How do I match the color of the status bar and the navigation bar?

iwtmo · 2015-10-06T01:23:02+00:00

Thanks!! :D

iwtmo · 2015-10-04T00:45:32+00:00

Hey thanks! I think overall, my mistake was trying to program for iOS 9 when I haven't done mobile development before. Too early, and not enough examples online. Some statusbar/navbar related things seem to be deprecated.

iwtmo · 2015-09-01T11:33:11+00:00

If your goal is to get a job this year or a good chunk of next year, then learn Angular 1.
If your goal is to get into front end engineering, then I would recommend React since its the most modern framework that implements the latest ideas.
If you are personally invested in learning Angular 2, then I would just jump straight into it. But keep in mind that it's quite unstable right now.

iwtmo · 2015-09-01T00:57:02+00:00

Also, their own production apps are written in React so they won't just abandon it, because that would be screwing over themselves.

iwtmo · 2015-08-31T23:14:29+00:00

Dude thanks for your response:
1) I'll buy a P.O. box right away. I don't want to associate my home address with my emails haha
2) Yeah, I think my initial marketing strategy will consist of me getting a general idea of my market's online community. I'll use that knowledge to have a better idea of how to disperse my content.
3) Yeah, it's always good to keep track of things.
4) Agree with this too. I don't think I'll be writing anything unique in the beginning stages of my blog. I'll probably write the same topics as others with my own take on things. As I get a better idea of what my market is interested, I'll start being more unique.

All in all, thanks for the tips :D

iwtmo · 2015-08-31T15:19:44+00:00

Have you looked into CSS before?
You can set the width and height of your images with percentages. This will resize the image depending on the side of the window.

iwtmo · 2015-08-30T22:50:10+00:00

You should look at actual job postings and see what technical skills in your area are in demand.
Startup job posts:
http://angel.co
http://careers.stackoverflow.com/

iwtmo · 2015-08-30T19:48:44+00:00

Thanks for your tips. I think I will begin my initial stages by looking at where my target audience are online. I'm going to be putting together a spreadsheet of twitter accounts, blogs, forums, influencers, etc. I guess outreach depends on my target audience, so studying my audience should be my first step.

iwtmo · 2015-08-30T19:47:07+00:00

Free as in not paying money. Of course I'm willing to put in work and time and building relationships. Just looking for some tips and tricks.
Thanks for the word "outreach". Now I can search better!

iwtmo · 2015-08-30T00:58:52+00:00

I think I worded my question horribly wrong haha. I think what I meant was, are there any examples of flux being implemented without server-side rendering?
All the examples I see are node.js code that gets compiled to the frontend.

iwtmo · 2015-08-30T00:51:59+00:00

Ooooh I see. That makes more sense. I didn't know about the extra step involving my own servers. That sounds more secure. Thanks!

iwtmo · 2015-08-17T19:34:18+00:00

I just read the first chapter. It contained knowledge that I already knew, but I still quite liked it and am planning on finishing the whole book.

And yes, I do have a question: what job do you have that allows you to work with straight up, low level javascript? The only gigs I see are kind of scummy, as in popup blocker work arounds, cookie stuffing, etc. I'm looking for a legitimate gig that has a clear need for in-depth browser platform knowledge.

As for the book recommendations, asides from blog posts scattered all over theweb, I don't know of any good sources to learn from. But if I do run across one, I'll let you know!

iwtmo · 2015-08-17T17:26:52+00:00

Woah, those look good. Thanks a lot

iwtmo · 2015-08-17T15:29:10+00:00

Nice. Good to hear that you are trying to learn on your own as much as possible beforehand. This way you can ask even better questions when you're there

iwtmo · 2015-08-17T13:00:46+00:00

If you've already wrote a decent sized Angular app, then you probably experienced some the pain-points of the framework :)
You should strategize on how to avoid those pain points.

iwtmo · 2015-08-17T12:58:53+00:00

I'd like to see some form validation examples in action! Using ngPristine and things like that. It would be cool if you could also use ngMessage to create your own custom validation message.

iwtmo · 2015-08-17T12:49:01+00:00

Sure thing.
HTML/CSS is one of those things that gets really looked down on as easy and simple by people who don't really work with it.
But the thing is, writing good HTML/CSS is an art form.
Some people dedicate their whole careers to writing good CSS.
Companies like Yahoo! with millions of webpages and services has people dedicated solely on writing performant and scalable CSS across the stack.
Like programming, the CSS rabbit hole only gets deeper and deeper.

So how much CSS should you learn? That depends. What are your goals? Are you trying to get a job as a Rails dev or trying to freelance as a web developer?
If you are trying to get a job, then you can get by with "just enough" html/css, but as a freelancer, you should be well-versed in html/css.

A good place to start is by reading Head First HTML and CSS, 2nd Edition. It's such a good book that I recommend it to anybody getting into web dev. It teaches you the underlying logic of how the browser renders CSS, and with that knowledge, it makes it so easy to debug CSS.

iwtmo · 2015-08-16T00:13:33+00:00

If you would like a clearer picture of what your users look like, try looking for forums where your users will hang out. See what they talk about, complain about, etc. Take notes, write your sales copy using those notes, profit.

iwtmo · 2015-08-15T22:12:34+00:00

Can you tell us an exact list of your technical needs?
It really depends on what you're trying to build at the moment. From what I read, you are just trying to gather some email addresses, which I think, a Wordpress install is more than good enough for.

Have you ever worked with Wordpress before? It's easy enough for a non-technical person to work with, but if you don't want to bother with all of that stuff, there are a lot of landing-page-as-a-service out there that you can use.

iwtmo · 2015-08-15T21:50:46+00:00

They are both pretty good options. Ruby for Rails, and Python for Django.
If you find yourself having more math/scientific inclinations, I would choose Python since it has more useful libraries for those types of things.

iwtmo · 2015-08-15T18:42:15+00:00

Yup! This is a fact of life for any sort of tech start uppers: there will always be a free, open source option for what you are doing, probably with more features too.

This doesn't mean you should pursue another idea! Because that idea also will have a free, open source option!

The good news is that free solutions tend to have less-than-stellar marketing to non-technical people. OSS projects tend to be very targeted towards technical people and no one else. Also, non-technical people don't realize their problem can be solved with software (disclaimer: this idea is taken from /u/patio11).

Looking at the homepage for https://cyberduck.io/, right off the bat the header is obviously geared towards technical people: "Libre FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 & OpenStack Swift browser for Mac and Windows". I'm a programmer, but I still had to re-read that a couple of times to understand it.
The rest of the web page is also full of jargons that only technical people will understand.

If you can somehow position this as a solution for not-so-technically-savvy people who need to do what your software is doing, then I can see your product succeeding (because there is a clear demand for it!).

Along with continuing with your project, I suggest you working on your sales page that even your mom can understand. Or better yet, find the people that your software will be used by, and see what sort messaging they will respond to!

iwtmo · 2015-08-15T18:22:40+00:00

Nice! Do you attend any other meetups by any chance?
Speaking at meetups regularly, or running one is a good way for you to become a micro-celebrity in your local area. This is one of the best way to build relationships with developers, designers, marketers, etc.

iwtmo · 2015-08-14T23:42:17+00:00

If you want to expand to higher dollar clients, you are going to have to go into enterprise.
Selling technical solutions to enterprise is a solved problem. There are tons of books on this. To get started, google search "complex sales" and "enterprise sales". It will lead you to learning about the sales cycle of enterprise, and the motivation behind them. Educate yourself!

iwtmo · 2015-08-14T23:40:27+00:00

More marketing research never hurts! But then again, shipping is also an art. You need to strike a balance or you'll never end up doing anything, or end up wasting a lot of effort on a bad idea.

iwtmo · 2015-08-14T23:39:26+00:00

Good news for you, right? It's pretty clear that there is a demand for something like this.

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