Congrats to Rob! I'm the founder of PeepCode (also acquired by Pluralsight a few months ago). I feel like I've been traded up to an all-star team who is about to win the Super Bowl. Pluralsight is a great company and there's lots of great stuff about to be launched over the next few months.
I'm the open source curriculum coordinator at Pluralsight. We would love to commission a video to help devops people learn and use Ansible. Email [email protected] if you're interested.
This is great timing. We just recorded a two hour Intro to Elixir with its creator Jose Valim. We'll be publishing it in June at https://peepcode.com
I think it will be a good companion to the books from Pragmatic Programmers and O'Reilly. Jose works through a real-world project. You can see how he writes code with Elixir, uses metaprogramming, converts code to run concurrently, etc.
I was impressed with the syntactical consistency that makes more sense than Ruby, such as putting "do" after "def". You can write native-looking structures in Elixir that wouldn't be possible in Ruby (such as an if-then).
Throwing away code should be a regular part of your workflow. The best programmers I know do it often.
Programming isn't just about generating more lines of code. It's about understanding the problem you're working on. Sometimes writing code is a good way to understand the problem.
Shameless plug It's validating that we mentioned over half of these points in an interview with startup founder Eric Lindvall on his Papertrailapp.com log management app: https://peepcode.com/products/up-lindvall
I've found the same thing. Solid colors of a screen capture can easily compress to under 200 MB for 60 minutes of video, but live action (even with only small movements) can double or triple that in size.
It's often hard to convince people to pay for something that was previously free. So you have fewer options if you start out without a business plan.
Additionally, a revenue scheme isn't just something that you tack on later. Your options are narrowed further if your technology plan is implemented before you think about sustaining it.
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