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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.

Do it with style

Generate the list yourself:

$ cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS*.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/Headers
$ grep UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR ./*     | \
  sed 's/NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(.*)//g'     | \
  sed 's/NS_DEPRECATED_IOS(.*)//g'    | \
  sed 's/API_AVAILABLE(.*)//g'        | \
  sed 's/API_UNAVAILABLE(.*)//g'      | \
 sed 's/UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR//g' | \

Creating a clean gh-pages branch

This is the sequence of steps to follow to create a root gh-pages branch. It is based on a question at [SO]

cd /path/to/repo-name
git symbolic-ref HEAD refs/heads/gh-pages
rm .git/index
git clean -fdx
echo "My GitHub Page" &gt; index.html

	// clang -framework Foundation -fobjc-arc -O3 test.m

	#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>


	@interface Slice : NSObject
	@property NSInteger start;
	@property NSInteger length;
	@end
	@implementation Slice

	# Rake Quick Reference
	# by Greg Houston
	# http://ghouston.blogspot.com/2008/07/rake-quick-reference.html


	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Running Rake
	# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# running rake from the command-line:
	# rake --help

	source :rubygems

	gem 'sinatra', '1.0'
	gem 'oauth2'
	gem 'json'

	group :development do
	gem 'shotgun'
	end