What does it take to be a visionary product leader with an entrepreneurial mindset? That is a question I spend most of my time thinking about these days when working for the company I co-founded, Lean Forward.

Not writing very much here these days. You’re better off finding me at Startup Studio or LinkedIn.

Added some new icons to a site I was building but they refused to load. I got a HTTP/403 (permission denied) error on the files. When I looked in the apache log file I saw the following. [Sat Oct 18 08:56:54 2014] [crit] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: […]/public/assets/img/icons/social/cuteicons/.htaccess pcfg_openfile: unable to check htaccess file, ensure […]

[wp_ad_camp_1] I have a directive that loads an article in HTML from a CMS via a REST API and a template file what should be compiled together with the article. element.html(templateLoaded.data); scope.document = theLoadedArticle; $compile(element.contents())(scope); This worked in most browsers except our old “friend” Internet Explorer 8. The reason is I have another directive in […]

When should you use existing CMSs as WordPress or Drupal and when should you build one yourself? Of course, building a CMS from scratch would be insane but with emerging technologies and standards such as git (for version control), Markdown (for editing), Neo4J (for metadata) and Solr or ElasticSearch for indexing the data, you can […]

Accidentally tried to add a folder to an svn repository with files that were already added to another svn repo. This caused some confusion for subversion and I got the error message: containing working copy admin area is missing This SO question saved me: The solution is to do: svn –force delete _dir_ On the […]

A very good read here from game programming legend John Carmack. In real­ity in com­puter sci­ence, just about the only thing that’s really sci­ence is when you’re talk­ing about algo­rithms. And opti­miza­tion is an engi­neer­ing. But those don’t actu­ally occupy that much of the total time spent pro­gram­ming. You know, we have a few pro­gram­mers […]

[wp_ad_camp_1] I have been doing quite a lot of work with Drupal 7 the last couple of months. It has its ups and downs but one thing that it always tries to do is to prevent you from having to write your own code to solve problems. It gets quite annoying then when simple things […]

Speaking of books, I just set up a new blog focused on books about lean startup. In case you don’t know, a lean startup is an organization in search of a scalable business model. It is heavily influenced by the agile software movement. (I even wrote a manifesto for it! 🙂 So far, I’ve only […]

There was a thread on Hacker News about influential books for programmers. I wrote a comment which I might as well rewrite for this blog because it’s an interesting subject. So… the answer to this question depends a lot on in what stage of programming maturity you are. The thing is, I remember the exact […]