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Ready to Rumble
The Kitchen Sink
When you try to build this:
photo credit: avidtile
you too often end up with this:
photo credit: DieselDemon
when this would have been just great:
photo credit: Mr. T in DC
It should be as quick and simple as possible for judges to get to the core of your app.
Stick to the Essentials
I’m continuing my [...]
What’s the Big Idea?
I’m continuing the walk through Getting Real, the very unofficial guide to Rails Rumble development. The Rumble is a natural fit for the tenants of chapter 2, The Starting Line, and chapter 3, Stay Lean. I will Build Less, Fund Myself, Fix Time and Budget while Flexing Scope, and Embrace Constraints. The rules and structure of the Rumble [...]
My Rails Rumble App Idea Takes the Sleaze Off
For this year’s Rails Rumble I decided to give 37signals’ Getting Real approach a try. It’s a natural fit for the Rumble. After all, the first dozen essays include ‘Build Less’, ’Fix Time and Budget, Flex Scope’, and ‘Embrace Constraints’.
What Rails Rumble and TechStars Have in Common (besides @andrewhyde)
With Rails Rumble 2009 coming up this weekend, I’ve been thinking about why I like the competition and why it’s so rewarding and productive. In thinking through the attraction of the Rumble, I realized there is similarity to the recently wrapped Boulder TechStars session and other events in which smart developers participate (like Startup Weekend, [...]
Just Set the Right Goals
In his blog today, Derek Sivers pointed to a study called When Intentions Go Public: Does Social Reality Widen the Intention-Behavior Gap? From this and similar studies Derek concluded that “people who talk about their intentions are less likely to make them happen.” Wray Herbert also offered similar advice in his Newsweek Mind Matters [...]
The Power of Paucity
My nephew moved to town. Most every physical thing he owns fit into the rental truck that he drove from Wisconsin, where he just graduated college, to Colorado, where he’s starting out the next phase of his life. Yesterday, we unloaded the truck into his new apartment. He has no job, no debt, and no [...]
Start
There web and bookstore shelves are full of authors and advisors urging us to produce instead of plan, to do instead getting bogged down in deciding. Some urge readers to “Ready, Fire, Aim.” In The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki says
GET GOING.
Start creating and delivering your product or service. Think soldering [...]
