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I was about to buy a Macbook Air with similar hardware, but the Retina Display got me and made me spend a few bucks more. Totally worth it!
Looks really promising!
I didn't include queues, live streaming, and other features because unfortunately they are not available as a separate gems.
I tried to cover all the things that are possible now (via gems or simple code change). Maybe in a future post I'll cover all the new things in Rails 4. But as it's still on development I prefer to wait until a beta or release candidate.
A few samples or demo code would be great though. Just to check how basic/intermeditate/advance code and concepts are.
Is it available on mobi or epub somewhere?
Ask HN: Recommendations for learning and improving UX/UI skills?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4316967
And also worth looking: Ask HN: How do you learn to design?: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4290031
But definitely, making singup option would be much much better. At least, some intro content available that will get visitors attention.
I highly recommend reading David Kadavy's "Design For Hackers": http://designforhackers.com/
I really really recommend the book Design for Hackers by David Kadavy: http://designforhackers.com/ It gives you a really good idea of most parts of design and its history. Once you've read that you should then look for things you like how they are designed and try to understand the decisions made by the author.
IMHO, learning by copying works good on design.
Initially, it would show very few metrics or charts that can give you a quick snapshot of the business so you can see how it's performing very quickly. But it should be possible to dig into more data and visualize it in many different ways to get better insights.
On most apps I've worked, we've always opted to build out own dashboard because there was no out-of-the-box solution. We would gather data from inside the app and also use some external services like mixpanel or google analytics. Also, lately I've been moving towards more custom charts and graphs made with d3.js which is extremely powerful.
Nowadays there are a couple of products that let you craft your own dashboard like https://www.leftronic.com/ and http://www.geckoboard.com/
You can get some ideas there and by looking similar products. MixPanel and KissMetrics also provide some inspiration. And doing a search on dribbble can give you some ideas also: http://dribbble.com/search?q=dashboard
A really good book on data visualization is "Designing with Data" by Brian Suda: http://www.designingwithdata.com/
jQuery is a tool to make things simpler. Innovation comes from creating new tools that can make everyday work as simple as possible.
jQuery in itself is innovation. And to the developer ecosystem provides a lot of innovation. Making other librares do greater stuff and moving standards forward.
Making tools is one of the best ways to innovate.
D3 is an amazing tool. I don't wanna go back to google visualization or Highcharts after using it!
Anyway, it has really great style. Very good looking components and very useful to get started easily with a cool site, not necessarily a wordpress one.