For me, programming almost always feels like working simultaneously inside two different worlds. First, there is the world in which we craft software. It is arduous work. The work that no one else sees. Nonetheless, it is work that most of us really love. Second, there is the world that consumes our software. Our work […]
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In the past, I’ve often wrestled with designing an optimal relational database model to represent users in a multi-tenant system. I’ve wanted to get the model just right—enough structure to accomodate future enhancements without bloating the schema with excessive JOINs, overly-wide tables, or any other number of typical relational-database “sins”. Over four years into our
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This is the final post in a five-part series introducing DoneDone, our simple, straightforward issue tracking tool to finish projects strong. Sign up for a 30-day free trial or paid account at http://www.www.getdonedone.com. In today’s final introductory post to DoneDone, we introduce release builds. When we first started using other issue tracking tools, we discovered
Last week, I talked about my experiences using DoneDone to manage household issues. To accompany my post, I wrote a simple Rails application to query data from the DoneDone API and display it on a publicly-accessible dashboard. Today, I’d like to walk through the process of building that application from the ground up. If you’d
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Nine months into selling our first web-based product, DoneDone, we’ve learned a lot of lessons. Bugs, even the most hidden and seemingly dormant, are eventually found because people are using your product all over the world at all different times of day. One of the big lessons we’ve learned is how we program against third-party
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