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Oct
26
37 Signals, the superstar web application company responsible for Basecamp and Backpack (among others), has released their fantastic book “Getting Real” in two additional formats, including a free online version. You can now read the book for free online (HTML), purchase a PDF for $19, or purcahse a printed edition of the book for $29 from Lulu.com.
Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it’s a book of ideas. Anyone working on a web app — including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers — will find value and inspiration in this book. 37signals used the Getting Real process to launch five successful web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework, in just two years with no outside funding, no debt, and only 7 people (distributed across 7 time zones). Over 500,000 people around the world use these applications to get things done. Now you can find out how they did it and how you can do it too. It’s not as hard as you think if you Get Real.
I highly recommend picking up a copy of this book if you are interested in development methodology that breaks the rules of traditional software development.
Oct
16
I wish these primers had been around when I was starting up in the web development world. I still plan on devouring every single resource listed in these articles. From A List Apart:
The following websites come from ALA staff recommendations. Many of these are the sites that we’ve used — and still use — to improve our own skills. We hope this list can serve as a starting point for a larger collection of resources for fledgling web designers and developers.
The ALA Primer: A Guide for New Readers
The ALA Primer Part Two: Resources For Beginners
Oct
5
I’ve been at it again over at Listible. This time I have started a list for Standalone Weblog Clients. A Weblog Client is software you run on your local machine that lets you post to your blog via an XML-RPC interface. Weblog clients are often an alternative to the web-based “rich text editors” that come with most blogging applications. This is a list of the most popular weblog clients available. Enjoy!
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