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DevOps is the new way, I think. Developers create the code and also know how to run and maintain infra :-)

Are there any real reasons to use one framework over the other?

1. Programming language ecosystem/Framework ecosystem/Developer support/Tutorials/Books

2. Framework maturity - has it been around for a while to have gone through a development

3. Ease of finding developers in the future

4. Ongoing support and development - has the required support to address security concerns, bugs and issues.

5. Most importantly - which one are you most comfortable with.

Just my humble opinion :-)

Hope it helps!

I miss travelling too! I live near English countryside, so long walks either in the woods or the riverside makes it less terrible. Ofcourse, travelling has a different kind of excitement, which is hard to replace, sadly.

How difficult is it to surpass the failure of Vista?

IMO you should learn ruby and rails framework at the same time. The knowledge of ruby will help you gain a deeper understanding of rails inner workings like the use of method_missing, concept of self and so on. I would recommend The Ruby Programming language by David Flanagan. The Pragmatic Programmer's book Programming Ruby is quite good as well.

Cool.

I normally change the technology I am working in and move to something else or just pick a random topic and read about it as much as I can and then as matthew said do a blog post on it. For example: State machines and Ragel state machine compiler.

Is this digg type of service where people can rate the articles? Sorry it is not very apparent from the first page. If it does have ratings then two articles I have read recently just to ensure that your rating algorithm is correct are: http://zedshaw.com/blog/2009-11-6.html by Zed Shaw and http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/10/alternate-sorting-orde... by Jeff Atwood.

Neat.

One thing that I spotted. The validation error messages cover the Was it up? logo on the right. Perhaps move the error mesages on the left.

One good example of that would be Pandora. I only found out few months ago through amazing venture voice podcast that the idea was conceived about a decade ago.

Good argument.

Yeah, but I am just assuming that after a transition period they would stop using your name. But you should never burn your bridges...so be patient and if they do not do anything about it then politely approach them. I would say a month is enough...but then did you not have a handover period that should have taken care of this issue.

You could actually debate the Mac pricing and you would find numerous articles on it. Anyhow, I switched to Mac recently and I don't think there are any downsides. You can still run Windows using VM seamlessly only if you want to do some windows dependant development.

Go with "About us" or "Learn more". It should explain in clear, concise way what exactly the service does. I would go with some sort of pictorial flow-chart sort of thing..where if I sign-up --> I get <something>. You know what I mean.

I like the design but then again it is not clear what the service does. As a new start-up it is of prime importance to make that first impression otherwise you will have a lot of one-time visitors. It looks like some kind of social networking sort of thing but not exactly clear and I would not want to go through the sign up process unless I know it is of some interest. So, your first job is to get me to sign up and then go from there.

Good effort though!

Is this like Dabble DB? The first impression I got and on that note the whole idea could be clarified a bit some sort of elevator style pitch.

The sign up page could be redesigned...but I am sure it is work in progress

Work on the UI...and you need to simplify the language in some sort of Elevator style pitch. No one would spend time in looking for what it does...and how it stands I had to spend a bit of time. So, Kaizan

Sounds awesome to me... I wonder what would we all IDE autocompletion slaves do. I actually had to once write an entire grails project in EditPlus. No auto completion or fancy refactoring of IntelliJ just because the company would not spend the money. Is Joel listening?

It's a must read.

Sorry, I did not answer your question completely. I would only go for a hosting site that gives me complete SSH access to my account.

I have used Gazzin's(http://www.gazzin.com/) Reseller account in the past and it worked without any issues. However, the interface was clunky and not your ideal Web 2.0 but this was back in 2003.

Currently, I am using Dreamhost and as it has been mentioned before it does have outages but my blog and other simple sites do not have a lot of traffic to deal with so it is ok for the time being.

For any sort of professional deployment, I am using slicehost's VPS. Linode is also a good one. However, with slicehost I built the entire server myself so it gives you a fine grained control which I miss with dreamhost.

Do you want to look for a job? I mean to say do you seriously need a job? I would suggest spending sometime looking into open source world and improve your skills and online profile. This would automatically get you a good job couple of years down the line.

Sorry...I do not understand this really. What is this for? Why would I pay for it? I am missing somehting...

I would personally not buy .net for the reasons mentioned in this thread already. Similarly, I would not have hyphens or any funny spellings in the address either. Just keep it simple, if your company is called Yahoo then yahoo.com should be where people can find about you.

Can I ask what would this research prove? The beauty of randomness I guess....

I created a new account with the same username and HN somehow links it to my old username...I guess...mysterious are HN's ways

I have used it in live environment for an internal site and I do have some reservations. Head over to rails irc channel and you can easily start HTML V HAML argument.

It is definitely a cleaner and more logical way of doing things but it is a matter of taste after all. If you like working with regular HTML/CSS...stick to it. No harm in trying once though.

Well if you listen to the Venture Voice podcast or the start up success podcast then you will encounter a tons of start ups that are not huge yet are successful to some degree.