My early New Year’s resolution is to ship more next year (why wait for next year to start?). With this in mind, I decided to write about increasing productivity in web app development (more posts coming!). In this first part, I will look at the principles behind getting more done quicker. In the next parts, I will look into the points marked with ** in more detail.
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Dec 10
Kohana-translate – an i18n module for collecting translations
Previously, I did a tutorial on Kohana 3 internationalization, and promised that I would create a better tool for collecting translations. Here it is:
01
Dec 10
How to deploy web applications using Mercurial
Does deploying changes to your site take too long? Are you tired of manually sorting out the update? Here is how to deploy your projects using Mercurial.
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Nov 10
How to get Google Docs to full screen view (get rid of the stuff on top of the page)
I find that I am using Google Docs a lot more these days. A major annoyance is that the Google logo and other useless tools take up space from the page, so I came up with the following simple bookmarklet:
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Nov 10
Simple tweaks: make Gnome look and work better
These are the things I do to customize Gnome after a new install. These are all rather simple tweaks, but they help a lot!
15
Nov 10
How to install gnome-color-chooser for Fedora
Gnome-color-chooser is a tool which allows you to control the colors used in GNOME with a lot more granularity than the default “Appearance” app.
11
Nov 10
Kohana 3 i18n tutorial
Continuing my series on Kohana 3 (see Auth here and Validation here), I’m tackling Kohana 3 internationalization in this post.
05
Nov 10
4 simple ways startup people deceive themselves
One of my many favorite quotations is one from Demosthenes: “Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true”. Nietzsche puts it in another way: “The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others”.
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Oct 10
How to use Kohana 3 validation (with forms)
Update: I am gradually updating my Kohana 3.0 articles to Kohana 3.1.
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Oct 10
CakePHP gripes
I’ve used CakePHP for quite a while now, so here are the things I find most problematic about it: