I got a question in the comments of my previous post re this, so I’m going to weigh in real quick: I’ve used CVS, Subversion (SVN) and Git and dabbled with a few commercial products. Use “git”. Here’s why: If it’s not already the most popular, it will be soon. It is used for the […]
July 24, 2011 | Code | 2 comments
I’ve been asked this question twice in the last 2 weeks by people wanting to write their first Web application. So I’m going to answer it here for anyone else interested: If you want to write Web applications you need to learn the following languages: Javascript, PHP, HTML, CSS and SQL. It sounds like a […]
July 23, 2011 | Code, perl, PHP, Technology, Which programming language | 42 comments
Here’s a little reminder that sovereign debt is unsecured. Greece just defaulted. And for some reason only Reuters are calling it like it is. Expect fireworks tomorrow. Here’s the story: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/07/21/greece-defaults/
July 21, 2011 | Economics | No comments
My new favorite economist Tim Harford did a great TED talk recently chatting about our assumption that an expert approach is needed to problem solving. He argues that instead we should rely more on trial and error, a method that has proven very effective both in nature and business. If the loading animation won’t […]
July 18, 2011 | Business, Economics, Startup Hacks, Startups | No comments
As I sat drinking espresso chatting to my experienced entrepreneur friend who prefers to remain anonymous, we decided there are three classes of businesses: Mimes Mime businesses perform a service similar to a mime in a Parisian public square. The mime can try and charge the audience, but it doesn’t always work and it’s tough. […]
July 12, 2011 | Startups | No comments
If you’re using timthumb in your wordpress theme on WordPressMU and it’s not finding certain files, this may be why: WordPressMU uses the blogs.dir directory to store uploads. timthumb’s search routine when looking for images to resize doesn’t include this directory. Here a modified version I created that does include the dir: https://markmaunder.com/timthumb.txt You will […]
July 12, 2011 | Startups | 1 comment
My sister who is an amazing chef has just launched an awesome blog reviewing cape town restaurants. Her latest review is of Hesheng in Sea Point, a chinese restaurant that serves authentic chinese cuisine – as opposed to what American’s think of chinese food. Check out the amazing photos (sorry Lyn, I had to borrow […]
July 11, 2011 | Cooking and Food | No comments
David Skeel of UPenn’s law school talks with Russ Roberts on econtalk about the mechanics of bankruptcy law and whether the government should have bailed out the auto industry. Bear in mind you’re getting the Hayekian view on Russ’s show (to which I subscribe). For the Keynsian argument, check out NPR’s Planet Money blog and […]
July 6, 2011 | Economics | No comments
The worst time to submit a story to HN is right now. From about 2am to 10am Pacific time the ratio of votes to submissions is at it’s lowest: This is from an app I whipped up yesterday that tracks stats for Hacker News continuously.
July 6, 2011 | Hacker News | No comments
I’ve had this blog entry saved as draft for a month, and Tom Buck’s post earlier today titled “Failure: Building a $50/month web app” inspired me to post this. He remarks in his post “My mistake quickly became obvious: I had built a tool for an audience that didn’t like to spend money.”. Here’s my […]