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Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | noss: I'm using Jekyll, the static site generator known from github pages. It will definitely be a step up from writing html and doing cat HEAD ARTICLE FOOT > PAGE :) |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | mapleoin: Write one yourself in your favourite programming language! Don't forget to include (what I use on my blahg): a markup language (textile), code highlighting(pygments), a templating engine(mako), RSS.The markup language and the templating engine are the things that really make this effort worth it. Especially s... |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | dizz: CMS.txt? http://cms.thewikies.com |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | silentbicycle: If you're just converting static content, Make + Markdown + small amounts of Awk/Perl/etc. should suffice.There's also werc (http://werc.cat-v.org/). |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | sohooo: Don't forget Webby (Ruby-based), which is pretty lightweight, but can be extended depending on your environment.It features various markup languages, some syntax highlighting options, autobuild, and more.http://webby.rubyforge.org/ |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | teilo: Or - you could use Django and whip something up really fast - just use their template engine, and you get all the menues, header, footer, etc, and replace the content with a big block of HTML pulled straight from the DB. |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | martin: If all you want to do is attach a header and footer to an otherwise static HTML page, why not just use SSI? http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/ssi.html |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | limmeau: There is also the WML (Website Meta Language) at http://www.thewml.org/ -- I used it for a few static websites in the early 2000s, but it isn't maintained any more. It combines an HTML macro package, embedded perl, m4 and a few other tools into a nine-pass compiler. |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | btbytes: Try http://github.com/btbytes/webgen.py . This is a static site generator written in Python.It's a single Python file, with support to mardown, textile etc. The template is one single file too which is based on YUI. |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | jrschulz: rest2web: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/It is not very flexible, but doesn't take very much effort either. |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | bradgessler: I've started using Sinatra for small websites. Its not a static-site generator but it does give me pretty simple control over layout and I can do some dynamic things if I wish. |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | mahmud: I wrote a single DEFPAGE macro that takes care of this. (defmacro defpage (name (uri &optional title) &body body)
`(define-easy-handler (,name :uri ,uri) ()
(with-html
(:html
(:head (:title (or ,title (string-titlize ,uri))))
(:body
(:div :id "contain... |
Business plan... what do you include in it? | uptown: 7 Common Errors when Writing a Business Plan:
http://entrepreneur.venturebeat.com/2009/07/09/seven-common-... |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | mvalente: I just use 2 shell scripts, cat.cgi and index.cgi, at my bloghttp://mv.asterisco.pt/cat.cgi?cat.cgi
http://mv.asterisco.pt/cat.cgi?index.cgi(View source)-- MV |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | andyking: I quite like ModX (http://modxcms.com/) although it might be a little on the bloated side for many here. It's a pretty bog-standard PHP/MySQL package.Basically, you design and code up your pages as if they were static, then insert "template tags" where you want to put your title, content, footer, menu - all o... |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | pj: http://www.qrimp.com has a feature called "publisher" that you can use to convert any database content to a set of static files that it can then FTP to any server. You can modify your data, which in your case would be just the content between the header and footer, you can also include a header file or a footer fi... |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | carbon8: Staticmatic is another static site generator that might be close to what you are looking for. You can write your pages in Haml and Sass, so in addition to much simpler markup and the ability to use inline textile and markdown, you can also pull the header and footer out into partials.http://staticmatic.rubyfor... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | tonystubblebine: Bootstrapped startups often use part-time non-startup work as funding for their actual product. All indications are that it is very hard to keep your focus and energy high enough to make progress, but all indications are also that any way you start your business is hard.37signals still did one week des... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | Hates_: Reading through your list of points, it sounds like you're trying to justify not just trying and seeing what's possible. There's no golden rule or answer to starting a business, but there are plenty of successful businesses that started as a small part-time endeavours.As a start, 37signals did it with only 10 h... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | jmonegro: You could bootstrap it on the side for a while, making sure you have something out there, and test if it really is a good idea without having to give up financial security. Then maybe you could seek some funding, enough to allow you to minimize the risk. |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | cmos: It would appear as though you have spent a good deal of time thinking about this. The irony is that even if 20 people posted their part time success stories, it would have no bearing on your success. It might give you a bit of confidence to go forward with it, but even that would be 'false'. If people instead ... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | noodle: short story: no, but the tendency is for part-time startups to become full-time startups as the success level rises. |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | vaksel: it depends on your startup type.If your startup suffers the chicken and egg problem, you can easily do it part time, because it'll be next to impossible to gain users. So you can have it on the side, until you grow the userbase to be able to monetize it.However if you are doing something involved with direct sa... |
The future of medicine and IT | TomOfTTB: Personally I believe the future of IT and Medicine to be in the field of Predictive Analytics (In fairness this is what I've spent the last several years working on so I'm a bit biased).What computers do very well is to crunch numbers. The problem is the confidentiality laws are so strict that the numbers ha... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | russell: Part time works if your idea is realistic for part time. Is it easy to implement, easy to scale? Does it have a core of good functionality?I recommend reading 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris. You need a strong hype/BS filter, but he has some good suggestions about time management. In particular, there is a ... |
Price discrimination | rythie: It's called Price Discrimination:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination |
Price discrimination | weaksauce: I think that the business goal of secret pricing to get a high pressure sales guy on the in contact with the potential buyer to close the deal. |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | anulman: At the risk of sounding too Tony Robbins-y, there is very little in this world that is truly impossible.It sounds to me as though your goal right now is to follow a dream and spend more time with your family. This type of startup, as I'm sure you're aware, will probably have a much harder time raising venture ... |
Price discrimination | ErrantX: There are combinations of reasons for this.Firstly to impede competitors a little (always worth doing).Secondly because it encourages people to ring your sales line and talk to a human - a sale is a LOT more likely then.Also it is likely the product is in the realms of enterprise or business class. Quotations ... |
Price discrimination | bokonist: is there any other benefits of "no price tag" approach, particularly for buyers?Yes. Say the marginal cost of a good is $1000. The fixed cost of developing the product was $900,000. There are 100 potential customers. In order to break even, the average sales price must be $10,000. But let's say that some... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | alavrik: There is a simple chart which might help you to better understand what type of business do you want to start:1. Startups pursuing large markets (either existing or new). Typically they require a lot of work and/or serious technology investment in the beginning and must demonstrate considerable traction/growth ... |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | stevejalim: How about http://grabaperch.com/ ? |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | thomanil: Cheer up - Paul Grahams worldview isn't the only one out there.Do some reading on 'mISV' companies. Google Bob Walsh, Erik Sink, Rob Walling, Andy Brice and Patrick McKenzie - all of whom have written excellent material about building viable, bootstrapped, part-time software businesses.Also, see this excellen... |
Article where a Meetup.com guy was talking about taking it 100% paid? | vaksel: here you go(scroll down to "dear meetup commmunity"):http://web.archive.org/web/20080120191653/http://www.meetup....looks like meetup has removed the page from their site, probably why you couldn't find it. |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | colas: I would advise using a wiki. Wikis fit well the programmers mental model as their main concept of editing "source" code that is compiled into a "machine" language (HTML). What wiki to use will depend on your favorite language or concepts. I use Foswiki http://foswiki.org (although I hate perl), because you can m... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | DenisM: The key to success is being relentlessly resourceful.Everything else is fluff people make up to make themselves feel good about the path they chose or assign meaning to random events.Read the above a few times until it sinks in. Give it a couple of days, then read it again. If it doesn't set things straight, tr... |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | jacquesm: tens if not hundreds of companies are using it right now, but because they're not selling a product based on it there is no infringement.You have to prove that, as long as you can't take apart some machine to prove infringement it is just another fishing expedition.And even if you did, I'm not sure if that wo... |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | vaksel: most likely it won't change a bit |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | neilk: 1) "...no implementors" Just FYI, I had such an idea that I thought was far too weird for anyone else to even consider let alone implement. But someone eventually did it, while I dithered.2,3,4) "exercise ... rest ... shorter work weeks"Okay, let's start with the facts: if you believe the people who have made st... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | olihb: I work/own(15%) in a small startup in the survey business. It's been about 10 months and the biggest problem is the time between the first meeting with a client and a signed contract(usually more than 6-7 months).Another problem is that the survey business is very trust based. Most people don't have to skill to ... |
Price discrimination | rythie: Even with list pricing, the price does not often represent the costs. For example from Apple:32GB iPhone 3GS costs $100 more than the 16GB model, yet a 16GB microSDHC card only costs $50. |
Article where a Meetup.com guy was talking about taking it 100% paid? | skmurphy: It's not a secret, every meetup organizer has to pay to run a group. From http://www.meetup.com/help/billinghelp/#Doesitcostmoneytosta...There are 3 price plans:
* USD $12 a month for 6 months (a single $72 charge)
* USD $15 a month for 3 months (a single $45 charge)
* USD $19 per monthEach plan h... |
Price discrimination | njl: You seem to feel some sort of moral obligation to price things as cost-plus. "This good cost me $90, 10% profit is reasonable, you can have it for $100."You're upset by pricing based on value. "This good cost me $90, but it's going to save you $500 this year alone, so it is a steal at $250."I guess my argument to... |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | neilk: Google itself has largely abandoned PageRank as described in the original paper. It's only one of the signals used to rank web pages.I don't understand your assertion that Web 2.0 sites would benefit from PageRank. And in any case, the patent is not what was holding them back. |
Price discrimination | DanielBMarkham: "sellers either don't know value of their product OR they are always trying to exaggerate it."You have a misunderstanding about value. Sellers CANNOT know the value of their product -- the value of their product is determined by each individual buyer given each individual buyer's circumstances. There is... |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | vannevar: Not much, PageRank was never the brilliant innovation it was made out to be. It was a nice improvement ca 1998 but Google has spent most of the last ten years throwing patches at the problem of people gaming the system. They've been the Red Queen, running faster and faster to stay in place. In terms of actual... |
Price discrimination | bmelton: I see a lot of conjecture about how secret pricing is or isn't beneficial, but one thing that seems to be overlooked is the complexity of enterprise class pricing.If I call BEA (now Oracle) for a portal, the application stack is modular down to app functions, such that if I want publishing in my portal, there'... |
Sales stats for Android paid apps? | zitterbewegung: At an open source confrence I was at (flourish) they had an android developer which developed games. The sales were considerably lower for android apps I believe it was 10% of the sales compared to iPhone apps. |
Lightweight Programmer's CMS? | catch404: Has anyone used Hobix? http://www.hobix.com/.Seems very hard to beat a lisp style solution such as the one posted by mahmud. lisp html generation always seems so much more concise than other languages.I've started writing one in python similar to mahmuds. Might be the perfect time for me to learn clojure. |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | Anon84: huh... there will be one more expired patent?Even at this point (30 or 40 years) from that day, PR is, practically, only of academic interest. |
What's your favorite site for hacking on things other than computers? | sahaj: finance.google.comi like to hack money :) |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | qeorge: Every major search engine (Google, Yahoo, Bing, ~Ask) uses a form of "PageRank" for their rankings. That is to say, all major search engines use the a graph as their primary ranking metric (other than relevancy, obviously).I don't know how the patent plays in, but its fair to say "the cat is out of the bag" tha... |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | ilkhd2: Very lightly.
more small vendors will start selling inmplementations... |
Price discrimination | brk: My assumption is that this method is used to get as much as possible off big companiesI think that your assumption is grossly inaccurate, and you should probably put some effort into basic sales and marketing concepts.I will tell you that 9 times out of 10, when you think a corporation is trying to exploit some ne... |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | brk: PageRank is only interesting to people who do not understand it. |
Price discrimination | dkokelley: A hidden benefit to consumers might be seen with complicated systems. If you were told that a complicated system was $10,000 base price, you might be upset that the typical price for the complete system is $30,000. You were expecting to pay one amount, but after realizing what your needs are you have a total... |
What are you working on? | markbao: I'm trying to develop my own mobile device. Going to be fun. Intel Atom 1.6ghz, Ubuntu-based, hopefully some kind of 5" capitative touch, software written in Qt/C++ (for lack of a better framework/X drawing option). http://avecora.comAlso working with hnuser://jasonlbaptiste on Ramamia (beta), which lets you k... |
What are you working on? | Oompa: Start-up, while undergrad at Georgia Tech. Fun times :) |
What are you working on? | ScottWhigham: Startup - http://www.learnitfirst.com is a video training company I started in 2004 as a side business cum full-time business.You, OP? |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | ScottWhigham: So the key question, to me, is how do you define success? Is it $10m in the bank or is it working full-time on something you love that you wrote and built? |
What are you working on? | fcoury: On my hosting start-up: http://webbynode.com. I am the programmer behind our Manager app. :-)Our main difference is providing ReadyStacks for easy bootstrap of servers: watch the screencast for more info here - http://webbynode.com/railsvimeo. |
What are you working on? | DanielBMarkham: I'm getting ready to switch from consulting to bootstrapping for a while, so I'm looking for new startup ideas and partners. |
What are you working on? | woid: Working fulltime for http://transpond.com (web-based widget generator/builder)In my spare time I'm making tools for web developers at http://www.binaryage.com.Also look at http://hashpage.com (mashup builder on top bespin, github and google app engine) code: "michael" -> click to generate homepage -> woid -> "edi... |
What are you working on? | alex_c: Starting up my second start-up, in the mobile space. Doing customer discovery right now, so it's a bit early to talk about it, but I have high hopes (and no, it's not making iPhone apps). There are a lot of opportunities in mobile if you don't focus on the app store.Other than that, doing iPhone and (soon) An... |
What are you working on? | Derferman: Just switched my personal website from Wordpress over to GitHub pages using Jekyll. So far, so good. |
What are you working on? | richesh: working full-time on http://www.CrowdMind.com |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | andrewljohnson: I don't think PageRank is what set Google apart. It was multi-word tokens. |
How will the world change when the PageRank patent expires? | andrewljohnson: According to Matt Cutts, PageRank is the main way Google orders pages for crawling. If you have high page rank, you get crawled first.mat didn't say this, but beyond that, I think the reaction of users is by far the biggest determinant in which pages get top ranked. |
What are you working on? | joe_bleau: Bringing up a new embedded hardware design (RFID) at work (small and stable private company). |
What are you working on? | dmpayton: Doing my 9 to 5 at http://www.cukerdesign.comNights and weekends are split between developing my side-startup (a service to help makes diabetes management simpler), the occasional WoW session, and spending time with my wife and year-old daughter (not necessarily in that order).Also planning a natural language... |
What are you working on? | jrockway: Recently "finished":eproject - file/buffer grouping for emacs, http://github.com/jrockway/eprojectcperl-mode for MooseX::Declare - http://github.com/jrockway/cperl-mode/tree/mx-declareOn my agenda:Emacs/LLVM; compile Emacs to LLVM bitcode, link with extensions written in arbitrary LLVM langauges. Right now, ... |
What are you working on? | jimmyrcom: A free ear training and music theory software http://www.trainear.com/ that few people use because no one cares about ear training and music theory |
What are you working on? | jasonlbaptiste: Formerly: 2 years at Publictivity as founder/CEONow: Ramamia.com co-founder with Mark Bao. Part time side project, but may make it full time. Also, CTO of MIT Enterprise Forum in florida (nonprofit).more: jasonlbaptiste.com |
Price discrimination | ovidiupl: I finally registered on HN to make one short comment: Read "Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies: And Other Pricing Puzzles". It's a short, readable book on pricing "for dummies" by Richard McKenzie (UC Irvine).I have zero formal training in economics, and I found the book enlightening. It discusses price ... |
What are you working on? | PStamatiou: i should be working on my startup (on profile page) but i am recovering from catching mono and have been sick for several weeks now. |
What are you working on? | lzell: I quit my job a month ago for my second crack at bootstrapping a business: http://www.shirtstastegood.comI'm in nyc and I would love to hear any feedback! Thanks. |
What are you working on? | htsh: transitioning away from my legal work back to startup work, learning rails while working on 2 early ideas and 1 underway.the 2 ideas i'm at will to share:1 - .org - wikipedia-style database of case-law commonly used by pro-bono lawyers -- create something that would assist legal clinics manage their information l... |
What are you working on? | asciilifeform: This: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8As before. |
What are you working on? | pg: Besides YC, I've been working on Arc. (No writing lately. I can't seem to focus on more than 2 things at once, so it's always a choice of Arc xor essays.)Specifically, I've been trying to do things to Arc that will make News shorter. I'm running out of room, though: News is 1886 LOC, and it's rare now when I can... |
What are you working on? | timinman: I'm creating an online spiritual-learning (Christian) site for kids: http://kidbuilder.net. |
Price discrimination | dejan: Your question made me think about the topic thoroughly. I wrote a suggestion what to do, by letting the customer suggest the price.http://www.aleveo.com/ideas/voluntary-price-suggestions |
What are you working on? | babyboy808: I'm just working my day job over at eirestudio.net - design/dev work. I have a few side projects going which are mostly for fun and learning more JavaScript. |
What are you working on? | sdesol: I'm working on a solution to unify all the major SCMs (ClearCase, Git, Perforce, Subversion, etc.) and abstract the data it in such a way that I can provide information that can be digested by all levels of an organization. I'm calling this my full spectrum tool as it's intended to be as useful for developers ... |
Is success impossible for a part-time startup? | dannyr: I recently switched from full-time to part-time to focus more on my startup.Right now, I'm trying to see if it would take off. If the site is growing, I'll probably look for angel money and work full-time on it. If not, I'll keep my part-time job. |
What are you working on? | bmelton: Working my 9 to 5 (which is more like an (8 to 8), and trying to learn Django well enough to start an open source product I think Django makes sense for.Django is fun, and surprisingly productive even while learning, though with little free time it's going slower than I'd like. |
What are you working on? | gruseom: Making a new spreadsheet. Trying to make it fast enough. Learning about spatial data structures. |
What are you working on? | tptacek: I just got Ming, the Flash library, working in Ruby. I'm instrumenting the pure-ruby Ruby-AES library to "snapshot" each transformation of the AES round function, and playing with different ways to visualize substitution and permutation. I'm hoping to lay out step-by-step transformation of AES blocks, left-to-... |
What are you working on? | MoeDrippins: Small company. Financial software. Yeah, that seemed a lot better a year or so ago.But I've been at this a few years, this recession too shall pass. |
What are you working on? | yan: Looking for people to work on interesting projects or people who need help working on interesting projects. Anything unixy/obj-c/system services/web stuff-related. |
What are you working on? | arfrank: Full time job: Largest IT Consulting firm around processing security paperwork for clearancesStartup from College: http://www.studentsherpas.com/ - Trying to help out college students. Adding a free job board for local jobs for local businessesSide Project: Working on news aggregator where not all users are cr... |
What are you working on? | Anon84: Now for something completely different...I've been working on a global model of epidemic spreading for about a year now (the project was actually started about 3 years ago). The idea is to be able to forecast the progression of the disease across the globe as in where it will hit next, how many cases, there wil... |
What are you working on? | dannyr: Recently went from full-time to part-time day job to focus more on my startup, http://www.launchset.com .If you find my site useful and want to use the service, let me know. email me - danny at launchset.com |
What are you working on? | gz: Most recently http://www.pdfamigo.com which lets you create PDF forms online. In fact I asked for and got feedback right here just yesterday. |
What are you working on? | DarkShikari: As has been for a while, my primary personal activity is developing the x264 video encoder, for fun and for profit. I work on ffmpeg as well from time to time.Some current commercial activities:Working on optimizing CoreAVC video decoder for CoreCodec.Working (9-5) at Facebook, primarily on video and phot... |
What are you working on? | patio11: I just launched the online version of Bingo Card Creator and am busy iterating as fast as I possibly can before the school year starts. This weekend I added breadcrumb navigation to the main workflow, put in spinners for some of the AJAX interactions, built in some more analytics into the backend, and finishe... |
What are you working on? | trickjarrett: I'm working on rebooting my LLC for web development and training. I'm also working on a few application ideas.I've really begun working on my blog again in earnest, unfortunately though I have had a tough time choosing technology based topics to write about. We'll see though. |
What are you working on? | jimm: Rewriting all the back end software for a big kids' TV show site (www.icarly.com). Recently launched polling system and search system (reverse index). Entire site is generated as static pages + JS data so we can server the 4 million registered users and 270 TB video/month off of one box (with Akamai's help). Next... |
What are you working on? | amichail: Numbrosia 3 iPhone/iPod touch app: http://amichail.posterous.com/numbrosia-3-screenshot-and-des...Also see Numbrosia (in iTunes store) and Numbrosia 2 (under review): http://www.numbrosia.com |
What are you working on? | toisanji: I am working part time on my side project http://sanbit.com for fun, I would like to turn it into a startup, but now sure on the angle. I am also looking into working on some projects with other people, anyone interested in getting a project going? |
Price discrimination | whatusername: There are other alternatives to no price tag.. Think Tight-Ass Tuesdays, discount coupons, etc.. Some people will buy your product whatever the cost - others will only at a lower price.. To maximise the value/sales - the price spread is a good idea... |
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