worthy of admiration and replication, to what we can learn from Jonny Ives about reinventing Swiss design for our stage of history.
Tags: apple, design driven innovation, esslinger, innovation
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I’ve got a new tutorial up at the Pathfinder Development Blog. Check it out here.
Tags: email, html email, openssl, sendmail
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Is HTML5 video ready for prime time? I can’t give a definite answer to that question — but I can say that getting it to work cross browser, and that includes the iPad can be annoying.
Tags: html5, ipad, jquery, video
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One thing that I have been able to do well this year is read. So let’s see what I’ve been able to get through, shall we?
Tags: books, javascript, swiss design, typography, usability, user experience
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Today you find only a few companies that take design seriously, as I see it. And at the moment that is an American company. It is Apple.
I bought an iPad. I was not expecting to be an early adopter. I didn’t pre-order it. In fact, my decision to get one on launch day was pretty spur of the moment.
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Tags: apple, ebooks, ipad, reviews
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I’m working on a project where we wanted to have a different central image appear on page load. So I made this plugin for anyone looking to implement the same functionality
How it works:
First, in your html markup you need to create an img tag and assign it an id or class:
<img class="shuffle" src="" alt="">
Tags: demos, jquery, jquery plugins, randomImage
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_Why is my favorite programmer. Primarily because he sees the art in programming and realizes that programming isn’t just a thing for programmers. Just as we don’t find the act of writing something down solely the domain of writers. _Why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby really affected me as it was a compelling way to teach programming. I love visual aids / visual learning techniques and I find that _Why really provided a tour de force in giving people the ability to have people visualize the meaning of seemingly mundane programming syntax . For instance, when he defines arguments in a method he says: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Desktop, Posters, ruby, Wallpapers, _Why
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