Ken Liu kenliu

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

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	# Have you ever had to sleep() in Capybara-WebKit to wait for AJAX and/or CSS animations?

	describe 'Modal' do

	should 'display login errors' do
	visit root_path
	click_link 'My HomeMarks'
	within '#login_area' do
	fill_in 'email', with: '[email protected]'
	fill_in 'password', with: 'test'

	# Ways to execute a shell script in Ruby
	# Example Script - Joseph Pecoraro

	cmd = "echo 'hi'" # Sample string that can be used

	# 1. Kernel#` - commonly called backticks - `cmd`
	# This is like many other languages, including bash, PHP, and Perl
	# Returns the result of the shell command
	# Docs: http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Kernel.html#M001111

	<snippet>
	<content><![CDATA[
	binding.pry
	]]></content>
	<tabTrigger>bp</tabTrigger>
	<scope>source.ruby</scope>
	</snippet>

	/** Groovy port of Jamis Buck's Recursive Backtracking maze generation program
	see http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/27/maze-generation-recursive-backtracking
	Prints a 10x10 ASCII maze and accepts optional dimensions.
	Will blow up if dimensions are too big (20x20ish)
	*/

	def (width, height) = [10, 10]

	if (args.length >= 2) {
	(width, height) = [args[0] as int, args[1] as int]

Ken Liu kenliu

Make it real

Ship it

Do it with style