guybrush0

It's solid on the Chrome stable and beta channels, but possibly not on Canary. I'd hope they'll wait until sass 3.3 is released before removing the debug-info support from more stable channels.

Do you have the 'sass-rails' gem in your Gemfile? It's possible to have the asset pipeline work with just the 'sass' gem, but to get the full debug-info that Chrome requires you need to be using 'sass-rails' and specify the config options mentioned in the post.

Watching Triumph of the Nerds with my Dad in the mid-ninties is one of my fondest memories, and played no small part inspiring me to study computer science and subsequently get involved with starting companies.

Accidental Empires (the book), remains full of detailed insights into the emergence of Silicon Valley and startup culture. The fact the show was set in the mid ninties may make it seem a tad dated by today's standard, but it was fascinating to watch Cringely talk with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, John Sculley, folks from IBM, Xerox, and more.

As a 15 year old watching on a sofa from 6,000 miles away, I was incredibly inspired by the tales of dedication to product creation and hyper growth. It's a part of what inspired me to move to the Bay Area years later.

I look forward to re-reading the annotated version of Accidental Empires and hope Bob continues to write (and interview!) for many years to come.

It depends on how you integrate bootstrap: there's a SCSS conversion of Bootstrap that avoids the dependency on therubyracer, (it just requires sass): https://github.com/anjlab/bootstrap-rails

Linkfied versions of the above: http://github.com/tidepowerd/GPU.NET-Example-Projects http://www.tidepowerd.com

I don't live in Visual Studio much these days but from a brief look at your website your tool looks great.

Have you spoke to the Jetbrains guys at all? Nitriq looks like it could be the perfect complement to Resharper.

From the article it sounds like Facebook made a huge investment in people to build the bespoke (software) infrastructure that they needed. eg. A bespoke in-memory database, their "own storage system called Haystack that's completely built on top of commodity hardware", etc.

Facebook have an order of magnitude more employees than Twitter which probably makes those kind of bespoke uber-scaling advancements feasible.

I wonder how "live" the data is? It's seriously fun to sit and just watch.

The title is misleading - I thought this was a link to a twitter mash-up, not a "how to learn rails" tutorial that has nothing to do with twitter.

All the lessons sound great, but in lieu of advertising or conferences, how do you make the first 10 sales? The first 100?

Surely it's not sufficient to simply "build it and they will [magically] come" unless your product is incredibly niche and solving a very painful demand.

Is the author a superb personal marketer, or did he literally sell 2 copies of his software to friends and then everything snowballed from there?

The sales graph suggests there's something else going on, and I really want to know what it is!

Sounds like it was awesome! An SO track is an innovation I've not heard of before but hope to see spread to other conferences.

Seems pretty cool, but who is really the target audience?

Wouldn't it be more useful as a netbeans/rubymine/eclipse plugin?

Thanks for the feedback!

I'm an occasional twitterer: guybrush0.

I'm really hoping that by appealing to the startups to list their jobs, they'll share the job listings on their own facebook profile and that'll attract job seekers as well, building the momentum...

Lee.

My very-early stage startup just launched this facebook app.

I hope this community has use for a mechanism that helps you bypass expensive recruitment agents and job boards.

Lee.

If only I was. I'm an experienced developer and unix sysadmin and it still took two full-time days to get a working production-grade rails system installed on top of ubuntu.

I'm no rails guru, but I still thought that was an incredible amount of time to be spending installing and configuring things.

Based on recent experiences, I suspect he's more likely to spend 50% of his time getting a production deployment environment set up.