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I do a fair bit of coding on Mac, Windows and Linux (usually ubuntu) If you switch, be prepared that it will take you a bit of an adjustment, as many of the basic actions that you …

There is a sample community ( http://sample.villagetoolbox.com ) that is linked from the from page. I'll also link it from the search results page. Thanks for the feedback

I have, I've played with various different ideas for generating revenue, but I think anything that charges for a community or for membership is doomed to fail. I'm going after hype…

My reasoning for building this was that our community had a need for an online presence, and none of the tools were quite right. The main differentiator come from the assumption th…

Good point. It's gotta be easy. Is it acceptable just explain that they need to create an account first, or would it be valuable to you if I allow creating an account and community…

I've been building this in my spare time for the last year or so. It's time to go into open beta, but I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks of it. (I know, you're probably …

A common problem with data manipulation is normalizing data in different formats: 5198826788 (519) 822-6238 1 519-454-1234 905 999 1234 +1 905 787-1912 x2234 are all phone numbers.…

For VillageToolbox.com, I needed a database driven mailing list with a highly customizable web interface, both for subscribe and list options, and for the list archives. I ended up…

I've been working on a symfony project for the last six months, and after it ends, I hope to never see it again. Over-engineered fits, but I also have issues with many of their cho…

I'm Vice-President in Charge of Crayons.

We never actually paid him a cent. We covered some of his expenses. Where it hurt us was in moral, and in internal resources poured into a dead end pit. At least he's facing 40 yea…

My wife and I owned a small software company, 12 employees. It all fell apart when we hired the wrong sales person. He came to us after reading about our company in the paper (We'd…