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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: March 2012
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Up and Running with Elastic Beanstalk - Part 1. Before we dive into the details of implementing Elastic Beanstalk applications, there are a few setup steps that we need to get out of the way. I’ll only cover these on a high level as they are described in detail on Amazon’s website. If you’re an Eclipse IDE user, the first thing you’ll want to do is download the AWS plugin. Your Server is Fleeting. This is how we read a string from AmazonS3. Val obj = s3.getObject(bucket, key).
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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: August 2011
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Thursday, August 25, 2011. What We Learned From Steve Jobs. With Steve Jobs' passing of the torch, I think it's appropriate to reflect on the lessons we've learned from him and Apple over the years. Here are some of the most notable lessons that we can all use every day:. Good is never good enough, always strive to be great. Get good at saying no. Saying no is hard but it's the no's that will define the success of your business. Design matters. a lot! We live in a superficial world and people love things...
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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: April 2011
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Thursday, April 28, 2011. The Freeconomics of Dropbox - Projecting Freemium. In a previous post. As it will make the example in this article much clearer. In the above graphs I use a linear relationship but it's more likely that user growth will be exponential due to network effects and referrals (as shown below). The model provided uses an exponential growth rate that can be modified to evaluate different scenarios. Maximum storage limit for free users, a lower space limit results in a lower cost. Sever...
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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: Fast File Zipping in Amazon S3
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Friday, January 20, 2012. Fast File Zipping in Amazon S3. Before we get to the good stuff, let’s step back and look at the typical approach to zipping files on S3. Given that S3 has no native support for doing this, the selected files must first be downloaded into an EC2 instance, and then compressed using your toolkit of choice. Our initial steps looked something like this:. Submit a post to a web service to initiate the zip process along with the corresponding S3 file keys to be compressed. Clean up th...
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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: July 2011
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Thursday, July 28, 2011. The Bright Side for AirBnB. Given the rarity of these events, it also presents a new opportunity for AirBnB to provide an insurance option for renters to help further compensate them for any damages. Such an service should be in addition to their standard response of replacing belongings and bringing culprits to justice, but it would provide an additional level of comfort to renters and further add value to their service. Posted by Michael Woloszynowicz. Friday, July 22, 2011.
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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: Up and Running with Elastic Beanstalk - Part 1
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012. Up and Running with Elastic Beanstalk - Part 1. Before we dive into the details of implementing Elastic Beanstalk applications, there are a few setup steps that we need to get out of the way. I’ll only cover these on a high level as they are described in detail on Amazon’s website. If you’re an Eclipse IDE user, the first thing you’ll want to do is download the AWS plugin. Your Server is Fleeting. This is how we read a string from AmazonS3. Val obj = s3.getObject(bucket, key).
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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: September 2011
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Saturday, September 10, 2011. 2 Years of Programming in 4 Months. If you're hoping for some revolutionary method to drastically accelerate your programming, I'm afraid you won't find it here. What I'd like to share is how we managed to accomplish in 4 months what previously took us 2 years, and do it much better. I've written before here. A Pure JavaScript Front-End. Related to our REST-centric approach is building the front-end entirely in JavaScript. Six months ago I began playing with the Dojo. While ...
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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: March 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. Infinite Scope Creep, The Sales-Development Disconnect. Under a lean startup approach these sales tactics either slow down, or completely destroy the build-measure-learn feedback loop. Developers simply make the leap from one build phase to the next, and never exit the loop, thus no learning takes place. Feature additions or changes need to be decided on by a group of employees. This group should contain developers, product managers, sales people, and user experience designe...
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Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: October 2011
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Saturday, October 29, 2011. AdWords Is Not A Marketing Strategy. 25 cent cost per clicks have grown to $2-$6, and people's natural ability to ignore advertisements result in paltry click-through rates. Running several experiments over a two week period yielded a 0% conversion rate on 200 clicks across multiple keywords and nearly $300 spent. In comparison, over the same period, the inherent network effects of our application resulted in a 10% conversion rate at a cost of $0. Sunday, October 23, 2011.
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