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How to find a good freelance developer 9 Jan 2013 | 05:33 am
A bunch of people have asked me recently how to find good contract developers. I’ve done this quite a few times now and feel like I now have a pretty good system for selecting quality freelancers at g...
Why are you doing this? 2 Nov 2012 | 12:16 am
One of the mentors at The Iron Yard this summer asked the question "Why are you doing this?". I love this question because without a really good reason for doing this, building a company becomes infin...
Fixing tech startup incorporation documents 16 Aug 2012 | 03:49 am
A year ago I incorporated Leaguevine myself without using any lawyers. I wrote about it here and heavily relied upon the Orrick company document templates. I realized back then that there was a good c...
Python syntax highlighting in Django templates using Pygments 6 Feb 2012 | 09:14 am
Highlighting code to be placed on your site is a pretty common need that has been addressed nicely by a number of open source projects. Pygments is great, but on it's own would take you a while to...
Python syntax highlighting in Django templates using Pygments 6 Feb 2012 | 12:14 am
Highlighting code to be placed on your site is a pretty common need that has been addressed nicely by a number of open source projects. Pygments is great, but on it's own would take you a while to get...
Almost 4 months in 26 Nov 2011 | 08:40 am
I've been working full time on Leaguevine for almost 4 months now, and things are finally beginning to click for me. It's a completely different lifestyle, and I'm finally accepting the fa...
Reducing CrashPlan's Disk Space Usage on OSX 5 Nov 2011 | 06:48 am
I have CrashPlan backing up almost every file on my Hackintosh, and when CrashPlan runs, it caches a ton of data so it can run faster. However, they don't let you configure where that data is stored. ...
Django-Celery on Webfaction using RabbitMQ 30 Sep 2011 | 03:15 am
This tutorial is meant to get you up and running from scratch with django-celery on Webfaction. Each of the steps is a bit of a hassle since you typically need to find different install steps for each...
Self-Incorporating a Tech Startup 11 Sep 2011 | 03:53 pm
This is in response to my friend Ben's recent post, What about money for a lawyer? I spent a bit of time last month self-incorporating my tech startup and since this topic is very fresh on my min...
One month down 1 Sep 2011 | 12:50 pm
It's been one month since I started working on Leaguevine full time, and it's been a very interesting experience. After being in school for 20 straight years, being on my own has been quite a ...
