If there was one universal criticism of tech writing, it’s: Your intro sucks.

Here’s an example I just put to paper, for the Year of Hustle course (now sold out!):

On HackerNews, sub-Reddits and a million startup blogs, you’ll find people talking about “monetization.” This godawful malformation of a word means “to find a way to squeeze out money where there is none.” This is not the dictionary definition (which means to ‘express in money’), but that’s essentially what the current usage means.

Alex Sexton wrote a wonderful article about how to use inheritance pattern to manage large piece of code. His code also has a pratical need for prototypal inheritance for writing modular code.
creating standard jQuery plugin
Given below is code that does exactly what Alex’s code does.

What a conference! The talks where really awesome so far. Not exactly sure what I will attend today. I might attend “Optimize it! ActionScript Tips for iPhone Games” followed by “Adobe is from Mars, Microsoft is from Uranus: A View from the Client”. Then I will have to split early to catch a flight to Salt Lake City for the MountainWest RubyConf 2010.