mickeyben

So I'm double posting here hoping I'll find a good solution to this.

Some vendors in France have this kind of in-house services to build a PC with a subset of parts.

Here some links, so you can see it (it's in french but you should find your way) :

http://www.pcbysurcouf.com/Configurateur/configurateur.aspx?...

http://www.ldlc.com/assistants/devis.html

The worst is that the default selected choice in the modal box is to not load anything.

If you want to build plugins for your Framework of choice (JQuery in your case), then it is also a good idea to understand what is happening behind the scenes.

There are many situations where using a Framework is not really suited. Do you really need to embed your framework of choice (JQuery in your case) if the only thing you need is show or hide a single element of your page ?

I think "begin with a framework or not ?" is a long debate (whatever the language is). I don't have a good answer to this but in the long run knowing the language you use is recommended.

I also forgot GWT if you're coming from Java it could be a simple way to do some web development. I used it a bit at Seesmic and keep a good overall experience.

Of course GWT abstracts lot of things so you'll ended up by having a nice final product but not really understand the roots of html and javascript.

For HTML the w3schools guides are good http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp (the javascript one are also ok).

Once you get the basics of Javascript I'll recommend to go with one of this frameworks : JQuery, Prototype/scriptaculous, Mootools, Dojo, Google closure or Yahoo YUI.

There's no better ones, it's a matter of preference, I personally currently use JQuery but for some projects I used Mootools (great piece of code) and Prototype/scriptaculous. I heard a lot of goods for YUI also.

Thanks for the propositions but it's ok.

Of course you'll need to setup the slice by yourself but you shouldn't need more than few hours and AFAIK it's cheaper (I use Linode and I'm very happy with it).

With the integration Yehuda announces with JQuery and the creation of JQuery plugins extracted from SproutCore I'll give a go on some components.

I'm wondering if Yehuda was the origin of this decision as an (ex ?) core developer of JQuery.

Anyway, all of this is very exciting !

But you know there's tons of tickets, tons of priorities and finally shit happens and some tasks are placed on top of the pile and become priorities.

It goes down often and they took sometime few days to reply to tickets (when they reply).

I'm now happy on Linode for my own stuff and on engine yard for work-related hosting.

I'm mainly using OSX now but I always have my wmii open in a virtual box.

http://letitcast.com

We're doing rails but if you have experience in web development and love it we could have a talk.

Email your resume to mike at letitcast dot com

Now I use sequel in english and S-Q-L in french. I was thinking it was the english way to say it.

This poll proves me it's wrong :-)

And about the issue about being a semi-slave : I worked for many startups in Paris and I never felt that. Of course if you take the consulting way you can't really compare with startups. And yes an internationally competitive salary is required and it costs an arm for the employer.

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When you're launching a startup where video encoding is one of the core component you don't really have the time to roll your own solution.

Doing an automated solution to encode videos is not easy and it takes time.

Having easy and cheap solutions like this make you gain valuable time in the early stage and even later.

Perhaps you should looking at a consumer market where you would do the work and then host it yourself for them giving them a link, or publish it to a subset of popular sites (facebook, flickr, youtube, wordpress, etc.)

Thats exactly what Particles do, they have two services ; one for encoding (heywatch) and the second one spread the videos to multiple services and provide analytics (Heyspread).

In my company we're currently using heywatch for encoding and after a rapid calcul it looks like you're cheaper.

We're paying 5c the video encoding and 10c for HD quality.

I'll have a deeper look this week.

alias preview='groff -Tps > /tmp/tmp.ps && open -a Preview /tmp/tmp.ps'

So you can do :

cheat git | preview