Let’s see how this goes…
Planned Weekday Schedule
700 - 715 : wake up, shower, dress
715 - 740 : breakfast & commute to train
740 - 840 : commute & write or work on train
840 - 900 : commute to office
900 - 1130 : work alone
1130 - 1200 : email
1200 - 1300 : lunch
1300 - 1630 : work [...]
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So, back in December of last year, Giles Bowkett announced that he was starting doing consulting. At that time, Leanpub was going through a direction crisis, since I was realizing that we were in fact building a full-fledged publishing platform, based on our blog-to-book workflow that we had evolved in order to publish Eric [...]
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After a fantastic conference on Friday, it was nice to relax a bit on the weekend…
First, I can’t resist the juxtaposition…
Also, the wine and scenery was great…
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As you probably know from Twitter, Steve Blank gave an absolutely fantastic talk at the Startup Lessons Learned conference today.
I’m proud (and more amused than I probably should be) to say that I made a small photo contribution to it!
I suppose I should read the book on the chairlift instead…
…or just leave the book in [...]
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I am currently revising the ebook of Hello! Flex 4 to use Flex 4 Final instead of Flex 4 Beta 2, which is what the first printing of the book uses.
However, in order to be totally transparent, here is every diff in the Hello! Flex 4 source code from Flex 4 Beta 2 and Flex [...]
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Short Version:
Download the Hello! Flex 4 Code that works with Flex 4 Final
Long Version:
So, I wrote an introductory Adobe Flex book called Hello! Flex 4.
Here’s its pretty cover:
It was going to ship last year, based on Flex 4 Beta 1. However, Adobe delayed the Flex 4 Final release and instead released a Beta 2 [...]
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Both writing a book and creating a startup are highly creative processes undertaken by one or a few people working closely together.
With books, these strange people are called “authors”; with startups, they are called “founders”.
Where the comparison breaks down, obviously, is that successful founders end up growing their startups into companies full of tens, hundreds [...]
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So, my co-founder Scott Patten mentioned to me today that Kent Beck had recently tweeted the following:
dear @ericries, you bastard i can’t figure out what the technology adoption lifecycle looks like for a book. it’s bugging me.
This is yet another one of those “get off your ass you moron” moments for me.
See, I had [...]
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If I blog these then I have more pressure to stick to them, so here I go. Yes, this is a more self-centered post than usual, but it will possibly be interesting to read in a year and see how it went. I’m only including personal resolutions, not Ruboss / Leanpub ones…
My 2010 New Years [...]
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