Tumblr (3.0; @illcomputing)http://blog.ill.com/<a href="http://www.quora.com/Productivity/How-can-I-increase-my-productivity-on-my-side-projects-at-the-end-of-the-day-when-Im-tired-from-work">http://www.quora.com/Productivity/How-can-I-increase-my-productivity-on-my-side-projects-at-the-end-of-the-day-when-Im-tired-from-work</a>: <p>The ‘minimize startup and switching costs’ is the best idea ever.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23624654553http://blog.ill.com/post/23624654553Wed, 23 May 2012 16:29:46 -0400<p>So I think my problem is that I&#8217;m too quick to jump on something that I know how to solve. Sometimes this works out, but I think a lot of the time I&#8217;m doing a lot of scrambling when I should be thinking things through some more and spending less time hacking.</p> <p>This is in sharp contrast to my previous partner who spent little time scrambling, but since he thought more about things he was able to achieve results.</p> <p>This is actually probably my hardest thing to deal with - how do I get myself to stop scrambling around and between projects and instead think some more and focus on the proper things.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23489021784http://blog.ill.com/post/23489021784Mon, 21 May 2012 14:02:40 -0400<p>The problem with learning something new and developing a product at the same time is that you end up doing things wrong early on because you don&#8217;t know enough, and so you end up with crappy code that you [or others] have to deal with in the long run.</p> <p>So you should probably develop products only with things you&#8217;re familiar with.. but tools are being developed so quickly on the internet that you really have to use new stuff, I think.</p> <p>The solution is to probably just frequently review and update code as you learn more about a platform.</p> <p><strike>One way to do this is to just review code that has been developed 2 weeks ago. It&#8217;s still kind of fresh in my mind and hopefully not much has been built on top of it, so it can be updated easily.</strike> After adding any new code to the site, I should be reviewing old code in light of what I&#8217;ve just learned, and updating the old code.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23485692914http://blog.ill.com/post/23485692914Mon, 21 May 2012 12:53:00 -0400<p>New goal: make $15 million.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23355653928http://blog.ill.com/post/23355653928Sat, 19 May 2012 12:30:03 -0400<p>Yesterday I took a fresh look at some of my recent code. Ouch. I&#8217;ve got to do this more often or things can get/stay messy quick.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23353215736http://blog.ill.com/post/23353215736Sat, 19 May 2012 11:41:17 -0400<p>How do you know if the project/company you&#8217;re working on will be successful? I&#8217;ve got some doubts as to what we&#8217;re doing. I think I need to continue, though, because I need a mainstream project under my belt. I&#8217;m working with some good stuff, so I can&#8217;t complain there.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23230295379http://blog.ill.com/post/23230295379Thu, 17 May 2012 11:05:36 -0400<p>So I revisited &#8216;grunt&#8217; today, and it&#8217;s turned out to be really nice. It&#8217;ll do all the javascript transformation stuff that I need (lint, concat, minify). It even has a &#8216;watch&#8217; task to do those things automatically while I&#8217;m developing. It even has a &#8216;less&#8217; compiler! I could probably just as well use &#8216;rake&#8217; or some of the other zillion things out there, but this app is written in javascript and so has (I think) the latest goodies.</p> <p>There is testing in there as well with qunit and phantomjs. I should start doing unit tests with that - it should be pretty easy. Alternatively, I could install the grunt-jasmine and use that. After I&#8217;ve got that low level testing running, I should also set up some kind of selenium acceptance tests.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23230232583http://blog.ill.com/post/23230232583Thu, 17 May 2012 11:03:39 -0400<p>In this current project, along with the last one, communicating with users and tracking the communication is a really big part of the focus on the marketing side.</p> <p>Trying to build out the tools to manage that on my end, while simultaneously building out the product, is really hard. Also, I want to push back with &#8220;but are you actually using any of these stats?&#8221;, but it&#8217;s a difficult argument to make when you&#8217;ve got a zillion other things to do.</p> <p>I&#8217;m pretty happy that we&#8217;ve got sendgrid right now. It isn&#8217;t very expensive, and it has most of the stuff that we want. </p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23229897673http://blog.ill.com/post/23229897673Thu, 17 May 2012 10:53:13 -0400<p>&#8216;recess&#8217; for compiling less and css and linting/minimizing it. Need to work up to it - my css is shit right now.</p> <p>ultimately, I&#8217;ll be running &#8216;grunt&#8217; all the time to check/compile javascript and recess to check/compile less.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23118730973http://blog.ill.com/post/23118730973Tue, 15 May 2012 16:21:00 -0400<p>How much time should be spent on the onboarding part of a project vs the actual project itself?</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/23116364213http://blog.ill.com/post/23116364213Tue, 15 May 2012 15:41:15 -0400<p>You don&#8217;t understand it unless you can explain it.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/22757463976http://blog.ill.com/post/22757463976Wed, 09 May 2012 22:22:49 -0400<p>This is a post without a title. That&#8217;s right. No title.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/22653007706http://blog.ill.com/post/22653007706Tue, 08 May 2012 10:51:18 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lc64gueE211qc1pjno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Testy mctesterson.</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/1624723847http://blog.ill.com/post/1624723847Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:26:17 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l2g7j67njn1qc1pjno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Test!</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/600170597http://blog.ill.com/post/600170597Sat, 15 May 2010 02:32:56 -0400<p>What it is?</p>http://blog.ill.com/post/600168329http://blog.ill.com/post/600168329Sat, 15 May 2010 02:32:00 -0400