prottmann

It depend on what kind of online service you want create.

I think you will get 100 postings where 100 people try to convince you from their favorite language.

I think Meteor can "kill" things like backbone, angular, ember.

I found today http://modulus.io, they use different clouds. But definitly at a better price as dotcloud/nodejitsu/heroku, especially for smaller projects with SSL. Nice are the backend statistics without paying for any extra service.

But i think in the next months many new PaaS services will rise, thanks to docker ;-)

And i hope many new without amazon (amazon is not bad, but expensive).

Yes, JavaScript is terrible. But JavaScript is not the end of programming languages, it is a step for the next big language.

I think everybody agree that different languages for frontend / backend development are the not the best solution, so JavaScript is a big step forward.

But i think soon it is necessary for a complete rebuild for a new language, with all the things included that we learned and invented from the "old" languages.

Dart, TypeScript, Coffescript, and the 1.000 other language Modifications / frameworks try all to fix a little part of the problem. Thats nice but annoying too.

But for only one thing i would not use a framework, a library like http://ractivejs.org is enough for that.

But the same you can say about many other frameworks.

Knockout got attention, but there are so many frameworks that it is not so easy to see the big advantage of one.

Yes, for that i prefer my own Namespace and extend not directly from Backbone (e.g. same when you use Backbone-Marionette).

Before you change your views, you should think about an own class on top of backbone and extend from that class.

So you can handle default behaviours easier and centralized.

Dying? I don't know, but surely not dead.

But look at the beginning of Java, at that time it was "cool" and growing. Now Java is an adult and not cool, other languages grow, build new communities, new tools and new possibilites, that's why they offer more fun and many people think java is dying.

Java will be there for many many years, Cobol still there too ;-) But someday it will die, that's normal life.

If you scale up, you wish you didnt do the failure of running an own "cost- and performance efficient" solution. We did the same failure for many years.

If you scale up, normally you did not have time to look for better solutions, because you need your time for your product and customers and not for your server. The problem is that you then loose customers or slow down the growth and that cost more then some bucks for a better cloud solution (and yes, cloud cost more).

Cant access the site.

Install them a open source Webserver with enough power for $100K ;-)

Hope you finish soon. I am excited than for an review of meteor and derby, i think that this are the two most exciting projects at the moment.

Its time for a distributed oauth with different provider.

All the time i did not understand why so many developer jump on the App-Train. Most of them did not make money with their apps. But thats another problem.

The real problem is, that everybody try to be cheaper than others and so all developer destroy their own markets.

Why did so many sell a good product for 99 Cent ? CRAZY !

If somebody likes your app and find it usefull, this person will pay more than 99 Cent (ONCE IN HIS LIFE).

Ok, admittedly, it exists millions of todo apps, so you have a special problem with many competitors, but this can't be the reason to be cheap.

How long did it take to build the app with all functions?

Thats my experience too, if somebody don't want to use a tool, then it is irrelevant if it is the best tool in the world.

That is too generally, most of companies allow a free usage, because they want to convince about their service and set the hurdle of usage as low as possible.

Companies like google, yahoo, facebook, ... are a different kind of "free" web-service.

Or free 2 play games, free players are "content" in that games.

I think in the article they try to explain that todos are OK, but todos did not motivate or give a good feeling.

Because when you finish todos, you have more new todos, a never ending story. Thats why todo-list are so negative.

I agree. We try many tools in our small team, but the main problem was, that we had to fill in simple steps or small problems and for that were all tools to complicated. Effect: after a short while nobody use them.

We come back to paper and whiteboard. For own simple tasks we use paper. For team tasks we use a simple whiteboard nearby the coffee machine ;-)

But after a while we had the problem that nobody see what the others have done (end up with too much talking -> waste of time).

We decide an another approach, we didn't write todos, but we write about what we have done. Advert ;-) We create http://teamspir.it to write a log about the daily work.

Effect: Everybody knows what the team member have done and why, because we write our sight of view about the things we have done. Positive effect was, that we review our work and look what we do right or wrong.

For me it is very motivating to write at the end of the week about all things i have done. It give me a better feeling about how many things are finished. Normally i have a wrong memory about that and i think "Oh god, i did not do anything this week", but this is wrong, when you reflect your work, you see how much you have done.