Rick Mason

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• Working Code Podcast - Episode 187: Viability Of The Minimum Viable Product

  Posted on Jul 19, 2024 at 9:47 AM

  Adam and Ben, As a long time solo entrepreneur the advice I'd give is don't be afraid to get help on what you're not good at. In my case its getting AWS servers set up. Ben, one good hang out for one or two man teams on Slack is the MicroConf folks. Around double the daily traffic of the... read more »

• Strangler: Building A Feature Flag System In ColdFusion

  Posted on Aug 14, 2022 at 9:38 AM

  Ben the link to demo.png is broken: https://www.bennadel.com/resources/uploads/2022/strangler-feature-flag-coldfusion-demo.png... read more »

• Every Customer-Facing Call Should Have An Engineer On It

  Posted on Mar 10, 2021 at 1:26 PM

  I have worked at company's where the developers work one day a month answering support calls. Some developers dislike it because they're introverts, but for most it ends up being transformative. I've also worked for companies where developers will argue with those that do have customer cont... read more »

• 90% Of Design Is Picking Good Margins And Making Sure Things Line Up

  Posted on Apr 26, 2018 at 2:23 PM

  Ben, Surprised you didn't mention the golden ratio. I will never be mistaken for a designer, but once I learned this simple rule my work improved measurably. Use lots of white space and add in the right custom font and you'll look better than most developers trying to build a website. Still no s... read more »