Mark Wong’s bits of the interweb

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• Read This Before Naming Your Startup

  Why Bad Names Hurt You, Coming Up With Names, and Examples of Strong and Weak Names.

  25 April 2012 - 23:43

  Tagged: tips, business, domains, naming, branding, startup

• You're Bored? That's So AWESOME. - Fevered Mutterings

  List of stuff to do if you're bored

  22 April 2012 - 20:37

  Tagged: rants, boredom, interesting, lists

• How we use Trello & Google Docs to make UserVoice better every day | FoundersVoice

  "For everyone to give a project their best they really need to be sold on why they’re doing it. This means trying to bring the customer pain point (or business pain) to the engineer that has to fix it." Good write up of agile process by people at UserVoice. Also good example of tickets/stories before dev happens

  17 April 2012 - 23:47

  Tagged: process, project-management, googledocs, trello, agile

• What Is This Devops Thing, Anyway?

  13 April 2012 - 23:02

  Tagged: programming, software, development, agile, sysadmin, devops

• Adding alt and title attributes from fields to image markup | drupal.org

  Drupal Media module

  12 April 2012 - 15:19

  Tagged: module, media, drupal

• Fill in the available fields when creating media in the WYSIWYG | drupal.org

  Drupal Media Module - add fields when uploading a file

  12 April 2012 - 15:16

  Tagged: module, discussion, media, drupal

• Four Principles of Low-Risk Software Releases | Principle 1: Low-Risk Releases Are Incremental | InformIT

  "doing it right" can be reduced to four principles: Low-risk releases are incremental. Decouple deployment and release. Focus on reducing batch size. Optimize for resilience. from galvogalvo

  11 April 2012 - 21:26

  Tagged: process, CI, release, delivery, devops, continuousdelivery, deployment

• Just how big are porn sites? | ExtremeTech

  "When you load the ExtremeTech home page, you’re talking about a couple of megabytes, and then maybe 500 kilobytes if you load an article. When you stream porn, assuming a low resolution of 480×200, you’re looking at around 100 kilobytes per second — which, over 15 minutes, is around 90 megabytes."

  4 April 2012 - 22:20

  Tagged: infrastructure, bandwidth, porn

• Calculate the number of working days and holidays between 2 dates.

  31 March 2012 - 23:48

  Tagged: holiday, days, workingdays, calculator, working

• OmniTI ~ Your Code May Be Elegant

  As software developers, we often think our job is to develop software, but, really, that is just the means to an end, and the end is to empower business to reach their goals. Your code may be elegant, but if it doesn’t meet the objectives (be they time or business) it doesn’t f***ing work.

  13 March 2012 - 00:18

  Tagged: projectmanagement, working-code, best-practice, code

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I am a web developer in London and this is a collection of my bits on the interweb.

Most things are alright and I like the word wibble.

Email me at mark[at]wonkenstein.com if you want to get in touch.

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