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Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps | portman: This scratches an itch for me. You had me at "accounting for Google Apps".However, I tried to sign up with my Google Apps domain. After authenticating with Google, and redirecting, I received this error:https://app.rhinoaccounting.com/gaccount/callback/?Internal Server Error
A server error prevented this page from being displayed. The administrator has been notified and will investigate the problem as soon as possible.There were a ton of query string parameters that may or may not be helpful in diagnosing the problem. |
Rate My Startup - LetMeGo: Let lodgings bid for your stay | pbz: I won't repeat what others said above, but I will add that I feel the home page is too gray / dark. The "search" page has a better color balance than the homepage. The way it is now it's rather depressing, and less inviting. Pretty nice otherwise. |
Detecting prototype mobile browsers | TallGuyShort: It's really all in the User-Agent string, and maybe a few other headers. All browsers have certain quirks that you could look for - but that wouldn't necessarily give away anything secret. The User-Agent string can very easily be cloaked however. Konqueror, for instance, let's you customize it by domain.Furthermore, I doubt Apple would test it's product on the wide-open web very much. I'm sure it has it's own internal network to test things on, and it's own set of browser rendering tests. |
Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps | qeorge: Some small things:- I'm not sure what you mean by "for Google Apps." Do they provide a platform like Zoho that you can plug into or does this simply mean you use their Google login and take advantage of Docs, Gmail, etc? This may be obvious to most, but not to me.- It would be better to use an obviously fake company name, like Acme Paper, on your sample invoices. The way you have it now (with the Rhino Accounting logo) could imply that my invoices will all have your logo on them. (This sounds ridiculous, but we use Quickbooks Online now, and they're quite overzealous about inserting their branding where it doesn't belong)- The second screenshot is confusing. It looks like I'm about to send an invoice to a company named Paper Supplies for several thousand dollars worth of paper.- On the 3rd screenshot, why is the Businesses tab highlighted (3rd tab) but the heading says People (2nd tab)?- As others have pointed out, there's some inconsistent capitalization. Two that I see remaining: - "Data is Secure" (homepage)
- "Lake view Furniture" (1st screenshot)
- Navigation menu in the top right changes from page to page. Click through the Sign Up flow to see what I mean.- On the blog, your headings are overlapping the date line below- Also on the blog, you're showing ads in the sidebar. I know its a free service, but if this isn't a significant source of revenue I would kill it.- Also on the blog, you have a "Powered By Google App Engine" logo, but on another comment here you've said you are not using App Engine. Which is it? |
What day to launch, how to get press coverage? | aaronblohowiak: Do you need to "launch" ? |
Is hiring a PR company a good investment for a startup? | krav: PR agencies are what corporate managers hire to justify their marketing budgets. You're a startup. Be scrappy. Be creative. Think outside the box. You'll come up with ideas and ways to market far far more effective for your market than most PR agencies. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | teuobk: Have you considered going back to finish your degree? If you think you might want to finish it at some point, the sooner the better, because it will only become more difficult to go back to an academic environment. Also, school could give you a chance to step back and "relax" while you figure out your next play. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | anonceo: I had a similar experience. I'm also 26. Are you in the Bay Area? It doesn't matter, though I'd love to meet in person.Drop me an email at M8R-c9rbgg@mailinator.com and let's talk. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | aditya: What do you want to do? You can definitely go to one of the bigger companies - which is a great way to network till your next startup idea hits, and there's also the EIR gig that's been talked about here a little bit slightly better than being an associate. |
Kindle v/s ipod touch | pw: After getting one for Christmas, I've started doing almost all of my reading on an iPod Touch.I think the form factor is perfect--you can read in any position (I've always struggled to read books while lying in bed on my side), and the short lines of text make for easy reading (notice that the screen is almost exactly as wide as a newspaper column). I'm sure e-ink is nice, but reading from an LCD all day has never bothered me and still doesn't (probably because I still have young eyes).Along with Kindle books, I read online materials using the ReaditLater app after saving links to ReaditLater when I find them (often on a desktop). The app will both format pages nicely for the Touch as well as download them for offline reading. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | maxklein: Go back to school and finish what you started. It will be harder later, and you don't want to spend your life justifying why you don't have a degree. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | andrew1: > ...can I go to the big guys (Microsoft, Google, etc?). Can I go become an associate at a VC firm?If you're interested in these kind of jobs then why not try and get one. If you want to work at Google, apply to Google. If you want to work at a VC company, get in contact with some of them and discuss it with them.In my experience (of both being an interviewee and an interviewer) a degree helps get you in the door, but it's your ability and experience that decides whether you get the job or not.Good luck! |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | jeffmould: Not sure on Google, but I know first hand that Microsoft will hire without a college degree. All depends on what your skill set is and how well you can sell yourself to them.On the other hand, I would recommend going back to finish your degree if you can afford to. While getting a technology job without a degree is not all that difficult, the degree will only help you in the long run and can be the make or break difference between two candidates with some companies. It is also can be seen as a sign that you follow through and complete tasks at hand.Trust me though, going from a startup environment to "corporate" America can be a bit daunting. While you say you want a slower pace, when confronted with that slower pace you will probably start to pull your hair out. I would recommend going to a startup, if you are not in a founder/cofounder role you will find it to be a lot slower while at the same time the enjoyable fast pace of a startup environment.My best recommendation would be to complete your degree part-time while working for a startup. |
Is hiring a PR company a good investment for a startup? | medianama: No. You can do a much better job yourself |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | biji: Contact me. bijan.pourriahi@gmail.comI have an idea for you |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | msort: Google will value your startup experience. As long as you can prove your problem-solving and programming skills in the job interview, you will get a job offer as a Google software engineer. |
best way to quicky prototype/pilot Stackoverflow kind of website? | davidw: * Build it yourself with something that's fast for development, like Rails or Django.* Pay the guys who work on the clones to add features.* Pay a contractor to work on the open source clones.* Work on the open source clones yourself.* Get lucky and find something better than what you've found so far.My guess is that improving the open source clones is your best bet. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | dhouston: I've known a few people in this situation. If you're feeling completely burned out, you might want to chill out and travel around for a few weeks (or whatever) to clear your head. After that:- If you want, go back and get your degree (it only gets harder as you get older)- Do an entrepreneur-in-residence gig (instead of an associate.) From what I've seen, EIRs do anything from hanging out and shooting the shit all day (i.e. very little) to reviewing investments/networking/helping portfolio companies to actively incubating their next idea (or a bunch of ideas simultaneously)- Join a growing startup that is past the ramen-fueled-fight-for-survival frenzy, which might be a good balance of upside vs expected value. A lot of former YC founders do this if their companies don't work out. As a current venture-backed founder/CEO, I can say with certainty that your startup experience would be highly valued.- Join Google, Microsoft, or Facebook, check your dreams at the door, and ride out comfortably into a middle-aged sunset (I kid, I kid.)Feel free to email me at drew at dropbox[dot]com if you want stories or intros to people who have been through this. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | dnsworks: Once you've failed at one VC-backed startup, it's usually fairly easy to get funding for an infinite string of other failed VC-backed startups. I have quite a few friends with no less than 1/2 dozen startups under their belts over the past 12 years which never profited, and often never brought in revenue. Think of Venture Capital as upper middle-class welfare. |
API limitations for Web services | aditya: The thing with Twitter is, that they don't really want to kill their app ecosystem, but really just want to keep growing because of their app ecosystem, they only want to be the transport layer so it is highly unlikely that they would come out and kill your project by duplicating it.A perfect example is the completely under-powered lists feature, the API is super powerful but twitter's implementation is as barebones as it can be, possibly because they want to encourage other people to build on top of their stack.Have you looked at the Streaming API for your ideas? You can also get full firehose access if it really does become successful. Obviously, sharecropping on someone else's farm is never a brilliant idea but if you're going to do it, Twitter may not be such a bad place to do it... |
API limitations for Web services | PanMan: Twitter has kinda relaxed limits for search. I have done 1 req every few seconds, and that was fine.
Their normal API has more constraints, but it's supposedly not that hard to get your limit lifted to 20K queries/hour.. |
API limitations for Web services | pierrefar: Depending how often your searches update, you might be able to get away with using the RSS feeds from search.twitter.com. |
Rate my startup: beepl.com | jparicka: Bonus: http://twitpic.com/xyyd0 |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | thafman: OK; twitter for enterprise, nice UI, not really seeing how you differ from Yammer.Side topic; has anyone succeed long-term with get[name].com? Or do you always end up buying your dot-com name? |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | roundsquare: Very interesting. You can really just click and get started it appears.Question (and this is probably going to show my ignorance): How do you make money on this. I thought most web startups made money through ads or selling stuff... you don't appear to do either. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | maxklein: I find it difficult to understand why you would want to do this exact thing that a lot of other companies have done and you are not even innovating. It looks very similar to twitter or yammer - could you not have used them as a base to rethink communication even more?Your app can work if you do a lot of marketing - but it's not innovative or new. You will have a hard time getting people excited about this, because they have already seen it.Competition should be used as a base to improve on - and I'm not sure where your improvement is. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | Murkin: 1. I didn't notice the "No signup required" at first. Shame.
2. After the interface is very clean and easy to use.
3. You really need an easier way to add people. (FB/Google Addr import/etc).Good luck ! |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | redwax: Why name it after 4chans admin ? |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | ivenkys: Pros : Very clean user interfaceCons :(A) User Login should be the first thing , rather than what are you working on. Simply because it gives me confidence that the app knows who i am.(B) If i cannot "Manage my domain(change settings)" without having to set myself up - then enabling that link on the side is just confusing.(C) If you are using the terminology "Groups" then i would think it should be "Individual" rather than "People". People is plural as well isn't it.(D) When adding a New Unnamed user - the app comes with - added new user False, I understand what you are saying there but me thinks it can be put better. Also, attempting to make a new unnamed user moderator comes up with - "Are you sure you want to make False a moderator ?" - surely better wording there.My 2 pennies mate.I know there are other similar products but i don't think that should stop you from developing this further. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | wavesplash: You have plenty of options right now (the market is hot). Some thoughts:- Take a 2-3 week vacation somewhere else far away from the valley- Come back and see how you feel afterwards- http://founderdating.com (not quite what it sounds like)Don't do the EIR thing. Better to go moonlight for free for a week at companies that seem interesting to you. It's amazing how spending time around a healthy/functional startup will cause you to recover from burnout.And yes, without a college degree you can work for some of the big guys. As long as you have relevant experience on the resume to fill in the time gap, you'll be fine. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | koevet: Would be cool to have a video to showcase functionalities. Even with a free sign-in is kind of empty in there. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | bobjones: Very cool. Simple to use. I think that showing the billing model on the site would help a lot. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | markh: You should show your pricing up front. I'd never start a trial if I didn't know what the price was going to be after the 30 day trial was up. I'd be worried I'd like it but would find the price too high. |
Why is my submission dead? | thafman: Dude what did you submit? |
Book-project is a total failure, but what exactly can we learn from it? | ebook: uhm... clickable links:Blog: http://careeradvicebook.comSales Page: http://www.careeradvicebook.com/book/ |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | authentic: You will be doing another startup.My experience is that once you have worked for yourself/equity the mere thought of being employed by other people becomes impossible to bear. |
Book-project is a total failure, but what exactly can we learn from it? | DanielStraight: Wait, so let me get this right. You have had no customers. So where are the customer reviews coming from? |
Idea Management App | umbrae: Hey Ideahacker, I work at Kindling (http://www.kindlingapp.com) - if you want a free 30 day trial I can set you up with one. Let me know. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | thedob: I have an idea and ongoing project that I'd love to run by you in case you're interested. Drop me an email at petkanics@gmail.com |
Why is my submission dead? | yummyfajitas: I'm also curious about this process. I also had a submission killed yesterday, and I can't see an obvious reason.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065167(How Common Lisp programmers view other languages) |
Is hiring a PR company a good investment for a startup? | charleyrock: Thanks for the input...very much. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | andreshb: In short: Put prices upfront.First question was, I already use skype chatrooms, why do I need a twitter-like client internally?
And I got the answer right away on the home page. Good job.I then went to the pricing and saw that its a 30 day trial, and after that, who knows how much Ill be charged. This deters me from trying it out and then invite my team to use it, simply because I dont know how much its going to cost me and I dont want to invest time and effort having my team use it, so that at the end of 30 days, I will be charged an unknown sum of money.It is kind of like a really weird bait-and-switch, "lets do business, but dont worry about the price yet, just trust me"Other than that, the design is pretty simple and straight to the point, there seems to be no learning curve for people that have already used twitter, which will work perfectly for my team. |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | davidw: If you want something 'universal', Knuth's books might be a decent place to start, although you won't be doing anything practical for a while.I think the field is too new, changing too rapidly, and has too many people with widely varying goals (computer science vs make a small web site in PHP) to really have much that's 'universal' besides "get out there and practice!". |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | jacquesm: That's got to be the most difficult to answer question ever here.It's like asking how to climb Mount Everest. The flippant answer of course is 'by taking the first step'.What you learn first is different for everybody, just like that first step on to the path that leads to the summit of Mount Everest is different for everybody. It depends, in the first place, on where you currently are.So without knowing where you currently are it is next to impossible to answer the question in a way that would make sense to you.Could you maybe describe a bit of what you already know, your skills and your experience to date? That would help enormously. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | petervandijck: If you want people to actually use it, drop the 30-day trial thing. I'm not gonna try out a new tool with a 30-day trial and no further pricing info.If you can't decide on pricing for now, just say "free during beta". Drop the pricequote thing too, you're not selling expensive enterprise software (if you are I wouldn't want to use it). |
Why is my submission dead? | davi: Email the admins, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064973 |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | charleyrock: I know nothing about programming (maybe that is obvious from the odd question). If someone had an interest in learning, where would he start? Are the paths so varied that even the basics are not universal? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | icey: I switch languages a lot in the course of a week, this will be very useful to me.It seems really well polished - I like the look, and I was able to find everything I wanted to find. Well done! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | raju: I like it. Clean layout, easy to find what I was looking for (even searched for Clojure).But is this merely an aggregation of cheat-sheets off of the web? Is there any review process involved before a cheat-sheet shows up on your list? I guess what I am getting at is how is this different from me just searching google for "emacs cheatsheets"? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Vindexus: Like it. There's a lot of content and it's well organized.It would be nice if there was more information on each cheat sheet before I clicked it. Maybe a list of things that are in it (Class Functions, String Functions, Regex Expressions for example). Or add more tags to each cheatsheet.Keep up the good work. |
Android development, revenue and compatibility | chrisb: Is anyone actually doing any Android development? |
Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps | SimonDorfman: I'm interested in trying it out for our group (gumbolabs.org, a non-profit corporation, a hackerspace). Can you suggest how one would use your site for these needs?:-manage monthly dues paid by members (each member is a client?)--breakdown of what i mean by "manage": mark each month as paid, be able to easily see who hasn't paid, be able to mark a whole year as paid.-track expenses like rent and internet bill-project into the future so see our financial health
thanks! |
Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps | kapauldo: Most small businesses have no idea what Google Apps is and why they need it. My advice is, let people try this instantly. Your registration asks for a domain. Hacker News folks understand this, but 99% of small business will abandon. I think you are in a great market and I think small business would gladly pay maybe $30-50/year for this or some kind of volume based payments, like, say over 5,000 journal entries is this price, and over 10,000 is this, etc. Remember, anyone can go to Office Max and buy Peachtree for $30. Online, access anywhere, automatically backed up, sharing with my accountant with one click, there are great great opportunities here for web/cloud based accounting. If you appeal to small businesses cheapness this will do great.I'd eliminate the "Google apps" altogether and just make this work transparently, FWIW.Also, I am a Peachtree expert, have a CPA requirements from school (I abandoned accounting after my first job interview) and I'd be happy to give you more feedback if that's helpful. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | yannis: This is an excellent resource and done very professionally. I like the clean site look and nothing is more than two clicks away. Surely it will be a winner with developers.Let us know when your new year's resolution traffic is on target! Nice blog too:) |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | lpgauth: Funny, I read "Life Cheat Sheet" instead of "Lift Cheat Sheet". |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | joshfinnie: I loved your site when I first saw it... So much I submitted it myself:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052937 |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | olalonde: Nice collection ! Community moderation/features would be nice. |
Android development, revenue and compatibility | dminor: Compatibility isn't much of an issue unless you are doing something low level with the NDK, or are using an API that has changed significantly between versions (most are fairly stable). Otherwise just follow the recommendations from the Android team for different screen sizes, etc.I haven't released my app yet and it's going to be free initially anyway, so I don't have any direct observations on revenue. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | johns: You have a couple of cheat sheets of mine in your directory, which I appreciate. However, you directly link to the PDFs. It would be nice if you included a link to my site that lists the sheets I've made. Maybe on the source page for my name? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | rudle: Some user voting might be nice. This would likely create a canonical cheat sheet for each section.For instance, here http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/ruby/ the first cheat sheet isn't even ruby specific, and I think this is a lose.Otherwise, a great site I'll likely be using it in the future. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Maro: What I'd like is being able to type in a big search textbox sth like:"java try catch syntax"and it would automatically (without me hitting enter) fetch the sample code and display it in a nice syntax-highlighted manner. It should also offer auto-completion like Google (eg. after I typed "java try"...).Or:"php class syntax"
"svn ignore files"
"diff show side by side"
"c++ template function"
etc.It'd be a lot of work but it seems doable and it'd be a killer destination site for programmers. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | turtle4: I like that you can just log in and get started. But having to send a link and/or email to add a person works against that. Why can't I add people just by name until I decide to roll it out, at which point I could send the link/email. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | prabodh: Simple Interface..Some of the links to stanford seems to be broken.. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | jorisvoorn: Nice, clean & beautiful design, so the overview great :)Already bookmarked! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | tezza: Hi there Tim Church. Nice clean site.It looks like this is a well-named niche bookmark browsing site. I looked for more detailed About, but could only find the rather terse text mentioned at the bottom of each page. Do you personally do the maintenance and curation?I don't mind at all if you (Tim Church) do it, its just important to know whos opinion forms the content and how well any broken links or tech advances will be catered for.Good work BTW, no matter who has the keys to Djangos Admin Interface! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | rasikjain: Very clean UI. Like the collection of cheatsheets. |
An app to organize business-cards ? | csuper: Have you considered Evernote? You can input text or take photos. Then tag them all to keep it organized. |
Do BillingCircle, Spreedly, Chargify, Cheddargetter need Authorize.net? | marcguyer: CheddarGetter does not require a merchant account or gateway while kicking the tires or while you are in the development or testing phase. You will need a merchant account and gateway before you accept real money but the two processes can run concurrently. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | stse: If you are looking to evolve the site here are some suggestions: Create an online editor in javascript or flash that lets your users create and edit cheat sheets online. Leverage a CC license so your users can print and spread the created cheat sheets (free advertising). Sell prints (photos), mousepads, booklets etc. While offering free products or a monetary reward to the authors (threadless style). Also let the author give their reward to a related organization (like the python software foundation for a python cheat sheet). Keep user participation high and the site organized with tagging and ranking features. |
An app to organize business-cards ? | Scott_MacGregor: I use Outlook with Business Contact Manager. It was a pain to get it set up just like I wanted it, but now i am glad I did. I discard hardcopies of business cards and just manually put the info into Outlook along with any notes I want to make. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | lionshare: great. bookmarked. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | chewbranca: Very nice! Already useful for me, thanks! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | trusko: Very handy, good job! Bookmarked. Thanks. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | davidw: (Nitpick: It's Tcl, not TCL) |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | hariis: Good job pulling together all these cheatsheets and a nice site too!Next step would be for something like a cheat sheet wiki where the information has a clear time stamp and has the possibility of being kept accurate.This is a problem with these pdf cheat sheets. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | DanHulton: Goddamn that's slick. That goes straight in my bookmarks.Any chance you could get an XNA section? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Adrenalist: Very useful, but the :: separators are distracting. I think that most first-time visitors are looking to scan your collection for a particular technology (that's what I did).This view [http://devcheatsheet.com/?view=tag] is more readable. How about using the 'tag' view layout, but add categories to make browsing easier.Another suggestion: add 3 or 4 'similar cheat sheets' to each cheat sheet to facilitate browsing and reduce bounce rates. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | zokier: Seems that you are currently hotlinking the cheatsheets from other sites. imho it would be nicer to host the files yourself, to prevent link rot and to not "steal" other peoples bandwidth. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | CWuestefeld: Nice, it's bookmarked now. Good organization, looks pretty complete.(Why are so many cheat sheets needed for SQL injection?) |
What do you use for bookkeeping? | tubaman: I use a combination of a quick-n-dirty double-entry accounting django app, and web scraping scripts for my bank/credit bards online accounts so I don't have to enter stuff in manually. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | thinkbohemian: This is really convenient, very well done. Is there any way we could network a text editor such as TextMate, to pull context help depending on the file/language you're currently using? So you press F1 and it would send you to the appropriate PDF...? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | AdamN: There seems to be no understanding of 'version' by the search algorithm. For instance with Python:http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/python/Version 2.4 is near the top. Even if that was the most popular cheat sheet, there should be some way to have references for newer versions at the top. I know it's a tough problem that Google hasn't cracked even, but it would be nice to have addressed even with a workaround like a version keyword for each cheat sheet and then a list of versions on the right side. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | WonkoMeatJimp: Visualize failure, and then don't do that. I suggest you immediatley start creating innovative features that will set you apart from the rest of the crowd. You only get one real chance at a flash point and potential customers need to see what sets you apart from everyone else. I would focus all my time on the features that you feel will solve enterprise microblogging. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | CoreyReese: I did a three year stint as an associate at a venture firm. Drop a line: c.reese@gmail.com if you'd like perspective. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Sukotto: http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...Is in the "vi" section but not the "Vim" one. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | lpolovets: Great implementation!Most of your visitors will be coming because they want to learn a language from a cheat sheet or have a quick reference. This seems like a great target audience for Amazon links. If you had 2-3 books you recommended in the right sidebar for each category, I think that might fare better than Google Ads. Could be worth A/B testing. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | fakir: You should add a button that says "Report broken link". For example the My UNIX cheatsheet under ssh is broken. What do you think? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | fuzzythinker: Browsers would be nice. Best organization I've seen! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | evandavid: I like it. Though I feel that some of these guides don't really qualify as cheat sheets. I consider a cheat sheet to be a quick reference with helpful commands, syntax, examples etc. Some of these documents are just condensed howto guides. For instance, most of the SEO ones. Something to think about anyway. |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | pasbesoin: Unless you have a strong, raw intellectual motivation in the endeavor, start by learning whatever allows you to accomplish tasks of interest to you. This is a strong motivating factor. If you like it, you'll keep learning more in order to accomplish more.Tasks that save you time and effort are a good place to start. Tasks that entertain you are another.In this regard, a scripting language with a good interface to your system (file access, graphics/presentation support, network support) is often cited as a good place to start. Many people suggest Python.As you move to tackling larger problems, and/or growing your previous work, you'll find it beneficial to learn more about designs and techniques that aid in staying organized, keeping your work maintainable and efficient, etc. At that point, you'll want to look beyond the references for the language you started in and learn more general principles. (But even when you start, look for the BEST references in the language of your choice. The best references incorporate some of this context and explain it well, giving you a head start and helping you to avoid "bad" practices you may latter have to "unlearn".)P.S. Perhaps implied in the above, the environment you want to work in / control will influence your choice. For "general" programming -- freestanding programs running on your machine -- you might find e.g Python the best starting point. If you mostly want to control things in your browser, then Javascript (along with HTML, CSS, and the DOM model -- which is already incorporating a quantity of semi-arbitrary detail that frustrates some people). If you were trying to ease administering a UNIX-flavor environment, you might consider Perl. If you spend most of your time in Microsoft Office documents, then Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) or whatever it is these days.How long it takes depends largely on you. Some people, particularly with a strong motivation to accomplish specific things, learn quite a lot in a couple of months. On the other hand, I've worked with people having technology degrees who nonetheless seem fairly clueless. |
Review my location tracking site | Vindexus: I like the clean simplistic design. I also like that you have a short "privacy policy" right on the page.I'd so some testing on the "Where Are You?" button because it might confuse users into thinking that they have to put where THEY are when they click that button. Maybe "Send Question" or even just "Go".I don't have an iPhone so I can't test what comes up when you receive the email but the home page is really well done. |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | adamzochowski: Concepts, typically most important are: . variables
. code
. conditional code (if statements)
. repeating code (loops/while/until/for)
. code grouping (procedures/methods/functions)
. variable grouping (records/structs)
More advanced concepts then become . boolean logic (extension to conditionals)
. Object oriented coding (think: code+struct grouping)
. namespaces (think: grouping of objects)
. generics / reflections
. pointers
(certain languages expose this completely
(some implicitly: through pass by val or pass by ref
(some implicitly: by primitives vs objects
. preprocessor (only certain languages)
. recursion (repeating code but through function)
. functional features
----How do you pick these concepts up? Few ways, but I think the following three are most common:1) Old School Method :: Understand what is happening on the bare metal, and then work building syntactic sugar between what is happening really, and what you want to happen. Assembly
-> C
-> OPP (C++/Java/C#)
-> scripting (Perl/Python/Ruby)
-> Functional (Lisp)
2) New Schooling :: Doing simple things in simple way (KISS principle), and then moving towards complicated systems ( a decent litmus test for language complexity is 'hello world' program. The more lines / syntax it requires, the more complicated language is. For example: for Java one needs to use objects / namespaces / static methods / functions / etc ) -> used by new academia Scripting (Python/Ruby)
-> C#/Java/C++
3) Learning on the job :: fixing existing code, read code, tweak it, rinse, repeat. Learn from examples. Used by some vocational schools.----Libraries are in itself own big concept. Languages without libraries are bare, and, outside of curiosity, not practical. Very often knowing a language implies not only understanding of language grammar, but also it's librariesYou can think that libraries define half of what is considered programming language. For C++ you got STL/Boost. For Perl you got CPAN.Kind regardsAdam Żochowski |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Skriticos: Any chance for a QT entry in the Libraries & Frameworks section? That's defiantly a framework worth noting, but I'm not sure how much cheatsheets are out there for it. They are kind of hard to find. |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | charleyrock: Wow - great input. Thanks very much. |
Review my site - readit.me | kungfooey: I started out with Java, but I've worked in PHP for a few years now. I dabbled with Django, but this is my first attempt to build anything useful in Rails. It uses the Amazon API to gather book data, and obviously authlogic + facebooker for Facebook Connect. |
Review my site - readit.me | azeemazhar2: Hey that is really nice. Will it show me recommendations in some way? |
Review my site - readit.me | hajrice: First of all, when I arrive, I have no idea What the app is for, how it helps me, etc. I suggest you add a paragraph or two explaining what it does and how to get started.
But overall it's a pretty cool site. Good luck! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | johndoe77: Excellent work. I'm telling all my friends about this great resource. |
Review my site - readit.me | CWuestefeld: Is this just a way for me to log what books I've read? I'm not really getting the point, I'm sorry to say. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Concours: excellent work, just bookmarked it. The only thing I'll recommend you is to improve that adsense there or look for a new revenue model, you won't earn much from it at the place it is, maybe sell ebooks later: kind of the "devcheatsheet book". |
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