http://www.laranevans.com Back end development for front end people. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:43:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en He who will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius I've always struggled with this. It's all too easy to justify an expense with an idealistic mindset which imagines possibilities beyond every immediate opportunity. Starting a business though is a very, very good learning experience. There just isn't enough money to spend ... http://www.laranevans.com/2008/09/10/economy-or-agony/ Basecamp recently introduced the ability to attach comments and files to to-do items and milestones. This is a features which I think will make the Basecamp to-do list functionality appropriate for tracking software development tasks and work-items. So why am I frustrated? Because I've spent a fair amount of time trying to ... http://www.laranevans.com/2008/09/09/darnit-basecamp-did-it-again/ I found a great collection of document templates for entrepreneurs and small business owners. These templates are a great starting point for anyone interested in developing and growing their business by writing a business plan, creating financial forecasts etc. http://www.laranevans.com/2008/09/03/document-templates-for-entrepreneurs/ Check out our posting on Craigslist for a .NET developer. http://www.laranevans.com/2008/08/13/evans-codeworks-is-hiring/ InnerWorkings is one of the best resources for learning .NET that I've come across. They have 500+ hours of training material, all hands-on development, not just reading or watching videos. The process is very effective. You purchase and download a training course. You're then presented with a programming challenge. You click ... http://www.laranevans.com/2008/08/13/the-easy-way-to-learn-net/ Cornell entrepreneurs are everywhere! Here's a link to the Cornell Entrepreneurship group on MySpace. http://www.laranevans.com/2008/08/08/cornell-entrepreneurship-on-myspace/ New Relic has what looks like a really nice tool for monitoring Rails applications. It's called RPM and it looks to give some really good insight into where performance bottlenecks occur in a Rails app. 37signals reported some excellent results after a round of performance tuning based on their findings from ... http://www.laranevans.com/2008/08/07/speed-up-rails-apps-with-rpm/ Just learned about inbound marketing after a call with some of the folks over at HubSpot. Their value proposition is compelling. Definitely far more valuable than plain old Google Analytics or Mint. http://www.laranevans.com/2008/08/07/inbound-marketing/ There is an excellent screencast tutorial on .NET MVC available for anyone interested in web-development with asp.net. The MVC screencasts are at the bottom of the page I think this collection of screencasts will be particularly helpful to anyone coming to .NET from Ruby on Rails or other strongly MVC paradigms. ... http://www.laranevans.com/2008/08/07/excellent-screencasts-available-on-net-mvc/ A wealth of information from successful entrepreneurs is available on the Stanford website. Highly recommended viewing. http://www.laranevans.com/2008/08/07/entrepreneurship-videos-from-stanford/