What have I learned from Startup Weekend

24
2011.10

Don’t get it wrong, it’s not a hack day

Startup Weekend Logo

Why and how it works

I met James Hill on a RGBA meet up in mid of this year and he invited Felix, ihower and me to join Startup Weekend Taipei in Aug.

So what is Startup Weekend? It is a 2 days event for entrepreneurs to share new ideas and to turn them into products within 54 hours.

The fellowing is how it goes:
  • Pitch your idea.
  • Vote for the top 10 ideas(we had 14 at the end).
  • Join or recruit others to your team.
  • Discuss features, business models and start building the product.
  • Demo & present.

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How to setup a node.js development environment on Ubuntu 11.04

18
2011.10

Install the latest node.js via apt-get

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There are several ways to setup a node.js development environment on Ubuntu, you can either choose to download and compile it form source or using apt-get to do the works for you. Because node.js is still a pretty young project, it updates frequently. I suggest installing node.js via apt-get. You will find it is much easier not only to install but also update it. If you are on a Mac you can check out this post for the instruction.

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How to setup a node.js development environment on Mac OSX Lion

16
2011.10

Install node.js via Homebrew

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There are several ways to setup a node.js development environment on Mac, you can either choose to download and compile it form source or using a package management system to do the works for you. Because node.js is still a pretty young project, it updates frequently. I suggest install node.js via Homebrew. You will find it is much easier not only to install but also update it. If you use Ubuntu you can check out this post for the instruction.

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Triple boot your MacBook Pro :)

12
2011.06
Start!

This is a step by step guide to installing Mac OSX10.6, Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows XP.

Hardware

  • MacBook Pro 5,5

OS

  • Mac OSX 10.6
  • Ubuntu 10.04
  • Windows XP

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A Trip to the states!!!

24
2011.05
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I was pretty excited for my virgin trip to the States in May. Originally, I went there for attending my younger brother’s graduation, since I’m running a web startup, I decided to take a little adventure to San Jose just being exposed by the web startup atmosphere and hopefully I will be able to find out what the magic is of San Jose. I really appreciate Ricky the CEO of crowdbooster, let us crash at his place. Being the CEO of crowdbooster which is a Y Combinator startup, Ricky is really familiar with everything that is going on right now, and thanks for him we are lucky enough to meet all the other young genius out there!

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The truth about SEO

21
2011.04

The truth about SEO is that you don’t need SEO “YET”

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Back in 2 years ago when I just start this company , I was really interested in SEO. Therefore I made this site to try out all the SEO skills including building back links, friendly url, using no follow links, heading tag for important content, prevent using table layout ….. etc. I can tell you there is only one rule that never changes. That is`BACK LINKS`. It’s like when you modify a car, you change the tire, the air filter, and the minifold. You would still not feel the difference. But if you put on a turbo, I bet you can feel your car flying!!! Back links are just like the turbo for SEO if you use it in the right way.

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A breif intro to this lab, the founder and the current project

12
2011.04

This Lab

Intro to Photo Final

DreamersLab was founded in Feb 2009, our goal is to bring desktop user experience to the web.


MacFlickr

MacFlickr is our current project which has already had a running prototype. “It is a browser base Mac desktop for flickr” if you want me to describe it in a one-liner.

You can take a look at some screenshots here

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Javascript Ninja Wanted!!!

10
2011.04

We are looking for Javascript Ninjas who

Ninja Romance

have

  • worked on at least one heavy frontend web application
  • good understanding on these two post – JavaScript Garden, Being a web developer
  • skills in all tiers of the web frontend development
    • html5, CSS3
    • Javascript, jQuery
  • rewritten code to help yourself sleep better at night
  • used git as your source control system

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Rails Hacker Wanted!!!

09
2011.04

We are looking for Rails hackers who

Computer Hacker

have

  • worked on at least one high-performance web site with Ruby and Rails
  • skills in all tiers of the web application stack
    • ruby, rails
    • SQL
    • html, css
    • haml, sass, compass
    • javascript
  • rewritten code to help yourself sleep better at night
  • used git as your source control system

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Javascript session

08
2011.04

Store your session data in window.name

For a long time I thought there is no such a thing call `session` in javascript, all variables and function will be clear after the page is reloaded. Not until I found this tiny javascript session library wrote by Craig Buckler.

Let’s take a look at the source code
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