I hear this phrase a lot, and even recently, out of my own mouth: “Users are stupid, so we have to dumb this down to the lowest common denominator.” Stop it. Just stop it.
I mean it. All of you people are writing fantastic, useful articles about code, methods, and technologies, but you’re putting them in blog posts — a date-based format that encourages us to leave things as they were, historically.
We’ve been focusing our efforts on building Harmony the past few months, but we recently carved out some time to give our site some much needed love and attention.
We’re finally revealing the tip of the Harmony iceberg in the form of a nearly-complete documentation site that will fuel our beta testers, and help future customers hit the ground running once the CMS is released.
Today I did a presentation on what Steve and I have been working on behind closed doors for the past year (or more it seems). It is always fun to share the exciting things we have been up to and this was no different.
Every once and a while, a project comes along, that despite your current workload, you just cannot turn down. Last November, Atmail brought us a project like that.
Often times when new things come out, I am aware of them, but for whatever reason, they don’t really click with me. I heard about Google’s Ajax libraries a while back and I remember thinking whoop-dee-freakin-doo.
Things have been silent on this here blog because Steve and I have been making ridiculously awesome progress on Harmony. We are actually less than a week away from our first deploy and only a few weeks away from running OrderedList.com in Harmony.
Economy, economy, economy. I swear it is all you hear about these days. Turn on the news. Go to a cafe. Doesn’t matter where you are, someone mentions how bad the economy is. Because Steve and I left extremely stable and secure jobs, we often get asked, “Are you feeling the hurt?”
I have spent a lot of time over the past few months growing RailsTips, a Ruby and Rails programming blog. All the tweaks I have been doing over there, have left me wanting an outlet to share.