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Loading... Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web… (2006)by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
  
None No current Talk conversations about this book.  royragsdale | Sep 22, 2021 |  Where: Kuala Lumpur (  ) KostaFinn | Oct 23, 2020 | Solid take on how to give incubate and give birth to a web application (or really any product). (  ) jtth | May 4, 2020 | Read this right before developing Trigami. Very valuable principles on how to develop a web app, helped us a lot. Love the 37signals guys. ( ) remouherek | Feb 24, 2020 | This was a great book, and anyone thinking about building a webapp should read it. Essentially boils down to Nike's moto: Just Do It. ( ) simonspacecadet | Jul 29, 2018 | no reviews | add a review
Getting Real details the business, design, programming, and marketing principles of 37signals. The book is packed with keep-it-simple insights, contrarian points of view, and unconventional approaches to software design. This is not a technical book or a design tutorial, it's a book of ideas.Anyone working on a web app — including entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, executives, or marketers — will find value and inspiration in this book.37signals used the Getting Real process to launch five successful web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework, in just two years with no outside funding, no debt, and only 7 people (distributed across 7 time zones). Over 500,000 people around the world use these applications to get things done.Now you can find out how they did it and how you can do it too. It's not as hard as you think if you Get Real. No library descriptions found. |
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expresses in a clear concise manner a ton of topics that have been half formed and bouncing around in my head for a while (even saying that feels arrogant because this book is brilliant in its simplicity and clarity of vision, more than likely it is just so good and makes so much sense that it makes you think you've had the ideas all along)
just plain elegant. captures the idea of "actually doing stuff"
take a stand. its not going to be perfect now. leave stuff out on purpose.
Do less...BUT actually DO something...don't talk about it...don't write about it...Do it.
"good ideas with out implementation are worthless"
"enthusiasm is everything" -Pele, not from the book (just my favorite quote) but captured in the book's statement of the importance of passion
small groups, constant iteration, attention to detail...
fantastic, quick, can't put down read. The one book I've made the time to read in an incredibly busy last 2 months here in Afghanistan
specifically about web development, but truly is a vision that can be applied to life and everything. Found it practically inspirational.
Not easy though.
This is a spirit that I felt was lacking in every course I never liked, and unfortunately is counter to much of what we were forced to sit through.
Really unfortunately I feel that this is the exact opposite of how the Army, particularly staff, works. but thats enough on that.
Oh and i forgot one of the best parts. I read it all for free online.
http://gettingreal.37signals.com/toc.php
...enjoy
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