Steve Sanderson

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Jan 22, 2026: Draft of a Pattern for when founder-led product stops scaling What happens when companies expand their product offerings and their product operating system doesn’t keep up? One intervention is to establish …

Jun 8, 2013: v2 of simple d3 with Meteor - now rendering individual records A second simple example of integrating D3 with Meteor, demonstrating reactive data syncing to visualize changes in a collection using circles.

Jun 5, 2013: Simplest d3 + meteor example I could make A simple example demonstrating the integration of Meteor and D3, leveraging reactive data between client and server

Apr 14, 2013: SNAP! - Programming for Kids SNAP! is a browser-based programming tool that builds on Scratch’s concepts, making it accessible and suitable for teaching computer science to …

Mar 19, 2013: Ad-Hoc Usability Testing With Craiglist Users #leanstartup How Food on the Table used Craigslist to recruit usability testers by crafting targeted ads based on specific participant criteria and product …

Mar 14, 2013: Moving on from Food on the Table & What's Next! After 3 1/2 years at Food on the Table, I am moving on to pursue consulting projects or a new leadership role

Jul 15, 2012: Recovering the Shine How I restored the shine of a Precision 18 - waxing, polishing, compound, sandpaper

Feb 8, 2012: How would you benchmark the productivity of a lean-startup product development team? A brief pass at benchmarking the productivity of a product team

Sep 20, 2010: Food on the Table is Hiring! Food on the Table is hiring - I’m looking for a great developer to work with us

Sep 20, 2010: MC and Talk at Austin On Rails Tuesday, September 28, 2010 @ 7-9 PM An Austin On Rails meeting on September 28, 2010, will feature four talks, including one on continuous learning and deployment.

Aug 20, 2010: Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine Gotta love this... Progress Trackers in Web Design: Examples and Best Practices - Smashing Magazine.

Aug 18, 2010: Skype Will Not Verify Phone - Google Voice Help 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 …

Jan 19, 2010: Fix for: can't use fluid with campfire anymore... Now that 37signals centralized their user management, my existing Fluid-based campfire doesn’t work. Specifically, I can’t login because …

Sep 7, 2009: Installing nokogiri Slicehost's Ubuntu Hardy Here’s the steps to get nokogiri installed; sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev sudo gem install nokogiri sudo gem …

Sep 4, 2009: For Leopard, installing Sphinx from ports with mysql binary from mysql Given I’ve installed sphinx And I’ve used mac port for the install When I run sphinx indexer Then it expects the mysql socket to be in …

Sep 4, 2009: Please vote for my SXSWi Panel "Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, Failures & Techniques" Last day to vote for my SXSWi panel; please vote! “Lean Startups: Beyond the Hype, Successes, Failures & Techniques” …

Jul 27, 2009: iPhone Voicemail Badness - why-oh-why AT&T #fb Noticing that I haven’t received any new voicemails in over a week - and hearing rumors about problems with voicemail on the iPhone… I …

May 29, 2009: kanban development oversimplified + shiny bits on couchdb Lots of buzz lately about kanban / lean in software development. While watching this from the sidelines, I’ve also been looking at my current …

May 1, 2009: FiveRuns at RailsConf/CabooseConf and taking folks to see Penn & Teller Attending RailsConf and/or CabooseConf? Join FiveRuns to see Penn & Teller perform at the Rio on Tuesday night. We’ve got transportation and 40 …

Apr 29, 2009: Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step O’Reilly and Eric Ries are doing an interesting webcast - Webcast: How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step. Having recently waded into this …

Mar 24, 2009: Intriguing (and radical) approach on how to operate a business Check out “The Open Company - Running your business as if it were an Open Source Project. It describes a radical approach (at least from my POV) …

Jan 22, 2009: Build a personal relationship manager on LinkedIn... maybe I’ve always wanted some simple ‘personal relationship manager’, i.e. the problem is that I’ve got friends and acquaintances I …

Jan 7, 2009: Clarity in the cloud & congratulations to whurley Open source “evil genius” whurley has announced he will be writing a column for InfoWorld on cloud computing, and it appears that his …

Dec 21, 2008: Oh CouchDB, Why Do I Love Thee So...? Ok, so why are my friends and co-workers noticing my minor obsession about CouchDB? There’s a few reasons. First, I have a long-term …

Dec 3, 2008: Twitter Updates for 2008-12-03 housekeeping on my blog. remember blogs? so last ... decade? years? # @juliegomoll - more of a tweak at those who 'left behind' long-form-blogs and …

Dec 3, 2008: @juliegomoll - more of a tweak... @juliegomoll - more of a tweak at those who ’left behind’ long-form-blogs and now only do short-form-tweets

Dec 3, 2008: housekeeping on my blog. remem... housekeeping on my blog. remember blogs? so last … decade? years?

Dec 1, 2008: not sleeping. the day is still... not sleeping. the day is still running through my head.

Oct 8, 2008: Rails, Ruby and other Open Source Components - Better During the Downturn? With the economic downturn, financial pressures increases on technologuy budgets (whether commercial, large / small enterprise, startup or …

Oct 2, 2008: Obama '08 for iPhone Hot off the press - an iPhone app to accelerate the Obama ‘08 campaign! Thanks to my friend (and open source guru) Raven Zachary, I had the …

Aug 14, 2008: "Finding Paths Through the Worlds Photos", Blade Runner & Pseudo-Ghosts? Finding Paths Through the Worlds Photos (via webware.com) is a stunning example of stitching together collections of 2d photos and navigating them in …

Mar 1, 2008: FiveRuns I haven’t even noted anything different here - but on Oct 1st ‘07, I joined FiveRuns as their VP of Development and Technology. A lot is brewing …

Aug 8, 2007: An interesting pattern to make a brief pitch I had an interesting discussion with Kelly Looney today regarding positioning. Based on his experience, (as I interpret it )positioning starts with …

Aug 1, 2007: Down To The Desktop Or Up Into The Clouds I think that my recent purchase of the iPhone has tipped the balance in quandry I’ve had. It goes something like this: I’ve wanted a …

Aug 1, 2007: My profiles, managed by me... So if vertical social networks become popular, then the horizontal problem becomes intestering, e.g. how to manage one identity across multiple …

Jul 28, 2007: iPhone So I’ve made the plunge and bought an iPhone. Half the joy is in using such a beautifully designed product - every aspect of the experience …

Jun 26, 2007: Infrastructure So in the physical world, there’s tremendous constraints placed on a system by existing infrastructure. It defines and limits what can be done …

Jun 24, 2007: Excite Reunion Thanks to Julie, we had a great Excite.com reunion party last night at her house. Ostensibly, it was to celebrate an old Excite comrade (Kuntay) …

Jun 18, 2007: MacFuse - Sweet Ok - so maybe it’s a sign of just how much a shiny-gadget-geek I am, but I love what’s possible with MacFuse (and MacFusion). For example, …

May 24, 2007: Sophie, Squeak, Croquet There seems to be more and more instances of platforms appearing which raise the level at which people can create, manipulate and share rich content …

Apr 17, 2007: TVShows Great idea - how to get TV shows, not how to see a bunch of randomly named bittorrent files. Another “so obvious after I saw it” moment. …

Mar 28, 2007: Firedoodle - persistent whiteboard in your browser Nice tool, nice example of using Firefox as a platform, and nice example of how small ideas are proliferating: Firedoodle … is a Firefox Add-On …

Mar 13, 2007: Startup enthusiasm (not) versus pragmatism I love the start-up environment - in part because of what happens when we ‘drink the kool-aid’, but at the same time I also value …

Oct 6, 2005: Inspiration on patterns and paradigms beyond OO A great audio program on experiential computing (IT Conversations: Ramesh Jain - Experimental Computing) and Ramesh’s related blog (Ramesh …

Oct 6, 2005: Two beautiful interfaces Two beautiful interfaces: a time machine Etsy Time Machine and a shop by color as novel ways to navigate.

Apr 19, 2005: Manage Shared Information and Their Shared Concepts Some of the assumptions that drive shared information and the shared concepts that underly them: There exists cognitive patterns (also called …

Apr 19, 2005: An Integrated Perspective on Software Development Some ramblings on software development A useful perspective on software devleopment is as an ‘integrated discipline’, i.e. a perspective …

Dec 9, 2004: Next Steps Towards a "Common Language" With experience, I have come to realize that is not sufficient to gather a diverse group of people to solve problems, no more so than a pile of sticks …

Dec 9, 2004: Specialists and generalists I think it’s pretty easy to convince ourselves that in many contexts, especially work, we are becoming more specialized, moving away from being …

Jan 13, 2003: Formal Versus Agile? You've Got It All Wrong! As I interpret it, the agile versus formal debate is generally treated as an either or question. For instance, in any given software development …

Sep 10, 2002: A Light-Weight Critique of The Brain's User Interface In the article and in the interview excerpts (from the now-defunct Feed site) Harlan Hugh makes the argument that an “associative …

Aug 15, 2002: A Better Tool? As with many computerized things, I’ve been frustrated with the commercial state of the art for software to manage information, especially …

May 22, 2002: Reconciling Formal, Agile & No Processes How to reconcile formal, agile & no processes in a software development environment? Previously in conflict, considered by some as irreconcilible …

May 20, 2002: What's Next In Modeling Tools? Based on the current state of the art with modeling tools today, there are a lot of potential improvements. What follows are a set of wishes or …

Apr 19, 2002: How can Model Driven Architecture Be Successful? How can model driven architecture (MDA) be successful (or any approach where higher levels of abstraction are necessary) when software engineers are …