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jagthedrummer

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About jagthedrummer

I’m a hard-working, entrepreneurial, full-stack web engineer. I believe in test-driven development, minimum viable products, short iterations, fat models, skinny controllers, version control, feature branches, automated deployment, performance as a feature, 24x7 monitoring, proactive detection of problems, and using the right tool for each job. I engineer scalable solutions to allow infrastructure costs to rise and fall with demand.

http://www.octolabs.com/

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    dalke, I said "some parts of my business" because I run several different business of various types. Since the book focuses on value pricing for consulting projects it's obviously …

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    I highly recommend this book. The author, Jonathan Stark, really knows his stuff when it comes to pricing. His advice on value based pricing has changed the way I approach some par…

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    Comment #9840249

    Does anyone know if Foundation addresses the issue of how to handle the migration of existing users from the pre-foundation version of the interface to the post?

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    Comment #9299433

    I'd be interested to hear what you move to, what the set up looks like there, and what you pay for it.

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    Comment #9299424

    I'd be interested to hear what you move to, what the set up looks like there, and what you pay for it.

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    Comment #9296810

    Sure, no money has to change hands, BUT if you decided to take the hours that you would spend moving projects away from Heroku, and instead do something productive that creates val…

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    Comment #9296702

    Here's an analysis of how these rumored changes will affect apps of various sizes. http://www.octolabs.com/blogs/octoblog/2015/03/31/analysis-o... tl;dr : Current paying customers …

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    Comment #8895211

    Lemme guess, you're a developer/sysadmin/techie type? :) This is a tool for people who don't want to be anywhere near a command line.

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    Comment #8895192

    Hmm... I hadn't considered that view before, but I can see where you're coming from. The intention (for me) definitely isn't to extract extra money. Rather I'm hoping to provide so…

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    Comment #8895186

    Thanks for the recommendation! Nope, edits do not count towards the total. You can make as many revisions as you want to a given document. At this point there's nothing to stop som…

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    Comment #8895001

    I think it depends on what sort of rate you're able to charge as a consultant/freelancer. If you're anywhere near $100/hour (or more) you could very easily waste more time/money by…

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    Comment #8894736

    Ah, crap! Thanks for pointing out the broken link. Here's the input document for the demo. https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jagthedrummer/213b8a787b3... Under the hood is Pandoc/…

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    Comment #8894581

    Also, if you know any designers capable of producing a LaTeX template, please put me in touch!

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    Comment #8894574

    If you're comfortable managing that kind of tool chain, then yeah, that's a good comparison. Many people would prefer to focus on creating the content of the document rather than i…

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    Comment #8894555

    One of the main reasons this is a SaaS is that all of software that is part of the processing pipeline required to produce documents of this quality can be very hard to install and…

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    Comment #8894354

    Ah, yeah, I need a better message about images. They work fine if they're at a fully qualified URL. The final output is indeed tweakable and there are 4 totally different templates…

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    Comment #8894293

    There are plenty of people who like Markdown who don't want to manage a document production tool chain. This is aimed at those people. Folks who like a DIY approach should definite…

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    Comment #8894254

    Here's a page where you can see most of the templates available. http://www.remarq.io/articles/new-templates-now-available/ I should probably make a gallery page and link it somewh…

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    Comment #8894236

    Thanks! The per document pricing is an interesting angle. I'll definitely give it some thought.

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    Comment #8894143

    Thanks! I think this is a good suggestion. I should definitely feature a real document more prominently somehow.

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    Comment #8894118

    Think about the price in comparison to hiring a design consultant to generate these reports for you. If they charge you or your agency $50/hour, it takes them an hour to design a r…

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    Comment #8894072

    This is aimed at being exactly the opposite of DIY. If you're into DIY and it works for you, that's great! You should do what works for you. Many people don't want to spend time wi…