EamonLeonard

The best part was when the ninja's put candy in my pocket.

"PHP has curly braces so that servers do not get confused".

Recruitment methods are the key to attracting good talent. My experience is that building a quality network and engaging in the local developer community is by far a more productive way to recruit than by using an agency or more traditional means.

At the same time, I think more companies also need to embrace remote workers. A lot of the best tech startups that I'm familiar with, both in Ireland and abroad, have a healthy mix of local and remote talent.

"I would love to see the tech culture in Ireland experience a revival"

Have you visited Ireland recently? Next time you're in Dublin, give me a shout, I'll be happy to show you what's been happening since you left.

This is a talk I gave to 1,000 people in Dublin, on Friday 10th June. I draw comparisons between starting up a tech company and starting a rock band.

Interested to hear what the good folk of HN think :)

Best line I heard after the talk was "In a startup you do lines of code, in a band you do lines of coke"... which cracked me up (via @emigal)

Agreed, but if you're going to put the energy into picking out what doesn't work, you probably have spent time thinking about how it should be done, so following through is worthwhile for all concerned.

Indeed, one of the downsides of Open Source... politics etc, it doesn't help, but tends to come with the territory.

PHP is Open Source. Compiling a list like this is nice, but contributing something back, and getting involved in making improvements to PHP, would be nicer.

Thanks for the heads up :)

Thanks for the tip, we'll check it out :)

Having done consulting for the best part of 10 years, we've taken that kind of route many times. It got to be a bit repetitive after a while, tbh.

I think if pushed on it, most developers would prefer to spend their time writing code than setting up and configuring servers. Which is why we created Orchestra.

Each to their own though :)

Really appreciate the feedback on the documentation, Peter. Docs are a type of UI, I guess, and the same rules should apply.

Consider them a work-in-progress! :)

We have support for mercurial that we are in the process of test at the moment. When it's available, we'll announce on our blog: http://blog.orchestra.io/

If you'd tweeted us, we would have bumped you up the list :(

Thanks for the comment. Security important for everyone.

"Free" is multi-tenant. "Basic" and "Elastic" are isolated.

Some of the restrictions we have in place on "Free" are documented here. https://orchestra.tenderapp.com/kb/system-constraints/system...

I agree, a dedicated security page would be helpful, and is something we'll be creating soon.

Thanks again for your feedback!

Thanks for the heads up! We'll get that fixed :)

Agreed, anyone can deploy PHP -- it's not rocket science. Scaling is what Orchestra is all about, but obviously you need to deploy before you can get to that point.

A note on pricing -- we're trying to find the right price point / service level offering, that the market will respond to. We've a "grandfathering" policy in place, which we've detailed at the bottom of our pricing page: https://orchestra.tenderapp.com/kb/about-orchestra/pricing-b...

Thanks Peter. I don't feel I was making excuses, but communicating our immediate priorities.

The signup page seems fine, would you mind checking it again? I take your point on first impressions etc., well made.

Would you mind telling me where you've seen spelling mistakes, I'll correct them.

Thanks :)

Of course it does. We eat our own dogfood, and it's damn tasty thanks :)

You'll note I specifically mentioned "front end performance tweaks"...

Thanks for the feedback. There are definitely front end performance tweaks we could make to improve the load time of our marketing site. Right now, however, the platform itself is our main area of attention :)

Well said.

Thanks!

Thanks for the comment :) We've just started marketing our product today, yes it is light on technical details right now, but we'll be improving that over the coming weeks. Cheers.

I remember a brand of washing detergent running a "Computers for Schools" marketing campaign, here in Ireland around about 1986. Myself and my classmates had to cut out tokens from the packaging and bring them into school. After a year, all the tokens were counted up, and we finally had enough to get one "free" BBC Micro.

All we were missing was a teacher who knew what to do with it.

/doh

Wow, lots happening in Berlin and London! Good to see :)

We're called echolibre, we're Dublin based, and we work with startups.

We're looking to add another PHP developer to our small, friendly team. If you have experience building web apps with the likes of Zend Framework, working on Open Source projects and have been part of a distributed team, we would love to hear from you.

You can get our attention by telling us about code you've written for fun.

We can promise you interesting work, the opportunity to learn from world class developers and the chance to be part of a fun and close knit team.

If you're not in Ireland, telecommuting is fine by us :)

Send us an email: freedom@echolibre.com

Find out more about us: http://www.echolibre.com

You can also get me on http://twitter.com/EamonLeonard