One boost is using an SSD on whatever laptop you choose, Linux is very file intensive and the improvement of seek performance on a SSD will make Linux that much more faster.
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Also as a suggestion is set up Linux on a spare PC and beat on it... my first installs were usually the works, all the packages that sounded cool then filter down on subsequent re-installs as you get an Idea what you want.
If you want quick answers to your questions stick with popular distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, Debian - with most of those you can get what you need to know with a well phrased google query.
Also - switching IDEs, was Quanta Plus, but am leaning toward Aptana - which is based on Eclipse
Focus on creating 'working' JavaScript, along the way encourage proper formatting/syntax, labeling, etc as you go. Useful type-in in examples are great.
As an example I needed to make a field input aid for a project, this one would be an alternative to a [YYYYMM] text entry, where they click on the tool button and are presented in a popup (ala date/time picker) with a range of months around the current date (or range specified in the calling code) where the user could quickly click the appropriate textual month/year and it fills in the form... also pulls the current field data into the script.
Examining date time picker code - I got it figured out. The books I've bought/checked don't seem to cover (or cover well enough to recognize it) what I was looking for. So an annotated cookbook approach I feel would be a good and mix in the style/management along with it.
I'm sure others working mainly on the backend code wanting some more front end support code would be interested in such a book as I would.
So I think like most other school vocational classes, it gives the students exposure to the concept, which might let them pursue a career or not - or at the very least be understanding about the technology and/or process..
Thus such a business employing this tool would surely tank or become like Microsoft, who need to use binoculars to the competition to define their metrics.
Not sure why over all these years they haven't made that a replaceable component, but it is the cause of failure of many an expensive power supply. Stings even more when even Apple compatible AC adapters are in the $50 range.
While now it is a given concept that there will be a consumer level device, but sooner or later a new generation of home-based hackers will work up some new ways to be productive within these walled gardens, those will be exploited into apps and companies will be doing business on them - and then it will have started all over again.
I wouldn't consider it an end but part of a progression.
I had thought that if some entity was to properly assert their patent rights, they had to make the specific patent claims known to the parties concerned which gives a period of time for the potentially infringing company to rectify, or to progress further into arbitration. Microsoft seems to be playing it like a organized crime protection scheme.
I still use it on some sites, knowing not everyone knows how to create new browser windows by right-clicking links, and I do find it a pain myself on sites that don't use it, and I forgotten and have to page back to get to where I was before. So since I prefer it, and I find it convenient, I go with it.
If it is easy to use, handles just about everything, and can be fed everywhere, there's a market, I know people would like something they can do all their social posting from one spot, and if it can be added to any site, that would go for web developers, as they could set up a news/blog section no problem. How are you going to do revenue? subscription, advertising?
Seven months isn't much time... hit the ground running by doing some guided "build this app" tutorials, go through them a couple times each till you understand the code, tools, and processes that you are working with. Also try to find tutorials that go along the lines of your idea, so maybe you can fiddle with the learned code and adapt it to what you need.
I'm not in mobile stuff, so I can't suggest anything specific.
My first reaction was "oh God", it looks desperate.
You are name dropping right off the bat, which makes me wonder if your product really is any good on it's own merit.
Having the pricing right there also is sending signals... In relation here is a site that is repackaging Blender in order to make a sale of a a GPL product... http://www.illusionmage.com/ Look similar?
Tone it down, make "the button" smaller, make the "see an example site" bigger (We all like to look at screen shots and examples), put the name dropping on the bottom or a separate page if at all, if you example is kick butt and you have all that press already, maybe you don't really need it... except in your news blog (we were reviewed in xxxx... we have a review in yyy, etc.), as well as tone down the plans.
After watching the video to figure out what it is about... I got an idea. Illustrate the concept: how about a graphic of some poor slob holding some widget with a big pile of them behind him with a quote "I only needed one..." next panle or frame bunch of folks holding said widgets "...and together we got just what we needed at a great price".
"need something that you can only get in bulk? join forces with your on-line friends to 'group buy' the stuff you need, or go on a trip, or have a party...." (I know in the DIY community this can be a good thing, where group individuals need some bulk equipment or material)
Something like that would get the soccer moms and joe sixpacks more inclined to check it out.