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In this Special Firefox OS Treehouse Quick Tip, we discuss building web apps.

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A Spring Break Alternative Service Trip Available!

Break A Difference has been creating Alternative Break programs for nearly 10 years, engaging hundreds of student volunteers annually during their school breaks. B·A·D Alternative Break programs provide week long immersive service experiences for young adults nationwide. In addition to fun-filled social & team-building activities outside of dedicated service hours, we include a visit to nearby tourist landmarks.

B·A·D Alternative Breaks include housing, on-the-ground transportation, all meals, organized service projects, social activities and rich programming that encourages volunteers to examine the larger context of the social or environmental issues they are addressing. 

Note: We strictly enforce a NO alcohol and drug policy.

This upcoming March, we are engaging up to 70 volunteers each week on the East & West Coast:

Newark, NJ : March 3-9th  +  March 10-16th  +  March 17-23rd  +   March 24-30th(more info here)

Focusing on Sandy-relief & school programs for low-income families


SF Bay Area, CA : March 10-16th  +  March 17-23rd  +  March 24-30th(more info here)

Focusing on school programs for low-income families

It is the students responsibilty to arrange transportation to the destination but once there your trip fee covers the experience!  All volunteers fundraise and/or pay a $350 participation fee that is 100% tax-deductible. Each volunteer is given the tools to create a personal fundraising page through FirstGiving, allowing them ask their friends and family members to help offset their out-of-pocket costs (including travel costs) through tax-deductible online donations. This participation fee helps us provide valuable programming and support at no cost to our nonprofit partners.

Volunteers will spend their Break enhancing after-school programming for the kids and staff of child development agencies in Newark and the SF Bay area; playing tag, laughing, reading stories, giving high-fives, making secret handshakes, doing science experiments, bonding with people they've never met, doing arts & crafts projects, sharing smiles, sleeping on cots, tying shoes, exploring new places, teaching, making new friends, making 100 new friends and making a difference.

If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at 443.600.2829 or email me at bpham@breakadifference.org .
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A quick reader’s guide: Version Control by Example, by Eric Sink

Version control is tricky business, especially if you’re trying to support between your different options out there. *Version Control by Example* is a fast introduction to the concept of version control, as well as some of the more popular tools. While Sink included plenty of code in the book, there are also plenty of diagrams that will help you get the mechanics of version control down cold.

*Version Control by Example* is an introductory-level book, however: it’s enough to get you started, but once you start getting into choosing an actual version control tool for your work and developing your own workflow, you’re going to need additional reading material — preferably system-specific. There may be a little bias in favor of Veracity within the book (SourceGear, which was founded by Sink, developed Veracity), but it’s still a good resource to get started with.

Development: Cripple the prototype
A prototype is based on a lot of best-case assumptions, put together in a pretty way to help a company get started. But it’s worth looking for more problems, even to the point where you may cripple your prototype. By introducing some of the flaws that you know you’ll have to deal with in the real world, you’ll be able to move through the prototyping process better, with a more useful end result.

Funding: Engineering team for sale
A failed startup’s engineering team is offering themselves up as a unit for acquisition. Nineteen people are on the team, including a director of operations, and they’re promoting themselves as a valuable acquisition because they’re already used to working in a unit. It’s an interesting approach to dealing with the failure of a startup, for sure.

Operations: GitStreams
If you use GitHub, you may have faced the same problem as Justin Abrahms: the focus on telling you what updates have been made to important repositories only tells you what’s happened recently — not what’s actually useful. Rather than sticking with the existing activity feeds, Abrahms created GitStreams to offer a clearer way to get the information he needs.

Marketing: Behind the scenes: 5 steps to a brand overhaul
Changing the name and brand of a website is tough, particularly if you’ve invested enough resources in it to build up a following in the first place. Sometimes, though, you just have to do it. Andy Hayes found himself in that position recently and has written up his experiences on his personal blog.

Beyond Tech: Startup visa could create at least 1.6 million U.S. jobs in next 10 years
The Kauffman Foundation issued a report the week that startup visas could bring an impressive number of new companies to the U.S, in addition to having the potential to create more than million jobs.

Our most popular link this week: How many programming languages do you really need to know?

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