Pinboard: bookmarks for andrewspittle tagged 'code'

"But now I write code with the absolute certain knowledge that it will end up in somebody else’s hands. I could be wrong, yes, but I’ve learned that it helps me write better and more-maintainable code if I just assume from the start that somebody else, most likely a friend, will end up working on that code base."

code software from instapaper
october 2011 by andrewspittle

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Designers vs Coding

Frank Chimero writes about the necessity of at least knowing basic markup languages.

code design FrankChimero from instapaper
september 2011 by andrewspittle

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Golden Grid System

Interesting folding grid system for rapid prototypes of responsive designs.

design code
august 2011 by andrewspittle

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Startup Weekend pep talk: It ain’t the code

"Customers don’t patronize companies on the basis of the difficulty of the code or the unit test coverage percentage or whether you used Bodoni instead of Times New Roman on the home page. In fact I’ve made millions of dollars on companies with hideously ugly websites and buggy code. Those things are actually not the most important things. Real life is a startup contest too."

startups code business from instapaper
august 2011 by andrewspittle

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Machine Learning Fairy Dust

"There’s no substitute for good product design. You still have to make something people will want to use and find your way around technical stumbling blocks, not just fill in all the gaps with “ML will solve any difficulties we face”. Because it won’t."

journalism code software from instapaper
july 2011 by andrewspittle

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FitBit + Google Spreadsheets = Awesome

Cool hack to bring Fitbit data into a spreadsheet.

FitBit software code
july 2011 by andrewspittle

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How to manage a PHP application's users and passwords

User manual for phpass

code PHP security
july 2011 by andrewspittle

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Version Control with Subversion

Handbook for SVN.

code
july 2011 by andrewspittle

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Developers get better with age. And scarcer.

Interesting data pulled from Stack Overflow about age and the utility of developers.

code software age from instapaper
june 2011 by andrewspittle

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Depression, Burn Out and Writing Code

"Not getting enough sleep as a programmer is like a chef dulling his taste buds with cigarettes. You can do the job, but you’re seriously handicapping yourself for no reason."

code lifestyle software from instapaper
june 2011 by andrewspittle

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Learning how to learn

"Any product is the end result of umpteen failures large and small. But in the end, you’ve solved a hundred problems you’ll never have to solve again. And your thing? Done. It’s a great feeling."

code software design from instapaper
may 2011 by andrewspittle

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Regex Tutorial, Examples and Reference

Regular expressions tutorials and reference.

code regex
april 2011 by andrewspittle

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UNIX Commands Guide

Basic guide to UNIX commands

UNIX code
april 2011 by andrewspittle

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lab | simurai

Really cool CSS3 and HTML5 experiments.

design inspiration code
april 2011 by andrewspittle

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WP-Kickstart

"Small framework for quickly getting started with your wordpress theme development."

WordPress code
march 2011 by andrewspittle

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boilerpipe

Library that allows for text extraction from a web page.

code
march 2011 by andrewspittle

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Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs

Gawker's new JavaScript-dependent URL structure is an utter fail.

code webapps publishing software Gawker
march 2011 by andrewspittle

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The case of the mysterious external services

"It’s worth noting Nginx handled this traffic in the most performant manner as possible; unfortunately, it doesn’t help all that much when your web application launches a denial-of-service attack on itself."

DanielBachhuber webapps software debugging code Nginx
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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Extended API

Extends the WordPress XML-RPC API to allow for nearly every WordPress function to be used.

WordPress plugins code software
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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Menubar Icon with Drag and Drop Support

Google cache of a tutorial on drag and drop support in a menubar app on Mac OS X.

code software WordPress
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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XML-RPC wp

List of API calls for WordPress' XML-RPC code.

WordPress code software
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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eczarny/xmlrpc

The Cocoa XML-RPC Framework is a lightweight XML-RPC client framework written in Objective-C for use on Mac OS X and iPhone OS.

code software WordPress
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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tdd.objectivec.XCodeProjectSetup

Little demo project to get started with xcode.

testing software code
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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Writing a Menulet Extension

Basics on writing a menulet extension on Mac OS X.

Apple code software inspiration
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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Automattic Makes Premium Themes Available to 17 Million Wordpress.com Blogs

Interesting footnote from Ben Brooks. "I do realize that my personal blog is on Tumblr still. I also still like Tumblr, but I think it is not the platform you should consider if writing is your thing."

BenBrooks Automattic WordPress design business code Tumblr
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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Smoke Signals

A manifesto for making the next one billion seconds about distributed, open, and secure software platforms. We should no longer surrender our most vital personal details to a closed-source system. It’s your social data, own it.

MarkPesce software opensource code
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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Lived Fast, Died Young, Left a Tired Corpse

"Yes, you will have incredibly lucrative job offers in this bubble. That's the easy part. As Startup.com and Code Rush illustrate, the hard part is figuring out why you are working all those long hours. Consider carefully, lest the arc of your career mirror that of so many failed tech bubble companies: lived fast, died young, left a tired corpse."

economy history software JeffAtwood CodingHorror code startups
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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Linking to all image sizes in WordPress

Nifty image hack for WordPress themes from Justin Tadlock.

JustinTadlock WordPress code photography
february 2011 by andrewspittle

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Refactoring for designers

Ryan from 37signals introduces the concept of refactoring for designers.

code design 37Signals
january 2011 by andrewspittle

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Rethinking how news themes work

Great ideas from Justin Tadlock about how a WordPress news theme could and should work.