I’ve seen some talk/posts lately of doing quick launch products. I wanted to share some thoughts here that I’ve shared before in a talk about winning Rails Rumble^ 1 ^ and what it takes to do it. Flesh out your ideas Planning is essential to anything you want to do quickly and do well. For the…
Continue ReadingEver get an idea in your head, and it seems like it will solve all your problems in your app? If you could just do this one thing, rainbows will sprout and unicorns will prance and sing? Ideas turn into requirements, requirements sprout into little code snippets, code snippets grow together into…
Continue ReadingSo you’re trying to write that awesome new feature you’ve been chomping at the bit for, right? Your gonna get it done and it’s gonna have so many bells and whistles! Let’s say you give yourself two weeks to get it done, but at the end of one week you realize you just can’t finish it in one more week…
Continue ReadingEver thought about building an api for your web app? Not sure where to start, or perhaps the best practices for a rails app? This post will explore some of the choices I made when building a new API for Change:Healthcare . Versioning One of the key things I knew needed to happen was versioning…
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