HowardRoark

I tried Hittail a year ago, and didn't quite work for me. I ended up writing a few scripts myself. But I heard in Rob's latest podcast that Hittail is growing 30% per month.

"Everything stupid in life has a legal or accounting reason behind it." -Unknown

There are different levels of scaling, and for different kinds of apps, the trade offs that you can make are different. Unless you are making a really huge leap, most of the time it will be a gradual process. So unless you are talking Google or Twitter Scale in a matter of months, it may not be as bad as it sounds.

Monitor, optimize your current configurations, cache, load balance, cluster, use messaging, use existing industry knowledge on distributed systems, read academic papers and innovate... For advanced distributed systems, checkout Prof. Indranil Gupta's lectures amont many others: http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/class/fa10/cs425/lectures.html

I have been brainstorming something similar for a different country and vertical, and I am seeking for some ideas. Do do have an email?

May I ask what you are using for the site?

I wonder what they use on the backend to power this. Anyone knows?

Groovy doesn't get enough press in HN but I would think Groovy is practically the most widely used of them all just because of Grails. I prefer Scala when I am doing backend stuffs but use Groovy/Grails for web stuffs.

I built http://www.onesong.me in appengine using the java playframework, and I quite like what I get for free.

I used JSR-168 (JBoss Portal) back in 2006/2007 and was my worst programming experience ever.

Web development has only gotten better since 2006, so there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to do the same using any of the modern frameworks.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/tool/tool_06....

Can programmers even apply under the skilled category anymore? I thought Canada only wanted computer managers since 2009(?).

HTML, CSS, Javascript, browsers, database, IDE, at least one server side language, and hosting for a simple web app. Web development sucks. We are just used to it.

Don't get into the Rails vs Django war. Just pick up any one of them and start coding. Both frameworks are highly productive and very easy to pick up.

If you go with Rails, you can use Heroku for hosting which is free to start with. If you go with Python, you can use Google Appengine, which is free as well for starters.

You can own or start a company, but you cannot work for it until you have proper authorization, ie. CPT, OPT, H1b, Green Card, etc. If you are found to be working for any company including your own, you could be out of status and hence deported. Thats my understanding.

Working on http://OneSong.me - an app that lets you describe your friends in one song, just like ThreeWords.me.

I cannot bring the page up. Looks down to be.

I agree on the design. I am not a designer myself but I will see what I can do without spending absurd amount of time. Thanks.

Clickable: http://OneSong.me

Oh Google!

There can be no explanation for this. I think we should all boycott GoDaddy.

Yet another Search Engine Optimization technique?

GAE Java only handled one request at a time till now?

I agree its better than having nothing to show or talk about, but I wish hiring the right person was that easy. There is a lot of junk in Github and there are lots of smart developers outside the Github community.

Thank you Google for trying out. But it doesn't look like something I am going to use because most of my social contacts don't have a clue about my professional life - which is what I am searching for mostly.

hazenet.co.uk - $8.40 for 1GB

intovps.com - $10 for 1GB

prgmr.com - $20 for 1GB

vpsfarm.com - $21.6 for 1GB

chunkhost.com - $37 for 1GB

linode.com - $39.95 for 1GB

slicehost.com - $70 for 1GB

Whats your bandwidth requirement?

To get started, try Mining the Social Web, followed by Programming Collective Intelligence.

I think Binary search algorithm is very elegant.

Same here. Loved the idea though!

Just curious, did you develop it using the playframework?

Java - Grails and PlayFramework to be specific.

This article was written in Nov 2008. Quite a lot has happened in the Erlang world since.