Amy's Blog http://amymandrews.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:52:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What I learned from Gary Vaynerchuk at FOWA Gary Vaynerchuk - @garyvee - Wine Library TV. Just do it - don’t procrastinate Don’t be lazy - Stop watching LOST and get to work! Quit your dead end job and work at 7-11 while working on your dream. Gary was very funny and inspiring! This was a great speech for the last one ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=93 What I learned from Francisco Tolmasly at FOWA Francisco Tolmasly - 280 North - How to create powerful web app user interfaces using Objective-J and Cappuccino Objective-J - Strict superset, no compiling, open source Cappuccino - Web app. framework Atlas - app. UI design made easy, uses redundant code used all the time in a UI. (eg. sliders, buttons). Out this ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=85 What I learned from Joel Spolsky at FOWA Joel Spolsky - Joel on Software - How to Achieve Tech Team Nirvana The smaller the team the better Productivity is mostly hurt by interruptions Having meetings after lunch - so people are more attentive (not hungary or previously doing something productive) Office equipment is very important for productivity - get a aeron chair, ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=81 What I learned from Aza Raskin at FOWA Aza Raskin - Mozilla - Order from Chaos - Future of the web People, tabs, and no maps in email? New web app. from Mozilla does this - Ubiquity - See the web the way you want to see it. Ubiquity is useful for somethings, but basically takes the Google API - ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=78 What I learned from Kristina Halvorson at FOWA Kristina Halvorson - Brain Traffic - Outside the interface: more words to worry about Designing for content Keep a content inventory Create a style guide - doesn’t have to be a book - more like an outlined plan Track copy as it comes to you - don’t get rid of it because you could ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=75 What I learned from Joe Stump at FOWA Joe Stump - Digg - Scaling your tech team Lower barriers - make it easy for people to use code, focus on specialties and specific areas. Communicate using tools such as Basecamp and Trac Pick your coding standards and conventions and stick with them Make sure to use SVN. Promote ownership - we are not ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=73 What I learned from Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer at FOWA Ben Galbraith - Mozilla & Dion Almaer - Google - What is the Future of the Browser? Dion started ajaxian.com Ajax and fast web apps. are the future of the browser along with: Canvas Fast Javascript Web Worker Desktop Integration - revolutionary technologies There is a new Firefox web app. in the works called Bespin. It is ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=62 What I learned from Jason Fried at FOWA Future Of Web Apps 2009 - Miami, FL Jason Fried of 37 Signals - Getting Real 2.0 Focus more on business models, instead of programming, coding, etc. Make money off biproducts (ie. doing stuff on the side) can create more business. 37 Signals extracted Ruby on Rails from Basecamp. Screencasting of something you ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=59 TWINS!! I found out I was pregnant with my first child three months ago. I am so excited! My husband and I went to the doctor's to get our first ultrasound in December. While the ultrasound technician was examining me, she said "not to get you too excited or alarmed, but there are two babies!" ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=49 A follow up to my Coffee post The previous post I wrote about coffee has changed a bit! I found out I am pregnant, so I quit coffee cold turkey. I know they say you can have up to two cups a day when you are pregnant, but I thought it would be a good time to ... http://amymandrews.com/?p=52