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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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post #103

Today's my last day as an employee at my job of 6 years. I'll become a consultant starting Monday so if they need me, it'll be hourly billing. I'm just reviewing my emails today and reassigning my regular responsibilities.

Mind if I ask where you'll be getting your customers (clients) from as a new consultant?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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post #146

Telling my girlfriend's parents that she's getting married. :)

I'm doing the same in the next week :) Considering a dowry joke with her father... but maybe not since it could really wrong, really fast.

Could be done well. He should write a formal contract asking for 20 goats and 5 cows, then have him sign it. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Today I'm working on fleshing out some ideas for some business models for my startup, Syphir. Here's a pic of the desk in my bedroom, aka my development environment: http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9176/developmentenvironme.... A lot of screen real estate, but today most of my work will be done with a pen and a pad :)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because he enjoys living there?

That's a given (otherwise he wouldn't go). The question is -- why does patio11 enjoy Japan?

If you moved my friends, my church, my town, and my community to Kansas, then I'd enjoy living in Kansas, too.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Today I'm working on fleshing out some ideas for some business models for my startup, Syphir. Here's a pic of the desk in my bedroom, aka my development environment: http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9176/developmentenvironme... . A lot of screen real estate, but today most of my work will be done with a pen and a pad :)

Geeze, your setup looks unusually similar to mine (that looks like an ASUS).

(I have an ASUS laptop w/ a 21" monitor and an old Macbook for iPhone dev.)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Today I'm working on fleshing out some ideas for some business models for my startup, Syphir. Here's a pic of the desk in my bedroom, aka my development environment: http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/9176/developmentenvironme... . A lot of screen real estate, but today most of my work will be done with a pen and a pad :)

Geeze, your setup looks unusually similar to mine (that looks like an ASUS). (I have an ASUS laptop w/ a 21" monitor and an old Macbook for iPhone dev.)

Toshiba Satellite w/ a 21" monitor and a Macbook for iPhone dev as well :)

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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post #172

Working on a few things: Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow. Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites…

I'd be curious to hear what you think of CodeIgniter, I have heard good things. We've been using CakePHP for about 3 years now, and would highly recommend it as a general purpose PHP framework.

I used CakePHP for a small project about a year and a half ago. I was totally frustrated by the lack of accurate up-to-date documentation and tutorials. Granted, it was my first time working with MVC, but a few months later I went to RoR and picked it up in no time flat.

Have the docs and tutorials improved at all for Cake?

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