floydprice
Location: UK, Midlands
Technologies: Node, SQL, HTML
Experience: Must have a few years doing full-stack web development with good recent Node experience.
Anything from 10 hours per week to full time available.
Email me: floyd _at_ hampton _dot_ io
Congratulations on reaching 3.0!
This and "The Pragmatic Programmer" are my top two books, relating to Software Development and Running a small business.
These guys deserve to make a good living from this product as its made a profound difference to the Ruby community which i think sometimes gets taken for granted.
FYI, this illustrates the solutions impact pretty well: http://cl.ly/0C0C1j3U1e2G0a193F35
Now don't get me wrong, I think its amazing that Twitter are opening up these enhancements to the community, but it feels like a kick in the teeth to the memcached folks to slap a twitter badge on it, why isn't this a collaboration that benefits the whole community? you know, like open source used to work.
I know at 34 I'm a dinosaur in this industry but I do try to keep up with the new way of doing things... This just feels wrong to me.
The subtext to some of the comments here suggesting that its all made up, is really odd! Why would 37 Signals even need to waste ours or their time making this up? They run Basecamp!! they really don't need to impress us with selling a relatively small business! its completely beneath them!
Instead of poking holes in this story, we really should be celebrating it. Building a business of this size is not that hard, a few hundred customers and a solid model and by solid model i mean, Charging for your product is all it takes. If this doesn't serve as inspiration to us all then i don't know what will.
My absolute favorite feature is hitting the alt key (from any app) and being about to navigate the menus and options e.g. in FireFox Alt > Type "Edit" and i see all the options available - Very Slick and means i can use the keyboard to effectively navigate all apps now, Previous versions of unity didn't really lend themselves to this.
From an engineering point of view i have to say that this is impressive, very keen to see what tools you come up with to aid the development process, a TextMate bundle to compile and deploy to the sim would be super sweet ;-)
Using Balsamiq mockups in the Enterprise
Now you can use supported production stacks, for instance https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B0078VKDDI/ref=brs_res... is a supported Rails production stack its secure and has an SLA... This is a big deal.
Choosing a business partner.
Shuold we add Internet Exporer Support
Our new SaaS project http://collabable.com (currently in Beta) is progressing niceley, we are however aware of a number of rendering issues with Internet Exlorer (6,7 and 8).After looking at the analytics it looks like only 4% of our user base is running Internet Explorer. Like most software houses, for us, Internet Explorer is dead but until now we have always been keen to keep support for it...