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Most of my competitors (who provide client-side-only libs) were doing perpetual licensing, so I followed suit. However, there IS a recurring aspect: the customer gets email support and version upgrades for only a year. Then they must renew. It's opt-in, but I nudge them with email reminders.

I've seen a number of client-side-only products that ARE subscription (like Sencha), but they seem more general-purpose, like a framework. Something developers at a company would use everyday for everything. FullCalendar felt like more of a plug-n-play widget, not as pervasive.

Maybe your product is somewhere in between. It's pretty arbitrary nonetheless.

That makes me really happy because it felt like somewhat of a design risk at the time.

That's really great to hear! FYI, there's been a lot of updates to FC's API since those posts, including removing jQuery.

Also, recurring events are built-in https://fullcalendar.io/docs/recurring-events A backend is no longer necessary for expanding the instances.

I just released this today, and I intend to bundle it into FullCalendar (http://arshaw.com/fullcalendar/) in the near future.

really thought this was going to be a Fake Steve Jobs post about Jonathan Schwartz: http://www.fakesteve.net/2010/02/my-little-pony-a-look-back....

multiple database connections is going to be my favorite new feature: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/multi-db/

a "kneeling chair" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneeling_chair) is a similar solution that keeps your spine straight but doesnt put stress on your legs. i have a friend who has one and he loves it

um yeah... i misread the article, didnt think he correctly linked to you, just thought he called you a "non-famous programmer dude". sorry, should have been more thorough (but i never imaged this post would get ranked so high -- who knew)

just an announcement, fakepaul.blogspot.com is open

id say fake steve is sort of a blog version of the daily show / colbert report for tech news. its ridiculous and cynical, but sometimes very true.

however, this particular story is just silly fluff. thought news.yc might get a kick out of it though

thanks! you can completely customize your template w/ the blogger xml template language. the editor is somewhat crippled though, u cant expand the html of widgets, but thatll come soon. we're also gonna put up some better documentation for it

thanks! yep, its all php and mysql. we imagine 'orgu' means something like organization-universe or (you guessed it) organization-university, but in reality we wanted to pick as short a name as possible so groups using the .orgu.com subdomains wouldn't have a long url.

we wrote it from scratch

if you have a wildcard in dns records, you can effectively make it a fallback, so thats how our something.orgu.com addresses get mapped to an IP. however, we do allow tld's, we handle that by hosting our own instance of PowerDNS, which is great (u can use mysql with it)

we use your f+lname as your identity when you post things and invite other people to the site. the point about the confusion over the sn field is valid, we might want to reformat that screen (or ideally have a live demo that eases into a real membership - like weebly).

we use the same java/activex image uploader that facebook uses (hoping people would be familiar w/ it). however, there should be an option "use the simple uploader" that will take u to a standard file-input setup. let me know if this isnt showing up.

we're not so much in the 'group communication' space as the 'web publishing' space. our main goal is to make interesting/useful/rich websites (though we may harness group communication for content). we want these websites to be valuable for those within the group AND mean something for those outside.

thats a really good point, thanks. i was just looking at 37signals' backpack homepage and they handle this pretty well. might do something similar

btw, we had to make a custom blogger xml interpreter from scratch

ideally we would have a 'live demo' but our current architecture makes this tough. this is 1st on our list though.

even though we have launched, we aren't trying to attract major pr yet. we want to beef up a few features a little more first, but when we do, we're thinking (besides announcing on the standard internet portals) to talk to some large national organizations (greek, community, etc). there is no paid version, but you CAN currently use your own domains for free. (in the "settings" tab)

it was actually painfully hard. we ended up with a very elegant solution though... Blogger has a set of widgets, but we introduce some new ones (like a 'Photos' widget or an 'Events' widget). These sort of inherit from existing ones (by transforming their templates), so designers only have to code html+css for the standard 'Blog' widget and the others are inferred

oh yeah... we are aware of a possible naming conflict with orgoo.com, so we're thinking about rebranding. any suggestions for new names would be appreciated.

the Northwestern University CS department has been teaching Scheme in its intro course since the beginning of time. its kind of a weed-out class. theres been a lot of talk about teaching a more 'useful' language like python, but its probably never going to happen.

as for me, im glad i learned it and saw the light!