Sam’s random musings

Features Are a One-Way Street

Ryan Singer:

The lesson: Once your user base has grown beyond a certain point, you cannot take features away from them. They will freak out. Whether the feature is good or bad, once you launch it you’ve married it.

Worth the read and worth remembering always, it is the danger with reactive development practices and failing to measure all new features against a few metrics, inlcuding

1. Does it reduce support costs (thanks Matt)
2. Does it support the long term goals and plans
3. Do we want to support it forever

(Via Daring Fireball.)

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Originally uploaded by sdevore

So the snake is back to visit. Hi snake

In yard and about a yard long…

More Pictures

New Cheat Sheets

REGULAR EXPRESSIONS CHEAT SHEET (V2)

MOD_REWRITE CHEAT SHEET (V2)

PHP CHEAT SHEET (V2)

CSS CHEAT SHEET (V2)

(Via ILoveJackDaniels.com.)

The girls and I will undertake the one hundred push ups challenge

Think there’s no way you could do this? I think you can! All you need is a good plan, plenty of discipline and about 30 minutes a week to achive this goal!

The girls and I are starting to see if we can finish. Here are our initial tests

• Katie ( age 8 ) 24 pushups
• Abby ( age 10 ) 33 pushups
• Sam ( age 39 ) 37 pushups

Now you should know they swim year round and are really fit to begin with…

Seth’s Blog: Email checklist

Before you hit send on that next email, perhaps you should run down this list, just to be sure:

(Via .)

Imperial History of Middle East in 90 seconds

A visual history of imperialism in the Middle East for the last 5,000 years.

(Via twitter.)

windows emulator

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell.

Fun simple interface for some google services