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My Favorite is thye Wicket framework. After having used JSF , which is a hellhole, I found wicket to be remarkably versatile and powerful. It integrates cleanly with Jquery. DOJO a…

I am considering consolidating my domains on amazon route 53. I have both NSI and GoDaddy as domain providers and I guess now is as good a time as any to plunge into amazon's Route…

I would speculate that Canadian Funds and Institutions that hold significant stake in RIM are loathe to see perhaps the most prestigious Canadian company be no longer Canadian. Tha…

My experience with Clojure is that it forces me to think differently and I like it. I come from java /c background and Clojure drags me kicking and screaming out of my comfort zone…

Thanks ! My goal at the moment is to be able to keep the lights on. I love this line '..just because it doesn't work on one street corner, doesn't mean it won't work on another - l…

It is an experimental site --a community video news blog out of Toronto. Its not going to get a lot of traffic but as I add more cities ---- it might get better. The content format…

I know about Google Ad words , what other sources of revenues exist ? Given that this is not going to be a blockbuster mega site and it is being bootstrapped on a show string budge…

So if the minimum revenue expectation from a website is $10k ( with salary and other operating costs), how much traffic is needed to sustain that using the revenue source ? How man…

I have read the techcrunch teardown (http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/10/teardown-13-ways-10-million-revenues/) and I understand ad-supported sites are very tough to execute. However,…

This is a great idea . However as a long time Spring user , could I ask that you spin this in to full blown tutorial . Heck I will pay for an ebook (<$15) which shows Client Side C…

Not sure why I was down voted, but the ppint I was making os that as I have grown older , I have come to appreciate laws including labour and immigration laws. With H1B visa, I cou…

wow ! I always thought H1B was bad -- but this would be would be so much worse. With H1B, I was merely prevented from seeking employment elsewhere or walking away from the job but …

The sad reality for me living here is that you -- yes you even with all your PC'ness --- are going to take one look at any one with an Indian accent or a name and you will use a st…

I do not have much experience in planning weddings : I have got married only once and I am still married. My primary contribution my wedding was to (a) show up sober (b) let the pr…

There are already several stats sites , especially for economics. I recall using those sites when I was in B-School. Now, http://www.wolframalpha.com/ is my go to site for all my s…

'Log4j for loggin' ? I would rethink that. Log4j , venerable as it may be, is getting long in the tooth .

Hi bigohms I totally agree with what you said ; I suck at getting my message across. I am doing exactly what you said I should be doing "Perhaps a subscribable video playlist based…

I want to make the user experience seamless " if a user is interested in 3 items -- I don't want him jump from clip to clip; instead I want a seamless newscast with just his/her it…

Thanks , your feedback was encouraging. Quick question : when I talk to a news broadcaster e.g. NBC -- who are the right people e.g. should I approach marketing or web team or the …

I had posted a Review My Start-up type of post about 2 hours ago. It never made it; it has sunk and gone. I was looking forward for peer review of my idea.

Thanks for liking it! I am building this as SaaS for TV stations ; the TV stations would continue to own the copyright of their content. My solution will just provide a value-add s…

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Hi Everyone, I am a solo founder . I have bootstrapped my start-up NewsPVR.TV and now I am launching. I will appreciate any feedback you may have. This is the problem I am solving …

If you are using Java to crawl the web , I would suggest using Jsoup for data extraction -- you can extract data with jquery like methods.

I am aware of that page and it is a great starting point but is not enough. Please take a look a this document from IBM http://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/dw/data/bestpractices/DB2…