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Articles that touch on software develpoment. These include tips, tricks and how-to's and note-to-self type of articles.

Postfix Relayhost Setup

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

Vim tips, tricks and plugins

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 tricks

Digital Flightplan - Takeoff

Are you fascinated by the idea of building mobile / web applications in a better way? Setting the focus on key business functions, preventing overspending, minimizing overhead, maximizing efficiency, and actually getting products shipped to users? If yes, then this guide is for you. This guide is aimed at business and

Tech Startup Resources List

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

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 outsourcing technical projects. This

5 min to a mobile app with Ember & Cordova

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.

Productive OS X design and development setup

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 happy

The Little Things

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 the complexity of the

Web design inspiration

Web design inspiration

Here's a categorized list of our favourite agency and product websites we've saved for inspiration. Agency sites Looking at agency sites is especially interesting because that's where the agencies get to do their very own thing. Your vision, your execution - no limits. http://blacknegative.com/ http://www.doctorjekyll.com/

Hacking live client websites

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 on PHP

Teach your Hubot to talk with Domainr

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

Amazon Route 53 and Scandinavian letters

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 characters or