Introducing 3b - A Base for Web Development

While planning for the Boston Cleanweb Hackathon I realized that for each project I started from scratch I was still spending a lot of time setting up each web application with same base components. Even though there are some great front-end boilerplate projects out there like HTML5 Boilerplate, I didn’t find any that met all of my requirements so I created 3b (Backbone-Bootstrap-Boilerplate). Hit the link for more information.

So I Guess I’m Going to Start Using Tumblr

I found Octopress to be pretty neat but not that effective. It’s hard enough keeping up with writting a blog, but having to run a Rake task every time you want to create a new post makes it even more difficult. More importantly, there’s no easy way to post from your iPhone or iPad.

I really like Tumblr’s approach to blogging: allowing you to select a post type and then customizing the user interface for inputting and displaying your post to the type you selected. They’ve also added a ton of features since the last time I check them out including the ability to compose new posts in Markdown.

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