- Launch, don't wait
- "In retrospect, it was a bad idea to wait until these features were completed before deploying to the public. The application would [have] benefited from some public use, even if it wasn't feature complete."
- Vitamin interview with David
- Ryan Carson from Carson Workshops talks to David about Rails, 37signals, Sunrise, etc.
- Business Jive interviews Jason
- "Fried discusses his professional background and the foundations of his less-is-more approach to business and life."
- Excavating ant tunnels
- Cool photo here of ant nest architecture.
- Martin Schoeller photography
- Interesting close up portraits of celebs.
- Apple/Nike
- "With a sensor in your shoe and a receiver on your iPod nano, your run takes on a whole new dimension. See the minutes tick by. Watch the miles unfold. Hear real-time feedback. All to your favorite music..."
- CSS Graphs Helper for Ruby on Rails
- A Ruby on Rails helper for making vertical, horizontal, and complex bar graphs with an image marker. The graphs use only CSS/HTML (and an optional gradient image).
- "Every time you add a word to a web page, you take something away."
- It's a decent article though one analogy seemed odd: "Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There are so many choices." Then I realized it said sweetshop, not sweatshop.
- Rodney names his computer after Jamis
- "So I've decided to name my new macbook Jamis or Buck because at the moment Jamis Buck is my hero. I mean giving the world Capistrano and Active Record Migrations , that's just too much hotness to handle, but he did and it's awesome."
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jerry 02 Jun 06
*Fanboy Warning*
So, if you take the most prominent 37signals and line them up against the Beatles, I get…
Jason == Paul
David == John
Jamis == George
Sam == Ringo
Marcel == Billy Preston
Matt == Linda
But I can’t seen to fit Ryan in anywhere — George Martin, perhaps? Any suggestions?
jerry 02 Jun 06
Doh, I just figured it out — Ryan is LSD.
Jamis 02 Jun 06
In all fairness, I have to admit that migrations were not my brainchild, but David’s. That said, I’ll take all the adulation I can get. ;)
John Lewis 02 Jun 06
Launch!
The most important realization about the Web people should take away from this is simple:
The web is iterative. There’s no “final” product. You’re never done, and you should never wait to be done.
Ken Rossi : CivilNetizen.com 02 Jun 06
There is a threshold you should get to in order to launch successfully. When do you have “too little” features?
Here is an interesting article about that threshold.
Arrington’s article at TechCrunch:
Don’t blow your beta
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/09/dont-blow-your-beta
It is a tough decision on when to go live. I use this quote everytime I take too long to make decisions on anything from software to business dealings. It is right next to my computer to keep me focused.
“A good plan violently executed today is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.”
- General George Patton
Phil 02 Jun 06
If Apple/Nike could tie the average pace of your footfalls and then play music in the same BPM range, *that* would rock.
Marko 02 Jun 06
Launch: Remember all those under construction signs? Web 1.0 was right all along!
Sam 02 Jun 06
If I remember correctly, there was a Martin Schoeller portrait of Al Gore on the cover of Newsweek or Time or something recently. I remember trying to figure out what the two strange shapes were in his eyes.
Greg 05 Jun 06
Jerry:
Sam == Ringo
I’m going to say “ouch” for Sam.
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