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The 4 Keys Of A Usable Product, And The Agile Workflow

When something is easy to use, we hardly notice. In contrast, when something is difficult to use, it nags us with each and every turn, increasing our frustration with ourselves and the product. As...

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Code Like The World Is Watching

Code as if the world is seeing everything. Image from Wikipedia. Programming can be an intimate business. If you’ve ever had your code unexpectedly reviewed, you know exactly what I mean; you feel...

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Hackathons And A Habit of Shipping

We’ve all had great ideas that we’ve let sit for too long. When it comes to shaping personal project ideas into something concrete, we’re quick to put it at the bottom of our to-do list. Far too...

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The Future Of The World Is JavaScript

Todaymade is a JavaScript shop. We write a massive pile of it each day. We use it to build our single page web apps. We use it to develop our server APIs. We use it for our mobile apps. And you can bet...

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What Makes a Great Dev Podcast?

Here at Todaymade we’re planning a podcast geared toward developers — a platform to talk about new technology, create discussion, and excite our audience (and ourselves) into action. Lately, I’ve been...

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It Works On My Machine

5 out of 5 localhosts agree: it works on my machine.

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How To Successfully Use Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

I had a problem a couple years back. I had a database of 863,088 text fragments that fit the structure of a haiku; you know, three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable structure. 95% of them were horrible as...

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How We Live And Work By The Agile Manifesto

You’ve probably heard of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development before. If you haven’t, you should probably take some time get familiar with it. It won’t take long to read. Individuals and...

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Daux.io Is The Fastest Way to Create Documentation

Documentation is hard. Writing it takes time, proofing it is tough, and keeping it updated is the worst. Daux.io makes it easier to create, update, and make great looking docs. The Easiest Way To...

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Coding For Fun: The Road To Mastery

In the book Outliers: A Story of Success, author Malcom Gladwell repeatedly refers to the “10,000-hour Rule,” which states that to achieve mastery in a complex topic one needs to practice for somewhere...

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The TodayStack: It’s All About Real-time Communication

Ahhh, smell that? It’s that new blog smell. The first post on any new blog is always special, even though there is more pressure to make it great because it feels like a cornerstone. For me, it’s a...

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My Week In Ember.js – Debugging, Rendering, And The Core Team

Debugging Ember.js If you are just getting started with Ember.js, then debugging can be one of the most frustrating things about working on a new project. When I first started using Ember.js, much of...

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What Most Schools Don’t Teach

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My Week In Ember.js – Naming Conventions, Routing, And Ember Camp Videos

Naming Conventions The Ember.js docs have been updated to include a nice guide on the Ember.js Naming Conventions. Read this one twice if you are just getting started with Ember. Ember Routing Paul...

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The State Of Adaptive Images

This is an outstanding post about adaptive images, which is really the next big discussion the web needs to have about responsive sites. Not to worry, it is happening, but I for one sure wish it could...

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How To Enable Multisite On Your WordPress 3.0+ Blog

A few weeks ago, we enabled multisite on this blog. While not for the faint of heart, it is actually a fairly simple process, especially when you consider that you are simply enabling a hidden feature...

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5 HTML Secrets To Help You Design a Winning Website

We all know that websites can be powerful, but are you always getting the most you can from your website? Probably not. Highly doubtful, really. Your website probably sucks. I know ours did, and when...

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My Week In Ember.js – New Release, Getting Started, Stopping Data, And Double...

Ember.js Release Candidate 2 On March 30, 2013 let it be known that we are one step closer to a final 1.0 of Ember.js! The core team just released what they are calling a bugfix and improvement...

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6 LESS CSS Techniques For Your Design Framework

I love LESS. I have been using it since 2010 when it was introduced, and I am amazed how much it has changed my design workflow. Now, it feels like what CSS always should have been – a tool that helps...

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When Coding For Time Zones, Have All The Time In The World

World Time Zones. Source: The University of Texas. Accounting for different timezones as a developer is trickier than you might think. If you ever want to make a programmer cry, just mention that...

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