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@yaannakbr can you give more details on the different pools and why they matter ?

We built https://passpass.co for quick one time password sharing.

Not a full fledge solution but useful for quick one time sharing. Curious if people here find it helpful.

I just announced the meetup. You can find it here: http://www.meetup.com/Miami-node-js-Meetup/events/227782873/

Agenda has not been published yet. We are still accepting talk proposals.

Yes, the bootcamp is targeted towards people who have experience programming but zero experience with Erlang.

In 2011, we had more than 100 people attend the first edition of the ErlangDC conference.

Since then, we've seen an uptick on the attendance of the monthly meetups which we've been having more regularly: http://www.meetup.com/erlang/. We've been getting between 12 to 20 people attend the meetups.

We are hosting one next week actually in which Jordan Wilberding will be talking about Credit Card processing for mobile apps.

The main goal of the conference is to improve the DC Erlang community. All the money that's left over is used to support the DC meetup group.

Organizer here: we offer 25% discount to students. Just email me a picture of your student ID and I will send you a discount code.

We are still using the 1.x branch of Sproutcore.

The widgets are really useful. Your apps will not be very different if you use them with the same theme every time but I think it's ok for a demo to show customers during the Problem Interview phase.

I agree that the state model is a bit overly complex but if you go past the learning curve it can work well. Also there are ways to kind of bypass it and use an approach more similar to what Backbone/Spine does. There is a recent blog post by the SC team that shows you you can do that with 2.0 branch: http://blog.sproutcore.com/sproutcore-2-and-ajax/

A trick I learned from a friend while in grad school. When they have football games, walk around the tailgate parties right before the game is about to start, people will almost pay you to take their extra food so that they can get to the game. And it's usually pretty good food...

For better results, go next to the ones thrown by corporations. They usually order too much food and the employees do not care and do not want to bring the food back home.

Oh.. and bring an empty backpack :)

This is smart. After the contest, anytime you search for one of the terms in their dictionary on search.twitter.com, then @engineyard will show up (assuming there are a lot of entries).

All they have to do is make the dictionary include terms that potential engineyard customers might search for on Twitter.

Thanks for putting this together Rusty. I had a good time.

For the next one, I think crabs at Quarter Deck would be great.

I play 2 outdoor soccer games a week + 1 indoor game. That's about all I do these days. In the offseason, I try to go to the Gym once or twice a week.

Joel also has a book on the subject: http://tinyurl.com/dx4gyf

There was a typo on the blog post. It is $0.07 for an SMS.

We've fixed the blog post. Thanks for pointing that out.

Great detailed feedback! I really appreciate this. Thanks.

FYI. This is no longer an issue. It was fixed even before ovi256 posted this comment which is why in the original post, he mentioned that the server was down. That's because his IP address had been blocked and a fix was deployed.

He later edited the comment to remove the part where he said that the site was down...

I got your email, too bad you decided to go this route rather than emailing me about it first. It's all good though. No hard feelings.

Thanks. We've added a mini-menu so that you can control which one of the views you want to see. In addition, once you click on one view, it will stop the auto-changing all together.

Thanks for your thoughtful feedback. You've raised some great questions.

I strongly believe that these things are not trivial to do well yourself and maintaining such an infrastructure will distract you from your core competency.

You should be convinced after reading our homepage that it is worth your money and maybe the current copy doesn't reflect that well enough. We'll keep iterating on that, gather more data points, analyze it, highlight success stories of integration, etc...

Thx for your suggestions.

Thanks for the feedback. It's interesting that you mentioned that. We also have a consumer oriented service called ShareMeme: http://sharememe.com

We built messagepub after a lot of ShareMeme users asked us for an API.

Depending on your volume, we can work out something. Send us an email info@messagepub.com with estimates of your volume and we'll get in touch with you.

Thanks for pointing this out. You should only see the banner on IE6. We'll fix that.

Jamis, thanks for all the hard work you have put in these libraries. You have made my life so much easier and I will be forever grateful for that.

I'm sorry to hear that you burned out and I hope that you will quickly recover.

I respect your decision and I believe you did the right thing. Your health comes before a few folks that are not willing to put the effort to fix things that bother them about the libraries.

You've already done way more than was required of you. Thanks!

We are also in the Washington DC area (http://sharememe.com) and a Launchbox Digital company.

There is an interesting event in Baltimore tomorrow: http://www.refreshbmore.org. Me or my partner will be in attendance.

I also want to point out http://dctechevents.com . It's a great resource to know what is happening in the DC Tech Scene.

Wow! I really like that idea. Now what would be great is if I could hook it up to my Facebook account so that as my friends are adding pictures on Facebook, they show up on my Picwing frame sitting at home automatically.

Same guy :-) Thanks man.

just curious, what gems are you using?

It's much nicer that before, though.

The coolest part is that Andrew Hyde (founder of Startup Weekend) and his friend built this during a plane ride. Awesome!

I've been using SliceHost for almost a year now and I'm very happy with their service.

May I suggest Charlottesville, VA. It's really a great city to live in with a good climate and with UVA there, plenty of things to do. It's only 2 hours from Washington DC and 1 hour from Richmond when you do have a need for the big city (airport, etc...)