A few months of work during a sabbatical yielded a product that nailed a problem in the preventative healthcare space. After a freemium window, the product gained good market traction and you spawn a new company with three coworkers.
How not to check the validity of an email addressAnother update, after this post somehow hit #1 on Hacker News and garnered my website more visitors in one hour than it usually gets in a year: I got a lot of feedback on this post. While a lot of it was positive, there was also some valid criticism about the amount of flaming in this post.
frausto llcSuch accusations, and likewise similar sentiments, are being heard around offices with increasing frequency. And the saddest part is, the code is usually not particularly shit.
My favourite interview questionSome years back, I was interviewed by an interesting start-up in Palo Alto. I was really tempted to take their offer, mostly because:One of the interviewers was an avid Ultimate player; Stanford. In walking distance.
What We've Learned About Interviewing EngineersAt HubSpot, we have grown from one to 75 developers in a few short years. This is what we've learned. Deciding if someone should spend 40+ hours a week with you for the next several years is a very hard question to answer based on a couple hours of contact.
Software Security: Balancing Resources and RisksSecurity and software have to go hand in hand, but not all teams are equally equipped. Some organizations retain security experts, some hire consultants, some use multitasking developers. If your company can’t afford a dedicated security expert or team, consider these points.
Plug In an UPS and Get a Program CrashAfter publishing the article "Grounded Pointers", a lot of people commented on it. Among other things, they mentioned that various devices are often shipped with extremely poor software. And that gets on nerves quite a bit sometimes. However, I'm not going to grumble about that.
IanG on TapJeff Atwood recently posted about natural sorting. This is all about making sure that strings that contain numbers sort numerically. I’m slightly surprised to see that he wants to call it alphabetical sorting. Surely by definition, alphabetical sorting is defined by, well, the alphabet.
Life of an HTTP RequestWhen working on web applications we take a lot of supporting technology for granted. We build our code on top of a multi-layered network stack with HTTP as the glue. Each user interaction with our app may cause several HTTP requests that are routed and handled separately, often in parallel.
Introducing the Unit Test Generator for Visual StudioIn this video, Brian Keller interviews Joshua Weber about the new Unit Test Generator which just shipped for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. The Unit Test Generator brings back a scenario which existed in Visual Studio 2010 that allows you to generate unit test stubs from your application code.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.