macca321

I'm working on a webapp which turns side-projects into SAAS startups (by providing CMS, auth, billing etc.), and I would love to hear from anyone in this thread.

I have a 3 minute questionnaire which I would love to have filled out, or if you'd like to contact me my email is on my profile page.

thanks, Harry

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEhGWjl...

http://www.hnshowcase.com/ is one. It's ok but I would prefer something with disqus comments so I would get notifications and stuff.

I wish ruby had named the Hash class properly. It makes reading the article slightly confusing. Hash != Hashtable

This is what we had, but it wasn't responding quickly enough, so the site was hanging despite the fallback.

a gallon of milk, eh? you must drink a lot of it

Perhaps they should cut the price in half.

And double the screen resolution.

does it work in email clients?

You might want to look into Backbone.js (or Ember.js or Angular.js) rather than Bootstrap for talking to APIs.

Also, you haven't said if the existing code is WebForms or MVC (and the fact that you haven't makes it seem like you may struggle to finish the server side code using ASP.NET).

Which platform were you thinking you would develop the REST API on if not ASP.NET?

I have a couple of libraries

a library for mapping http requests to domain objects (see 'naked objects' pattern), with convention based runtime form generation. no more writing controllers, most views are generated, full feature REST API out of the box. A bit like Django admin template, but more powerful.

an in memory 'db', persisted using an event log of user inputs to the domain model (see 'prevalence' pattern). no more worrying about network latency, no more mapping objects to database columns, no more writing update scripts (or at least not much)

I don't think either of these approaches have much love in the mainstream, but I think they make me way more productive than the standard MVC/(SQL/NOSQL) approaches.

IIRC Mint uses a read-only API run by Yodlee

lets just hope it doesn't trigger two events on each iteration

I wonder how they deal with triggers which cause loops...

I don't think central API registries are the the long term future of APIs (despite the fact that I bought apinest.com with half a mind to setting one up :).

At some point we are going to move to self-describing APIs, documented at source. Check out the http://restfulobjects.org/ spec for ideas on how this will work.

Tony Montana - lots and lots of people have been inspired to try and do what he did, often with similar results.

I think this is awesome. Upboat

vs Knockout?

https://www.squarelater.com/ - a bill splitting application with SMS input.

typing of the dead

Will it run Windows 7?

It can be very hard to get started with a wiki - content either isn't added, or isn't up to date, so people lose trust in the info in there. This has a negative feedback effect on people writing entries too. In addition, writing articles is hard as people feel expected (perhaps from wikipedia) to having to write detailed, canonical articles.

I have had success numerous times introducing an internal blog as a team knowledge repository, blogging anything interesting to it. With a search function, and making anyone an editor, it has many of the same features with a number of benefits:

- people can comment and ask questions

- signing up the development mailing list as an email subscriber ensures everyone sees new info as it is posted

- people blog about code issues, and tips and trick, not just 'how complicated feature X works'

Honestly, it works a treat. Blogging is the mechanism by which we share programming knowledge on the internet, why shouldn't it be the method we use inside our workplaces?

http://iwantmyname.com/ ?

Webhooks, webhooks, webhooks. They will drive innovation and thus adoption.

any ideas why it has a 32GB limit for windows?

Oh man I'm thinking about SkyDrive as I have 25GB for free...

I'm switching to the first one to implement webhooks for file updates.

Once you start thinking of your object model as data, you can do amazing things. Want to find all the types in your system that implement an interface and spin them up?

     var rules = 
		AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies
		.SelectMany(a => a.GetTypes())
   		.Where(t => typeof(ISecurityRule).IsAssignableFrom(t))
   		.Select(t => Activator.CreateInstance() as ISecurityRule)
   		.OrderBy(r => r.Priority);

You can then run a chain of responsibility by writing

    var allowed = rules.First(r => r.Check(someObject) != null);  
    //Check returns null when a rule isn't relevant to the object being checked

it's pretty sweet for metaprogramming when you can run queries against your codebase

The OS community is doing pretty nicely now we have Nuget

Maybe that 1% platform specific code is a big 1%? :)

Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to see c# running everywhere.

i cooked some pork the other day at 55C.