Steve Sanderson

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  • Some Patterns of Lean Startup from Food on the Table
    • Know Your Important Business Metrics
    • Improve The Biggest Obstacle
    • Have Metrics On Everything
    • Slice and Dice Historical Data
    • Test Hypothesis With Minimal Change
    • Isolate The Test
    • Have A Testing Solution
    • Build The Test
    • Continuous Deployment
  • 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 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…

    stevesanderson

    August 18, 2010
    making
    through technologies
  • 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 it keeps opening a new window in my regular browser to login, instead of completing the login within Fluid. I googled for “can’t use campfire with fluid” and similar, and no luck.  A little more digging and…

    stevesanderson

    January 19, 2010
    making
    through technologies
  • 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 install racc sudo gem install rexical (at this point, when I tried “gem install how”, it complained I didn’t have RubyGems >= 1.3.1. which is required for “hoe”) sudo gem install rubygems-update -v=1.3.4 sudo update_rubygems sudo gem install hoe…

    stevesanderson

    September 7, 2009
    making
    through technologies
  • 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 /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…

    stevesanderson

    September 4, 2009
    making
    through technologies
  • 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” http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/3884

    stevesanderson

    September 4, 2009
    making
    lean startup
  • 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 reset my iPhone and after a reboot – ta-da! Over a weeks worth of voicemails suddenly appear. Grrr. Never seen this before and I’ve had my 1st generation iPhone for a…

    stevesanderson

    July 27, 2009
    making
    through technologies
  • 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 team and previous teams and gauging applicability. With my current team (at FiveRuns), we hit a point a while ago where the team began to reject the extra formality and overhead in some…

    stevesanderson

    May 29, 2009
    making
    product development, through technologies
  • 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 tickets to catch Penn & Teller at the Rio on Tuesday night. Want to join us? Drop your name in the… hat. Okay, it’s not a hat, but you get the idea. Enter your…

    stevesanderson

    May 1, 2009
    making
    through teams
  • 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 end of the pool – I’m getting a lot out of the whole lean startup idea. No great surprise, since it extends what I’m familiar with, from within product development, to all the…

    stevesanderson

    April 29, 2009
    better, making
    business, lean startup, product development
  • 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) on how to operate a business. I’m not a business operations person, so I don’t have the chops to completely evaluate the proposition here ahead of time. However,…

    stevesanderson

    March 24, 2009
    better, making
    business, through technologies
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