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I'm also a terrible designer. In order to get up and running quickly, I buy themes off of http://themeforest.net - they barely cost anything, and usually have enough for you to get…

That automagical download and convenience you're talking about is one of the things you pay that 30% for. It's your call whether you want to go through that channel or not - no one…

I experimented with Gondor and Epio( http://ep.io ) at one point when I wanted to get out of hosting Django projects on my own servers - I can't speak to what it's like on Heroku, …

I've had pretty good success picking them up in digital formats - not sure if you prefer the paperback version, but if you're okay reading it on a screen you can get all of them di…

Maybe I'm an outlier here - but I actually prefer physical photos. It's too easy for someone to just spray digital photos everywhere - when they're physical, you have constraints t…

I live in a city in Canada that has a bit of a lacklustre tech scene. Unfortunately, I bought a condo 2 years ago. Because of the size of the down payment I made (small), and the c…

Just because you don't like the way someone does business doesn't mean you have any right to steal from them.

I actually waited in line at a bank for about 15 minutes once, and when I got to the teller the manager said "hey - want a coffee?", and handed me a Tim's card (reloadable gift car…

Are you building a business, or a hobby?

So, wait - does getting married suddenly make you 'old'? =P According to your description I count as young, and not being able to remember things bothers me a lot sometimes. I reme…

Here at The Day Job we're using Scout( http://scoutapp.com ) to monitor about 10 servers - it's pretty easy to set up, and grows well as your cluster does. You also get to write pl…

Right - but pretty colors and interfaces go a long way towards someone saying "you know what? I will read the about page" vs. "woah, this is gross - they expect people to use this?…

Maybe I'm an outlier, but I actually really enjoy cleaning up huge legacy codebases. Maybe there's also someone out there who likes building internal apps for performance reviews.

I do - but having my email embedded into a part of the file that I'm not going to see while I'm regularly using the file isn't a problem. I'm not distributing, and I don't mind tha…

This actually pisses me off, a lot. I don't put my ebooks up on torrenting sites or distribute them - but seeing my own email address show up on every page of my ebook means that I…

This sounds a lot like Geckoboard with some plugins: http://www.geckoboard.com/

This is not-super-secure, but in a lot of situations I just use a rule like "third character of first word + second character of third word + first character of fourth word", and s…

I took a week's vacation, got myself a week in a coworking space, and turned off every single work notification possible. As far as work was concerned, I was off on a beach somewhe…

I wouldn't say that one or the other is more valuable when it comes to blogging. You want to show process, because that shows that you know your shit - but you also want to show en…

Do you have any problems that aren't solved yet? Write yourself something to do that - and if you're worried about your employer/coworkers finding out, do it under a pseudonym, Chr…

A lot of this depends on what you're selling, and your conversion rate (which will depend on exactly how you got those subscriptions). Is the newsletter geared towards database adm…

Why do you need someone to only use yours? I know a lot of folks who use Facebook and Twitter and Google+ right now.

It's much clearer, but I'm a bit confused - does "Stay in the loop without having to share an email address" explain what your app will do, or is it just your way of saying "hey, f…

I can't see a button under Safari 5 or Chrome 12: http://d.pr/L7ln

The grammar on this page is terrible - "I'm Keeping a big Secret" - what's with the inconsistent capitalization? This page leaves me more confused and frustrated than anything - wh…