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Bake in a marketing clause in your contracts that are tied to a price discount. A marketing menu, if you will. The discount will more than pay for itself by helping to lure new business. Press release gets you a 10% discount. A press release plus and a case study gets you a 20% discount, so on and so forth. Or ask your customers what would motivate them.

Yes, a flatter URL structure will likely improve SEO. I've seen this with our SEO consultants on our site. But URL structure is one aspect. Backlinks and quality content are probably more important. And mobile. If your mobile experience isn't up to par, you could be penalized. And speed. Is your site fast? If not, ya, could be penalized, too. You should have a look at your Google Webmaster Tools account first.

Can't view the ycr.org site. Flagged as malware by OpenDNS. https://malware.opendns.com/controller.php?url=ycr.org&serve...

Some good options http://www.cio.com/article/2852390/laptop-computers/top-12-l...

Is it Google's "job" to police websites in this fashion?

Yes. But at first glance, the video background distracts from the page copy. Not sure if I should read or watch. And the video is just a talking head.

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The GO Train goes straight into Toronto daily from Mississauga and Oakville, but I'm assuming he can't travel for a reason not related to access to transportation.

If online courses are not what he's seeking, then your options are really starting to narrow. Of course, there is still one venue and source of information out there that could prove useful: Your local library. They have computers, programming books, and free Internet access. And people.

http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/residents/library

http://www.opl.on.ca/

Your friend could also start up his own Meetup group, inviting others in a similar situation to join him at the local library.

Aside from giving them the freedom to create and explore new ideas outside of their usual job descriptions, I suggest pairing them up with "hacker mentors". The young don't necessarily need new skills, but guidance on applying their existing skills in new, creative ways.

The second edition of this book was awesome, so I'm looking forward to checking out the latest v3. The author is quite good at walking you through the code examples.

You should pull in basic text from the web. You can pick whatever CMS or unCMS you like, such as https://prismic.io/. There is no sense in hardcoding content into your app. I worked on the MEC.ca ecommerce iPhone app, and all non-product content is pulled dynamically from a CMS. If you only have a few pages, then you may not even need a CMS.

Who said SaaS products sell themselves? Who said anything sells itself?

It would be a much better customer experience if you could buy the entire outfit in one action -- add outfit to cart, checkout, done -- instead of going to each product's ecommerce site individually, which would take quite a long time. I realize these are all different stores operating on disparate platforms -- Hybris, Magento, Oracle ATG, Elastic Path, etc. -- but aggregating it somehow via a middle platform would be much more seamless to the end user. And the site operators could take a small cut.

Ha, that about sums it up.

One big item that almost all bug trackers is missing is a structured way to record "steps to reproduce". If you're logging a true bug, then the QA analyst and developer will need to reproduce it. But how? Sometimes, a bug only surfaces when the steps are followed in a very particular order. Change one step or move one action, and the bug "disappears", which gives rise to the infamous "I can't reproduce this", resulting in the bug getting put on the back burner. So tracking these steps is crucial.

Technical accuracy aside, it's a great marketing tool. Nicely done.

They should mitigate the attack with a better action plan. DDOS are not new threats and the CIO is accountable. More annoying for paying customers like me. If my cable TV goes out, I would ask the cable company for some measure of compensation. If you're in the restaurant and order a steak, and the steak never arrives, would you still pay for it? Sure, the restaurant may have just been robbed, but I still want a refund.

Jeykll is a popular static site generator. You'll need a responsive template to use with it, of which there are plenty to choose from.

This site has actually been around for a while. Great Coles Notes for SEO. But if you have the time, watch the full videos from Matt. His advice is required listening.

I see three grammar problems with this post. If you're launching a journalism site, better get used to comments like that. Cleaned up version:

I'm building a new journalism startup called Journalium (www.journalium.com) and I am looking for long-form articles about technology and science for our launch in a month or two.

If you're interested, just send me an e-mail at: aleksi at journalium dot com and name your price ;)

Sounds like a worthy project. Pledging my support now.