For projects that are open source that are submitted to this, I would love to see its code review published.
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#42Probably a silly question, but what's the deal with this? Small Not a huge deal but I think it's good to show where a link goes on mouseover, especially a mailto: link (some mail clients take a while to start) ... it'd seem you want here.
Just started with a bit of CSS that worked better for a button is all. You're right that a real link would be better. I'll change it. The idea is to perhaps eventually sell these directly on the page, via Stripe, in a more explicit fashion. But for starters at least, I think we'll work together on setting the scope of the "read", and keep things bespoke.
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#43(Jeremy, are you still working for the NYT and free-lancing, or has your wanderlust finally made you take off for good?) Looks like a great idea. Maybe you could require projects first convert to Literate CoffeeScript to make your job easier. ;-)
Traveling for the year, and doing a little bit of freelance work for the Times (and hopefully DocumentCloud as well) as I go.
... now you see the hidden motivation for the recent flurry of Docco releases. I want to make these sort of working code/prose documents easier to produce ;)
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#44Interesting. But how is this a sustainable business model?
How is it not? It's not like people are going to stop writing code.
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#45I wish there were a real example (to get a sense for the types of things he looks at), involving an open source project (how about coffeescript itself?)
Me too, but it's only been launched for an hour at this point ;) I'll try to post up real examples and excerpts as soon as any are available.
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#46IMO this is more effort than its worth, and he will get annoyed with companies trying to hire him outright. You'd be surprised how hard it is for companies to change coding practices.
It very well could be, but part of the idea here is to make it as much of a "product" as it is a consulting gig. Having a clear scope and a document delivered at the end should help keep things clear-cut, and simple for both parties. In theory, at least.
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#47I considered doing this same thing a few years ago but decided that I don't scale. I'm glad someone is trying it out. I'm curious to see if there's a market.
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#48In my previous life as an enterprise code monkey I've came across good and bad Architects. Just knowing and being able to tell me how something could be done better is valuable. But I found my frustration often was 'just f*ing do it!'.
If an Architect came with great refactoring suggestions that would take minutes or even seconds to implement, what's the value in dumping me with a document?
The best Architects would just do it if it was straightforward, review it with me (so I'd see why/if it was better and teach me) then commit.
I'd like to see a similar thing here. Hands-on code reviews with commits. There's little I hate more than documents that never get actioned.
I love the spirit of this service but add in commits to make it dynamite.
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#49In my previous life as an enterprise code monkey I've came across good and bad Architects. Just knowing and being able to tell me how something could be done better is valuable. But I found my frustration often was 'just f*ing do it!'. If an Architect came with great refactoring suggestions that would take minutes or even seconds to implement, what's the value in dumping me with a document? The best Architects would…
I hear you, but I'm concerned about trampling on other folks' code without being involved in a long term relationship. Code bombs dropped by consultants often have this sort of problem -- where some of the more invasive changes either aren't welcome or are more difficult to integrate with the existing system than they're worth. I'm hoping that having inline examples of working code, with references to the source, strikes a happy medium here. Plus, "teach a man to fish", and all.
That said, we do live in a Git world these days. Maybe a fancier package could include the creation of a branch that implements some of the tweaks/changes/ideas.
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#50I posted all my code very pretty on my web site.
I have to kill the CIA. That's my problem. Don't worry I got God.
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