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All Things Open

Mike McNeil
October 23, 2014

All Things Open

from rags to open-source

All Things Open
Raleigh, NC
October 2014

(http://allthingsopen.org/speakers/mike-mcneil/)
Video: http://youtu.be/MSkM4uqFsMI?t=13m43s

Mike McNeil

October 23, 2014
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  1. You don't want to be writing all these system calls.

    You need something that gives you… an ORM abstraction, or something.
  2. asset pipeline???? “what about gulp?!” “so thirsty…” asset pipeline????????!!!! asset

    pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!!
  3. only write code you actually need if someone else actually

    needs something, they’ll write a pull request only merge new code if someone actually needs you to merge it (i.e. there’s no other way, via a plugin or something)
  4. • Github stars • NPM downloads / day • Google

    group membership • IRC channel activity • Number of tagged StackOverflow questions
 (and your answer ratio)