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 <entry>
   <title>A Rails Girls Map</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/03/11/a-rails-girls-map.html"/>
   <updated>2013-03-11T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/03/11/a-rails-girls-map</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/abelar_s&quot;&gt;@abelar_s&lt;/a&gt; has created a Google map with locations of previous and future Rails Girls events, Basel is also already on that map :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe width=&quot;100%&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; marginheight=&quot;0&quot; marginwidth=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;msid=210067024639216766075.0004d77dc3ae4f6138b16&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;ll=27.683528,25.3125&amp;amp;spn=150.062038,298.828125&amp;amp;z=1&amp;amp;output=embed&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Pretty cool stuff :)&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>I'm looking for Participants for a Rails Girls Intro video</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/02/28/participants-for-a-rails-girls-intro.html"/>
   <updated>2013-02-28T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/02/28/participants-for-a-rails-girls-intro</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;As you might know, I&amp;rsquo;m helping organizing the &lt;a href=&quot;http://railsgirls.com/basel&quot;&gt;Rails Girls Basel&lt;/a&gt; event which will take place on the 5th and 6th april this year.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To promote the event, we want to create a promo video and I had the idea to include several interviews from previous Rails Girls attendees/coaches from all over the world.
So if you&amp;rsquo;re a former Rails Girls participant and would like to help me, here is what you can do:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Record a video of yourself with the length of 30 &amp;ndash; 60 seconds (it can be longer if you want to ;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Talk about the following topics in your video [&amp;ldquo;Why you are interested in programming?&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;What do you like about programming?&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;How is programming/tech related to your life?&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;How has programming/tech changed your life?&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;What do you think about the Rails Girls Event?&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;What else do you want to say?&amp;rdquo;]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Upload the whole thing to a server/dropbox&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Add a text file with your full name, Twitter handle and the city/country you live in&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Send me a link to the package, so I can download the whole thing, to this &lt;a href=&quot;mailto:daniel@codegestalt.com&quot;&gt;address&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;p&gt;I would really appreciate your help and of course, you will be named in the credits.
Additionally if I can collect enough material, I&amp;rsquo;ll try to create a general Rails Girls intro video which can be played on events all over the world :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m awaiting your email, cheers &amp;hearts;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>Beautify your Chrome's New Tab with FancyTab</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/01/31/beautify-your-chromes-new-tab-with-fancytab.html"/>
   <updated>2013-01-31T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/01/31/beautify-your-chromes-new-tab-with-fancytab</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I had some spare time yesterday and decided to update and customize one of my favourite Chrome Extensions called VisivoTab.
What it does is, it just beautifies your Chrome&amp;rsquo;s New Tab with a background image from flickr. I&amp;rsquo;ve updated that extension according
to the latest Chrome guidelines and customized it with my own flickr pictures.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can download it &lt;a href=&quot;https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fancytab/nijnkhgjogmbghnbnfandncgdinihhab?hl=en&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
Give it a try and rate it (with 5 stars ;). Enjoy &amp;hearts;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>Rails Girls Basel</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/01/25/rails-girls-basel.html"/>
   <updated>2013-01-25T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/01/25/rails-girls-basel</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/rails-girls-basel.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rails Girls is coming to Basel, 5. - 6. April 2013!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Have you always wondered how to design and create
a homepage with your own hands?
Or maybe you had this fancy business idea
but didn&amp;rsquo;t knew (or hadn&amp;rsquo;t the money)
to realize your online presence?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Well then maybe Rails Girls is something for you. On the 5th and 6th April we will
unite at the mitte unternehmen and teach you how you can develop your very own
web applications. So, if you&amp;rsquo;re a girl (sorry guys), have a MacBook/Laptop and
the drive to learn how to programm join us on &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.facebook.com/RailsGirlsSwitzerland&quot;&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt; and stay tuned.
We&amp;rsquo;ll release the application form in the next few days.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Cheers.&lt;/p&gt;
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 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>The Hobby Fund</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/01/02/the-hobby-fund.html"/>
   <updated>2013-01-02T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2013/01/02/the-hobby-fund</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Happy new year everyone. To ring in the new year with you, I want to share a new technique of mine. It is called &lt;strong&gt;The Hobby Fund&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Everyone of us has its own hobbies which one loves to practice.
We love to spend money on it and don&amp;rsquo;t regret most of our decision we make in favour for our hobby.
Altough, for some of us things can get very expensive.
In particular when your hobby is called photography or something similar expensive where you can sell your house and still
don&amp;rsquo;t have enough money to fulfill all of your dreams.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is where The Hobby Fund kicks in.
The idea behind it is to save money from activites you practice during the week
and need more than bare willpower to do them. For instance workout or eating heahlty.
Everytime you do such an activity you can pay out yourself a certain amount of money which you have settled in the beginning.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For example, my list of activities/goals looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Workout / 10$&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Read for 30minutes / 3$ (once per day)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Drink more water / 1$ per liter (max. 2 liter per day)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Write a usable blog post / 10$&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t smoke / 7$ (only if not smoked any cigarettes 24/7)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Slow carb / 1$ per meal&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;p&gt;If I would do any these tasks in the list above I could save up to 142$ each week.
Of course not anyone can afford to save 142$ per week and the goal isn&amp;rsquo;t to do anything which is on the list.
Just pick a few goals and after every time you finished something, write it down. A good aim is to earn 50-80$ every week. At least for me.
Find a good combination for each task and reward and don&amp;rsquo;t over- or undervalue single activities/goals.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This way you can save up a lot of money until the end of the month, which you then can spend on your favourite hobbies.
At the same time you boost your productivity for things you wouldn&amp;rsquo;t even do otherwise.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Try it out for a month, spend your saved money on your hobbies and then
decide to continue with this techique or if a better place for it would be your trunk.
Or maybe you will continue with it, but instead of The Hobby Fund, you are going to put that &lt;em&gt;earned&lt;/em&gt; money into your savings.
That decision is up to you.&lt;/p&gt;
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 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Fuck You, Startup Yoda</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/12/fuck-you-startup-yoda.html"/>
   <updated>2012-12-12T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/12/fuck-you-startup-yoda</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Micah Baldwin:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The voices that bring real value are often not folks with tens of thousands of twitter followers or facebook subscribers. They are true operators, the silent killers who write with a pent up requirement to share their search with fellow entrepreneurs. They understand, perhaps unknowingly, that they are learning through the collective unconscious of the startup ecosystem by participating, rather than being a sound bite.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have nothing to add. Just read it.&lt;/p&gt;
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 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Foldify</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/10/foldify.html"/>
   <updated>2012-12-10T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/10/foldify</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/54479185?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;badge=0&quot; class=&quot;vimeo&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Hello Winter</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/02/hello-winter.html"/>
   <updated>2012-12-02T02:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/02/hello-winter</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://500px.com/photo/19655303&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pcdn.500px.net/19655303/e14ca45c1f4dc6f9ef090f6c1aabc4ee7d80dc2c/4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Winter is here by Daniel Puglisi (danielpuglisi)) on 500px.com&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0 0 5px 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Portico Quartet</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/02/portico-quartet.html"/>
   <updated>2012-12-02T01:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/02/portico-quartet</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:album:2Y83b1uzgf5pDfQHdFKgjm&quot; class=&quot;spotify&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowtransparency=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
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 <entry>
   <title>Freelancember 2012</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/02/freelancember-2012.html"/>
   <updated>2012-12-02T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/12/02/freelancember-2012</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/freelancember.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Freelancember&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;An Advent Calendar for Web Designers and Freelancer. Worth to check out.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>The Stranger - Lord Huron</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/26/the-stranger---lord-huron.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-26T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/26/the-stranger---lord-huron</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:track:3XjsdEun6XcO2Gs4lJCueH&quot; class=&quot;spotify&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowtransparency=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>5 essential productivity tips</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/12/5-essential-productivity-tips.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-12T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/12/5-essential-productivity-tips</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Working independently and on a machine which is connected to the internet that
provides hours of procrastination-encouraging stuff isn&amp;rsquo;t always that easy. Sometimes
you just drift off of that new line of code you wanted to implement, just because
someone tweeted about this new fancy piece of Apple device he or she just bought.
Several minutes later, you often don&amp;rsquo;t even remember how you ended up watching that
youtube video in which unicorns and monkeys playing chess together.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sounds familiar? Now don&amp;rsquo;t be afraid, I&amp;rsquo;m here to help you. I&amp;rsquo;ve 5 essentials tips for you
on how you can prevent yourself from falling into this situation again.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;1. Turn off vibration on your mobile phone&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This one saved me a lot of time. Turn off vibration for the
most disturbing features/apps your phone possesses. In my case
I&amp;rsquo;ve disabled vibration for the following apps on my iPhone:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;SMS&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;WhatsApp (I even disabled all notifications because of some group conversation I&amp;rsquo;m in)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mail&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Twitter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Facebook&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Foursquare&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Instagram&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;rsquo;t disabled vibration when someone is calling me. When I don&amp;rsquo;t want to be
disturbed by a phone call I put my iPhone into the &lt;strong&gt;Do not disturb&lt;/strong&gt; mode. If your
phone doesn&amp;rsquo;t have such a feature you can, of course, disable the vibration for
the calling feature too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;2. The rule of three&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The rule of three is one of my creations which helped me a lot lately. The basic idea
behind it is to have only three applications open at a time.
When I&amp;rsquo;m developing I only use a Terminal (iTerm) a Browser (Google Chrome) and a
music application (Spotify). Whereas the music application isn&amp;rsquo;t work related but
has its own purpose (more about this in tip #3).
I know this isn&amp;rsquo;t possible for every use case and if you need four applications,
go along with four.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The value of doing this goes beyond the number of open applications. It helps you
to recognize which apps are supporting your workflow and which apps don&amp;rsquo;t. Since
I&amp;rsquo;m using this approach, I never got interrupted by a new Tweet or Chat message.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;3. Wear headphones and listen to music&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Wearing headphones can improve your productivity in two ways.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The first one is that people who are in the same room as you
(e.g. when you&amp;rsquo;re working at a startup or in a coworking office)
don&amp;rsquo;t just walk up to you and disturb you. The fact that you&amp;rsquo;re
wearing headphones can be a sign that you are concentrating and don&amp;rsquo;t want to be
interrupted. Unfortunately there are a lot of old school companies out there which
think you should not be listening to music on both ears, because if someone wants
to ask you a question from the other side of the room, you don&amp;rsquo;t hear them.
I think this is bullshit but you&amp;rsquo;ll have to arrange it with the people you&amp;rsquo;re
working with.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The second improvement is the music itself. Music can put you in a certain way of
consciousness which improves your concentration and speed on what you&amp;rsquo;re working on
right now. I don&amp;rsquo;t know if this is true for you,
but for me this effect only appears when I&amp;rsquo;m listening to music which has no
lyrics or vocals in it (there are of course a few exceptions).
Because of this I&amp;rsquo;ve created a &lt;a href=&quot;http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/31/wiring-in.html&quot;&gt;playlist&lt;/a&gt; which I&amp;rsquo;m listening to when I&amp;rsquo;m programming
or writing blog articles (like this one).
But when you&amp;rsquo;re listening to music while working, be sure that your music application (Spotify, iTunes or whatever) isn&amp;rsquo;t disturbing you.
Hit the play button and then hide it somewhere where it doesn&amp;rsquo;t come into your way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Another improvement here is,
that you don&amp;rsquo;t have to listen to music you don&amp;rsquo;t like (because you&amp;rsquo;re wearing headphones).
Create your own playlist and if you want to, share it in the comments below.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;4. Write a Todo list&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Todo lists are essential to keep your productivity on a certain level.
This tip assumes, that you&amp;rsquo;re already using Todo lists and aim to improve the use of it.
If you never used a Todo list before, here is a short
&lt;a href=&quot;http://codegestalt.com/fistbump/2012/04/04/four-productivity-hacks-you-should-use&quot;&gt;introduction&lt;/a&gt; (the chapter &lt;strong&gt;Set weekly and daily goals&lt;/strong&gt; is what you&amp;rsquo;re looking for).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After some time using Todo lists, you might find yourself not doing it on a daily basis anymore or maybe you just want to improve them a little bit more.
This list should bring you a step closer to your goal:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wrting Tasks down should be easy. You can only achieve this goal with the right collection of tools.
I&amp;rsquo;ve used Evernote a long time for my Todo lists but
in the end it wasn&amp;rsquo;t the best tool for writing down tasks and checking them, because it took to long.
At the moment I&amp;rsquo;m using good ol' pen and paper. I&amp;rsquo;ve buyed a moleskin notebook and always carry it with me when I&amp;rsquo;m working.
Maybe pen and paper isn&amp;rsquo;t the best solution for you, but what I want to say is, try different tools and find out what best fits you.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Write everything down what you have done through the day even if it&amp;rsquo;s not on the list. This approach is called the ToDone list. More &lt;a href=&quot;http://codegestalt.com/fistbump/2012/08/20/the-todone-list&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mark the three most important tasks of the day and do them right at the beginning of the day.
Try to do these three tasks before the half time of your working day (normally lunch). If
these three tasks need more time, split them into multiple tasks until you manage to do them before lunch.
This will help you to improve your time management and to
evaluate which tasks need a certain amount of time.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;h3&gt;5. Be disciplined&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The last and most important lesson I want to give you in these 5 tips is about habits.
All these tips above will be useless (not necessarily applicable for tip #1 and #3) for you if you&amp;rsquo;re not going
to use them on a regular basis. Which means every day. If you do them every day you can manage to build
up habits and the good thing about habits is, that you can&amp;rsquo;t delete them. So once you have achieved to build
up your habits for writing Todo lists or checking how many applications are running on your computer before starting to work
you will manage to improve your productivity like never before. But from nothing comes nothing. So you need to discipline yourself.
If you don&amp;rsquo;t have any problems with discipline and don&amp;rsquo;t need any help for that. Bravo. You can stop reading now,
because you will apply these previous 4 tips without any problem. But if not, go on.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Building up habits isn&amp;rsquo;t always that easy and to minimize the range of failure I&amp;rsquo;m going to introduce to you &lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-secret&quot;&gt;Jerry Seinfeld&amp;rsquo;s Productivity Secret&lt;/a&gt;.
It is called &lt;strong&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t break the chain!&lt;/strong&gt;. The idea behind it is to create a list of certain tasks you&amp;rsquo;re going to repeat on a daily basis. My list for example looks like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Draw something&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shoot at least one usable picture&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Programming&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Read for 30 minutes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Now what do you have to do with this list? Easy, you can do it the ol' school way and print out a huge calendar for every task and put in a big red cross on every day you&amp;rsquo;ve done a
specific task. If you don&amp;rsquo;t like to print out that much paper, there are also a few applications out there to achieve the same result. E.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://dontbreakthechain.com/&quot;&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t break the chain&lt;/a&gt;
is a simple web application which lets you mark the specific days you worked on a task. My humble self is using &lt;a href=&quot;http://chains.cc/&quot;&gt;chains.cc&lt;/a&gt;. It has a fancy design
and they also have an iOS app.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;rsquo;re going to use this method it can (and I believe it will) help you to stay focused on the tips above and many other things for a long time and hopefully
you will build up habits in the end.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;TL;DR&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So let&amp;rsquo;s recap these 5 tips in a short list:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Turn off vibration for distracting apps on your mobile phone&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Try to have only three running applications at a time while you&amp;rsquo;re working&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wear headphones and listen to music which helps you concentrating&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Write todo lists and complete the three main tasks until lunch&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Do these 4 tips above every day, motivate yourself with a technique like &lt;strong&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t break the chains&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s it. Try this tips out and if you&amp;rsquo;ve any additional tips or do things differently please let me know in the comments. Constructive critic is very welcome. Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;
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 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>The 4-Hour Chef Trailer</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/08/the-4-hour-chef-trailer.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-08T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/08/the-4-hour-chef-trailer</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/Jdbd0k7BZ4s&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Oooh yes. After reading &lt;strong&gt;The 4-Hour Workweek&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;The 4-Hour Body&lt;/strong&gt; I can&amp;rsquo;t wait to get this one into my hands.
Looks like the next bestseller to me Tim ;)&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Rails Girls Zurich</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/07/rails-girls-zurich.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-07T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/07/rails-girls-zurich</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/53032561?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;badge=0&quot; class=&quot;vimeo&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Why Google Went Offline Today and a Bit about How the Internet Works</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/06/why-google-went-offline-today-and-a-bit-about-how-the-internet-works.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-06T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/06/why-google-went-offline-today-and-a-bit-about-how-the-internet-works</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Tom Paseka:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Situations like this are referred to in the industry as &amp;ldquo;route leakage&amp;rdquo;, as the route has &amp;ldquo;leaked&amp;rdquo; past normal paths. This isn&amp;rsquo;t an unprecedented event. Google previously suffered a similar outage when Pakistan was allegedly trying to censor a video on YouTube and the National ISP of Pakistan null routed the service&amp;rsquo;s IP addresses. Unfortunately, they leaked the null route externally. Pakistan Telecom&amp;rsquo;s upstream provider, PCCW, trusted what Pakistan Telecom&amp;rsquo;s was sending them and the routes spread across the Internet. The effect was YouTube was knocked offline for around 2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Interesting post which shows how the Internet works. At least a part of it.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>How you can help to get more women into tech</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/03/how-you-can-help-to-get-more-women-into-tech.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-03T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/03/how-you-can-help-to-get-more-women-into-tech</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Feyyaz Alingan:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here at codegestalt we often think about how we could get more people into Rails and programming in general. Online coding courses such as codecademy are basically non-existent in German speaking countries (it would make sense to take the course in English since the programming language uses English vocabulary anyway, but to some people it can still feel like another barrier to entry). So it makes sense to think about ways to solve that problem.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We came up with two solutions (actually just one, and the other came to us.):&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Talking about our daily life, our programming and startup experience&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Supporting Rails Girls in Zurich&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We need more women in tech. That&amp;rsquo;s for sure. Women think about certain things in a whole different way than men. So we lose a lot
of knowledge, ideas and creativity because there aren&amp;rsquo;t enough women around. This is bad and we need to fix that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The idea behind the article above is very simple, but it isn&amp;rsquo;t always that easy to get women into tech. One cool thing is, we all can help.
Everyone who works in tech has the possibility to pursuave their female friends
(yes, nerds also have women as friends, especially Ruby developers ;D) and introduce
them to the cool world of coding and creating.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So next time there is a Rails Girls event or something similar near you, share it with your friends, tell everyone about it
and try to get them onboard. And if there isn&amp;rsquo;t any such event, why no start hosting it by yourself?&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Friday Hug at RailsGirls Zurich</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/02/friday-hug-at-railsgirls-zurich.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-02T01:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/02/friday-hug-at-railsgirls-zurich</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/friday-hug-rails-girls-zurich.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Friday Hug at RailsGirls Zurich&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>You waste a lot of time at work</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/02/you-waste-a-lot-of-time-at-work.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-02T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/02/you-waste-a-lot-of-time-at-work</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/you-waste-a-lot-of-time-at-work.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;You wast a lot of time at work&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just because you&amp;rsquo;re at work doesn&amp;rsquo;t mean you&amp;rsquo;re getting work done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>I hate developing SharePoint (a rant)</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/01/i-hate-developing-sharepoint-a-rant.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-01T02:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/01/i-hate-developing-sharepoint-a-rant</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Adrian O'Connor:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Why is SharePoint so awful? Because it makes great developers average. Take an ordinarily amazing developer — the kind of person that can take your idea and create a beautiful prototype in 30 minutes. Give them SharePoint and watch them wilt. I’ve never seen anybody do anything amazing with SharePoint. I’ve never seen a SharePoint project and thought ‘well, that was quicker than expected’. That’s not all though. SharePoint is one big deception, and that gets my goat. Managers have been lured in by marketing promises of massive ROI, huge time and cost savings, baked-in-functionality and endless other dreams of hollow buzzwords. It’s all bullshit. Every last word.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Finally a .NET developer who thinks SharePoint is bullshit and doesn&amp;rsquo;t step back from saying it out loud.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>One Minute Wonder</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/01/one-minute-wonder.html"/>
   <updated>2012-11-01T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/11/01/one-minute-wonder</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/50980092?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;badge=0&quot; class=&quot;vimeo&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;One Minute Wonder&lt;/strong&gt; is a series of one minute video portraits of different people around the world. Artists, entrepreneurs, designers, rain-makers and other professions
are giving the world a little insight in their own life and world. I really like the idea behind it and I thought about doing this kind of short documentations on my own in
Switzerland. We&amp;rsquo;ll see.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Wiring in</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/31/wiring-in.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-31T00:00:00+01:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/31/wiring-in</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;center&quot;&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;My personal coding soundtrack for getting into the tunnel&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:116689447:playlist:4xRzOhDR2TIX61XnIPWKH8&quot; class=&quot;spotify&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowtransparency=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Free Learn Faster Bootcamp</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/24/free-learn-faster-bootcamp.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-24T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/24/free-learn-faster-bootcamp</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Scott H Young:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here’s a brief outline of a few of the ideas I’m going to share for free over the next seven days:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The exact time management system I used to complete the MIT Challenge&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How to get through hundreds of pages of reading, without losing focus&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Which note-taking technique you should use (and which common one you should never use)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The technique to boost your memory, so you remember content years after the class was taught&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;How to always have confidence before taking any exam&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Again this is completely FREE, but only to people on the email list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Deal.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>What I learned while live-tweeting a friend's funeral</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/23/what-i-learned-while-live-tweeting-a-friends-funeral.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-23T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/23/what-i-learned-while-live-tweeting-a-friends-funeral</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Mathew Ingram:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some said that the reporter was being disrespectful of the family in that case, even though he had been invited to the ceremony by the family themselves, and did nothing to interrupt the proceedings. As I wrote on my personal blog at the time, I couldn’t really see any reason why live-tweeting should be forbidden, provided journalists were allowed to be present in the first place. How was doing this any different from taking notes in a notepad and then writing a blog post or news article later? Provided it didn’t disturb anyone, I didn’t see the problem them and I still don’t now.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>How to be Sociable When You Don't Feel Like It</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/22/how-to-be-sociable-when-you-dont-feel-like-it.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-22T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/22/how-to-be-sociable-when-you-dont-feel-like-it</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Thorin Klosowski:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the best ways to deal with small talk is to turn it into an actual conversation. You can do this pretty easily by mentioning small details until something sticks, or even just by learning the right questions to ask. If you&amp;rsquo;re struggling to think of questions questions, the FORD technique (family, occupation, recreation, dreams) is a simple way to come up with interesting topics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>A quick redesign in under one hour</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/22/a-quick-redesign-in-under-one-hour.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-22T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/22/a-quick-redesign-in-under-one-hour</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I just redesigned my blog in under one hour. The changes contain simplier design,
bigger headlines and more possibilites to format single elements like I want to
(Plus my face isn&amp;rsquo;t watching you on every single page).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What do you think about the new design? Do you like it? What do you not like?
Questions about questions. Let me know in the comments.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;div class=&quot;center big&quot;&gt;
  With &amp;hearts; from Daniel
&lt;/div&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>About a bad sequel and Microsoft cereals</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/21/about-a-worst-sequel-and-microsoft-cereals.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-21T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/21/about-a-worst-sequel-and-microsoft-cereals</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;4 years ago I was pleasantly surprised after I&amp;rsquo;ve watched that random movie I&amp;rsquo;d buyed from my local DVD supplier.
90 minutes full of action and a plot which was unexpected intense and gripping. Where I live, they call this movie 96 hours.
The world maybe better knows it under the name of &lt;strong&gt;Taken&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This week I saw the sequel. And believe me when I say that this film is one of the worst productions Hollywood came up with this year.
The dialogues are poor, the action scenes are lame and the whole plot is filled with weird shit which is going on. Like an untrained girl
throwing grenades through Istanbul or a revenge seeking father who doesn&amp;rsquo;t care about that his son was a female trader.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But lets talk about the good things: Liam Neeson is still a good actor and he did a good job. At least that good as you can get it out of the script.
Because he can&amp;rsquo;t do anything about a bad written story or the weird movements of the camera man, he&amp;rsquo;s just an actor.
So he is innocent when you start thinking that he can kill people by simply grabbing them into the face.
Maybe Luc Besson thought Chuck Norris is looking for a replacment?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So the conclusion for you is: &lt;strong&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t watch Taken 2&lt;/strong&gt;. Go watch &lt;strong&gt;Looper&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Savages&lt;/strong&gt;.
I haven&amp;rsquo;t seen them yet, but I&amp;rsquo;m one hundred percent sure that these movies aren&amp;rsquo;t the same waste of time as Taken 2 was.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/rk9WHasIZk0&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;about bad sequels.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;One week ago I secretly &lt;a href=&quot;http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/10/html5-fullscreen-api-attack.html&quot;&gt;ranted&lt;/a&gt; about Microsoft.
One day later I got a present from &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/yve_cab&quot;&gt;@yve_cab&lt;/a&gt;, Microsoft cereals:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/ms-cereals-01.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bild 1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/ms-cereals-02.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bild 2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/ms-cereals-03.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Bild 3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What comes around, goes around. Good move there broham :D&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;rsquo;t tried them yet but they do look tasty.
Maybe Microsoft should left the Software industry behind and start selling cereals as their main focus.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Bored? Here are some new recommendations for you</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/21/bored-here-are-some-new-recommendations-for-you.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-21T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/21/bored-here-are-some-new-recommendations-for-you</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Hey, sup?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nothing to do today?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What about watching a good movie?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;No idea what you should watch?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hmm maybe you want to watch a Drama? Comedy? Action or Horror film?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Really? Ok, then maybe I got something for you&amp;hellip; let me check&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ahhha, yap found it. I found a lot of stuff. &lt;a href=&quot;http://danielpuglisi.com/recommendations.html&quot;&gt;Check this out&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Big isn&amp;rsquo;t it?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mhm, yap.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sure, no problem. Have fun.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>typecast</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/19/typecast.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-19T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/19/typecast</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/typecast.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;typecast - create better web typography with less hassle&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Looks interesting. I&amp;rsquo;ve registered for the beta, hopefully I&amp;rsquo;ll get an invite in the next few days.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Surprising Your Customers</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/18/suprising-your-customers.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-18T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/18/surprising-your-customers</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Chase Clemons:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;My little cousin decided to dress up as Woody from Toy Story for Halloween this year. After finding the perfect version of that costume from the Disney Store, his mom had it shipped to the office since we didn’t know exactly what time it would arrive in the day. When it got here, the words “Love – Andy” was written in marker on the outside by someone from the Disney Store team.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Cool idea.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Django Unchained Trailer Nr. 2</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/15/django-unchained-trailer-nr-2.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-15T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/15/django-unchained-trailer-nr-2</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/-sbCLChLcFM&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>What if money was no object?</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/11/what-if-money-was-no-object.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-11T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/11/what-if-money-was-no-object</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/siu6JYqOZ0g&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Amazing&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Drawing Things with Box-Shadow</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/10/drawing-things-with-box-shadow.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-10T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/10/drawing-things-with-box-shadow</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Joshua Hibbert:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a neat little trick that I stumbled upon when play­ing around with a CSS exper­i­ment a few months ago. Basically, by using mul­tiple box-shadows, you can draw com­plex images with only a single ele­ment. As you may know, I’m a big fan of semantic markup, and I really don’t like using extra ele­ments just for styl­ing, so I was very happy with this discovery!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nice trick!&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>HTML5 Fullscreen API Attack</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/10/html5-fullscreen-api-attack.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-10T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/10/html5-fullscreen-api-attack</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Feross Aboukhadijeh:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Links are the bread and butter of the web. People click links all day long — people are pretty trained to think that clicking a link on the web is safe. Saavy users may check the link’s destination in the status bar before clicking, however, in this case it won’t do them any good.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Additional security tips:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t use Internet Explorer, download a better browser &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t use Windows, download or buy a better OS &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ubuntu.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/osx/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t use Microsoft products at all, they are shitty anyway&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t listen to people who say &amp;ldquo;people who say Microsoft is shit have no idea&amp;rdquo;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vanwensveen.nl/rants/microsoft/IhateMS_1.html&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; article and share it with your friends&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;


&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;By the way&lt;/strong&gt;: I don&amp;rsquo;t like Microsoft&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Automating with convention: Introducing sub</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/09/automating-with-convention-introducing-sub.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-09T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/09/automating-with-convention-introducing-sub</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Nick:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;When I started my on-call shifts, we had pretty little in the way of automation for day-to-day issues. Tasks like SSH’ing into our cluster, starting a Rails console, or doing a deep search through our gigantic mail directories, were either shelved away in someone’s bashrc, history log, or just ingrained into someone’s memory. This pain was also felt by a few other of my fellow programmers, and we started cobbling together a Git repo simply named “37s shell scripts”.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We had something similiar in mind for our Codegestalt environment and &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/37signals/sub&quot;&gt;sub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
looks like a good solution to start instead of doing everything from scratch.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Busy hustling</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/08/busy-hustling.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-08T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/08/busy-hustling</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Yo folks, sorry I haven&amp;rsquo;t provided you with any new material the last days.
I was busy working with my G&amp;rsquo;s on &lt;a href=&quot;http://bridgetalks.ch&quot;&gt;Bridge&lt;/a&gt;. We held our first
Event and it was &lt;strong&gt;f**king&lt;/strong&gt; awesome (Don&amp;rsquo;t know why I censor fuck). Check out the link
in the title for a really awesome talk you should watch. Additionally I&amp;rsquo;m working
on two new product ideas which I may share with you guys as soon as they take shape.
Until then, I keep hustling and you should too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Grammar Nazi may not approve but you know what?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mah7frKwHW1qzsj6so1_400.gif&quot; alt=&quot;I dont fucking care&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Sight</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/02/sight.html"/>
   <updated>2012-10-02T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/10/02/sight</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/46304267?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&quot; class=&quot;vimeo&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Brace yourself, Megabox is coming</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/26/brace-yourself-megabox-is-coming.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-26T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/26/brace-yourself-megabox-is-coming</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/Kw04ckfO-yA&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Linus Torvalds goes off on Linux and Git</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/26/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linux-and-git.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-26T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/26/linus-torvalds-goes-off-on-linux-and-git</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Linus Torvalds:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first Git For Dummies and Git Visual Quickstart books are going to be out in a couple of months, and that is the beginning of the end as far as I’m concerned. Those books mean the end of git expertise and github reputation as reliable indicators of geek status. Once a technology is adopted by the masses the extreme geeks find something more esoteric. Look at what happened to Ruby on Rails. The people stumbling their way through Rails to-do list tutorials have never even heard of DHH.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Oculus Rift</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/25/oculus-rift.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-25T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/25/oculus-rift</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/49294325?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&quot; class=&quot;vimeo&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Recommendations</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/24/recommendations.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-24T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/24/recommendations</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Some weird definition of &lt;strong&gt;sharing is caring&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;When you have something (usually food) and your friend wants some, its common to use this phrase.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;*le you eating pizza while friend walks up*&lt;br/&gt;
Them: Can I have some?&lt;br/&gt;
You: No.&lt;br/&gt;
Them: Sharing is caring!&lt;br/&gt;
You: I don&amp;rsquo;t care.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anyway, today I want to share some of my favourite movies and TV Series with you. Check out &lt;a href=&quot;/recommendations.html&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;.
The list is sorted by Imdb ratings. Maybe I will add some books another day, but not now. If you have some stuff you want
me to check out, please drop me a line.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thanks and enjoy &amp;hearts;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>It’s Not All Doom And Gloom On The Web</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/24/its-not-all-doom-and-gloom-on-the-web.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-24T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/24/its-not-all-doom-and-gloom-on-the-web</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Christian Heilmann:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do we win back the hearts and minds of developers? I think we need to create new products and take different approaches than we have in the past. We should focus on making things easier for people, not striving for purity and delivering like we have in the past. We need to leave our comfort zone, because that is when the magic happens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Paris vs New York</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/19/paris-vs-new-york.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-19T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/19/paris-vs-new-york</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/49545320?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&quot; class=&quot;vimeo&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>How Barack Obama Gets Things Done</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/18/how-barack-obama-gets-things-done.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-18T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/18/how-barack-obama-gets-things-done</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;rsquo;t want to make decisions about what I&amp;rsquo;m eating or wearing, because I have too many other decisions to make.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;An interesting insight which shows how Mister Obama is getting his things done.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Bridge - We build connections</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/18/bridge.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-18T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/18/bridge</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m happy to announce, that the first Bridge event will take place at the 3rd october at the mitte enterprise in Basel.
For this occasion we&amp;rsquo;ve updated the &lt;a href=&quot;http://bridgetalks.ch&quot;&gt;Bridge page&lt;/a&gt; to give you a little insight of the venue
and the first speakers which will attend at the 3rd october.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The idea behind Bridge is to get people from different industries together and let them discover new and exciting stuff.
We will start at 7pm and each talk will take about 20 minutes. After the talks you will get the chance to get in touch
with the speakers and the other attendees to discuss the main topics or other stuff. Or maybe you will just let the evening wind
down with a refreshing &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unser-bier.ch/&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Unser Bier&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; at the mitte bar. It&amp;rsquo;s your call.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anyway. We would be happy to see you at the 3rd october. And if you have a second, please tell your friends about Bridge. We
love you &amp;hearts;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Programming, Motherfucker. Do you speak it?</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/17/programming-motherfucker-do-you-speak-it.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-17T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/17/programming-motherfucker-do-you-speak-it</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Me:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are honest, most of the time you already know what&amp;rsquo;s best for your clients.
The thing that really needs time is to convince them to use the best solution.
Because most of the clients don&amp;rsquo;t know what they want or need.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I wrote a new article on our company blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://codegestalt.com/fistbump/2012/09/17/programming-motherfucker&quot;&gt;The Exploding Fistbump&lt;/a&gt;.
Check it out.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Daughter</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/11/daughter.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-11T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/11/daughter</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Dear lovely people of the world. I have to tell you something. I love listening to music.
Without music, my life wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be the same, I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be the same. I listening to a lot of music
and that means I listening to many different artists, to many different lyrics,
to many different tunes and to many different genres. And once in a while I stumble across something special,
something that I like from the first few seconds on, something that moves me, something that doesn&amp;rsquo;t let
me sleep and I need to listen to it before I can dive into the land of dreams.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This week I found such a gem. The band is called &lt;strong&gt;Daughter&lt;/strong&gt;. I can&amp;rsquo;t get enough of the beautiful
and strong melodies, the soft and lovely voice and the stunning and dramatic lyrics.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But enough from me. The best thing I can do right now is to show you a live session from their song &lt;strong&gt;Youth&lt;/strong&gt;.
Turn up the volume. Eliminate all background noises. Press play on the video below. Enter full screen mode. Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe src=&quot;http://player.vimeo.com/video/32900076?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&quot; class=&quot;vimeo&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Programming Languages Influence Network Graph</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/10/programming-languages-influence-network-graph.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-10T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/10/programming-languages-influence-network-graph</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/programming-languages-influence-network-graph-ruby.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Which programming languages influenced ruby and were influenced by ruby&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ramiro Gómez created a graph which shows the different influences of programming languages.
In the image above, you can see how Ruby was influenced (red lines) by Python or C++ and influenced (blue lines)
languages like CoffeeScript or Windows PowerShell.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Sky isn't the limit</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/09/sky-isnt-the-limit.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-09T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/09/sky-isnt-the-limit</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://500px.com/photo/13519609&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://pcdn.500px.net/13519609/ff7a79a93b6255defcb1f115b5ee50c24fc99061/4.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Sky isn't the limit by Daniel Puglisi (danielpuglisi) on 500px.com&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; style=&quot;margin: 0 0 5px 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;font&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://500px.com/photo/13519609&quot;&gt;Sky isn&amp;rsquo;t the limit&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href=&quot;http://500px.com/danielpuglisi&quot;&gt;Daniel Puglisi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Developing Shopify Themes in your favourite environment</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/07/developing-shopify-themes-in-your-favourite-environment.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-07T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/07/developing-shopify-themes-with-your-favourite-environment</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TL;DR: I hate it when I can&amp;rsquo;t develop code in my favourite environment. So I found this glorious gem
called &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Shopify/shopify_theme&quot;&gt;shopify_theme&lt;/a&gt;
which automatically syncs shopify themes to your connected shop.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been lately working on a &lt;a href=&quot;http://shopify.com&quot;&gt;Shopify&lt;/a&gt; store and the client who I work for
wishes a customized desgin which looks like their original website. I had to find out, that
this process wasn&amp;rsquo;t that compatible with my expectation how to develop code
and Shopify&amp;rsquo;s integrated webeditor.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Truth to be told, Shopify&amp;rsquo;s online editor sucks (to be fair, every webeditor sucks when you wan&amp;rsquo;t
to develop code with it). So I was looking for another solution. Shopify promotes that you can
develop templates with their &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.shopify.com/Shopify_Textmate_Bundle&quot;&gt;Textmate Bundle&lt;/a&gt;.
Hmm no thank you&amp;hellip; I didn&amp;rsquo;t wanted to install Textmate only for developing one template.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Then there was this &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.shopify.com/Theme_Sync_App&quot;&gt;OSX App&lt;/a&gt; which
I got recommended from the Shopify Support. You can download &amp;amp; upload your themes with it but
the performance is terrible. Also a no go.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The final solution I came up with and using right now is this remarkably gem called
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/Shopify/shopify_theme&quot;&gt;shopify_theme&lt;/a&gt; from Shopify itself.
It can watch for changes on theme files and if it detects something, it automatically
syncs the files to the shop. I just ask myself why they don&amp;rsquo;t list this gem anywhere.
Maybe I haven&amp;rsquo;t searched enough.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Anyway. This is how I like to work. Thank you Shopify.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/06/hansel-and-gretel-witch-hunters.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-06T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/06/hansel-and-gretel-witch-hunters</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/u910f05Sjtw&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;w00t!&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>A quote from freshfey</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/05/a-quote-from-freshfey.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-05T02:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/05/a-quote-from-freshfey</id>
   <content type="html">
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Song of the Week: Red Dawn Rising - Birdy Nam Nam</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/05/song-of-the-week-red-dawn-rising---birdy-nam-nam.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-05T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/05/song-of-the-week-red-dawn-rising---birdy-nam-nam</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:track:4LIuTkElFDA3U8mUcCSxET&quot; class=&quot;spotify&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowtransparency=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Birdy Nam Nam, concert, Switzerland, Basel, Kaserne, 27. October, are you coming too?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kaserne-basel.ch/Musik/Birdy_Nam_Nam/Birdy_Nam_Nam_2012-1&quot;&gt;Some infos&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>How we keep GitHub fast</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/05/how-we-keep-github-fast.html"/>
   <updated>2012-09-05T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/09/05/how-we-keep-github-fast</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://a248.e.akamai.net/camo.github.com/367fe330bc1ad4431b2a5a3448d21bc59743fc7e/687474703a2f2f6769746875622d696d616765732e73332e616d617a6f6e6177732e636f6d2f626c6f672f323031322f6b656570696e672d6769746875622d666173742f6d697373696f6e2d636f6e74726f6c2e706e67&quot; alt=&quot;GitHub staff mode&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;An exclusive look into how GitHub is working and how they are keeping things together. This is so cool.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Passive Income Strategies For Web Designers</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/30/passive-income-strategies-for-web-designers.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-30T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/30/passive-income-strategies-for-web-designers</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Sacha Greif:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Finding ways to earn passive income is a growing concern among many freelance designers. I’ve always loved client work, but I have to admit that the pressure of juggling multiple bosses and constant deadlines eventually started to wear me down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sacha Greif summarizes his experiences with passive income as a web developer.
He made money in different areas like designing &lt;strong&gt;Themes&lt;/strong&gt;,
selling &lt;strong&gt;Icons and Vectors&lt;/strong&gt;, writing &lt;strong&gt;Books&lt;/strong&gt; or building &lt;strong&gt;Products&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Trolling like a sir</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/29/trolling-like-a-sir.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-29T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/29/trolling-like-a-sir</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Do you always wanted to be a celebrity?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Then maybe the guy from the following video can help you. It apparently works. At least for a few minutes&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/XYU1a0lTTTw&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>This is Droplings for Mac</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/28/this-is-droplings-for-mac.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-28T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/28/this-is-droplings-for-mac</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;It can turn any file on your computer into a branded download page hosted on Dropbox.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Cool.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Keep your Heroku app alive, for free</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/27/keep-your-free-heroku-app-alive.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-27T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/27/keep-your-heroku-app-alive-for-free</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Maybe you were in this situation before.
You&amp;rsquo;re developing a website or
app with &lt;a href=&quot;http://rubyonrails.org/&quot;&gt;Ruby on Rails&lt;/a&gt; and using
a single &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heroku.com/&quot;&gt;Heroku&lt;/a&gt;
dyno to show off your current progress to your customers.
The thing is, if you are only
using one dyno for your app,
Heroku is going to put your app back to sleep after a
certain time (5 minutes I think?) and this causes your
app to load slower the next time a request comes in.
There &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/blob/master/src/scripts/keep-alive.coffee&quot;&gt;are&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://beouk.blogspot.ch/2012/02/keeping-heroku-awake.html&quot;&gt;a&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://danneu.com/posts/7-keeping-that-free-heroku-dyno-alive-without-feeling-unethical&quot;&gt;few&lt;/a&gt;
workarounds already out there, but I wanted to have something simpler.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So I came up with a little shell script:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;script src=&quot;https://gist.github.com/3490814.js?file=keep-alive.sh&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;


&lt;p&gt;This script does nothing more than requesting every single Heroku app which is defined in the array at
the beginning of the script.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Of course, it would be a little bit overwhelming to call this script
every 5 minutes by hand, so we are going to create a cronjob.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To accomplish this, we are adding the following line to the &lt;code&gt;/etc/crontab&lt;/code&gt; file:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;script src=&quot;https://gist.github.com/3490792.js?file=crontab&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;


&lt;p&gt;This is going to execute the &lt;code&gt;keep-alive.sh&lt;/code&gt; script every minute.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To complete the whole thing, put the &lt;code&gt;keep-alive.sh&lt;/code&gt; file into the &lt;code&gt;/etc/cron.custom&lt;/code&gt; directory
(you may have to create the directory first) and you are all set.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I run that script on a Linux server, but it should also work with OSX.
And thats it. The Heroku app shouldn&amp;rsquo;t go back to sleep anymore (as long as your system is running).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Enjoy.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Song of the Week: The Kids Are Ready To Die - The Airborne Toxic Event</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/25/the-airborne-toxic-event.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-25T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/25/the-airborne-toxic-event</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe class=&quot;spotify&quot; src=&quot;https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:track:0QyYeqnKkMWrVPjwKuvZKi&quot; width=&quot;300&quot; height=&quot;380&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowtransparency=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Blown.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>A quote to remember</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/24/quote-from-alistair-smith.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-25T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/24/a-quote-to-remember</id>
   <content type="html">
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Self-employed &hearts;</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/23/self-employed.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-23T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/23/self-employed</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://distilleryimage8.instagram.com/6833d89aecf811e1b55e22000a1e9610_7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;self-employed &amp;lt;3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>The ToDone list</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/20/the-todone-list.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-20T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/20/the-todone-list</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Me:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;But a todo list in itself isn&amp;rsquo;t the whole truth in improving my speed and quality of getting things done.
Another important aspect is, that I have to see what I&amp;rsquo;ve done through the day.
Productivity isn&amp;rsquo;t just a word or a feeling, for me it has to be visible.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I just released a new article over at our company blog. It&amp;rsquo;s about lists and stuff.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Sell your crap. Pay your dept. Do what you love.</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/18/sell-your-crap-pay-your-dept-do-what-you-love.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-18T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/18/sell-your-crap-pay-your-dept-do-what-you-love</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Nigel Marsh:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are thousands and thousands of people out there
living lives of quiet, screaming desperation who work long,
hard hours, at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things,
they don&amp;rsquo;t need to impress people they don&amp;rsquo;t like.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Four years ago, Adam Baker and his wife decided to sell all their stuff, pay off their debts and go on
an one year traveling journey. In the following talk, Adam talks about freedom.
The freedom which most people today interpret as a cycle of going to school, work hard and hopefully earn
enough money to pay off their debts. For Adam, Freedom has nothing to do with that and in this talk,
he is going to talk about how he has rewritten his own script of what freedom is.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/9XRPbFIN4lk&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>An Unexpected Ass Kicking</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/17/an-unexpected-ass-kicking.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-17T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/17/an-unexpected-ass-kicking</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Joel Runyon:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;That’s the problem with a lot of people”, he continued, “they don’t try to do stuff that’s never been done before, so they never do anything, but if they try to do it, they find out there’s lots of things they can do that have never been done before.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is definitely one of the coolest things I&amp;rsquo;ve read in the past few weeks.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Sicilia</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/12/sicilia.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-12T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/12/sicilia</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8433/7767480748_e9c7062342_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Palmento La Rosa&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7114/7767485056_3728a32ae5_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Etna View 1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8284/7767491736_037b62c0df_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Taormina&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8307/7767498694_19eca46553_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Etna road&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8307/7767505078_c822035155_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Etna View 2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8013/7767509638_d94bdf1f23_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Biondi&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>New York</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/12/new-york.html"/>
   <updated>2012-08-12T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/08/12/new-york</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8296/7767337214_41e31a91ce_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Times Square&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8448/7767384174_82619ac77c_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Wall Street&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8282/7767425148_8a6a96bea4_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Central Park&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8442/7767428678_5044c230c0_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Apple Store&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7133/7767443612_cdb2cacf2d_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Lady Liberty&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8304/7767454182_6a943aa9b5_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Metro&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8296/7767462562_537938a701_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;P.J. Clarkes&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8428/7767466438_2cb4c266b4_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Some dark street&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>shortcutFoo: Learn shortcuts. Work faster</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/17/shortcutfoo-learn-shortcuts-work-faster.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-17T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/17/shortcutfoo-learn-shortcuts-work-faster</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Become a shortcut ninja through interactive learning and repetition. With thousands of commands at your fingertips and interactive drills, the shortcuts quickly become ingrained so your fingers can fly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sounds cool. I always wanted to learn the different Photoshop shortcuts which are out there. I think now is the time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;rsquo;t done the Vim training yet, but maybe it is a good starting point for newbies?&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Brandon Keepers: Why Our Code Smells</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/16/brandon-keepers-why-our-code-smells.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-16T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/16/brandon-keepers-why-our-code-smells</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;As you might know, I attended at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rulu.eu&quot;&gt;Ruby Lugdunum Conference&lt;/a&gt; in Lyon this year.
Besides the good food and the interesting people I met, there were also
some really good talks. One of these talks was given by &lt;a href=&quot;http://opensoul.org/&quot;&gt;Brandon Keepers&lt;/a&gt; from
&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com&quot;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/JxPKljUkFQw&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Vim Creep</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/12/vim-creep.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-12T02:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/12/vim-creep</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Rudis Muiznieks:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Staying late one night to finish an assignment that was due at midnight, you happened to catch a glimpse over one of the quiet uber-programmer&amp;rsquo;s shoulders. Your eyes twinkled from the glow of rows upon rows of monitors in the darkened computer lab as you witnessed in awe the impossible patterns of code and text manipulation that flashed across the screen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt; &amp;ldquo;How did you do that?&amp;rdquo; you asked, incredulous.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt; The pithy, monosyllabic answer uttered in response changed your life forever: &amp;ldquo;Vim.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fresh story about the lifecycle of a Vim user. Reminds me of myself.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Got a package from CrawlSpaceStudios</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/12/got-a-package-from-crawlspacestudios.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-12T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/12/got-a-package-from-crawlspacestudios</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Honey, don&amp;rsquo;t do it! Please! Please don&amp;rsquo;t! Noooooooo!&amp;rdquo;, screamed my old MacBook Mid 2008, as I clicked on the
&amp;ldquo;Order Now&amp;rdquo; button to buy the new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/&quot;&gt;MacBook Pro with Retina Display&lt;/a&gt;, slowly but surely knowing that his time has
come to move along.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In fact, I needed a new MacBook.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Okay, to correct me, I still need one&amp;hellip; It&amp;rsquo;s been 4 weeks now since I ordered that shiny new machine from Apple.
  But at least I got a message today that my order has been shipped. So hopefully it doesn&amp;rsquo;t take to much time from now on&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And to take that new 15&quot; device with me, I also needed a suitable bag for it. So there is this new online ecommerce
platform designer thing, what&amp;rsquo;s his name&amp;hellip; ah ja, &lt;a href=&quot;http://etsy.com&quot;&gt;Etsy&lt;/a&gt;. And on this Etsy thing, there are thousands
and thousands of designer shops from independant designers and cool people. So I roughly spent 3 hours searching for
a messenger bag that looks cool and has enough space for a 15&quot; MacBook. I found a lot of really nice stuff and shops
and in the end I&amp;rsquo;ve chosen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etsy.com/listing/96111239/picassos-guernica-screen-printed&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; wonderful
item to stick with me for the next few years. The heads behind that bag are Kevin and Ginny from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etsy.com/shop/CrawlSpaceStudios&quot;&gt;CrawlSpaceStudios&lt;/a&gt;.
A big THANK YOU to them for making that bag, I really like it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ah, and I also bought a tshirt from them. You can take a look at that hilarious stuff in the picture below.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8432/7556970228_59eecb4336_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;bag and tshirt from CrawlSpaceStudios&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Cool stuff, isn&amp;rsquo;t it?&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Vim, you complete me</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/12/vim-you-complete-me.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-12T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/12/vim-you-complete-me</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Mike Burns:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ever watch someone else type at a shell, spelling out every filename, even making typos and fixing them, very slowly? “Hit tab!”, you yell, helpfully.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I do that when watching someone use vim.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A basic vim command every user should know.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Submarine Cable Map 2012</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/11/submarine-cable-map-2012.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-11T03:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/11/submarine-cable-map-2012</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;/images/posts/submarine-cable-map-2012.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Submarine Cable Map 2012&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegeography.com/&quot;&gt;TeleGeography&lt;/a&gt; has released an interactive world map of all submarine internet cables with different data about
&amp;ldquo;Landing Stations&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Pricing Trends&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Construction Cost&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;Used International Bandwith&amp;rdquo;, etc.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can check out the map &lt;a href=&quot;http://submarine-cable-map-2012.telegeography.com/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you want to buy the map you can do that for the price of $250.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Some serious procrastination is going on here</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/11/some-serious-procrastination-is-going-on-here.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-11T02:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/11/some-serious-procrastination-is-going-on-here</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://distilleryimage1.instagram.com/6bcb8388cb4f11e1aee522000a1e8a5f_7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;trollolol&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>OUYA: A New Kind of Video Game Console</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/11/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-11T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/11/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console/widget/video.html&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot;&gt; &lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;This looks awesome! Great idea!&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Teaching The Obvious</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/11/teaching-the-obvious.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-11T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/11/teaching-the-obvious</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Chris Oliver:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;What’s obvious to you may not be obvious to someone else. When they feel something is completely obvious, that means you’ve done your job.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;True story.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>These Days: A Novel</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/10/these-days-a-novel.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-10T02:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/10/these-days-a-novel</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;These Days is about Connor Vast, a guy who designs fake computer interfaces for plastic prop displays in furniture showrooms. He meets a girl who doesn&amp;rsquo;t own a cellphone and is as disconnected as he is connected. As their relationship develops, he falls in with a group of entrepreneurs out to invent the future, but it&amp;rsquo;s the same future she&amp;rsquo;s rebelling against. It&amp;rsquo;s a story about the human side of technology—the people who make it, the reasons they build, and the people on the other end.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet tw-align-center&quot; lang=&quot;de&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Really worth a look or/and a back! --&amp;gt; These Days: A Novel by @&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/jackcheng&quot;&gt;jackcheng&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://t.co/FVfnjWDK&quot; title=&quot;http://bit.ly/RWGpM0&quot;&gt;bit.ly/RWGpM0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Daniel Puglisi (@danielpuglisi) &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/danielpuglisi/status/222710534166949890&quot; data-datetime=&quot;2012-07-10T15:15:03+00:00&quot;&gt;Juli 10, 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>GitHub raises $100M funding</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/10/github-raises-100m-funding.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-10T01:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/10/github-raises-100m-funding</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today we are partnering with Andreessen Horowitz and announcing our first ever outside investment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Today GitHub announced that they are &lt;a href=&quot;http://peter.a16z.com/2012/07/09/software-eats-software-development&quot;&gt;partnering with Andreessen Horowitz&lt;/a&gt;.
I hope this is going to end well for them&amp;hellip;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Game of Thrones meets Minecraft</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/10/game-of-thrones-meets-minecraft.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-10T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/10/game-of-thrones-meets-minecraft</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe class=&quot;youtube&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/w0gLX_Kn_S8&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;

</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Stepping off the ledge</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/09/stepping-off-the-ledge.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-09T02:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/09/stepping-off-the-ledge</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Avdi Grimm:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;So here it is: I’m stepping out into thin air and dedicating the bulk of my time to things that get me excited. I’ve been incredibly blessed so far in that my book sales have started to form a meaningful percentage (though not a majority) of my income. Now I’m going to see if doing what I love can actually support my family.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;An interesting read up from Avdi Grimm about Avdi Grimm and his feelings about taking the step and being self-employed.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>The 100$ Startup</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/09/the-100-dollar-startup.html"/>
   <updated>2012-07-09T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/07/09/the-100-dollar-startup</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of Drive and A Whole New Mind:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The $100 Startup is a twofer: It&amp;rsquo;s a kick in the pants to get started on your dream and a road map for finding your way once you begin. If you&amp;rsquo;re not ready to launch your own business after reading this book, you need to go back and read it again!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That&amp;rsquo;s the book I&amp;rsquo;m reading right now. Easy written, great tips, interesting stories.&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>Chillin</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/30/chillin.html"/>
   <updated>2012-06-30T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/30/chillin</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8022/7467893074_d18e8babc6_z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&amp;quot;whut chu doin?&amp;quot; - &amp;quot;chillin&amp;quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</content>
 </entry>
 
 <entry>
   <title>The Startup Hustler</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/29/the-startup-hustler.html"/>
   <updated>2012-06-29T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/29/the-startup-hustler</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;A hustler is someone who is single minded in his quest to get results. Nothing else motivates him. Nothing else matters. To hustle you have to think big picture and you have to be driven by creating significant results for your venture. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter if it&amp;rsquo;s closing deals or closing a round of funding &amp;ndash; a startup hustler gets things done that drive revenue for the company and that are crucial for survival and for growth.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We also have one of these &amp;ldquo;Startup Hustlers&amp;rdquo;. Let me introduce to you: &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/freshfey&quot;&gt;@freshfey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>Spotify Playlist: Summer Maddafakkas</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/28/summer-maddafakkas.html"/>
   <updated>2012-06-28T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/28/summer-maddafakkas</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;iframe src=&quot;https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:user:116689447:playlist:4x748cfeeSX9Ie5SATVmDv&amp;theme=white&amp;view=coverart&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowtransparency=&quot;true&quot; class=&quot;spotify&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;


&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, I released a new playlist on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spotify.com/&quot;&gt;Spotify&lt;/a&gt;. It&amp;rsquo;s all about summer and there are some refreshing tracks in it. Check it out and if you have something you would like to see on the playlist, please give me a shout.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>Rulu 2012</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/24/rulu-2012.html"/>
   <updated>2012-06-24T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/24/rulu-2012</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;So Rulu 2012 is over and to say it right ahead: for me, it was just awesome! It was my first (ruby) developer conference at all and I could really benefit from it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The organisers of the event have done a very great job. From the introduction, to the talks. From the food (the food was actually pretty awesome!) to the party.
I have experienced/contributed to/organized a lot of events (from small to big events) and I can say this one went very well. So congratulations to the organisers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Beside the great talks I&amp;rsquo;ve listened to, I&amp;rsquo;ve also met a lot of interesting and great ruby developers.
I have gained so much inspiration and discovered a lot of new stuff that I&amp;rsquo;m definitely going to try out in the next few days or weeks (vim plugins, books, databases and a tons of tools). And I think I finally found my Harajuku moment for
starting to learn TDD (yap, I haven&amp;rsquo;t used TDD yet, shame on me). So I can&amp;rsquo;t wait to come back home and start to learn anything about rspec and any other test related stuff.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I also want to add that it was a great experience for me to test my English knowledge that I had accomplished the last few years in school and I think I actually did quite well.
In that short time of speaking to other people, it gave me a huge boost of self-confidence and I think if you are in a similiar position as I am you should definitely check out some
local or near events where the attendees only speak the language you want to improve. For sure, it needs a lot of courage to talk to foreign people but in the end you only can win.
So a big &amp;ldquo;Thank you&amp;rdquo; to every French attendee for speaking English (in Switzerland, the most French people I know don&amp;rsquo;t like and are not going to talk to you in English or German,
so it&amp;rsquo;s quite difficult to communicate with them. But that&amp;rsquo;s just my experience, please correct me if I&amp;rsquo;m wrong). Because otherwise I wouldn&amp;rsquo;t have understand anything
except of &amp;ldquo;bonjour&amp;rdquo;, &amp;ldquo;bonsoir&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;bon appetit&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But enough from my blabla. I have taken a few pictures through the conference and I will just let the pictures speak for themselves:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8002/7431283656_5381e90aa9_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Welcome to Rulu&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7257/7431276550_b626fd3eb6_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Brandon Keepers about Why our Code Smells&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8153/7431287306_fd3cd88a31_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Metro&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7134/7431280800_69bc567b68_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Party at Koodeta&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5071/7431279286_7b6920a64b_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Alex Koppel about Sleep!&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8146/7431278294_96833951a7_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rulu lunch&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8012/7431293340_ccf9ac1221_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rulu Goodies&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7263/7431281420_279dcf5f9d_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Roy Tomeij on stage&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8154/7431287798_d073418d85_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Laurent Sansonetti is talking about RubyMotion&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8167/7431293898_a662460006_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Rod is hungry&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7277/7431290290_190e889b0b_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Ruby community &amp;lt;3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7262/7431296996_3f52c8fdef_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;More food&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7254/7431387110_b34979607e_c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;til next year rulu&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Flickr: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielpuglisi/sets/72157630262265828/&quot;&gt;Rulu 2012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you are interested in the talks, I think the Rulu organisators are creating videos
from the presentations. As soon as they are available, I&amp;rsquo;ll post the link in this blog.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>We are going to France</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/18/we-are-going-to-france.html"/>
   <updated>2012-06-18T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/18/we-are-going-to-france</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Yes, thats true. We are going to France. &lt;a href=&quot;http://rodrigohaenggi.com&quot;&gt;Rodrigo&lt;/a&gt; and I.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But before I&amp;rsquo;m going to reveal the reason why we are visiting France, I want to tell you the story of a little boy:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The story is about a little boy who tried very hard to learn French the last six years, but wasn&amp;rsquo;t very successful. Truth be told, he sucked at French.
Very often that boy thought about the reason why he was so bad at it. He asked himself wether the reason was his learning method?
Did he spend to little time on cramming specific words or grammar rules? Or did he just sucked in languages?
He started to dig around in his past and found out, that his marks at the elementary school were quite good and the French mark was around a 5 (A-). So he moved on with his thoughts and landed at the
secondary school. And that was the time were his French mark jumped off the top of a high-rise without attracting a lifeline. His mark dropped to a 1 (F) in the second semester of the secondary school.
First he thought the reason for this were just his puberty. But after thinking a little bit longer about it, he realized that the main reason for his situation laid elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The reason was his former class teacher. Everything he had done, at the time back then, was presented by the teacher as poor. An example was, that the teacher humiliated him because of his
handwriting and gave him bad marks because of it.
So he began to train his handwriting skills, but it was never good enough. Everything he tried got restrained by this teacher. So he gave up.
After the second semester he switched the class and his mark got a little bit better, but he never reached the same level that he had before.
And even yet, he always has a bad feeling when he is hearing the French langauge.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After a few years that teacher got kicked out of school because of bullying students.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I also suck at French. I don&amp;rsquo;t know why. Maybe it is because of such a shitty teacher or because I didn&amp;rsquo;t learned enough for school. Maybe I will never know. But what I do know is,
that this teacher from the story is an old fat wanker.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But back to the topic of this post. We are going to France. To be more specific, we are going to Lyon. The reason for this is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://rulu.eu/&quot;&gt;Ruby Lugdunum&lt;/a&gt; conference.
Rodrigo and I are passionate Ruby developers and I think we can learn much from the talks and the people we are going to meet there.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I hope they speak English there and if not I do remeber a few words in French:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Excuse moi, je suis un tourist.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>Soon...</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/17/soon.html"/>
   <updated>2012-06-17T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/17/soon</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;Tomorrow will be my last examination day and with this, the last day of my apprenticeship. Officially my apprenticeship lasts until the fifth of august, but it doesn&amp;rsquo;t feel that way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So unofficially, tomorrow at 16:15, European Time, GMT+ 1, I&amp;rsquo;ll be a fresh baked computer scientist with the drive to destroy evil forces and donate bacon to the poor.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Last examination, I&amp;rsquo;m coming.&lt;/p&gt;
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 <entry>
   <title>Reading day</title>
   <link href="http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/16/reading-day.html"/>
   <updated>2012-06-16T00:00:00+02:00</updated>
   <id>http://danielpuglisi.com/articles/2012/06/16/reading-day</id>
   <content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7223/7379055052_8e1883938e_z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Reading Day - 1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8149/7379685448_98af1cb3da_z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Reading Day - 2&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7104/7379684018_68a239bbec_z.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Reading Day - 3&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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