This is Part 3 of Breaking Bad Series on my attempt to build a web app.
See Part 1: A Small Intro
See Part 2: The Parallax Universe
Breaking B.A.D: Break the steps. Build And Deploy.

Part 3: Creating a prelaunch sign-up site

Toolbox: - Heroku - HTML5/CSS3 - Twitter Bootstrap - Ruby on Rails

Concepts: - Ruby on Rails - Deploying to Heroku - Git workflow -

Reuse, Recycle: From the previous post Part 2: The Parallax Universe I used a smaller bit of the parallax and jQuery Easing Plugin scripts.

This is how I feel when the site is finally deployed

The Prelaunch Signup Site: Seems like a prelaunch signup site is a prerequisite for most startups. Get people excited about your product, have them on your mailing list, & boom – you’ve got an audience on launch day. So taking a page from the rulebook, I created my own mock prelaunch site: erinl.ee in beta. I’m the product – currently being worked on while learning at the Flatiron School and ready to launch after I graduate. Get it?

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Apr 21st, 2014

Sublime, Tutorial

Sublime Shortcuts

This was written for the beginner who, in anticipation of the hours upon hours upon hours of coding to come, want to make nice with Sublime Text 2. Shave some time off your precious coding hours.
If you haven’t already, download Sublime Text 2 here.

Keyboard shortcuts:
1. Multiple Cursors : command + (click each selection)
2. Select Current Word : command + D
3. Select All Instances : command + control + G
4. Find Files : command + F
5. Multiple Windows : option + command + 1 or 2 or however number of panels
* BONUS : A few more useful shortcuts after the jump.

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