April 2008
12 posts
1. Great Application 2. Price 3. Profit! →
DHH talk at StartupSchool 08 - “The Secret to Making Money Online”.
“Marketing is the price you pay for being unremarkable”
– Robert Stephens, founder of the Geek Squad (via Carsonified)
WatchJason Fried gives a brief example of 37 Signals sweating the details within their UIs. These are the sort of details that make the difference between an acceptable and a great user experience. It’s a real shame more web-app developers don’t pay attention to stuff like this.
“But the most important advantage of being good is that it acts as a compass. One...”
– Great essay by Paul Graham on the merits of building a startup with ‘good’ intentions at its core. (via Daring Fireball)
Amazon EC2 Persistent Storage
The cloud computing model just seems to be getting more and more compelling every day. Amazon have just announced planned support for persistent storage within EC2 instances. Volumes ranging in size from 1GB - 1TB can be created on demand. These can then be backed up to S3 using a snapshot facility. When Amazon released SimpleDB last year I was pretty intrigued, but always felt that some form of...
Dojo 1.1 →
Alex Russell gives a summary of the new features in the latest release of the world’s best JavaScript toolkit.
“One word: Noooooooooooo!”
– CNet News: Climate change will threaten beer production
Spring - Enterprise Edition. Cha-ching! →
SpringSource (née Interface21) have released an ‘enterprise’ version of the Spring framework so that CIOs in big companies can now hand over a wad of cash to get a warm cuddly enterprisey hug from Spring’s creators to help protect them from the OpenSource evils out there. Fingers crossed Rod, Juergen & crew don’t lose sight of their open source roots.
