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I downloaded textmate's free trial but can't afford to pay for it. I'm learning to program and don't have a job yet. Is there any way to hack it so that the free trial never ends? …

she's going to tweet to her many thousands of followers sometime next week. It's a PHP/MySQL website hosted on Dreamhost. I've never had to scale, and don't know anything about han…

I just started doing freelance web dev and design. But I'm inexperienced. I've been starting everything from scratch, just blank textwrangler and photoshop. What are some best prac…

I'm in the CS program at a university with a top-20 CS program. It's actually been quite easy, and I only have two CS classes left to graduate (along with a bunch of others). I'm t…

..by a startup? (For web development that is, so: PHP, Python, or Ruby.) A while ago, I saw a graph that compared the different languages, but can't find it now.

I made a small app for myself with SMS alerts. I'd like to make more apps like this. Is there anything that you'd like to receive an SMS alert for that you're currently not able to…

I'm working on a web service which requires email and phone number during signup. My proposition is, if the user signs up to use the free service, I can text/email that user once a…

A friend of mine mentioned that he'd like to take the open-source Eclipse code and make it into a web app. You'd be able to code and do everything you want, all in the browser. I'm…

Just wondering how you go about cultivating ideas. Do you, for instance, have a routine where you sit down and think about new ideas every so often? Or do you just wait for one to …

There's a handful of commentors that I deeply respect and enjoy reading. (Not that I don't respect and enjoy everyone else, just not quite so much.) Is there any type of RSS feed f…

I read through several Javascript tutorials last week. This weekend I've been reading/experimenting with a bunch of JQuery stuff. Now, on the JQuery site, a good number of the arti…

Forgive me for the naive question, but: why is PHP considered so inferior to Ruby/Python? And, as a beginner, do you recommend going with PHP to start with, or straight into Ruby/P…

I've recently been engrossed by the question of how geniuses and highly intelligent people think. There's bits and pieces of information online. What I'd really like to see, though…

I've put it off for far too long and I've decided I want to learn how to make phone apps. Now, the question is: should I learn for windows phone or iphone? I'm interested in your t…

Even better: put Google Calendar on the right of every email. (Maybe make a tabbed pane where you can sort through phone numbers and maps.) I'd use the calendar feature like no oth…

If it's not already possible, here's a broad idea for a gmail plugin. - Implement ability to right click on any phone number in an email and choose "Call with Gmail" - Implement ab…

So AwesomeReminders now costs $40 a month. Is it still growing modestly, even at this price How many subscribers are there now?

I can do HTML/CSS and design, but I can't code. I bet a lot of people are in my situation, or even worse. I don't have a technical founder, but I want to start a startup, via outso…

I can make the website, but don't know where to even begin to get the clothes made well, on the cheap. I'm male, and want to design male clothes. (Think: t-shirts and tanks.) I wou…

One thing I do is work out. But I'm trying to find something I can do every night to wind down and have a bit of fun. I'm thinking I might watch a movie (or part of one) a few nigh…

I recently started pursuing coding seriously (after a year of an hour or two a week). And, unfortunately, my right wrist hurts like hell now. It begins twenty minutes or so after I…

I just start learning it in school. We're making a game. What can it be used for on the web, though? What big companies use it primarily?

I just finished reading the SEOmoz beginner guide. And it seems to me that everything I read could be summarized in a tidy checklist. Are there SEO "to-do" checklists (starting fro…

I'm taking a class in user experience at my nearby junior college. And some of it seems really practical; but other parts of it don't. For instance, a few weeks ago we spend a good…