simplest d3 + meteor example I could make v2 steve/simple-d3-with-meteor · GitHub. Learning meteor & d3 together – I wanted a simple example to build on. Since I didn’t find one, I’m sharing this. The minimal (for me) was that it took advantage of the reactive data synced between client & server to affect something I drew with d3. Now, individual circles are drawn by d3 (via a template), each one as a result of individual record changes managed by Meteor.

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Learning meteor & d3 together - I wanted a simple example to build on. Since I didn’t find one, I’m sharing this. The minimal (for me) was that it took advantage of the reactive data synced between client & server to affect something I drew with d3. steve/simple-d3-with-meteor · GitHub. Thanks to the following sources for their help http://d3js.org http://meteor.com http://christopheviau.com/d3_tutorial/ http://mbostock.github.io/d3/tutorial/circle.html http://blog.benmcmahen.com/post/41124327100/using-d3-and-meteor-to-generate-scalable-vector

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SNAP! (Build Your Own Blocks). We’ve had great fun, and results, teaching kids to program with Scratch. Now, Berkeley has “an extended reimplementation of Scratch … that allows you to Build Your Own Blocks. It also features first class lists, first class procedures, and continuations. These added capabilities make it suitable for a serious introduction to computer science for high school or college students.” I’ve only played with it a little - but getting started with Snap!

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At Food on the Table, feedback from real users is the life-blood of how they do lean startup. When we needed qualatiative feedback from new users, one way was to hire people off of craigslist - a form of ad-hoc usability testing. This question has come up so often, I promised to share the answer here: Hi Steve: I’ve got a question for you on doing usability testing via random folks on Craigslist.

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It’s been a great 3 ½ years at Food on the Table, however it’s time for me to move on. As you’d expect with a team and investors of this caliber, everyone has been very supportive of my decision. While this next phase will be without me, I remain confident that the work at Food on the Table will lead to great results. Working closely with Manuel Rosso and our team for the last 3 ½ years has been a tremendous experience.

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