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"One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day’s work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: “Have I done a good day’s work?”"

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Paypal IPN integration in about 30 lines of Sinatra. — Gist

In case you're wondering how I did Paypal IPN in Sinatra, here's a gist of the diff:

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The 29 Healthiest Foods on the Planet | Belly Bytes
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How to get what you want once and for all 7

Get an explicit goal. Not an implicit one. I want to be wealthy is no good. Nor I want to be fit. Nor I want to run my own firm. They are no good because they are implicit: they lack detail. When…

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Be Bold 101

solve where others complain; volunteer when others look down; be principled and yet flexible; never give up; have a plan; write every day; stay courteous in all circumstances; appreciate that which…

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On Success, Fulfillment and Contribution to Society

Find something about which you are passionate. Get very, very, very good at it indeed. Charge a sensible price/fee for the product/service. Use profit to improve it and stay ahead of the competition and keep up with the times. Encourge your children to do the same.

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How to Create a Million-Dollar Business This Weekend (Examples

Noah Kagan built two multi-million dollar online businesses before turning 28. He also looks great in orange. (Photo: Laughing Squid ) I first met Noah Kagan over rain and strong espressos at Red…

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You Want It Easy? Then Hard? Or Hard Then Easier?

You can start a business which is a clone of somebody else's. Their coffee shop. Their rental agency. Their integrated software solution. Their 'one-stop' consultancy. Sure you can offer different…

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LifeGetsAWholeLotEasier7

Identify what you want e.g. a red ferrari. Identify why you want it e.g. to pick up more girls. And ask yourself why do you want to pick up more girls e.g. to be happy. Then consider just being…

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API design for humans

One of the things about working with data at 37signals is that I end up interacting with a lot of different APIs I ve used at least ten third-party APIs in the last few months, as well as all of our…

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Introducing The 6 + 1 Model For Effective Copywriting (Better Than AIDA!)

AIDA. Attention, interest, desire, action. It s the classic copywriting formula , studied and used by almost every copywriter on the planet. Well, I m not a fan. Not because it isn t accurate, and…

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What I've Learned About Testing Over the Last Year

Over the last year or so, I ve been trying to learn about various types and methodologies of testing. The Ruby community is pretty vocal about testing, so I felt out of place not knowing even the…

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Where Agile Falls Short

Seattle Municipal Archives It s amazing. Talking to a bunch of fellow CTOs I heard a lot of them saying: We introduced Scrum and it works really well and we re too slow to brin

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The Agile Waiting Game

This post was originally written as a guest post on the MagRails Conference blog. You can find it here . Agile practices (pair programming, TDD, continuous integration, etc) and methodologies…

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Spec helpers, Bundler.setup and faster Rails test suites

The spec_helper.rb file rspec-rails generates is convenient, as it sets up everything you need to get your tests running. In your actual test, all you have to do is require "spec_helper" and off you…

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What Ruby’s ||= (Double Pipe / Or Equals) Really Does

By Peter Cooper / October 18, 2011 In Rubyists Already Use Monadic Patterns , Dave Fayram made a passing reference to using ||= to set a variable's value if its value were 'Nothing' ( false or nil…

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be eager, not reckless

Always remeber: Don't do a refactoring in the middle of making another change.

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Connection Management in ActiveRecord

OMG! Happy Thursday! I am trying to be totally enthusiastic, but the truth is that I have a cold, so there will be fewer uppercase letters and exclamation points than usual. Anyway, I want to talk…

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16 Pixels

For Body Copy. Anything Less Is A Costly Mistake I know what you re thinking. Did he just say 16 pixels? For body copy? Obnoxiously big! 12 pixels is ideal for most websites. I d like to persuade…

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Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developers

Everyone who is a regular Smashing Magazine reader will know that we have a traditional habit of regularly researching the latest resources, tools and services out there on the Web, as productivity…

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Guide to HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails Developers

by Daniel Kehoe This is a guide to HTML5 Boilerplate for Rails developers. Like Rails on the server side or backend , HTML5 Boilerplate provides structure and conventions for setting up HTML5, CSS3…

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Initialize those Settings

Initialize those Settings When starting a Rails project you will generally start loading in your goto gems. You know, the ones that you are familar with and provide quick value for you and your…

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Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice

If there was one course I could add to every engineering education, it wouldn t involve compilers or gates or time complexity. It would be Realities Of Your Industry 101, because we don t teach them…

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Riding One Syllable to Success

So, these three words - flow, play and slow - may seem simple (or simplistic), but they have much deeper meaning. Focusing on them and making changes that promote each one can radically improve how a group works, not only today or this week, but for years.

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Debugging With Pry

Pry is a REPL (Read Eval Print Loop) that was written as a better alternative to IRB. It comes with syntax highlighting, code indentation that actually works and several other features that make it…

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Staying Strong Under Stress :

I'm not generally a stressed person, but I do get anxious on occasion. You can ask any member of the Behance Team who's seen me before a big product launch or other major event. My attention to…

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Intervention

"Today I need to get serious. No, drastic. Like a heroin addict going to rehab. This is my intervention. No more new ideas, no more domain names, no more client work, no more hypotheticals, no more I’ll do it tomorrow, no more wasted time. ”By the way, what have you ever done that’s so great?” I’ll have to get back to you."

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Sustainable Advantages For Start-Ups

In Gimmicks and Patterns I wrote that new features either become table stakes, or are dismissed as being gimmicky. As some readers noted, this is a simplification of what happens. The Kano model…

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How To Work From Home Like You Mean It

Working from home requires a new mindset and a good system, not just a nicer pair of pants (but put those on, too). Despite all the stories you’ve heard, the hardest part of working from home…

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The Retention of the Past

"Life is a laboratory. In life, as in science, it is important for us to recall, respect, and learn from our negative results."

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Sublime Text 2 and Markdown
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How to be free 10
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A shotgun approach to motivation
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The Dysfunctions of Pair Programming
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TheFiftyGreatestEveryDayBusinessMistakesWeAllSoEasilyMake
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The New Value of Text
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Building and implementing a Single Sign-On solution
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Cowboy dependencies

"Adding a dependency, even if you know the person who wrote it really well, requires collaboration from your teammates. If you’re not talking to your teammates, you’re just cowboy coding."

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TestCoverage
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Productivity Variations Among Software Developers and Teams: The Origin of "10x" - 10x Software Development
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35 Beautiful Landing Page Design Examples to Drool Over [With Critiques]
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Reading is a bootcamp for developing and exercising critical thinking
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Mini tech note: MySQL query comments in Rails
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Get To Know Your Users | The Intercom Blog

It's crucial for start-ups to know who uses their application and how.

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Rails: User/Password Authentication from Scratch, Part I
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Rails: User/Password Authentication from Scratch, Part II
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jgoodall/markedapp-solarized
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instapaper_full

Ruby wrapper for the Instapaper Full Developer API

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Cargo-cult debugging

I’ve been coding full-time for only a few weeks, and already I’m going somewhat insane by people engaging in what I’d call cargo-cult debugging. Cargo cults were religions that…

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Introduction to Using Redis with Rails
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Three quick Rails console tips - (37signals)
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ParadoxicalProductivity, The Director's Cut: The First Eight - Nicholas Bate
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Nicholas Bate

1...the point from which we will be starting won't surprise you: the world of work has changed. That world of work of rules, gathering qualifications and developing career paths-whether you're a…

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Types of Coupling

Those of you coming from a Google search are about to be disappointed: this is a post about types of coupling in programming. Coupling refers to the degree to which components in your program rely on…

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Deliberate Practice

We all know the feeling of flow while coding. It's that moment when you hit a consistent stride and leave the surrounding world. It becomes effortless to glide over problems in an autopilot state and…

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Get your callbacks on with Factory Girl 3.3

FactoryGirl 3.3.0 was released this weekend with a slew of improvements. To install, add (or change) your Gemfile: gem 'factory_girl_rails', '~> 3.3.0' New Callback Syntax Callbacks have been…

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How to be a programmer
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Activerecord Reputation System
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Ways to Increase User Engagement
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Keeping Your Unidyno Humming

Great tip for keeping single dyno apps running on Heroku.

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How to Write MiniTest::Spec Expectations
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Active Product Development: Using `rake stats` in Sinatra | Active.com
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Just My Type

Awesome font stacks, especially for non-designer types like myself!

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InfoQ: High Availability at Heroku
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sinatra-bundles: Easy Asset Bundling For Sinatra | Verbose Logging
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Use Factory Girl's build_stubbed for a Faster Test Suite
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[How To] Make Unity 2D Launcher Icons Smaller/Bigger

Nice hack for getting that Unity Launcher smaller.

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Seth's Blog: How to make money online

Might be worth taking a look at his bootstrappers bible.

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Dead simple ActiveRecord migrations without Rails | Elevat.eu blog
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Noel Rappin Writes Here - Rails Test Prescriptions Blog - Setting Up Fast No-Rails Tests

The key to fast tests is simple: don’t do slow things. Warning: this post is a kind of long examination of a problem, namely, how to integrate fast non-Rails tests and slow Rails tests in the…

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