We're using more and more backbone in https://paydirtapp.com - it's currently an integral part of our time-tracker, with the same code base reused in our Chrome and Firefox extensions. We're also using it to drive d3.
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You can get in touch with me at nicholas@lyssna.com.
This is our MVP into intelligent time tracking, seems to work well for people that spend all day in the browser. We'd love some feedback!
1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/paydirt-time-...
2. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clfnlkjacgohceabde...
That said, there are certainly places in my apps where I don't want this to occur. And whitelisting is much better than blacklisting!
https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/348
https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/431
That is, incorporating `updated_at` into the cache key, and using `touch: true` on your AR relations to make sure that caches of affected parent objects get expired too?
Are there other complications I may not have run into yet?
Care to elaborate? This process seems to be going well for Apple!
I'd argue that landing pages are the most important and most complex pages to get right.
1. Didn't build something people would pay for
2. Beaten by the competition
3. Didn't build something people would pay for
4. Didn't build something people would pay for
5. ?
6. Didn't know their users and build the product with them in mind
7. Didn't build something people would pay for
You don't need to be a decent DBA, a pen tester and a network admin to get your startup off the ground. You need to be able to wear all the hats, but by the time you actually need a master of each skill you'll have the revenue to employ them.
That said, these two paths may actually converge. If you're interested in learning and read a wide range of authors and topics, you'll probably be good at JIT learning stuff when you need to change hats.
We spent 2010 freelancing figuring out the business side of things a bit, earning some money to give us a bit of a runway, kicking lots of ideas around, and working on our tech chops.
12 months in we're starting to focus more on marketing and sales than development, and we're aiming to be profitable sometime before the end of 2012.
Everything takes a lot longer than you think!
http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/
http://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla%20Foundatio...
As of December 31, 2010, they have assets of $168MM, of which $35MM is in cash and $105MM in investments. In the 12 months they spent $62MM on software development, $10MM on branding and marketing, and $12MM on 'General and administrative'.
There's more granular detail if you're interested.
Google wants people to use their services, and to use browsers that are up to scratch to do so. They also want to influence web standards so that they can build better products. This is why they built Chrome.
Firefox helps them to achieve these goals by being another alternative to IE, and having similar views about evolving web standards.
Explicitly valuing staff retention means that he probably also recognises the value of company culture, group ownership, and so on.
I think this is a good way to do it as well, as you're likely to get some helpful feedback and tyre kicking from HNers.
The gem is a very thin wrapper around jQuery, jQuery UI and jquery_ujs, which basically makes the files available for inclusion in your manifests, and adds a jQuery specific helper method for your tests.
What?