He did this after the mixergy interview. See this link :
http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.816849.5
I enjoyed La Critique as this reminded me of the progress I still need to make.
David K., hang in there, like Jason said, the fact that you released your app is a major step. And like most guests on the show have already said, it can take a couple years to get your app where you really need it to be.
Something which I still find challenging is to partner with a designer all while boostrapping. I know that in my professional experience working with a new designer always takes a fair amount of time. For my own personal app (www.myskillsmap.com), although I have a designer friend, she is very busy, so I have not been able to make as much progress as I wanted. I am thinking of trying out design freelance sites like ODesk, DesignCrowd, and Sortfolio. Do you have any recommendations and or other ideas to help pair up developers and designers?
I have finally got around to getting Gladwell’s Outliers, after all the references you give to outliers I thought it about time I read it. I also bought Edward De Bono’s Thinking Course, which is very interesting.
]]>Apologises for not wording my question better. I have just read an article titled “Why and How: Ruby (and Rails) Unit Testing” to get a bit of an overview of how RoR deals with unit-testing. Here is my attempt to rephrase the problem.
I create a model.
I create a test for the model.
I alter the model
The test still passes, but because the test was to general a bug has crept into my code.
My question should have been, based on the above situation, do we have any patterns to tackle this. My current thinking is probably overly complicated and is half built and it involves keeping track of hash files of the “test file” and the “file to be tested”. Which then alerts me to the fact the file has been changed and I should review the test file. Clearly its an edge case, but after going to all this effort to write tests, its worth knowing. AND yes, I have concluded I have spent far too much time on tests and less time on the project.
Hopefully that clarifies my question and maybe somebody will say “X” does it this way and its how you should do it.
Show was good, cant help feeling Justin has gotten hooked on “macs” after getting his new machine. I did find myself chuckling this morning walking to work hearing you guys chatting about “Steve Jobs”.
Do you guys have any plans for week 52 ( the year ), which happens at the end of June?
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]]>You’re right! Justin is a flip flopper! And I really like this idea of buying him some flip flops.
]]>“Cloud” on the other hand, is here to stay. I love it. I recover from hardware failures without skipping a beat.
As far as I know, the only way you can protect Swarm is to *patent* it. Copyright won’t do. You better get that patent application going if you want to protect it. I suggest you do. A prelim application is cheaper than a full application. If you make 30 billion dollars, then you can get the full patent. Talk to a lawyer. Yesterday.
Backgrounding… Jason, you sound like my wife! HAHAHAHAHA! Jason is right about one thing though: geeks sound awful on demo videos. Justin is lucky because he has an intelligent sounding accent. I sound like a goof.
I think Jason is very lucky to have that guy come over and work on the product with him. He is smart enough to take advantage. This is exactly the suggested product development pattern in “Crossing the Chasm”.
Justin is a flip flopper! Jason should buy him flip flops and cake for Christmas.
]]>Anyway, another RDBHost alternative/competitor might be of interest for David: http://www.clustrix.com
Justin, are you coding Swarm for the iPad in Titanium? How are you finding it?
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