Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today on Brad Feld’s Amazing Deals you can purchase a $250 Ruby course from Udemy for only $49. The course, Learn Ruby Programming (In Ten Easy Steps) contains over 30 video lectures, written course materials, and additional discounts on Ruby literature.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. What do you think?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the last five years, I’ve managed to find the time to write, publish and promote multiple books, including two award-winning bestsellers , develop a web application, maintain a blog, and present at conferences. I developed a simple mantra: “The only person I have to cheat is myself.” The Only Person I Have to Cheat is Myself.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 27, 2010

Everlater is built on Ruby on Rails , postgreSQL and is hosted on Engine Yard using a passenger/nginx combination. Nate and Natty use several standard Ruby/Rails packages (gems) to extend the base functionality of Rails. Now that you know how they got started, here’s what they ended up choosing.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 27, 2010

As a result, the languages I feel like I have mastery over are BASIC, Pascal, Scheme, and Dataflex and the corresponding environment that I’m comfortable developing in ends with MS-DOS and Novell Netware. not developers anymore, but were once, and occasionally bust out an IDE to hack on something) swear by Python.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2010

On the other hand, they thought RailsSpace was an incredible book that taught Ruby on Rails by walking through the steps to create a social network for Rails programmers. And when they needed a break from development they read Tech Trader Daily which was a holdover from their old life as junior investment bankers.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 5, 2010

Copying and pasting the exception into google got me decent mileage, but the real silver bullet I discovered was just start from the beginning of the method and step through it using the ruby debugger and figure out where I had gone wrong. Somewhat related are tools that help you keep your code/team in order.

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