Development Postfix Relayhost Setup Cloud service providers such as Amazon often prevent email sending by default on their EC2 instances to stop spammers. This can be a nuisance when you want to send legit email. You can request for this restriction to be removed, but it can be a bit of a black box
Development Vim tips, tricks and plugins This post is a note-to-self type of post on Vim tips & tricks. You will also find a bunch of useful plugins listed in this post. This is the place where I write down and explaing things to my self whenever learning a new trick in Vim. The tips and
Business Tech Startup Resources List A grand list of resources and tools related to web/app development, business and startups. Business Business related resource for building your next startup or improving your current one. SaaS Financial Plan - A financial plan template for SaaS. Founder / Advisor Standard Template - Contract template for startup advisors. Equity
Business The guide to outsourcing a digital minimum viable product This is a mega post on outsourcing a digital Minimum Viable Product to test the viability of your idea with real customers. This would be a great read if you're looking to build an MVP for your startup or enterprise and don't have much experience from
Development 5 min to a mobile app with Ember & Cordova This is a quick guide for going from zero to a working app with all the bells and whistles like livereload, app icons and splash screens setup in about 5 minutes. If all goes to plan. ;) Thanks to Ember Cordova [http://embercordova.com/] project by Isle of Code [https://isleofcode.
Productivity Be more productive by knowing your biological prime time Updated: May 15, 2025 TL;DR * Body Prime Time or Biological Prime Time (BPT) is your daily peak performance window when energy, motivation, and focus are highest * Track your energy levels for 2-3 weeks to identify patterns and find your BPT * Use BPT for demanding tasks; reserve low-energy periods for
Business On signing NDAs Recently we have been asked to sign NDAs quite a bit. As a result, we had a long discussion about NDAs and here are our views on them. The problem is that most NDAs are overkill. They do not acknowledge that we have had other clients in the past and
Development Productive OS X design and development setup Setting up your mac for design & development is painful. It takes quite a few steps to get to a happy place where you are productive again. This post is a messy, note-to-self kind of list of what needs to be done to get from a blank Mac to the
Development The Little Things The web has been around for a good while. Still many little things are more often wrong than right. We should do better. Here's a list of little, easily fixable things that greatly affect the user experience. 1. When you have a signup form, don't restrict
Productivity Temple.fi - For better work days Temple is a simple web app to motivate you to build healthy habits during the working day. You can find it at https://temple.fi. We're using Temple to keep our work days at the office productive and healthy. The app reminds you to take breaks and reach
Development Hacking live client websites More often than one would like, you need to make changes to a live web site. This can be due to working on a small budget or with legacy systems, where there's no separate development environment available. It seems we run into this most often with projects built
Development Teach your Hubot to talk with Domainr We often talk about new interesting web app ideas. One integral part of coming up with a name for a new projet is to find a suitable and free domain name. We use tools like Domainr to make the task a bit easier. The talks often happen on Slack and
Development Amazon Route 53 and Scandinavian letters A while back I was setting up some sites for a Finnish customer using Amazon Route 53 [http://aws.amazon.com/route53/] as the DNS provider. It wasn't quite as easy as I would have imagined. The hosted zone could not be saved because: Domain Name contains invalid
Business Dubai coworking spaces I worked from Dubai for three weeks and got to check out a couple of the more popular coworking spaces aimed at freelancers and mobile workers. Here's my thoughts on them. MAKE Business hub### My first business coworking space visit in Dubai was to MAKE located in Al
Business Get another chance - Refindr.com Night's been good. Then butterflies in your stomach as you see that someone for the first time. You exchange sparkling looks, a few words, you dance, you touch, you talk and you fall deep into those eyes. Then BOOM - it's all over. You went to
