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What hosting do you use for personal projects? | mantas: +1 for Linode |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | Ixiaus: +1 for Webfaction.You get a shell, a gazillion different application types (CGI, Rails, PHP, Django, custom). You can compile Apache and/or MySQL and configure a custom port for it.Their support is responsive. Service has competitive pricing. I've been with them for three years and haven't experience any outages. |
Any of you summarize lectures with a laptop? | trjordan: I used TeX to type up all my class notes. I found that if you practice enough, you can hammer out pretty much any diagram in realtime. In the meantime, you'll have to condense your class notes by a bit to make up for lost time.Unfortunately, I don't remember any of the packages I used, but I definitely did trees, timelines, and, of course, equations. Plus, as long as you get the content right, you can fix your typos and other silly mistakes after class ... that's the point of separating content from display! |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jseifer: I've used linode for a couple of years now and I've been very very happy with them. I use dnsmadeeasy for critical projects even though Linode has their own custom dns you can use, just to keep it separate. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | whalesalad: SchoolRack(.com) is built on a small cluster of 4 Slicehost servers. I know this isn't a small/personal project but it's given me a lot of experience with them. Of course, they're a great web host and definitely mean it when they say they're built for developers.But... Linode is (so far) better. You get everything you get at Slicehost, for a little bit cheaper, with a more useful admin panel. Statistics are built in for CPU and Bandwidth. However, the panel is a bit more complex than the average park rangers jeep, so if you're a newbie you might wanna stick with Slicehost.I say so far because I've only been a customer for about 3 months now. whalesalad.com (my personal site) runs on a small $19 Linode (which gives you 360mb of ram vs 256 on Slice, 16GB of storage vs 10, and double the bandwidth). At the moment I'm powering my aforementioned blog, a couple of WordPress sites, and another Django site. Nginx + FastCGI for both the Python and PHP side of things. It's holding up like an absolute champ.Linode also lets you play around with other distros easier. You can basically cut up your allotted HD space and boot whatever you want. You can cut it in half and play with Fedora/Debian, or whatever you choose really. For experimentation, that's good.This is a great performance breakdown/comparison of the popular VPS' out there - http://journal.uggedal.com/vps-performance-comparisonFinally, if you choose Linode, help a guy out with this referrer link :D - http://j.mp/linodesalad |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | mhb: No one likes AWS? You can turn it off whenever you're not using it. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | labria: http://www.volumedrive.com/
They have real servers for reasonable prices.
Or some kind of linode/slicehost, if you don't need too much. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | robk: mendeley.com |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jacobian: I've been very happy with Rackspace Cloud, and especially with how well it scales down -- as low as $10/mo. It's not quite all the flexibility that Amazon does, but the API's nice and getting better, and for personal stuff the smaller size is a big win. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | dwiel: I use linode for work and think its great. I used to use webfaction but switched because they were too inconsistent. Poor performance sometimes and they were always responsive to deal with problems, but they happened every couple weeks.For home use I have an old Thinkpad thats way more powerful than a cheap slice somewhere which cost me $150 on craigslist + 12kwhrs/mo. I used to use an old desktop, but the laptop will actually save me money on my power bill in about 2 years, by using 17watts instead of 100. Saves carbon too since we get mostly coal power here. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | blhack: I started with a host called "kiloserv"...I haven't yet met anybody else who has heard of them (saw them in a sig on /.); they were fine for something that I wasn't too concerned about (all I really needed was an off network box for testing my network setup at work). Kiloserv was $10/mo for a VPS, it never went down on my in ~2yrs, and it worked...That said, the bandwidth didn't seem too special, the company had 0 support of any kind...didn't offer a console, or DNS hosting (that I know of), and on and on and on...they worked, but not for a business.After them, I switched to slicehost (per a recommendation here) and they were/are awesome. Totally professional, good bandwidth, $20/mo, everything I wanted. I recommend them 100% to anybody doing a semi-serious project.After a recent comparison here, it sounded like linode was also really really good, so I bought a VPS from them ($20/mo again) to use a development server/sandbox. The linode box seems to, honestly, be outperforming my VPS from slicehost with benchmarks on AB (although this could just be a slight disparity between my httpd.confs on the two boxes).Slicehost or Linode are outstanding +1 to them.My next box will probably be a colo'd box with prgmr. ($50 for 1u including power and bandwidth is really enticing to me).Slicehost/Linode are what I use right now... |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | dmd: Chunkhost.com is giving away half-gig instances right now. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | bentlegen: If you're playing around in Ruby, you could give Heroku a try (http://www.heroku.com). They have a free plan for small projects. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | vorobei: I've been a happy Linode customer since August 2007. There were two minor issues with DNS (not their fault, I believe) during that time. Once I had to do an emergency RAM upgrade on a Sunday -- it was the best customer service experience I've ever had.I run two servers -- Gentoo and Ubuntu. I recommend Ubuntu. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jmonegro: Heroku, hands down. It's free unless it gets serious. (ruby only, though) |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | DanielBMarkham: To the general hosting question:blog: Nexcess.netsmall project sites: HostGator.comOld ASP.NET site that I'm going to discontinue: DiscountASP.Net"Real" web projects: roll my own using VMWare or Xen |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | pavs: Media Temple. I absolutely hate it, but moving to a new host is a bitch. When I get some time to move I am either moving back to Slicehost or Linode and built my server up from scratch.Note to everyone, don't ever use media temple. They are absolutely horrible. Every week, either the servers gets hacked, servers goes down or something is wrong with their admin panel and they won't let you access it. And of course its slow as hell. I have used their both dv and gs setup, just horrible. Their customer service is decent, but what am I going to do with good customer service when the server has so many problems?They do have a good marketing and design team. I have to give them that. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | pieter: I'm using hosteurope.de (as I'm in Europe and want decent ping times). They have pretty good deals, starting at €13/month for 1GB RAM and 5TB data. I'm still on an earlier plan, 256MB for €10/month though.They have pretty decent service, but their English (understandably) isn't that good. They've been down a few times in the last few months, but otherwise have a pretty good track record.I think for the money you pay them, you get a very good price, but don't expect 99.99% uptime |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | yannk: linode++ |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | randallsquared: vpslink.comPretty cheap, and only down two or three times in the last two years (since I started with them). They are somewhat less communicative than I'd prefer when something happens, but they did tweet updates last time. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | Locke1689: Many universities have alumni "library" programs, where you pay a certain fee to gain access to the university's library. As a student, I've never had to use it though and simply showing up to a site with my university's domain name (VPN) pretty much lets me in anywhere. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | roschdal: I use amazon ec2 for http://freeciv.net/ |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | DanBlake: Looks like I am the only one in here that uses dedicated servers. Mix of theplanet, colo at level3 and gigenet. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jamesbritt: I use a server at The Planet. Probably more costly than what you want for your needs. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | whyenot: I use Linode. It's inexpensive, reliable, and easy to set up and use. The company also makes significant contributions back to the open source community. On my rating scale they get double bonus points for that. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | dagw: I've managed to keep my university affiliations since graduating so I still have access to most archives for free via my university library.Once that stops working I guess my next approach would be to mail a friendly request to one of my friends still in the academic world and have them download the pdf for me. |
Where do you get your scientific papers from? | whyenot: Google Scholar.In California at least, you can also get pdfs of papers at most UC and CSU libraries without being a student. Stanford too, last time I tried. Of course this means you do actually have to physically go to the library in most cases. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | alexkearns: Thanks mate, you have just destroyed my marriage. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | rwhitman: I've used MediaTemple which has become so awful as to be unusable and Slicehost which was great and reliable but now owned by Rackspace and starting to suffer from the problems with their datacenters...Been hearing good things about Heroku and after reading this thread psyched to check out Linode |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | ams6110: I've used OpenHosting with no complaints. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | adrinavarro: I have been using OVH to host my main projects They offer dedicated servers for the hobby market, at unbeatable prices (http://kimsufi.fr, you'll have to look for your local OVH distributor), but also top-level servers at very good price. Plus they're very good (have awesome peering/transit quality, unbeatable prices, 3 datacenters and 10 years of experience).For my own thing, I've got a shared hosting at SurpassHosting.com. I used to rely on Dreamhost to host my blog and do random tests, but they're just crap. Surpass is just good for what I need in those cases... |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | vaksel: I use dreamhost. Why? Because a while back they did that 777 deal, and I posted about it on a few forums, and ended up with like 250 primary referrals and 200 secondary referrals.So basically I get paid money to host my stuff with them :) I made like 3 grand from them so far.Also since they bump your storage/bw every week, at this point I have 10TB Bandwith and 500GB hosting. Which isn't half bad. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | wrath: Not really hosting per say, but I've started to use Google App Engine recently. No control over the software/hardware but it's nicely designed if all you want is a rest front end (web/api) to your application. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | yungchin: Edit: nevermind what I wrote below. I just figured out I didn't understand the controls. Would it be impossible to create "drag and drop" for units?I tried a single-player game in Firefox (3.5), but it hardly reacts to my input (even though top tells me it's barely consuming any cycles). I thought I'd give it a try with the Chromium Beta (but couldn't login anymore, so I created a second account) too - same thing there though.In any case: love the idea!!! |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | city41: In the chat console, the blue text on black/dark grey background is totally unreadable.So far I'm very impressed. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | revorad: Internet Explorer not supportedAwesome! |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | Maciek416: Some notes:1) I typed "G" to have a settler unit wander out into the wilderness and it founded a city on its own. That was unexpected. I'm almost certain I didn't have it in any kind of automatic mode.2) It would be good if we had a stronger indication of which tile will be the target of an action, and possibly a preview of the path taken there.3) More animated indicators in general of where we should be looking at any given moment would be helpful.4) Try to test the game on a large display (I'm testing on 2560x1600). It looks fantastic, but some of the UI could be better-delineated and tightened up. It seems to be a little spread out right now.Overall, this is awesome. Thank you for creating it! Civ is very high on a lot of people's top-10-of-all-time lists, so this should become very popular very quickly. Good luck. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | doubleyooexwhy: NearlyFreeSpeech.netInsanely cheap. I deposited $5 on November 17th and I still have $2 left in the account, pushing 4.5 to 5GB/month. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | xist: Depending on your purpose/needs, http://www.lowendbox.com/ lists sub $5/month VPS. Of course, dont expect much, but i have a couple for testing network connectivity.
vmware/xen are great for local playing around though as others suggest. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jasonlbaptiste: Geocities bitches. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | ericclemmons: I've started using Zerigo.com's cloud-hosting. So far, it's been fantastic for keeping my LAMP stack imaged for quick deployment so I can test new projects in their own sandbox for pennies.Note, it's a private beta still, but I figured they were worth mentioning. Having a VPS on SliceHost as well, I'd recommend something quick & small for "tinkering" and keep the VPS for your existing sites until you're sold on a new environment. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | zimbu668: Anyone use one of the Mac Mini hosting services?http://www.macminicolo.net/
http://www.xservhosting.com/mac-mini-colocation/mac-mini-col...Looks like you buy a mini from them or ship one you already own and the hosting starts about $30 a month. I'm not sure if this is just to appeal to "Mac Fanboys" or if it's actually a good setup. I'd be interested if anyone has used one of these services. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | dannytatom: I only have one real complaint, and that is this: The email or password contains invalid invalid characters.
Only letters (A-Z) and numbers (0-9) are allowed.
What's the point in not allowing special characters in a password (serious question)? |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | jeff18: Why require an account? Just let me click a "Play Now" button. If you want to be fancy, you could make it like EtherPad so if I want to play a game, I could just go to freeciv.net/jeffsgameI would not be surprised if by reducing the barrier to entry, you get three times as many players. Your bounce rate must be staggering right now.Please implement this and then post another YC article with the stats on your bounce rate. :) I'd be very curious how big of a barrier requiring an email, etc. really is on a site like yours. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | woid: That was one of tasks on my list of "Projects to do before I die"!checked out, love when people are making things real, thanks manAh, then next one is tough, "have threesome with japanese twins". |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | kalendae: I see ads on the side, I may be completely misreading your intentions for having them of course (as it could just be why not?) but I am not seeing freeciv on web as being very high in traffic. Main reason is that the barrier to entry is extremely high. Without tutorials, and the way the ui is setup, it requires you to be a former civ player, and a former civ player likely has civ on their computer (or at one point). So with the free advantage gone for a lot of them (eg i have civ4 installed right now), how is this better than multiplayer civ4? my hope is that u have some cool plans for it that takes it beyond the commercial civ titles. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | brandon272: Chrome says "Waiting for freeciv.net..." but nothing loads. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | AdamGibbins: Server appears to be overloaded, just forever loading for me :( |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | docpepin: webbynode |
Site to find developers / programmers? | sharksandwich: Build it with me? http://builditwith.me/ |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | kunley: It hangs. (2 minutes pass) No! But still slooow |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | qeorge: I am a very happy VPS customer of WiredTree.com. Their prices are great, servers are fast, and the support is top-notch.Edit: root, WHM/Cpanel, etc as well |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | amichail: Do you think the page is confusing? How could it be improved?The demo is limited to the first three levels of standard mode. Do you think I should take off the three level limit? Although you can play this in Safari on the iPhone/iPod touch, the animation is sluggish and buggy. Moreover, the native version has more features. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | taitems: I signed up but the game never finished loading, so I had a play with the UI for a few minutes.http://i.imgur.com/fzB6i.jpg |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | jmonegro: Before Heroku, I used Webbynode (http://webbynode.com). It has root access and much more, all you need, and it's not expensive. They're also very good. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | kalendae: first of all the game is great and very addictive and has more depth than tetris and bejeweled and what not.problems with the page tho:
1) way too many different fonts and colors to the texts. confusing to process, i didn't know where to place my eyes for quite a while2) descriptions and reviews are too verbose. like instead of all the reviews, all u need is like a one liner like "way better than tetris and bejeweled" that conveys what it is as opposed to like 3 paragraphs. |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | sachinag: I am no longer a professional writer, but most of us I know are happy to give feedback if specifically asked. (As the saying goes, it's a lot easier to be an editor than a writer.)The problem I've had with doing startup copy reviews is that it often bleeds into product critiques. As Sean Ellis says, if your survey.io question responses are in the 25-40% range, the issue is often your positioning, not your product.I'd be happy to join you in this endeavor, but I think you're asking the wrong questions. I think you should really focus on getting real user feedback rather than "expert" feedback on how to make your positioning clearer. Again, your positioning itself may be wrong, and only real user testing and questioning will make this evident. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | kapauldo: pros:- really fresh and interesting
- lots of neat surprisescons:- not at all clear why what i am doing is causing these cascading effects, but the after-effects are awesomereally really cool game, and really really cool math behind hit. i'm really impressed with this. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | richardw: My guess is: put the 9/10 from the iPhone App review near the top. Simplify the page and reduce the importance of most of the text - lots of colours demanding attention. Get it to 1 message and the game.However I suspect the real answers will emerge from testing. Do a test on trial screen count and see which amount of screens increases your conversion. Test changing colours, text, positioning etc. Over time you'll know more than we could about what will work on that page. |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | oppositionradio: Really cool idea. I'd be interested in joining and perhaps adding some thinking to how it might leverage game mechanics to make it more interesting... letting the best/most prolific editors/proofreaders/copy writers rise to the top.Do we simply create a www.stackoverflow.com type system for web copy? |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | ekanes: I'm interested.I think the easiest way to kick things off might be a simple reply-all discussion by email. |
Lesser known blogging apps? | ugh: I like Textpattern. It’s pretty bare bones, though. You have to put some work in, but once everything is running, it’s pretty hassle free.Link: http://textpattern.com/By the way, the Textpattern Support Forum is one of Textpattern’s hidden treasures and always extremely helpful. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | qeorge: Lots of fun, and it played very smoothly. Obviously the graphics could use a look, but you know that. |
Lesser known blogging apps? | dryicerx: Write your own.Use a framework (Pylons, Django, RoR, whatever) along with Disqus for commenting. It'll take only a very short amount of time, and you'll have total control.Doing this won't make your site more or less secure, but it will prevent from being hit by blanket attacks that target popular platforms like wordpress.(eg. 300 lines of Python on Pylons + 500 lines of css/templating (loc includes white-space and docs) = http://janitha.com with admin interface) |
Lesser known blogging apps? | slig: Learn Django and roll your own in one weekend. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | spooneybarger: if i needed need stupid easy backups, i would go with linode, as it is, i go with slicehost. |
Lesser known blogging apps? | gte910h: Cushycms.com is easy... |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | awt: github for static pages + heroku. |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | keeptrying: I'd be interested as well.
I think it would be best to follow the model used by online peer review sites like critters.org.
Ie, you have to do n number of reviews before you would have your own copy reviewed. This worked very well. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | rms: Hey, if anyone's bored you could try and prove this game to be NP-Complete... |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | raffi: Lacking this type of a group, here are some ideas to get feedback on copy:1) If it's a title or something short, take out Google Ads and see which ads yield the most clicks.2) If you want to get more in-depth feedback, consider a service like http://www.feedbackarmy.com. (Disclosure: it's my service). Feedback Army is nothing more than a front-end to Mechanical Turk. I'd summarize what I expect someone to take away from the copy and ask those as questions to see if the reviewers "get it". Also when you do this, small mistakes (like spelling errors) will get picked up. I see this all the time.3) I usually find a friend to read my copy. Barring those, I harass my sister on Skype. This works too.Best of luck! |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | chrischen: I'm using Slicehost right now at $20/mo, but I did calculations, and if you pay for what you use on Rackspace cloud (and assuming you use almost nothing), Rackspace cloud comes out less than $20 per month. I'd be switching over if I weren't so damn lazy. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | JangoSteve: Wow, that was really fun. The description doesn't accurately describe the behavior of the game though, or rather maybe they could be more clear. For instance:When any square lands, it shrinks all squares below it and in the same row segment.
-> actually, it only shrinks contiguous squares in the same row (of course, now that I re-read it, maybe that's what you meant by "row segment")That being said, I played that game for 5-10 minutes before remembering that it was an "Ask HN" and that I should come back here and provide feedback ;-) Bookmarked! |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | nonrecursive: If you're interested please email me (my email's on my profile). Once it looks like the thread's quieted down I'll send out an email to everyone. Thanks! |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | pnz: http://lithiumhosting.com/
pretty cheap. haven't noticed a second of downtime in the 6 months i've been with them. very responsive staff, too. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | operon: Better than Tetris. Much better. I think that sums all.However I second the suggestions to make more clear what actions will led to the column and lateral block elimination. It take me a couple of plays to figure out.Congratulations for your work. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | warp: I use a share at www.gandi.net, 1 share isn't too expensive. In my experience they respond the same day to support emails, and you can enable temporary console access via their website in case you really messed up your installation.update: gandi is in france. |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | bbsabelli: Nice game. Aussie itunes store pretty please... |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | alex_c: I really think you might be on to something. It's just as much fun to play as any of the big hits in this genre I can think of - really is in the same class as Tetris, Bejeweled, etc.Some random thoughts:- I started reading the instructions, failed to visualize any of it, and said "screw it, I'll just start playing and pick it up as I go". The good news is the gameplay itself is very intuitive.- appearances are SO important in the iPhone world. If it looks like it's starting to pick up momentum, absolutely get a good designer on board and give it an overhaul. I can easily see someone else take your gameplay, give it a lot of polish, and release an app that will leave yours in the dust - that would really suck.edit: just bought the iPhone version. Well worth the $0.99. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | s3graham: There's no root access and might not suit you, but the answer to "what hosting do [I] use for personal projects?" is Google App Engine. It's really very convenient and easy for small things. (e.g. http://h4ck3r.net/, http://skulpt.org/) |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | spooneybarger: Seaside |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | pwpwp: GAE: if you can reduce your problem to searching in a b-tree, you're in heaven.GWT: code for the browser like it's 1984. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | aitoehigie: web2py and GAE |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | jorangreef: Tokyo Cabinet (key value storage: removed the "R" and "M" from "ORM", managed to get an object from disk to the client with the object being opaque to the server, cutting deserialization/serialization overhead down, implemented indexes to keep track of keys and got more of an idea of what MySQL does behind the scenes). |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | BerislavLopac: Django :) |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | simonw: Redis. It's a very different kind of database - being able to perform 80,000 set or list operations a second enables a whole bunch of solutions to otherwise difficult problems (real time stats stuff, writing in to activity streams etc). SRANDMEMBER on its own is invaluable since picking a random item from a regular relational database using ORDER BY RAND() tends to kill it stone dead under load. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | baguasquirrel: Haskell. I avoided it for the longest time because of the purely-functional-no-side-effects zealots. As it turns out, it is a surprisingly powerful and beautiful language, and you can get quite far without needing OO.The paradigm wars will rage on, but in the meantime, the rest of us have a language that has a rich library set and a very rewarding programming experience. The usefulness of applicative monads, functors and typeclasses have convinced me that there's something much, much bigger out there with regards to these so-called design patterns, something that we have not even begun to explore and discover. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | yason: Clojure.It's the first Lisp that, to me, is both fun _and_ practical.Java libraries aren't as simple as the Python counterparts but the maturity of the JVM vs. Python VM kind of balances that out. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | bigmac: LLVM. It is a ridiculously well written and well documented codebase. The transformation/optimization framework is remarkable and surprisingly approachable. The compiler intermediate representation is easy to work with both in the emitted bitcode files and in llvm's internal data structures. I find it a joy to work with.Its also cool due to all of the other great technologies that are taking advantage of it (Mono, Parrot, Adobe CS4, Apple)I think once llvm and clang become mature enough, the FOSS community will completely supplant gcc with this technology. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | chriseidhof: Haskell and the Cocoa Touch framework (sadly, not yet in conjunction).Haskell isn't really new, but it still is the best programming language I've worked with (yes, "best" is personal in this case). I don't think any other language allows me to write programs that are more concise.The other thing that 2009 brought me was iPhone Development. Although I don't like Objective-C that much, the Cocoa Touch framework is excellent. Once you get a grip on it and on the design patterns your code tends to get very small, too.With both these technologies I shared the same experience: at the start they look incomprehensible and working with them made me less productive. However, only after really learning them I started to full appreciate all the things. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | electronslave: Local storage, canvas, mobile location and websockets/long polling. I'd been away from the frontend for quite some time (2006-2008, an epoch in web standards terms) and learning these tools was a big part of 2008/09.While I'm not convinced of any flash-killer status, I've definitely seen/done enough to keep me interested. |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | maxklein: Just make a google group - I'd join it. |
Review my App - Freeciv.net | plaes: You've done a good job.I've been looking through the sources and found the "patches" directory. It would be cool if you had comments on top of every patch why it is needed. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | wlievens: hosteurope.dedirt cheat: good vps with loads of ram, disk and traffic for $20 or $30 per month. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | warp: CouchDB. A schema-less database just makes so much more sense for what I'm doing. (and it is extremely easy to use from python, due to couchdbkit). |
anyone interested in forming a group to review each others' copy? | lovskogen: Is there a Google Wave / Group for this? My email is the the profile. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | andrewcooke: opencl (if you've not heard of it, it's a way to program graphics cards - very like cuda, but cross-platform). we had some numerical code in matlab that was taking too long to run. i managed to get a speed-up of 80x by moving it to a gpu - and the gpu in question is not even the latest generation, but something we picked up on newegg for less than $200. and i suspect that's just for starters - i haven't even profiled it yet to see how to make it faster.using opencl isn't that much harder than c. obviously you need to understand a little about how gpus work, and there are all the same issues about allocating memory, segmentation faults, etc. but the compiler and runtime are quite solid, and the docs more than adequate. now that i am past the worst of the learning curve i'm looking around for more slow code, because it's an easy way to get more speed.also, django, but others have mentioned that (it's such a breath of fresh air if you're used to using java...). next year, i hope to play with llvm some (although it will have to be on my own time - can't see how to do that at work...) |
Please review my DropZap web demo. It's written using GWT. | blasdel: You absolutely need at least one carefully expository level to demonstrate the game mechanics. Play Wario's Woods for the NES, and you'll know what to do. Your textual description is awful, but I'm not sure how you could do it better -- so ditch it! Show, don't tell. Tell them just enough to inspire them to try it.Graphics. You don't need 3D anything, you don't need to turn the blocks into animal species with a story. You just need it to feel like someone considered it more rather than doing what the tools made easy -- taking stuff out will go a long way.You need sound effects, if not music. |
What are the best technologies you've worked with this year? | jazzychad: Node.js. Event driven I/O is so so sweet. I have sharpened my javascript fu over the last year or so, and being able to bring it server-side is surprisingly fun and easy. |
What hosting do you use for personal projects? | Jim_Neath: http://brightbox.co.uk all the way |
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