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Could I get a link to that blog of yours?

Same stats roughly, 9.5% IE7. Client's are asking for IE7 support as base level (they normally don't ask for IE6 when I say +50% cost). I suspect next year will start the "death to…

Really useful site, especially for those developers like myself that are "design challenged" :)

Can confirm this deal, I use it with some clients at the moment, I get 40,000 credits per month for free.

No, they mean as in MP3 format. I did look at trying to purchase a complete set of none physical music. It's hard to give them my money...

My story: Whilst on a university placement doing some web coding and databases work, the guy in the office next to me was having real problems with his website. Being curious, I as…

Signed up too. I kind of started freelance work but like Alan's post, the c# freelance world was either "contract" or "permi". Found some good guys to do work with now on a kind of…

Most people don't understand the difference between "Google" and a "Browser" [1], cynically, I don't hold much hope people will care what browser cookies are. I've already had to e…

How did you go about finding that BigCo job? Perhaps its down to the job market in the UK and .NET that everything is handled by recruiters that hide lots of details about BigCo jo…

Really good, I'd suggest pulling data from here for Bristol: http://visitbristol.co.uk/things-to-do Particularly page: http://visitbristol.co.uk/things-to-do/attractions Has the th…

Seems very sensible. I hadn't thought about doing it. I'll draw up a list and start sending emails out. My current client is going to talk to me about the idea Monday. He has alot …

It's more the following: 1. Location. In Bristol, United Kingdom. Not London. 2. The .NET scene isn't very startup focused. Of all the .NET usergroup events I've attended (in Brist…

I've been working with a client in a niche area on their website. My fulltime work with them is coming to an end and I'm thinking about what to do next. One idea I had on observing…

Opposite problem here. Can't find a business co-founder, I'm a guy that likes building stuff but has no ideas. Part of my problem as well is that I use different tools to rails, ma…

This does look interesting. Can't quite figure out if it would suit me. I'm interested in learning Rails but I haven't done any Ruby before. I do a lot of C#, ASP.NET MVC, RavenDB,…

SEEKING WORK - Remote (or onsite Bristol, UK) Looking for projects (long-term or short term) to fill gaps in my availability. I do high quality work with ASP.NET MVC. My skills inc…

A website tool I saw linked in the comments of another article on hacker news is: http://gtmetrix.com It does PageSpeed + YSlow + other stuff. Saves me having to run both tools in …

Some of my favourite programming music: Artist: The Glitch Mob Daft Punk: Tron Sound Track, Tron legacy reconfigured Particularly with music from The Glitch Mob I find my focus is …

Yes, the pricing change is fine if I just want to throw up some private side projects, but for an MVP product, no. With an MVP product I would want to have a custom domain to make …

RavenDB is an excellent document database for those of us who still have to (or choose to) use .NET. Personally its one of the last remaining factors when I reach for .NET over oth…

The mono build pack from Ben Hall ( https://github.com/BenHall/heroku-buildpack-mono ) looks interesting. With AppHarbor's pricing announcements yesterday (which sucked) I've final…

I have been using AppHarbor for about 5 months now, having deployed 2 very different applications to it. The first is my company website which admittedly doesn't get a whole load o…