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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How would you benchmark the productivity of a product-development team in lean-startup? 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.

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Food on the Table is hiring - I’m looking for a great developer to work with us. Read more at We Are Growing! | Food on the Table Blog.

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On the 28th, I’ll be MC’ing the Austin On Rails meeting - (Meeting: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 @ 7-9 PM). 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.

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Gotta love this... Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine.

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FYI - we have a google voice number for Food on the Table -and forward it to our SkypeIn number. However, at some point we realized that it wasn’t working. No matter what we did, we could not get a call to go thrugh Google Voice to SkypeIn. 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.

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