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Programming Resources

Spencer Fry

Agile Web Development with Rails by DHH 3.5/5. With most of Learn Ruby the Hard Way under my belt, I dove into David Heinemeier Hansson 's book, Agile Web Development with Rails. After completing the Ruby on Rails Tutorial , I had the confidence to start building my own application with my friend and designer Yaron Schoen.

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The Rise Of Cloud Computing

YoungUpstarts

This migration to the cloud helps to meet their operational needs, as well as to reduce costs and increase agility and efficiency. With more users requesting content such as HTML, images, software downloads and audio and video, it is vital that web content can be delivered to them via a local server to accelerate website performance.

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Why A/B testing is essential to your startup’s campaigns

The Next Web

Companies live and die by how agile they are and how they’re meeting the demands of their customers. Whether you’re testing subject lines, sent from addresses, times of day/week/month, HTML vs. Plain Text, etc., Layout and Design. Product design? In my professional life, this is a credo I live by. Time of Day.

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Case Study: UX, Design, and Food on the Table

Startup Lessons Learned

(One of the common questions I hear is how to reconcile design and user experience (UX) methods with the Lean Startup. To answer, I asked one of my favorite designers to write a case study illustrating the way they work, taking us step-by-step through a real life redesign. This is something of an IMVU reunion. This is simply not true.

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Bye, Bye Waterfall: 5 Steps to Implement Responsive Web Design

www.readwriteweb.com

Bye, Bye Waterfall: 5 Steps to Implement Responsive Web Design. Congratulations, you’ve finally convinced the powers that be that your next Web-design project needs to be responsive. Responsive approach: So why implement responsive design over the waterfall process? How to Implement Responsive Web Design.

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Innovative Techniques To Simplify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins

www.smashingmagazine.com

Most designers are familiar with the conventional ways. In this article, we’d like to present a couple of new ideas that might be useful for your next designs. vf) (ik) (al) Tweet Anthony T Author of UX Movement , a user experience blog for interface designers and design thinkers.

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So You're Going To Start A Huge New Web Project

css-tricks.com

Web Design. Responsive design can help with this and is an awesome solution for a lot of sites. On a large project, you really need to develop a design system. That means re-usable parts and design patterns that help you build quickly and keep you consistant. This isnt just a design thing, its everything.

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