I find it funny that the article repeats several times the amount of data that square. Do you know who has more data? The bank where the business has its account ;)
That being said, the current process from banks seems old and not really clever to me
Great! IMHO the main problem with CodeAcademy was not teaching how to build things. I have several non-tech friends who have done 30 exercises about loops but have no idea when to use a loop.
I think this is the right direction. Give a more complete view and do it step by step so the person learning can be rewarded and keep the motivation.
Different API keys in there instead of my app, alerts when the API is down, headers, etc. I think it's kind of nice that I don't have to code them or that I just have configure my app to use 3 different API tools end-points for dev, qa, prod. But I really think that the best usage for them is monitoring
Is great to see a lot of companies releasing APIs but if even better as a developer start a project and being able to easily use external services and even integrate your app with bigger services. Imagine creating an e-commerce an integrating your catalog with stuff from macys, amazon, etc.
Never tried Rescue Time but sounds interesting. Masterbranch is gamifying the experience of working on a software project, focusing the metrics on your software rather than where you spend your time (of course this helps with your productivity too)
We don't feel confortable ranking projects and people based on info from not registered people, just our choice.
One of the things that really differentiates our ranking from Ohloh's is the way we calculate the DevScore. The DevScore it's not a popularity rank and it's not based on the amount of lines. The DevScore tries to measure the impact of your contributions (measure the amount of code, the reputation of the project and the reputation of the people that you work with) and of course we are continuously improving it and open to heard feedback.
It's not because Github is our main source but because we have more people from Github registered (we have connectors to support git, svn, cvs and hg open source projects from any forge).
Would be great to see people from other communities and/or languages (i.e jquery ranks 13 but John Resig is not even registered)
Right now we use the webhooks on Github and Bitbucket. Webhooks send to Masterbranch information about the commit, the message, the files and the date of the commit but never the code, in that way we protect the privacy of the code. This allows us to have a taste about what you are working on.
Due to the feedback right now we plan to release tools to upload full commit history and also hooks for the SCMs without having to host the private code on Github on Bitbucket. (already working on the git hook https://github.com/masterbranch/Jolly-Roger)
That's is the idea behind Masterbranch (https://masterbranch.com). Masterbranch creates profiles based not only in information from GitHub but also other forges like BitBucket, GoogleCode, Sourceforge and almost any independent reachable repository out there (we support Hg, Git, SVN, and CVS).
Because not everyone has FOSS info we also have hooks to have information about private code without sharing the actual code so you don't have to worry about broken the IP, NDA, etc. And other stuff like StackOverflow reputation, etc. You can even give "free beers" to other developers as a thanks/kudos/good work
So, the main idea is an identity (not just a resume) for the developers merging all their identities in one place and give them a tool (not only to find a new job) to stay connected to their peers, know what's hot on technology, discover interesting projects, etc.