January 2012
14 posts
“Codecademy co-founder, Zach Sims told TNW: We think it’s incredibly important...”
– Codecademy and White House To Train Low-Income Youth (via thenextweb)
LayerVault Blog: Announcing Unlimited Storage and... →
layervault:
Let’s get right to the point — We’re building some pretty amazing stuff here at LayerVault. We’ve iterated on nearly every aspect of the product, made huge improvements to things like user experience and reliability. Today, we’re releasing the next iteration of the LayerVault pricing. We’re…
WatchSome nifty real-time business that we’re working on at LayerVault.
December 2011
15 posts
Kim Jong Il is dead
Source: NY Times
LayerVault Blog: Improved Sharing Settings →
layervault:
Earlier today we rolled out improved sharing settings at the account level. Users were asking for ways to control permalink visibility and file downloads from the account level. Today, we’re happy to announce Public Permalinks and Downloadable Versions at the account level. Public…
November 2011
27 posts
freshest() and newest() for arrays of ActiveRecord
Here’s a few nifty little methods I implemented for LayerVault to help me pull out the newest and “freshest” records from arrays.
I love Ruby.
http://gist.github.com/1380926.js?file=newest.rb
Drop these guys in config/initializers/array_methods.rb and away you go!
LayerVault Blog: LayerVault Love: Typekit →
layervault:
Typekit: We like you, do you like us? Check one [ ] Yes [ ] No Our ears were burning and our tweet stream exploding earlier today, when the official Typekit blog featured us alongside the President, the Verge and Bearded. We are more than flattered. Typekit is an online service…
blogofastudent asked: Park and Bond is awesome. Thanks for introducing me. RE: BowTie the hardest part is finding the loophole behind the knot for the final pull through. It's like prom night all over again.
Allan Grinshtein: The Churn Burn: Bulletproofing... →
allang:
LayerVault is lucky in that the majority of customers love the service, but cancellations happen. And when they do happen, your mind races — what went wrong? Where did we fuck up?
I haven’t been able to find a straightforward, bulleted checklist that a SAAS business can use to deal…
“If you are perplexed by the proliferation of irritatingly “Smart” devices at...”
– College Senior Manifesto « Thought Catalog
I’m sure something will shame me in the rest of this article, but this? THIS.
(via shevralay)
12 Steps to Writing Better Web Code
The comments for this post are over on Hacker News.
It’s been over a decade since Joel Spolsky wrote the Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code. The man was ahead of his time. Sure, things like version control are a no-brainer for any competent shop out there. With the ease of tools out there, most teams have a bug database and have reasonably up-to-date schedules. Heck, most software...
Give the Gift of Picplum →
picplum:
The holidays are fast approaching.. and so are Picplum Gifts! We just launched a new page that makes it easy to help friends and family get started on Picplum by giving them credits. Credits can be delivered via email directly to your recipient, or we can mail it to them.
Let us know what you think!
