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Developer. Hacker. Entrepreneur. Co-founder at http://getblimp.com.

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www.forbes.com 12y ago

What Politicians Should Learn From Entrepreneurs

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forrst.com 12y ago

The Brand-Spanking New Forrst is Here

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blog.virb.com 12y ago

GoDaddy sold back Virb to its original founder and investors

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www.fastcolabs.com 12y ago

Designing Great APIs Means Valuing Laziness

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ubuntuonair.com 12y ago

Ubuntu App Development Advocacy Session

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www.google.com 12y ago

Gmail service disruption

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about.twitter.com 12y ago

Conversations are now easier to follow on Twitter

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thenextweb.com 12y ago

Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility

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www.kickstarter.com 12y ago

Kickstarter in Canada

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www.google.com 12y ago

Nexus 7

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37signals.com 13y ago

How much water can you sell?

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blog.hipchat.com 13y ago

HipChat Web client v2.0

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jobs.bufferapp.com 13y ago

Be the next Frontend Hacker at Buffer

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www.getkidalert.com 13y ago

A wearable device that alerts you when your kids are too far.

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evernote.com 13y ago

Evernote's 5 Year Anniversary

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jolicode.com 13y ago

Speed up your Android Emulator

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signwithenvoy.com 13y ago

Envoy - Visitor registration on the iPad

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newrelic.com 13y ago

New Relic opens its public platform to monitor all your performance data

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www.wired.com 13y ago

The Astronomical Math Behind UPS' New Tool to Deliver Packages Faster

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venturebeat.com 13y ago

Instagrad tackles student loan debt with crowdfunding platform for college

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venturebeat.com 13y ago

Top startup spoofs

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festival.launch.co 13y ago

Launch Festival co-working space for startups in Los Angeles

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blog.parse.com 13y ago

Parse Mandrill Cloud Module for Transactional Emails

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www.wired.com 13y ago

Google and NASA Open New Lab to Kick Tires on Quantum Computer

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

Hipmunk now offers direct hotel booking

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mashable.com 13y ago

Obama Opens Government Data So Devs Can Build New Products

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

Evomail for iPad: Slick, Beautiful and Simple

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blog.getblimp.com 13y ago

Processes and rules are boring but they produce happy clients

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www.appcelerator.com 13y ago

Celebrating 450,000 Appcelerator Mobile Developers

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www.jdsupra.com 13y ago

Rethinking Inbound Tax Planning for Latin American Moving to the U.S.

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We've been using HipChat at Blimp since the very first day, we've even integrated it as our Support Chat. We are only three at the moment but have paid for up to 4 users. One less thing we have to pay for, and still be able to use such a great product.

This is pretty awesome! Wonder how much time would it take to validate. Last thing I would want is to make that signup process even slower. I guess you could still let the user pass and then run an async task to check "if the domain name exists, ask for MX server list from DNS, and verify that SMPT server will receive a message to that address" and then maybe set a flag somewhere.

Do you use this process for all the client projects you take in? We use an Agile process for internal projects which usually don't have an ending date. When we take in freelance work from clients we end up with a certain ending date, for a certain amount of work and iterations stated before starting the project. Before using this kind of process, projects would end up being longer, we'd end up loosing money, and time for other projects.

Indeed, and that usually becomes a problem at any stage of the project, usually converting it into a longer project, and if you're not careful you will surely loose money and precious time.

The process shown on elweb is just to illustrated the 2-iteration process, not a concrete example on how to make a website, more like an example of using the 2-iteration process on various steps of a project.

Flask is so damn awesome! For all those other projects Django seems too big, I use Flask. The hardest thing for me was finding a project structure that worked for me. I still haven't landed one that was "perfect". What project structure/skeletons for Flask apps work for you?

This is something I talk all the time with students that are being taught all the programming classes in college. Most of them know how to program, or at least know the syntax of a language and know basics, but getting to that tipping point of having hacked something up is kinda hard for most people. After you've built that first thing, that isn't the obvious programming exercises found on textbooks, you've passed that tipping point and hacking will then come naturally to you.