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by jaddison 17y ago
I'm quite interested in what the two of you have created - the reason being that I have a history in digital imaging as well. I'm not a big fan of Air (the Adobe kind), but what you've accomplished with it is impressive and I look forward
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by jaddison 17y ago
I think you'll likely get a lot of biased answers in here, and here's mine: Django. I've had great success with nginx (load balancing, static serving) -> apache/wsgi/django (dynamic). Have a local postfix email server that handles the
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by jaddison 17y ago
Doesn't seem to work for Canadian listings. A shame. I like it a lot though.
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by jaddison 17y ago
In fact, I think the best method is to get your own domain, set up Google Apps for you domain. Then you can set the catch all address, and for every website you need an email address for, you use <website>@<yourdomain>.com
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by jaddison 17y ago
It won't fool all of them, but for the ones who haven't got somewhat more sophisticated spider-bots, it will. Cutting down on spam is almost as good as eradicating it - in the sense that it's damn near impossible to eradicate it anyhow.
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by jaddison 17y ago
Admittedly, I'm a tech-head. I've used Drupal in the past (it's still in use on my personal site) for various projects. When a colleague introduced me to Django, I felt a light click on; I smacked my forehead and said to myself: "Gosh. Squ
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by jaddison 17y ago
I, as a citizen of Canada, hereby apologize for the devastation caused by my geographical area of the world. Seriously though, it's incredible to think that something happening in Canada could cause Sumerian and Mesopotamian legends - or po
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by jaddison 17y ago
Clickable link: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/images/activity2.png
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by jaddison 17y ago
I think you'd have the same trouble with the automated way. The doohicky that does it would have to be programmed to be catered to you, I should think - particularly if you have a sensitive stomach. I've known a few people in your situatio
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by jaddison 17y ago
A surprising number of workplaces still do not understand the concept of accountability - I can say that they are frustrating places to work. I agree with the original poster; there is no better way to get your goals accomplished than by pu
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by jaddison 17y ago
I'm involved in a couple of ventures and I've met each of my co-founders through past employment (all of us working at the same employer(s)).
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by jaddison 17y ago
Wayyyy too many options in this poll. The idea of a poll is that a relatively quick glance will get you answers, not a 'bounce'. On the topic, however... I think it will be destructive to online business, from what I've read on it. I'm al
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by jaddison 17y ago
This is an old link (that I wish would be updated) about performance of some various frameworks (in various languages): http://www.alrond.com/en/2007/jan/25/performance-test-of-6-l...
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by jaddison 17y ago
When I first started using Django, I wasn't sure about it either, for a few different reasons - but performance wasn't one of them. Long story short, I'm glad I invested the time in taking it up... Django was actually my first use of Pytho
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by jaddison 17y ago
image-tempest discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=928282
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by jaddison 17y ago
Hrrrmmm. I typed in clickheat.com into my browser and was surprised that you used that site - of course, I then googled 'clickheat' and noticed an sf.net project... I presume you use that one. On a serious note, I'd never heard of clickhea
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by jaddison 17y ago
I'd second the Python recommendation. Switching from custom PHP to Python (specifically Django) saved me a ton of development headaches.
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by jaddison 17y ago
Agreed - I'm a little confused about how to use it because I couldn't find the documentation. I'm wondering how much of an impact on site load something like this would have. Thoughts?
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by jaddison 17y ago
Perhaps you're right. I don't particularly know that it's the best tool, but the OP could always try it out for themselves: http://www.kayako.com/trial/license.php
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by jaddison 17y ago
It looks like you're approaching the question from a project/client point of view; I think the OP meant from a product/user point of view. ie. user purchases your product, has problem/question, emails support@example.com and the support tic
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by jaddison 17y ago
The only major one that I've had passing experience with is Kayako SupportSuite ( http://www.kayako.com/solutions/supportsuite/ ). I don't know how it stacks up against competitive products. I believe it is PHP-based as well, if that matte
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by jaddison 17y ago
If I can make a suggestion, put some sort of border on the outside edge of the main content area... the content blends in with the background image a little too much for me. Good luck with this idea!
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by jaddison 17y ago
I'd say that if you're buying an off the shelf program, it's likely because implementing it would take FAR longer than the (example) 3 hours to investigate their proprietary API. I think there is still a valid trade-off in purchasing - it j
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by jaddison 17y ago
I'd say it can be simplified even further: THINK before you SOLVE. A natural tendency for programmers/developers is to move towards a knee-jerk reaction of "I'll just start coding this". It's not that good solutions don't come up from that
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by jaddison 17y ago
And for people with 3.0+: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9148 Not that I've used it.
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by jaddison 17y ago
Our social photo sharing website Snapact ( http://www.snapact.com/ ) uses Blueprint - but not to its full extent. We don't take particular advantage of typography and certain other benefits.
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by jaddison 17y ago
Drive. Persistence. Focus. Knowing what needs to be done now and what can be put off (or never done). Analyzing and knowing what the user wants - and then building something to meet that want. Knowing one's own limits; if you can develop th
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by jaddison 17y ago
I tend to think in terms of workflow. 1. How would user interaction occur? 2. What systems are necessary? 3. How can the problem(s) involved be solved? (what languages/tools/infrastructure) 4. Pseudo-code 5. Get crackin' on code
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by jaddison 17y ago
Looks sharp, but it looks like it's somewhat more orientated towards businesses - this isn't a bad thing, but inline with the original HN request above, I think you will likely need two workflows: business and 'public'. The public workflow
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by jaddison 17y ago
I think what you're looking for is this: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m... I have that set up myself for several addresses; all it does is send email through a given email address' SMTP servers. It does NOT

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