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No more VACUUM then?

I think buttons adds a new whole of opportunities to Slack integrations, straight forward interactions.

Thanks! Looking forward to be able to try it :)

Is the pricing public?

I find it funny that the article repeats several times the amount of data that square. Do you know who has more data? The bank where the business has its account ;)

That being said, the current process from banks seems old and not really clever to me

All of them seem being available for free if you have Amazon Prime (I do). It's pretty awesome!

Great! IMHO the main problem with CodeAcademy was not teaching how to build things. I have several non-tech friends who have done 30 exercises about loops but have no idea when to use a loop.

I think this is the right direction. Give a more complete view and do it step by step so the person learning can be rewarded and keep the motivation.

Different API keys in there instead of my app, alerts when the API is down, headers, etc. I think it's kind of nice that I don't have to code them or that I just have configure my app to use 3 different API tools end-points for dev, qa, prod. But I really think that the best usage for them is monitoring

Thanks!

I love the concept of the middleware to modify the requests. When are you guys going to start sending the invites?

Totally agree with you. Actually I came to comments to say exactly that

Seems like the author forgot to learn the conventions of the language. The site looks like a good reference though

I'm pretty sure that at that time I had tons of music (using winamp) and photos on my computer (scanning was the way at that time).

Amazon has a great vision, others are just afraid about people "stealing" their content. Probably companies need to be educated in this area

Is great to see a lot of companies releasing APIs but if even better as a developer start a project and being able to easily use external services and even integrate your app with bigger services. Imagine creating an e-commerce an integrating your catalog with stuff from macys, amazon, etc.

Never tried Rescue Time but sounds interesting. Masterbranch is gamifying the experience of working on a software project, focusing the metrics on your software rather than where you spend your time (of course this helps with your productivity too)

What kind of stats would you like to view?

We don't feel confortable ranking projects and people based on info from not registered people, just our choice.

One of the things that really differentiates our ranking from Ohloh's is the way we calculate the DevScore. The DevScore it's not a popularity rank and it's not based on the amount of lines. The DevScore tries to measure the impact of your contributions (measure the amount of code, the reputation of the project and the reputation of the people that you work with) and of course we are continuously improving it and open to heard feedback.

It's not because Github is our main source but because we have more people from Github registered (we have connectors to support git, svn, cvs and hg open source projects from any forge).

Would be great to see people from other communities and/or languages (i.e jquery ranks 13 but John Resig is not even registered)

Right now we use the webhooks on Github and Bitbucket. Webhooks send to Masterbranch information about the commit, the message, the files and the date of the commit but never the code, in that way we protect the privacy of the code. This allows us to have a taste about what you are working on.

Due to the feedback right now we plan to release tools to upload full commit history and also hooks for the SCMs without having to host the private code on Github on Bitbucket. (already working on the git hook https://github.com/masterbranch/Jolly-Roger)

That's is the idea behind Masterbranch (https://masterbranch.com). Masterbranch creates profiles based not only in information from GitHub but also other forges like BitBucket, GoogleCode, Sourceforge and almost any independent reachable repository out there (we support Hg, Git, SVN, and CVS).

Because not everyone has FOSS info we also have hooks to have information about private code without sharing the actual code so you don't have to worry about broken the IP, NDA, etc. And other stuff like StackOverflow reputation, etc. You can even give "free beers" to other developers as a thanks/kudos/good work

We are currently working on a new profile, less resume, more dashboard, you can take a look to it here https://masterbranch.com/drbrain/cool-new-stuff

So, the main idea is an identity (not just a resume) for the developers merging all their identities in one place and give them a tool (not only to find a new job) to stay connected to their peers, know what's hot on technology, discover interesting projects, etc.

Thanks for your feedback. I'm going to add it to our backlog.

- About the bitbucket projects, maybe the crawler didn't get all the links, you can send us projects to add going to "Missing projects? Add a project"

- About the link to go to your profile, there is a tab named "go to your profile" on the main nav-bar

- The progress bar needs explanations and also some work because is not working properly right now.

- The chart is ordered by the number of files. Probably we should order it using the number of files, commits, and the time but right now this's the order and maybe this is why is confusing to you.

Again, thanks for your feedback, appreciated.

Seing code is the way to go in job interviews, and in my opinion can't be compared to solve puzzles, etc.

Thanks to Open Source right now there are tons of public code from people, that's why we have created masterbranch.com a service to aggregate, analyze, and list all you OS but also with the option of include non-open source code (the code is not visible if the project is not open source).

Also, the idea of open sourcing a component, a side project, etc. and ask the candidates to contribute I think is a great way to have an idea about how they work.

+1 to "I'm not sure this is a good place to post this sort of issues"

Anyway, have you checked if your browser has JavaScript enabled?

So your problem is not with the Apache Software Foundation but with the committers of Apache Solr. On Github you can do a pull request and it never being accepted, so same result as your experience in Solr.

As you say it's trivial to someone to take over the project and maintain it but not trivial to anyone to find the right fork of the project when a project has 100+ forks.

Spain and Luxembourg also before taxes

Right now they can be used inside the page. Of course we should do a export to pdf functionality and something to pick the stuff that you want to include.

Thanks for your advice!

> So you're cloning ohloh.com?

Not really. We are putting together information from Open Source, like ohloh, but also from private code, linkedin and stackoverflow. We put this information in a resume/profile visual representation. Also, ohloh has been always project centric and we are focused on people.

I didn't expose the problem nor our point of view because I thought was not the point.

The problem for me, as a developer is, I don't have a place to show off all my stuff (like a developer portfolio). Online CVs are almost the same as were 10 years ago, filling forms about what you have done, so our point is to create an alternative for a CV, something automatically updated, with all the info that you care about and without all the pain off filling forms and repeat the same info again.

As others said, don't be afraid, just try it.

Also, internships are there to learn, nobody expects you being a guru, they expect someone with passion and a hard worker.

Good luck!

Here you have a list of PHP + Python + JavaScript Open Source projects https://www.masterbranch.com/javascript-php-python-projects (Disclaimer: I'm the co-founder of the site).

As others said, one way to start contributing is ask on the mailing list. Maybe you can start askin / answering some questions, being active and offering you to do some minor bugs or documentation (this is a good start). if you feel confortable and you have been doing a good job you will be able to continue with your contributions.

Also, the most important part is: have fun, try to pick a cool project, something that you enjoy and start from there.

Last but not less, good luck with that