Building a .com in 24 hours(dominiek.com)
dominiek.com
Building a .com in 24 hours
http://dominiek.com/articles/2008/1/6/building-a-com-in-24-hours
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I loved the parenthetical note by TextMate "...use the trial version and reset your clock!" Since you're building commercial software, the folks at TextMate might want to have a discussion with you, dude...
I thought that comment lent a lot of insight into the mind of the author.
On one hand, he's trying to make a buck. On the other, he figures it's okay to take advantage of someone else in the same situation.
I wonder if he even understands the contradiction of ethics?
On one hand, he's trying to make a buck. On the other, he figures it's okay to take advantage of someone else in the same situation.
I wonder if he even understands the contradiction of ethics?
In his defense, he wrote this in response to a comment similar to yours:
"Actually, I am paying for TextMate, I guess I wanted to make a comment about trying to do things cheaply - bad joke. If one piece of software is worth buying it, it's TextMate!"
He also just deleted the part about resetting your clock from the post. Sounds like he was just trying to spice things up a little.
"Actually, I am paying for TextMate, I guess I wanted to make a comment about trying to do things cheaply - bad joke. If one piece of software is worth buying it, it's TextMate!"
He also just deleted the part about resetting your clock from the post. Sounds like he was just trying to spice things up a little.
Very nice article, but what is this?
> Running things in the background X dubbed backgrounding X is > an important part of production ready web applications. It's > a relatively new concept, since web applications used to be > less complex.
That made me smile.
> Running things in the background X dubbed backgrounding X is > an important part of production ready web applications. It's > a relatively new concept, since web applications used to be > less complex.
That made me smile.
Most useful article I've read in a long time. Grat for rails developers who wan't to put stuff out there fast.
"...24 concentrated hours spread out over 4 days..."
Oh.
Reminded me of the old Steven Wright joke when he went to the Quickie Mart and it was closed.
He said, "But the sign says 'Open 24 Hours'"
The owner replied, "Not in a row."
Oh.
Reminded me of the old Steven Wright joke when he went to the Quickie Mart and it was closed.
He said, "But the sign says 'Open 24 Hours'"
The owner replied, "Not in a row."
I tried to reach the site he built few times today and it was down every time I tried to open it. Ouch.
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.
Reason: Error reading from remote server
Proxy Error
The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /.
Reason: Error reading from remote server
The article uses links in red and blue. That confuses me a bit - Wikipedia has trained me to see red links as indicating missing targets.
Anyone else sharing this affliction?
Anyone else sharing this affliction?
I think i broke it :-X
No worries!
I had some issues with a sudden spike in load so I just added an extra machine. Hope that will get me going for a couple of days :-)
I had some issues with a sudden spike in load so I just added an extra machine. Hope that will get me going for a couple of days :-)
It wasn't working for me yesterday as well, but it looks like all is well again.
However, one thing that I've gotten used to with sites using textareas meant for copying and pasting is that when you click in the box it automatically selects all of the text for you, eliminating the need for any scrolling. For sites like yours whose success is based not only on its usefulness but also the small amount of time needed to get started, minor shortcuts like that can dramatically change the overall user experience if you can make your set up as painless as possible.
However, one thing that I've gotten used to with sites using textareas meant for copying and pasting is that when you click in the box it automatically selects all of the text for you, eliminating the need for any scrolling. For sites like yours whose success is based not only on its usefulness but also the small amount of time needed to get started, minor shortcuts like that can dramatically change the overall user experience if you can make your set up as painless as possible.
Great article.