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Looks great and includes tracking/sign-up perfect! Thanks.

A couple of months back there was a post about a startup providing landing pages for mobile apps. I now need to avail of such a service but cannot find the link. Does anyone have r…

I think it's a great idea. As a caveat to this I'd also like to see support added for hosting multiple versions of an app on the store at any given time.

Selenium is capable of doing this and has a Ruby driver (library from which it can be controller). http://selenium-client.rubyforge.org/

I've had the same experience with competition and I'd say a lot of other members of HN would too. Competition is too much of a motivator for me and my competitive personality. As s…

But Google didn't start life that way - they were born a search company. That's what I find so interesting about Facebook at present, here they are, investment in hand and a world …

Would bulk be a factor here? As the size of the consumable increases so does it's shipping cost and difficulty. Which in turn might imply that fewer people would buy a TV online, t…

I have just open sourced a utility class that I've used in a number of my own apps for describing time intervals. The class, RelativeDateDescriptor can be used to returned formatte…

I've just moved my personal blog from a hosted Wordpress solution to a self-managed virtual server running Octopress. It's not for everyone but it's lightweight, static (fast) and …

There's no harm in admitting that you don't know what you're doing, heck it's a healthy attitude to take. It's when you head down the other path and don't acknowledge you're inepti…

I spent the passed weekend moving my blog off Wordpress to Octopress mostly for performance reasons. Wordpress has become a fantastic feature-loaded CMS. But a blog really doesn't …

I recently interviewed for a developer position that did not include a formal interview. Instead I spent the day working with the company on a small task. Come the end of the day I…

Would you recommend avoiding ZAMM altogether for now? Thanks for the link, it'd be rude not to buy a used copy at that price!

After an initial (and failed) attempt at reading ZTMM I've spent the morning reading more about Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality and Philosophy in general. I will freely admit to be…

Code Formatting - when working in a team on a shared code base it'll aid productivity greatly if you establish a set of formatting standards and stick by them. Ideally you can tran…

That's exactly the sort of service I was looking for - I can't believe I haven't come across it before! Thanks.

I am planning to publish a number of free iPhone application development tutorials in the near future. Alongside the tutorials I would like to publish the associated code. In order…

- Were you not aware of Cocos2d / Unity when you started? Or did you think you could do it better? I was aware of it, although not to the extent that I am now. Awareness wasn't the…

I'm not actively developing any more, but I've actually just released my first indie game so I speak from experience. - What is the concept of your game? It's an asteroids clone wi…

With a wife like that how can you possibly fail! Good luck.

* Run * Cycle * Swim Sometimes I combine all three in the reverse order.

Hard work alone is often not sufficient. The real solution is to work hard but also to work smart. You need to find a balance between slogging just to get things done and innovatin…

If you're going down the Wiki route I'd highly recommend Atlassian's Confluence. It's the easiest to setup and most user friendly (for non-techy types) Wiki that I've come across t…

I can't speak for Django but I've just begun learning Rails as my first web framework and its been a pleasure to use. It's DSL is incredibly expressive and offers great power with …