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by bobfunk 12y ago
The source for Bloodhound really is clean and simple. I might actually just use the Types.hs file as a my goto reference for the ElasticSearch query format next time I need to write some of those!
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by bobfunk 12y ago
BitBalloon founder here, cool site! You can change the URL to something nicer from the UI - just click "Edit Name" and pick something like ulaxi.bitballoon.com :)
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Ara T Howard on Static Sites, Dynamic Content and Creativity(bitballoon.com)
2 points by bobfunk 13y ago|0 comments
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Thanks for considering Webpop! I'm the founder. We've been around for more than 3 years now, have clients with hundreds of published sites and we're profitable, so we're not going anywhere. That said, the lock-in is a pr
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Also posted about it in the other thread, but in case you missed it. At https://www.bitballoon.com we do a slightly different take on it since we integrate form handling with hosting and CDN configuration for your static site.
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by bobfunk 13y ago
People are looking to static sites more and more for a couple of reasons: 1. speed - you can't beat an optimized static sites hosted on a CDN. In part I suppose the increased focus on speed i driven by mobile traffic. 2. Github - front
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Another option is to host your static site on BitBalloon ( https://www.bitballoon.com ) - we make the forms on the site work without any backend programming. This doesn't leave your email in the HTML and we also do spam filte
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Peoples definition of negligible probably varies. Half a second is definitively enough that plenty of large scale tests have shown differences in conversion rate. That difference gets much bigger for people with more than 1 page view due to
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by bobfunk 13y ago
You can also just deploy your static site to BitBalloon, then any contact form will start working and accepting form submissions. (Disclaimer, I'm the founder). Link: https://www.bitballoon.com
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Did a quick comparison with my own service, BitBalloon. On appengine you're just deploying a dynamic app that just routes everything to a static folder, but since Google doesn't know this is a static site, it's pretty limited
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Continuous Deployment for Middleman sites with Codeship and BitBalloon(bitballoon.com)
1 points by bobfunk 13y ago|0 comments
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by bobfunk 13y ago
I built BitBalloon ( https://www.bitballoon.com ) to simplify all of this, while bringing benefits such as atomic deploys, built-in form processing, automatic gzipping, bundling and minification of your assets and perfect cache he
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by bobfunk 13y ago
There is actually a way to do streaming over HTTP without doing WebSockets. It's called "Server Sent Events" and is implemented in the EventSource API in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. It's quite easy to fall back to long p
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Check out my startup BitBalloon ( https://www.bitballoon.com ) - as simple (or simpler) as GH pages, but with all the right caching headers set out of the box and built-in gzipping and image compression.
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Wrote a blogpost on how to setup just that with GitHub and TravisCI for Jekyll. https://www.bitballoon.com/blog/2013/12/13/continous-deploym... The same technique would work for any static site generator
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by bobfunk 13y ago
I think there's a big future for static site generators (that's why I'm building BitBalloon https://www.BitBalloon.com ), but the big hurdle for using them for projects for clients is the lack of browser based admi
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Continuous Deployment for Jekyll sites with TravisCI and BitBalloon(bitballoon.com)
1 points by bobfunk 13y ago|0 comments
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Got an email asking how Amazon S3 compares to my startup(bitballoon.com)
1 points by bobfunk 13y ago|0 comments
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Awesome! Can't help but add a few of the most hilarious it gave me: How I Became a Billion Dollar Company Dropbox Bug Can Permanently Lose Your Family MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing REST API Clients Get-shit-done - Easy way to
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Ecstatic: static sites & fixies(bitballoon.com)
6 points by bobfunk 13y ago|0 comments
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Just added BitBalloon ( https://webmenu.org/apps/bitballoon ), some comments on the process: Really would be nice if I didn't have to manually crop & resize the screenshots before uploading. Just resizing and cr
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Continuous Deployment with BitBalloon and Travis CI(bitballoon.com)
4 points by bobfunk 13y ago|1 comments
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by bobfunk 13y ago
You don't just get a static site though. We handle all the whole build process: minifying, bundling, image optimization, giving each asset a unique content based URL and pushing them all to Akamai. BitBalloon also makes forms work with
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Thanks! So far updates are done by just dragging the whole folder unto the site dashboard again. We'll figure out what files have changes and just upload those. There's also a version history so people can always roll back changes
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. The way you host and manage a static website hasn't really changed for more than a decade, and most hosting UI's feel like something out of the 90ies. We're working on solving this for static sites w
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BitBalloon - Static hosting for the programmable web(bitballoon.com)
1 points by bobfunk 13y ago|0 comments
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Too bad their site is down, curious to see it since we just launched BitBalloon https://www.bitballoon.com Always interesting to see similar services popping up. Too bad about the downtime...
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by bobfunk 13y ago
BitBalloon will process your forms: https://www.bitballoon.com
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by bobfunk 13y ago
Seems it takes you more than 2 seconds just to load minified jQuery from google's CDN. There's not anything we can do to speed that up. Maybe there's some issues on your network at the moment?
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by bobfunk 13y ago
I don't get the same numbers on Pingdom at all... Main page loads in around 0.6 seconds for me (from Amsterdam, which won't be the fastest). With all external scripts (Persona + Olark) we're talking around 3-4 seconds... htt

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