Tag: through technologies
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v2 of simple d3 with Meteor – now rendering individual records
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…
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Simplest d3 + meteor example I could make
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…
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Ad-Hoc Usability Testing With Craiglist Users #leanstartup
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
Steve Sanderson 