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Re: Tutorial: Play Framework 2 with Scala, Anorm, JSON, CoffeeScript, jQuery & Heroku

jayfallon — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:07:09 -0000

Really nice. Probably the first Heroku tutorial I've completed that actually deployed and worked on the platform the first time..

Re: Logging in with QR codes (proof of concept)

jayfallon — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:26:05 -0000

Great proof of concept. Thanks for sharing.

Re: What, exactly, is a Product Manager?

jayfallon — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:52:20 -0000

Agreed, QA does tend to become the encyclopedia of product knowledge, but as it's derived from distilling the product over multiple iterations, not the case if the product is currently in development. Unfortunately, QA is often overlooked as a source of information by developers as they see the role as being one of testers, not exactly at the top of the food chain in a competitive environment.

As an aside, I have yet to find a Product Manager who possessed the levels of passion and experience in UX to be useful other than for quick, visually opinionated commentary.

Re: 30/10/10

jayfallon — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:55:53 -0000

I think I'll go back and reread "Social Media's Secret Weapon - Email." That being said, when dealing with mobile, I get excited whenever I receive an SMS or in-app notification as well. Even if it's just to remind me to take my umbrella to work that day.

Re: How to Improve your Business with a Free Product

jayfallon — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:07:44 -0000

Exactly. He'd have a tough time not paying handsome royalties to all of the other artists he samples. And his shows, which do require a purchase, do not reflect what's on the free albums, either.

Mashups are low-hanging fruit and although in some cases you can make money from them if, for example, you sold them through an app store packaged as an app but in the majority of cases are easily replicable and create no inherent value on their own. In Girl Talk's case, he can easily forgo any delivery and exclusivity pricing from his albums as he can do it for free via the internet, so he's not actually giving something away for free, as it's free in the first place.

Re: delayed_paperclip

jayfallon — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:40:21 -0000

This looks really good. Can't wait to check it out.

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/28

jayfallon — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:49:25 -0000

I guess it's a matter a preference and what you are used to. For someone that has been using HTML/CSS for as long as I have, HAML/SASS are not that different, but I feel that LESS bridges the transition gap.

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/28

jayfallon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:35:59 -0000

Thanks for the feedback. I would like to see/do a sass/haml/compass/sinatra screencast series as well in the near future.

You're right, the mousing is annoying. I could formulate many excuses to counter this, but I'll simply admit that I'm not a keyboard ninja and am still learning my way around TextMate.

On another note, there's nothing easy about making these screencasts. When I first started following Eric Berry's Twitter Clone series, I thought that he just sat down, started coding and uploaded the video. Easy business, right? It's not as simple as I thought and I'm working on getting better at it. Any related comments are greatly appreciated.

Thanks for watching!

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/27

jayfallon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:16:18 -0000

I find the contextual reference to another selector's properties to be interesting, but I have yet to imagine a really good scenario for that, aside from the multi-line CSS3 border/shadow implementations.

Btw, Part 2 is now up and this weekend I'll be (hopefully) finishing up with Part 3. I think I've covered most of features, but please let me know if you'd like to see something else or more in-depth.

Thanks, Jay

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/28

jayfallon — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:10:43 -0000

Something is wrong with the video on Vimeo. Uploading an converting now.

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/27

jayfallon — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:48:52 -0000

Francois, you make a good point, but many times I'll have elements that don't appear together in the html on the same page, yet live under the same parent when they do.
This would lead to generating more/incorrect code if you automated it, something that I don't agree on doing when you have a large web application that will go through many iterations. For a one-off, predetermind example like I'm using for the screencasts it would be fine, but it's been my experience that no information or visual design survives intact very long.

I'm working on Part 2, will let you know as soon as it's ready.

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/27

jayfallon — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:00:30 -0000

it could be interesting to extract directly the structure through a bash command into your application.less

Yes, Francois, it would be interesting, but then you'd take all the fun out of coding with TextMate. It may sound geeky, but I really love writing CSS. I do agree with you on the DRY part though and it would be interesting to see what type of solution one can provide to solve the problem.

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/23

jayfallon — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:53:54 -0000

Hey Juan Ignacio, I too noticed my font-size: bold bug, but being my first screencast for TeachMeToCode I went through a lot of trouble just getting it up there thanks to Eric Berry and didn't want to have to incur more edits than necessary. Trust me, I'll make sure to revise my code more diligently in the future.

Out of habit and in accordance with YSlow, I put my scripts at then end of the page. In my years of front-end development I have rarely come across strict rules concerning the script placement, but I think as I move forward and my work is more public I'd like to maintain some sort of convention.

The clearfix hack has served me well over the years cross-browser and cross-platform. In the case of this screencast, I wasn't using any background colors or imagery so the guillotine bug may not have been as obvious to the casual developer, but I find that in the style that I employ to code it helpme maintain consistency and balance.

Thanks for watching until the very end.

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/23

jayfallon — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:28:37 -0000

Good point, Shareb. Next time I'll shorten the set-up and get right to the gist of it. Thanks.

Re: the institute of hybernautics

jayfallon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:39:46 -0000

The use of the term "massively dope" by marketeers at Kraft. One more domino has fallen in the War of Something.

Re: Just Try It Out

jayfallon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:55:14 -0000

I like DailyBooth. In about twenty minutes I was able to create, upload my avatar (Gravatar anyone?) and I recreated a blog post that took me over an hour to do with Posterous. If I could post directly to Twitter/Fb/Others and import my f/f from Twitter, I'd be even happier. The mechanics are a little confusing but the end result was better that I expected.

End result: yeah, I didn't have to listen to some hype about what makes them different from Twitter and they gained a user's user within minutes. A Fred Wilson endorsement helps, but I've done the same for other suggested apps and I wouldn't bother using/recommending them after a quick use case.

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/13

jayfallon — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:44:08 -0000

That was an interesting approach. Thanks!!

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

jayfallon — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:29:35 -0000

The question that I keep asking myself in regards to the Mint sale is did they assume that they'd reach peak valuation or peak founder contribution to growing the business.

My take is that some people out there in the infosphere feel that a quick flip in Mint's case was unorthodox and are having doubts coming to terms with it.

Re: http://www.teachmetocode.com/screencasts/6

jayfallon — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:27:37 -0000

I really enjoyed the screencast. Looking forward to the next part.

Re: The Foursquare "Crush"

jayfallon — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:48:04 -0000

I think that until the Arctic Monkeys decide to hire bikers to do their security, the world is safe.

Re: Quitters

jayfallon — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:30:59 -0000

I missed this article from the WSJ, dated from August 25th, with the exact same line: http://j.mp/i9ukC

Re: Wayback Machine & What You Can Learn From It For Your Site / Startup

jayfallon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:59:06 -0000

That reminds me of the old Virginia Slims slogan: "We've come a long way, baby."

I can agree that every UI/UX is not going to be perfect out of the box, but as time goes by, one has to rise to a certain level where "good enough" isn't going to cut it unless you have a compelling model that could stand alone without the need for an engaging front-end. And using the Wayback Machine as a methodology for self-assurance isn't the answer, in my opinion.

Re: The Foursquare "Crush"

jayfallon — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:22:10 -0000

I see no problem with endorsing Foursquare prior to closing an investment with them. It's a good game with a lot of upside potential and at the end of the day, you let the money do the talking. The fact that you were open and honest about your usage probably helped Foursquare attract more followers and may have hurt you financially in the short term, but the long term effect will be positive for both you and the companies you choose to endorse. Face it, you picked a winner.

Now if someone could just convince @bijan that Arctic Monkeys are not the greatest band in the world, everything would even out.

Re: Quitters

jayfallon — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:20:54 -0000

I find it odd that Ms. Heffernan chose to only publish comments from people who would support her original thesis, regardless of what the numbers are telling her. Was there not a single person in her circle of friends who could offer a positive use comment?

Facebook, for all its flaws, works very well for what it was designed to do: keep people in touch with each other. It worked very well for me when I traveled around the World because I could update my status and upload photos, all the while knowing what my friends and family were up to without having to resort to writing multiple email messages. Now that I'm not traveling so much I may use it less often but it's still there to do the job I expect to, albeit with a deluge of cause invitation and mafia requests, but those are just a direct reflection of the network I have created, not Facebook's profile of me.

Re: jayfallon

jayfallon — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:49:08 -0000

I agree wholeheartedly.