Reblogged from PandoDaily:

WordPress is one of the most-used blogging software systems in the world. That’s a remarkable achievement in itself, but the loyal cult following Mullenweg and WordPress have cultivated (get it? cult-ivated?), is equally as impressive. It is, after all a CMS system. Important and necessary, yes, but worthy of a rock star status?

In Mullenweg’s case, the answer is yes. (It helps, perhaps, that he moved to San Francisco with a quest to be the #1 Google search result for “Matt.” He’s 

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HackerEngine uses

• Stripe for payments
• Twitter’s Bootstrap CSS for layout design
• KISSmetrics for click analytics
• FetchApp for delivering digital goods

HackerEngine may be customized for various e-commerce purposes, not just the selling of digital goods. For example, it may be customized for selling physical goods or services.

One of the best features of HackerEngine is that, once purchased, future updates may be downloaded in real time through its Github repository. Hence new functionality may be fetched and used immediately. Futhermore, the app is covered by a thorough test suite.

I love the idea of having the basic feature set ready to use, and then customizing it for your needs.

HackerEngine was created by Ben Orenstein and Chad Mazzola.

Reference: http://hackerengine.com/

The author compares our quest to find what is enough for us to a tight rope artist who has to find the right balance, based on both her/his center of gravity and the conditions of the surrounding environment, to be able to walk the rope. We must regularly question everything we do and use to assess what is enough for us.

Time and attention are the most important resources we have. Enough is when we allot these resources, with care, to the activities we value most.

The tools we use should match our initial intentions to use them. We must treat our environments (home, office, entertainment, etc) as sacred, leaving out of them what is irrelevant, and thus allowing these environments to help us focus on the current purpose.

Saying “No” to something is actually saying “Yes” to something else. It is ok to miss out on things that seem urgent but are usually not important, such as social media and breaking news.

We should embrace limitations.

“Creating limits often helps foster creative solutions to seemingly difficult problems.”

The author also ponders on the cost of things: the cost of adding features in a software application, the effort it takes for a cup of coffee to be prepared. Nothing is free, everything has a cost (such as the hidden intentions of social media sites).

The book describes methods to identify what is enough, some of which are:

• switching the time we allot to activities, for a period of time, in order to learn to re-value and re-prioritize activities
• finding time for solitude
• managing emails (use it at specific time periods, unsubscribe from irrelevant news letters, treat it as sacred)
• the 3 chairs exercise: communication in solitude (oneself), friendship (one-to-one), and society (many-to-many)

Enough is a personal metric. This book is a cry for questioning our lifestyle, in search of the right balance we must hit in order to live life to the full.

“Enough is the realization and recognition of the truth of our existence.”

I highly recommend this book. The perspectives given by the author will make you question your activities and act to improve your life. It is a short book, a collection of short essays which are easy to read. A few interludes between some of the essays make the book even richer.

You can get your copy of Enough from this link: http://www.enoughbook.com/

About the author

Patrick Rhone is a technologist, author, and blogger at minimalmac.com

Why The Lucky Stiff, aka _why, was a programmer active in the Ruby community. He is known for authoring the book “Why’s (poignant) Guide to Ruby”. _why committed an “infosuicide” in late 2009, but is still remembered in the Ruby world for his particular character and the wisdom he tried to share.

Font Awesome is compatible with the Bootstrap CSS framework (a set of CSS and JavaScript features created by Twitter employees).  

I like, in particular, the wide set of base icons that this library provides http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/#base-icons

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:

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I’m excited to introduce a brand new free video theme brought to you by the team here at Automattic.

Despite its minimalist design, Sundance was crafted with clean, elegant typography and close attention to detail.

The home page offers a featured video carousel where you can highlight a maximum of ten posts that are assigned to the video post format.

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Reblogged from BlackBerry Developer Blog:

Starting your day as a producer means that your information consumption has meaning: the rest of the day means consuming information that is relevant to what it is that you’re producing. Waking up as a producer frames the rest of your habits. You’re not mindlessly grazing on everyone’s facebook’s statuses. You’re out getting what it is you need to get in order to produce. Waking up as a producer is procrastination insurance.

From informationdiet.com

Wilson Miner – When We Build

I encounter this difficulty in cases where I vaguely remember the tweet,
perhaps just a phrase of it, but forget the link that was shared to a
particular blog post or video that caught my attention.

Fortunately, Twitter provides an API. By browsing through the
documentation,
I found this URL to be very useful in such cases:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=TWITTER_USERNAME_HERE&include_entities=true&count=200&include_rts=true

(This displays the last 200 tweets published by the user
with screen_name TWITTER_USERNAME_HERE.)

A Ctrl+F in the browser helps to find the complete tweet (and its metadata)
by searching for the phrase or words that I had remembered.>