Why?

In my experience at Food on the Table, we’ve been much more productive than any of the other early-stage startups I’ve been involved with. I believe that one of the causes is our pervasive use of lean-startup & feel as if we’re on to something important here. So, how can I (dis)prove this?

Uh, really?

I recognize the some of the inherent issues in my question:

• no accepted standard to compare productivity
• small sample size
• what’s the impact of environment & how can it be separated
• what does lean-startup have to do with this at all
• etc.

… despite these issues, I’m still asking the question.

Ok, you might…

So if you’ve got some ideas how you’d benchmark product development productivity, and maybe how’d you’d take that to the next step, how to compare, then leave a comment below.

Thanks!

There’ll be four talks:

• Technical Feedback Loops – Marcus Irven
• Product Feedback Loops – Ash Maurya
• Process Feedback Loop – (me)
• How My Community Saved My Life – Mando Escamilla

My talk will be a short version of my recent Lone Star Ruby Conf. talk “Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please” or why I love continuous learning with continuous deployment. (video)

Check out the talks and hope to see you there!

Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices – Smashing Magazine.

Fortunately, I found an answer we had Skype set so that it  would only”Receive Calls to my online number” from people in my contact list.

http://screencast.com/t/OTMwNzUyM

via Skype Will Not Verify Phone – Google Voice Help.

I googled for “can’t use campfire with fluid” and similar, and no luck.  A little more digging and I found reference to Making Fluid Ssbs Browse Only Pages You Want – fluidapp | Google Groups.

All I had to do was to add *launchpad.37signals.com* to my whitelist of URL’s to browse in Fluid and it worked.

I’m posting this here so the next person may have a shorter route to find the answer.

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
3. sudo gem install nokogiri
4. sudo gem install racc
5. sudo gem install rexical
6. (at this point, when I tried “gem install how”, it complained I didn’t have RubyGems >= 1.3.1. which is required for “hoe”)
7. sudo gem install rubygems-update -v=1.3.4
8. sudo update_rubygems
9. sudo gem install hoe

via Mark Howe » Rails requires RubyGems >= 1.3.1 you have 1.2.0. Please `gem update –system` and try again..

And I’ve used mac port for the install

When I run sphinx  indexer

Then it expects the mysql socket to be in /opt/local/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock

Given I’ve installed mysql

And I’ve used the binary from mysql

When I run mysqld

Then it use the mysql socket in /tmp/mysql.sock

To get sphinx indexer to use my installed version of mysql, I have to change make a change in the sphinx.conf file to tell sphinx indexer to use the mysql socket in /tmp/mysql.sock:

in some source …

{

sql_sock = /tmp/mysql.sock

…

}

Check  sphinx_docs [SphinxWiki] for reference.