funkyboy

https://www.upbeat.it

Adventures in making software.

Go out with your friends and have fun. You'll have plenty of time to spend coding in front of a screen :)

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True, the point is that you are learning a moving target.

Some people in the community are excited by this, because they have something new to learn.

Others are pissed, because code that worked yesterday doesn't work anymore.

I am working on https://www.podrover.com. It's totally self funded. I didn't quit consulting yet, but I am happy with how it's going. My suggestion is to start your side project right away, regardless of whether you think it will be profitable or not.

I feel the only "tool" to make email less painful is to teach people how to use it.

Everything mentioned (IDEs, typing, automation) is a great advice. But the greatest advice I have been given is "the best code is the one that you don't write". And that's true in my experience. More code means more mess when you have to debug. It also means more time for another developer to get acquainted with your project. So before writing something I often ask myself "do I really need this?" It can be a function, a class, a module or even a graphical asset. It helped me a lot, both on client and personal projects.

Before you jump to the “he made it so I can make it too” conclusion let’s put those numbers besides other facts/numbers ...

I wrote a little post to put those numbers in perspective: http://www.upbeat.it/2015/01/16/putting-marcos-numbers-in-pe...

Why?

I'll buy a 4.7. Then I'll buy a saw and make it a 4.

Here is a short tutorial on how to install BaasBox on Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS and the like) http://www.baasbox.com/installing-baasbox-on-linux/

Next week we are gonna publish a specific tutorial on AWS.

My guess is just one: BaasBox is born 6mo ago :) But we are spreading the voice ...

Our stance is that, as an app developer, you should not care too much about the technology behind a backend. You should rather stay focused on the front end.

Assuming you have Centos, deploying is as easy as:

yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk scp baasbox-xx.tar.gz user@host:remotepath cd remotepath ./start

Baasbox DB is orientdb, which is open source: https://github.com/orientechnologies/orientdb

I did client work. I don't even remember for which client :(

Ok, then. Let's put it in another way. TDD should be used by those who can afford it. Right? I don't think many startups can, that's the point I guess.

I'd start with something simple. Edit a file, server detects the change, browser refreshes the page. Just that would save a ton of man-hours.

I reaaaaly prefer Foundation to Twitter bootstrap.

I agree. I'd trade some stomach pain (due to junk food) to get the opportunity to meet someone like minded, or with skills complementing mine, so that some friendship/collaboration/startup) can start.

I prefer joy to happiness. Joy is more an attitude, whereas happiness seems to come from something "external", like I have bought a new car, that VIP said hi to me, etc.

Like I have said it is just a "language layer" around Cocoa API, there are no extra, built-on-top classes/things. Instead of writing Obj-c you write Ruby, but the behavior is the same.

thanks for the link. I'll try it out.

Can you please send me a screenshot of what you see? I ran many test on readability and I did not verify the issue you mention.

I had this issue with an iCloud-based app. A client wanted it to be ready on the iOS5 release. I agree, it's living on the edge, but sometimes it is required to have access to beta stuff and work on that. Not every third party tool allow that.

but then you type nu code in the prompt, not obj-c, right?

Like I said in the post, totally open to change my mind.

Just wondering if you, unlike me, had the guts and ran the risk. I am curious if you had such an experience. Can you share it?