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For Rails, you should start with the excellent Rails Tutorial

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

Angular for the front end work. Backend API built out in either Python with a minimal framework like flask or perhaps Go if I had the luxury of time to learn as I built it. Postgres for the DB.

Tricky though, for someone who probably gets paid at least partially because of his social media validation, to not care about it....

Now there's an idea.

Why not rewrite it? - it's a good exercise, gave him another arrow in his programming quiver and gives people who prefer python the option to use it in python rather than ruby.

No - Bill Gates is spending his time doing far more useful things

I would say you don't need to know the minutiae, but having at least a basic understanding will be very helpful.

Agreed. It's all too easy, in hindsight, to claim that a happenstance was because of some great vision of "Privacy is a relic of the past" but more often than not, serendipity wins.

while the ads are over the top, the core message of "configure how many of those, and how much of that etc" did kind of draw me in.

Given that the use case for Firebase is taking the place of your traditional server side architecture and storage, it seems kind of obvious that you would have to take heed of the security implications and set them up properly. The security concerns don't magically vanish just because you don't write the server side code.

I would be interested

select * can also be bad if you have any sort of system that expects or uses your columns by index. someone changes up your database, adds a column or some such and all of a sudden your consuming code breaks all over the place.

Looks like a lovely piece - a piece of modern archaica (if that's a word)

This is great news for Django - congratulations to all involved!

looks like a nice little project. how did it ever get built without some crowd funding though? :)

Nicely done - good luck to you sir!

I don't believe it! cummings using capitals and punctuation. :)

Looks fantastic, but I wonder about the tolerance wrt paper alignment. I'm picturing my office where people usually rush up to the printer, grab their printout and bump the printer.

No. One of you needs to be the adult in the relationship.

just clicking around and hit a link to aquafide who: "develops and distributed innovative and sustainable water treatment solutions for municipal and industrial customers" but seem to have a website that is "First Car"? very very odd.

other than that - neat idea

>>maybe they should release some more of their ecosystem to make it viable for more startups to use .NET. Someone small using some free compilers/libraries and MySQL may eventually be a prospect to buy VS and SQL Server

And there's the thing right there - I don't think Microsoft really cares much about startups - after all, the success rate is fairly low for startups and it probably doesn't seem worth it to them to "invest" in businesses that are, more often than not, going to fail. Putting their marketing budget behind large corporations and governments is far more lucrative for them.

firebase has bindings for angular:

https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-03-29-firebase-bindings-f...

and

https://github.com/firebase/angularFire

which make it relatively simple to wire up your angular model to firebase.

mouthwash made with some high quality peppermint essential oil. The menthol in mint plants apparently tricks your brain into thinking you are cooler than you are......

Perhaps those in power simply need better (commercially disinterested, emotionally neutral) advisers for topics about which said politicians know nothing.

My thoughts exactly - a book about creating launch pages for products not yet built?

RSS readers seem the app-de-jour :)

I like the sentiment. Battle testing your generalised solution is always a good idea. It's also a good idea to know when you don't need a generalised solution.

Some advice I got was to go for an interview every 6 to 8 months whether you are looking for a job or not. The skill of interviewing well is different to the skill of actually doing the job and it never hurts to stay in practice.

Maybe stackoverflow or serverfault could help if you are having specific issues with the code or the server setup?

Nicely put. SQL is the great equalizer.