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by trevorturk 16y ago
FWIW - I just migrated my old WordPress site to Heroku, but I decided to keep the WP database structure intact. So, I made a little Sinatra app with an ActiveRecord adapter that can understand the WP db schema. It's just a hack to support m
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by trevorturk 16y ago
Sure - that's why I'm wondering if there's a "good reason" aside from that they need to raise money to remain in business. Maybe they'll be able to provide some more insight on their blog at some point.
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by trevorturk 16y ago
I'm wondering why they need to raise money at all. Aren't they charging for their services? I'd feel more comfortable knowing that they're a self-sustaining business, as opposed to a startup that needs to raise money. Maybe there's a good r
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by trevorturk 16y ago
The cool thing about this is -- browsing quickly through the source -- it looks like it's real easy to make your own Heroku plugins. Their addon system seems to be going gangbusters, and this is the icing on the cake ;)
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How to enable automatic nightly Heroku backups to S3(almosteffortless.com)
4 points by trevorturk 17y ago|0 comments
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by trevorturk 17y ago
Nick, one of the other guys that worked on the site, is into this industry. He does tutorials and stuff, so a lot of people follow his website and twitter account.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
Yeah - I'm not big into this industry either (one of the guys I built the site with is) but I basically think of it as a resume.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
Keyboard shortcuts is an awesome idea. I'll add that to the backlog.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I've definitely thought about that, but decided that it was too much work relative to the gain it would bring. Maybe I'm wrong, though...
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by trevorturk 17y ago
That's great to hear! Please let me know if you find someone through the site - that would be awesome.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
No, but Vimeo tracks plays, and I've seen people on Twitter saying that they're getting more traffic because of the site, so I think it's working... I think having some kind of stats tracking would be nice, but that'd be more work ;)
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by trevorturk 17y ago
They're separate for now. That's an idea I've thought about, though, but I'm not sure if it's better to keep Vimeo's "like" and this "like" as separate things or not... For the time being, I think our plan is to make a "top 20" page or some
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I've just released a small side project website that came from an idea I had with a buddy during our plan ride to SXSW Interactive. It's supposed to be a gimmicky and easy way to find motion designers. Basically, you can upload "reels" and
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Ask HN: Review my side project - Reel Roulette(reelroulette.net)
41 points by trevorturk 17y ago|29 comments
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I was thinking the exact same thing...
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by trevorturk 17y ago
Working on my web based jukebox project: http://github.com/trevorturk/kzak I'm dropping Bundler support right now because it's still broken in so many ways ;(
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by trevorturk 17y ago
http://friendorfollow.com/ is also pretty good for this kind of thing.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I've written two "getting started with passenger + nginx" articles. One is for Ubuntu, one is for Mac OS X: http://almosteffortless.com/2009/10/22/installing-varnish-wi... http://almosteffortless.com/2009/09/16/passenger-with-nginx-...
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I've been using passenger + nginx very happily for a few months now. I'd highly recommend giving it another shot.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
Installation is faster. You can understand how the formulas work. You can make your own. You can find lots of them very easily. You can contribute more easily. It's on GitHub. I dunno - there's probably more, but that's a quick list. What r
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I just switched from macports to homebrew a few weeks ago, and I love it. Most definitely recommended.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I've been using http://www.changedetection.com/ but this would be a nice change - less email for me ;)
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by trevorturk 17y ago
If you like this, you'll love Hidden Chicago 2. They have a nice segment about it, and lots more. I'm not sure what you can find online, but a quick Google turned up: http://video.wttw.com/feature/102/ and http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I don't understand what's do difficult to understand about Twitter. It's a communication tool. It's valuable if/when there are useful things being communicated with it. To say that Twitter is a "land of marketers and bloggers and personalit
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by trevorturk 17y ago
...or using the fancy bluetooth mouse/keyboard combo Apple already has. I can imagine having this tablet that, if I was at my desk, could basically act like an iMac if it could communicate with a wireless keyboard and/or mouse.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
But what if you're providing a service that's built on top of the YouTube API and provides value in that it helps people find interesting videos for their children to watch? What might constitute "sufficient value" in that case?
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by trevorturk 17y ago
I've been toying around with a prototype application that uses the YouTube API, and I remember the first time I came across this passage in the TOS very well. Read it again, closely: "...the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions
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by trevorturk 17y ago
Agreed, but I'm only using it for keeping track of small amounts of money amongst my friends, so it's no biggie.
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by trevorturk 17y ago
This might be worth checking out: http://rel.me/2008/09/23/shrub-s3-proxy-service-on-google-ap...
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by trevorturk 17y ago
If you like this, make sure to check out http://billmonk.com , which I've been happily using for a couple of years now. It's an awesome way to share bills on work lunches - we use it almost every day :) Anyway, I've signed up for a WePay i

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