My theory is that by opening up myself to the possibility of meeting a woman keeps me on my toes and harnesses my darwinian energy which I then channel into my work. Working at home in my underwear doesn't create this psychological situation.
At watermelon express ( beta.watermelonexpress.com ) we have developed a webapp textbook which makes heavy use of this stack. It is a pretty heavy implementation of backbone ( in coffeescript, jashkenas i think we owe you a case of beer. ) I am in the process of weaving in redis pub/sub for our next iteration.
Really? I think the ecosystem created around large government contracts is pretty significant, and that it would cease to exist without government spending, which naturally would decrease economic output in that a lot of people would be unemployed, a lot of businesses whose customers are the employees of these businesses would shut down, etc etc. It is most obvious in the case of military spending related to manufacturing, but just think about it for medicaid as well.
I am a huge fan of Vagrant ( http://vagrantup.com ) which is virtualized development environments, package-able. Works with chef and virtualbox. I don't know if I can state just how game changing this is for me.
DocumentCloud really dropped some bombs this year. backbone.js, underscore.js are really great.
Socket.io saved my ass. I promised some big clients that I could make websockets driven apps for the iPad and then apple pulled websockets support without saying anything. So I was able to get socket.io for the win.
I started work on this a little while ago, and shared a starter template on https://github.com/datapimp/backbone-express-mongoose-socket.... I am starting a new job in 2011 where we will be using this template heavily, so expect major updates in the first couple weeks of January.
sri was the founder of the Catalyst project, but was later asked to step down from that role by the other Catalyst core developers based on non-resolvable differences of opinion on how the project should develop.
So you could call it a "second system done right" :-)
(Update: I should note that I've been toying with Mojolicious for a private project in the last few weeks, and quite enjoyed the experience. Hence "done right").
I agree. People who only plagiarize and never innovate or attempt to increase value or utility, who can only copy...let them suffer with that on their conscience. That condition is punishment enough.
But if you find something valuable on the web, copy it and spread it around. I could go on for hours with a sob story about tens thousands of combined hours of thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis that represented real philosophical progress evaporating in the into the ether because there was no redundancy and we took its existence for granted.
Filtering out the freelancers who don't have a dedicated business line and who aren't reachable by phone is a good service to provide to your clients, and it is a reason I'd use tekbob over any number of your competitors.
There is no excuse not to have a phone number. Get google voice and Skype. As a freelancer you are in the customer service industry, one. Two, your competitors have phone numbers.
I regularly look for people to subcontract work to and I persons's skills or experience are great but if I can't call them and reach them by phone to have a conversation, that is an immense disadvantage when I'm comparing one worker to another.
... but if I can't call them and reach them by phone to have a conversation, that is an immense disadvantage when I'm comparing one worker to another.
That's been my experience as a developer. I can credit so many deals to being the first guy to get on the phone with the client.
More likely there are many different segments in this market. I can easily see why some folks almost expect email. But I think I am going after a very specific segment of contractors/clients who like to get on the phone. It may or may not work the way I've implemented. We'll see.
On the other hand, couldn't he add email, but make it easy to search only those with phone numbers? Much like Craigslist makes it easy to only search music equipment with photos. I prefer the developer who has a phone number and email.
