Strike: A super-simple to-do list, living in your browser

Sometimes you don’t need a gigantic application to help you get through a list of projects. In fact, sometimes you just need something really simple.Strikeis supremely simple, it looks great and it works. What more could you want? There are a few choices for how you can move around the elements in your list, and removing an element is as simple as dragging it off to the side. Other than that, there’s not a lot to know....

2 min · 332 words · Valerie Pearson

Stripe helps developers get paid with new payment processing platform

Payment systems are one of the more complex, if not the most complex roadblocks in developing services that incorporate any type of e-commerce or payment. Obviously, developers want to get paid, and simple options for this have only been PayPal or Google Checkout. Stripewants to make it easier for developers to get paid for their hard work. The company says processing transactions should be handled in code and not in finance....

3 min · 447 words · Angela Murray

Strohl Medical: Helping 800,000 people per year survive strokes

Strohl MedicalCEO Heather Keith might look, for a moment, to be out of place on the stage at aTechStars Demo Day. She’s not the typical early-20’s, pizza-fueled caffeine addict that you’ll normally see giving a pitch on a stage. But it’s because of that fact that she’s uniquely qualified to tell the story that she has. Keith has an easy grace on the BostonTechStarsstage, but she has some very important facts to tell....

4 min · 805 words · Alan James

Structurer sets up new project templates in a click

If you’ve ever gotten started with a new project and wished that setting up the folder structure and starter files was easier, you’re in luck. Mac appStructurer, fromNettuts+, does just that. Structure handles everything from an on-the-fly directory structure with empty files to a starter kit complete with default HTML and CSS that you’ve created. You can even give Structurer the URL for something likeWordPressorHTML5 Boilerplateand it’ll grab the latest version, unarchive it and put the contents into the folder of your choice....

2 min · 251 words · Larry Flowers

Struggling to elevate your programming? Try mastering these two mindsets

When a developer approaches a problem, they usually have a clear objective. Fix this bug, create that component, refactor this implementation. We’re very goal oriented by nature. We have an objective that we need to get to, and we have to try all the techniques we’ve learned in order to hit that mark. But something that I feel is less discussed is the mindset of a developer: thewaywe think, rather thanwhatwe think, in order to solve a coding problem....

11 min · 2157 words · Stephanie Gibson
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