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Is there any equivalent to Dataclips for non-Heroku databases?

Surprisingly, its such a pain point that a company would spend $50,000 - 150,000 for a single installation.

Desktop apps still have a place in some B2B settings. For a year I worked for a company that developed software that managed fork lift battery inventories for warehouses. These wer…

I started to write a comment here but it became a bit lengthy and so thought I would post it to my blog. You can find it here http://blog.parishmedia.info/post/708546766/no-departm…

Sadly, I had a feeling that might have been the case. As stated before, I think Cherokee is a great product that just doesn't have the popularity other projects do.

Reading the comments, I noticed that Cherokee was added after the poll started. I wonder how many Cherokee users voted "Other". I, for one, am a Cherokee user and a big fan. The ad…

As a listener to NPR, I don't agree that there is a bias toward government spending programs. This, to me, gives more credance to the poor writing in the article. If the writer bel…

Wow. I missed the date on there. I just stumbled onto that site while surfing and thought it was interesting as a Sphinx user.

There was an article earlier on HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442 ) that talked about there still being patent concerns with the new codec and so it seems like Micro…

Possibly. I'm a Python guy doing this is Pylons so if you have experience with that, I would take some help. Also, if you have any experience with interfaces, that's my weakness.

For the first point, there resources out there, but I personally don't think there are many that are that easy to use and work with other social sites. This is actually an interest…

The only purpose of a business card isn't to get scanned into a system and stored away in a CRM. Another purpose of a business card is to extend the brief encounter that started th…