On the Web, the only reliable data is yours. Rather than echo the latest discovery — the madlibs signup form — Patrick tested how well it performs on his site:
By my count that is a 22% decrease in conversion rates for using the madlibs signup style over the standard signups style, and the fact of the decrease (but not the magnitude) is significant at the 95% confidence level.
(Hint: if you find yourself quoting Patrick’s results as conclusive that madlibs is counter-effective, you’ve still got a lesson to learn)
Easy mark. If you want a lot of app built fast, check out Hobo. Essentially a framework on top of Rails that does much of the redundia for you.
How to forget. On the common mistake of finalizing with a closure reference.
A sizable reference. Notes from a production MongoDB deployment. I like most of what I’ve seen, but the “when things go south, they fall off the map” approach to recovery still scares me away from giving MongoDB a try.
Want! Hackintosh Intel Core i7 920 4.41 GHz scores 14618 on geekbench.(via @russhans)
Life before Google, from the wonderful Shoebox blog.