Software development is a bit like religion. People tend pick a side, and there they stay; sometimes for life. Each sect has certain accepted beliefs, and to consider ideas outside these is heresy. Because of this, it’s extremely tough to get a lot of developers in agreement about something. And when […]

I’d been a vim user for about a year when I started learning lisp. In the free lisp IDE world, there’s pretty much only one player, and that’s emacs (with SLIME). Writing lisp in vim can certainly be done, but it doesn’t compare to the integration available in emacs. Lisping in vim […]

Summary: you must relentlessly streamline the process by which a user joins your site and avoid even this process as long as possible.
In marketing lingo, it’s called your ‘conversion rate.’ This is the percentage of users who you successfully convince to take some action. On the web, this usually means getting someone to

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