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By "cents", you really mean "minor currency unit" I assume? In British Pounds, it would be pennies for example. The doc doesn't explain how the library deals with the various diffe…

Facebook have recently launched Lead Ads [0] which could make them work for an entreprise product campaign if you can find the correct targeting. Worth trying it out. [0] https://w…

Relevant piece of trivia: I went to a meetup at Facebook's London offices a few months back and heard a presentation from the FB @ Work lead. This may surprise some but FB @ Work w…

To add to discussion, I've found this interview with Malte Schwarzkopf to be quite enlighning to understand how Omega, Kubernetes and Mesos fit together: https://blog.kismatic.com/…

It's the LearnGaelic app created for BBC Scotland (or, more specifically for LearnGaelic, a partnership between the BBC and local organizations that promote the use of the Scottish…

No - I've never worked with Xamarin (although I'll be looking at it in the coming days / weeks for a personal project - it looks quite sweet now). But I've got loads of experience …

My anecdotal evidence: tried it when I was looking for my first contracting gig in Jan 2014. Got one serious lead (short-term contract for native iOS app development with immediate…

This is the sort of "startup" that I've seen commonly done by self-proclaimed "serial entrepreneurs". Hire a developer for next-to-nothing / hour in the Philipines, India or China.…

I was on the other side of this equation a couple of years ago - co-founder of a London-based tech startup that had just finished an accelerator and raised a £100k round of seed fu…

I'd be interested to hear about this as well. The £40k - £60k range is indeed what you can expect to get as an intermediate to senior software developer in London (add maybe anothe…

Using the Foursquare API for this sort of data aggregation service (i.e. for stalking people) has been done many times before. Unsurprisingly, Foursquare didn't like it one bit [0]…

This is typical of government-run or funded programs. The problem is that the word "startup" doesn't have a universally agreed upon definition and different people have radically d…

You can certainly ask these questions. In fact, as a startup co-founder myself, I would find a prospective employee asking these questions to be a very good sign as it demonstrates…

Same problem here and I know quite a few people who've had these issues as well. iMessage is a huge mess - even if you're still using your iPhone. Back in December, when I was stil…

You mentioned EventVue's excellent post-mortem already. But for anyone thinking of building a startup in that space, Josh Fraser (EventVue's co-founder)'s follow-up post is also a …

I hadn't actually heard of Pelican until now but it looks like Ghost and Pelican aren't really comparable - they're two very different approaches to a blogging platform. Pelican lo…

At that point, I think that Blackberry is suffering a lot from their now disastrous brand image. It's not that Blackberry isn't a real alternative. It's that most people aren't eve…

Thanks Glen! I was sure I had checked before that the email field was visible to all. Looks like it's not the case though. Now added my email to my bio in my profile.

SEEKING WORK - Based in London, UK. Happy to work either on-site or remotely. I'm a full-stack developer with a sweet spot for back-end work and distributed systems. Available for …

AFAIK RavenDB, which describes itself as a "2nd generation document database", does exactly what you describe. Whenever you run a query that's missing an index, it will automatical…

As far as I can see from a completely outsider perspective, the Maemo / Meego / Jolla team have always been severely under-resourced, have always been the underdog and have always …

For those who are wondering why this is up on the front page: Jolla is launching their first handset tonight in Helsinki: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/jolla-sailfish-os-phon…

It's already been done. Get yourself an N9 (same hardware as the lumia 800) or an N950 (most beautiful phone hardware I've ever had the chance to use but hard to come by as only a …