danielcrenna
Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language?
on Friday March 23, 2012 @10:48PM (#3748302)
YES. THANK YOU.
Re:I'm turning 30 and I've produced no amazing art.
on Sunday December 18, 2011 @02:25AM (#3366188)
I wrote a little response for you, which I hope will help in some small way. You're a really brave dude, and you're clearly not alone. (http://danielcrenna.com/post/14394588037/code-soloist-19-int...)
Re:(Re)defining Competition
on Monday June 20, 2011 @02:56PM (#2675460)
Hell hath no indifference like the status quo. A problem or market doesn't exist until it can prove that it's painful enough to find a solution.
Re:Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP
on Friday June 03, 2011 @01:45PM (#2617264)
Cosign, I find it takes me the same amount of time to fold in a full theme into an ASP.NET MVC site using Razor. It's all just markup in the end, and whatever angle-bracket tax you're paying for server-side includes. Normally the most time intensive part is replacing paths to statics in CSS and HTML.
Re:Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP
on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @12:54AM (#2601370)
Great call on Themeforest. The added benefit of using a prefab admin skin is that you can actually build your entire concept before you need to think about paying a designer. Many of the themes have a built-in grid system (if they aren't using 966 outright) so that you can build UI workflows after creating mockups. I have made this mistake in the past but would now never hire designer if I hadn't already built a working prototype of every screen, and for that I use ThemeForest HTML5 skins.
Re:Building a Startup: 12 Priceless Tools for Launching Your MVP
on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @12:51AM (#2601362)
An alternative to 99designs that I've used successfully in the past is BrandStack.com; you can only choose from ready-made designs, but they are high quality and the designers usually are willing to adapt for your branding. They also have Upstack.com which is a similar service to 99designs but you get a little bit more of a warm fuzzy feeling since it's not "on-spec".
Re:Should I switch from Sendgrid to Amazon SES?
on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:54PM (#2141301)
I'm leading Postmark's API development. Amazon SES is clearly going to be the low cost provider; nobody's going to compete on price. Time will tell what their actual deliverability rates are, what their spam handling really looks like, etc. I agree that price is a weak argument in any market. Now that we're at bottom, we'll see lots of innovation in this space, and everybody will win as a result. We have a great roadmap ahead with Postmark.