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Hi, Congratulations on releasing your app! I just wanted to mention something that I'm hoping will help you guys. I realize that you've probably worked hard on the design of the we…

Nice work, well done. Are you planning on supporting HTTPS anytime soon?

Well, I don't know the full situation, but I'd like to echo part of what NAFV_P said, with a focus on the talk: If it were me, I'd probably try grabbing a coffee/tea/beer with him …

You may also want to check out http://compete.com . If you can find a site that released their numbers, you can compare that site (your baseline) with other sites to get an idea of…

Personally, I'd say always wireframe / sketch before coding. The reason behind this is the interface is what the users see and use. Your app's design (from a UI / UX perspective) w…

Try some problems at http://rubeque.com/ or http://www.codeeval.com/ . Project Euler is also good, as duggieawesome suggested. As you're doing the problems, try and find "Ruby-esqu…

No problem. :) I remember having some fun with this one. I think the prof gave us a pretty simple maze, and a fairly complex one to test with. You may want to try the same, and sta…

I remember a fun program from school. Pretty much, it was a maze solver. Say you have a maze, and a mouse. The mouse, denoted by an uppercase 'M' character, starts out somewhere in…

I'm not sure if a site like that exists. If you find one like it, it us know. :) As for colour combinations in general, I switch between https://kuler.adobe.com and http://www.colo…

You're most welcome. I hope it helps. Just remember that you can totally finish your projects, but you do have to make a commitment to see them through to completion.

I would suggest trying the following: 1) Pick just one project that you see yourself actually finishing. What's the one project that you're most passionate about? (It would be good…

I don't think so. I haven't used them much yet, but everything I recall hearing about them has been good so far.

I'm guessing you're using a public (open source) report on Github? Maybe consider posting it on Bitbucket.org in a free, private repo.

http://www.readability.com may help with #5. They have a handy bookmarklet too.

No problem. :) I see what you're saying; but for your first few titles, I'd probably recommend just focusing on creating something that people will want to download and use/play la…

Well, I'm not in the iPhone app store, but I've done mobile development before... My advice would be to not rush to release a new app every 10-15 days, just because you have 1000 d…

I'm not sure if something like that exists, but I've used http://deviceanywhere.com in the past for Windows Mobile testing. This was before the iPhone, they're still around and hav…

I would say: 1) First thing in the morning, don't check your email, Hacker News, or any other distracting sites. Not even for a minute. You can spend a bit of time figuring out you…

A few thoughts: - Just a quick thing on the hosting: If Mashable is planning on covering you, you may want to invest in a dedicated / cloud server, and just downgrade later once th…

You can also just make your own CSmartObject base class (which does reference counting), and just have all of your objects inherit from that. Reference counting may not be built in…

I would suggest that you: (1) Talk with / survey your customers to find out what's actually going on. Based on your description, it doesn't seem like you've actually talked with th…

Hi all, I'm helping put on a class to give startups actionable advice. We're on the third class, it's actually airing right now (9am-10am PST). It's called Action Class. Right now,…