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Notifications can be useful for web apps. A good rule of thumb is to only ask for permission when the user interacts with your app. For example, I ask for permission when the user clicks a button with the text "Enable Push Notifications" on the user settings screen. Then I let the user choose what kind of notifications they'd like to receive - typically CRUD actions for entities that the user cares about.

Curious as to how PasswordMaker either uses weak crypto or "suffers from critical flaws". Master Password seems to be more flexible with features like password counter and a customizable password policy (this is especially cool if it is customizable per domain). Unfortunately for me iOS-only is a deal breaker. PasswordMaker has clients that run on everything. The two I use most are the "PasswordMaker Pro" Chrome extension and the PasswordMaker X Android app.

https://github.com/passwordmaker/chrome-passwordmaker

https://github.com/eddieringle/PasswordMaker_X

HTTPS on the signup form (or everywhere)?

Give this clip about 5 minutes, it's a pretty good explanation of sexual orientation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCNgknc7Qv8&t=45m52s

The entire series of lectures is excellent if you thought this was insightful.

If you can, go with ASP.NET MVC or MonoRail - "regular" ASP.NET will be probably be frustrating given your background. ASP.NET makes it difficult to control the generated html and js, and likes to pretend the web is stateless (viewstate).

I've noticed an increase in heavy server side and client side jobs, oh and can you do some Flash stuff too? Maybe there are some folks that are really strong on the server and know Flash but I haven't met any.

I don't like it... I LOVE it.

One idea would be to give some preliminary/basic info for free so the customer "gets" something. Then a "login or create an account to see more".

I suppose the tricky part about doing that would be giving the customer something that they would value while leaving them compelled to want more.

FDC Servers (fdcservers.net) is another good option for high bandwidth sites. 100 meg unmetered line (you can push 15 - 20 TB/mo) - good colo and dedicated server pricing.

1. digg. I still visit digg once in a while but for tech news HN is a better fit. HN has great comments while it seems that a lot of commenters on digg are trying to make puns.

Tried to sign up but all I got was an animated gif in the popup window. Tried with Safari and FF on OS X.

Edit: The popup worked from /courses but not from the home page.