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Hey, I'm Thomas, the author of the article. I do agree with your observations pretty much entirely. I'm mostly talking about the "throw a component, library or jQuery plugin at eve…

Ohai, I've been hell-banned and don't know why. I guess as someone successfully running a software business _and_ being a well-known open source person I have to place in a forum f…

I've made $60k in a year with a highly topical 60-page ebook (PDF only) that I wrote in about a week, mainly by promoting to a mailing list with only a few thousand people on it. A…

The related posts section has some posts with stories and examples.

(I'm the author of the article) I replace my main computer (MacBook Pro) every 1-2 years with a maxed out top of the line model. I keep the one I had before around as a backup in c…

This is why `request.xhr?` exists. It will be false when the action is called with JSONP.

I'm the co-founder of a successful SaaS ( http://letsfreckle.com/ ) and would easily have paid $300 for the spreadsheet alone. I wish I had had the spreadsheet back when we started…

I can see how my comment could be taken this way. It's not want I wanted to express. I wanted to state, as a disclaimer, that I'm the author of the post. As for answering the comme…

It's marketed as a silver bullet. Here are some snippets from the ember.js Homepage: "Write dramatically less code", "Don't waste time", "Ember.js is built for productivity".

I'm Thomas Fuchs. That's interesting. How many apps have you developed?

But maybe there IS a Silver Bullet[1], veemjeem! [1] Fred Brooks, "There Is No Silver Bullet" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Silver_Bullet

I, for one, think it's delightful that more people are getting to understand the vagaries of product development from an investment standpoint. The more people experience the pain,…

This is advice for non-fiction ebooks. :) The most important thing really is to learn how to do marketing right. It's not that hard at all and will yield great results.

I don't have a general download link, when you buy it I'll send out an email with a personal download link that will expire in a week or so, and can only be used 5 times. Of course…

It's very relevant because you pull stuff out of your ass while I'm actually doing this (successfully). With "anecdotes" you mean repeatable strategies that work every time for me …

No—I've had the experience that it doesn't work for the types of technical books we (my wife and I) write. Or we're just really better at email/twitter/blog marketing. :) But it's …

Are you an author who is successfully publishing books?

You can't get around this. People will pirate it and they do. However, those who pirate it wouldn't pay money anyway so there's no loss. And because it's literally two clicks to bu…

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the book and blog post. I've been asked on Twitter about student discounts, short answer is don't do it. Long answer: if you have a book specifically …

Larger image dimensions don't mean larger file sizes, see http://mir.aculo.us/2012/08/06/high-resolution-images-and-fi... for an explanation.

Of course, exceptions prove the rule. Sometimes CSS and HTML are not good enough and you'll have to resort to use JavaScript. But you shouldn't make it the default go-to.