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Very cool ideas for business cards. I always draw a blank when trying to design new ones for myself, so I found this very helpful. Also, MOO makes really great cards! 

Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life

A Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and a Hollywood actor cross paths at a coffee shop in San Francisco’s Financial District.

You’d never know by appearance alone, but one of these men will sleep on the streets tonight… 

nishacodes:

After you’ve set up your Rails app and got it up on the server, you’ll see a default page that looks like this.

So how do you get rid of this and replace it with your own content? It’s pretty easy actually, so let me walk you through it.

1) Set up a Pages controller.

The first step is…

nishacodes:

Okay, so you’ve already got Ruby and Rails set up on your computer, you’ve set up Sublime Text, you have a Github account as well as a Heroku account. Now what? (If you don’t have these set up yet, follow these instructions.)

Every time you want to start a new app, make sure to follow…

betashop:

Holy moly.

This was not expected. It is so very humbling and inspiring. What a testament to the hard work and dedication of the Fab team towards re-imagining and reinventing what online shopping can be all about.

Fab is everyday design. In a very short period of time we have created the…

A great post by Vinicius Vacanti, CEO and co-founder of Yipit. He offers some really good tips on learning Django / Python (an alternate framework to Ruby on Rails) and coding in general. 

Hiring your first developer can be a difficult task, especially when you aren’t exactly sure what you are looking for and how to distinguish the good ones from the bad ones. Here are 5 key questions to make sure you include when interviewing developers for your project.