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Let's also not forget StaticMatic http://www.staticmatic.net/. It has great support for HAML and SASS.

A helpful tip with for all of these static generators - if you need PHP or other code, just put it in the static HTML and have your deploy script rename the files to .PHP before rsync'ing them.

I use a Rakefile with a deploy task that uses rsync to send the HTML to our server and s3sync to send our images to Amazon Cloudfront.

There is a real need for people who can bridge the gap between programmers and non-programmers (end users, clients, supervisors, co-workers).

After graduating with my information systems degree 10 years ago, I started a small software company. Three years later, I was concerned that since my strongest skill was programming that I was doomed to be a programmer. I went back and got my MBA from Texas A&M (2 intense semesters followed by a very light 3rd semester).

Pairing the MBA with my technical background has proven to be very beneficial. I can interact with my customers or occasional clients and really understand their needs from a non-technical perspective and then I can then go back to the office and work with a developer either in pair programming or just in a project management role.

I recently began working with Ruby on Rails after years in ASP.Net and I still have to refer to the API, Guides, and documentation so I consider myself an amateur. I'm having to get used to programming "better" since I no longer have the assistance of a compiler to catch these type of errors.

As you probably know, Rails is about convention over configuration. This increases the initial learning curve but speeds up development once you understand the conventions. I read Agile Web Development with Rails and was able to make it over the initial hump of "what..why is this capitalized and this plural and the singular" stage.

We dumped DirecTV last spring and haven't looked back. The $80/month ended up costing us $2-$3/hour watched and we still had to sit through commercials or fast forward.

We watch most of our tv through Hulu and buy the rest through iTunes. The big networks I have to get through iTunes are Discovery (Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs) and A&E (Mad Men).

Our setup is a Mac Mini with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse + DLP projector. I've enjoyed having the full computer because it's easy to watch videos on websites. Don't have time to watch that 20 minute Vimeo or TED video you read about on a blog? Drag the link to a Dropbox folder and watch it that night.

As other articles have pointed out, this is interesting timing with Hulu's recent announcement of possibly charging for content (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=897853).

How about adding a Mac Mall (or similar) affiliate link for iPod cases, sleeves, FM transmitters, even those big ugly clocks that you can "dock" your iPod to.

My wife has firstnamelastname@gmail.com and she is constantly getting emails to firstname.lastname@gmail.com intended for someone in another state.

According to http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... : "Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only yours"

Good question and I asked myself the same when I wrote my original response. It's difficult to get a truthful answer of what someone would pay unless they are actually paying but I'll try.

My DirecTV was ~$75/month with taxes which cost me around $2/hour based on 1hr a day. I switched to Hulu because my costs went from $75 to $0. I'd probably be willing to pay up to $30/month commercial free or $15/month with commercials.

I do wonder if Hulu will seriously be able to compete with cable when Comcast is on the board.

Good - I hope that means they will stay around and continue to grow. I certainly don't mind paying a modest monthly fee for quality programming on demand. It couldn't be near as much as DirecTV was charging me before I switched to Hulu.

I'm about 90 miles away in College Station. Not too much goes on around here even though Texas A&M is here in town.

I can't wait to try this out. I've been hooked on the multi-touch on my MBP and can't stand having to go back to an old mouse when I connect the laptop to to my 24" monitor.

I definitely agree with the 2 week challenge.

I developed in ASP.Net on Windows for years but got tired of having to code in Windows and do everything else in OSX. I picked up a copy of Agile Web Development with Rails and gave myself a "2 week challenge". It's been a few months and I haven't looked back. I can't imagine going back to .NET.

It was still probably cheaper to get the lawyers involved than buying it on the open market or public auction.

As Ben Franklin said, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".

It's an interesting idea and it seems a lot quicker to setup a call than going through FreeConference.com. However, I'm a little more methodical and the site doesn't explain how the process works.

A few questions come to mind: - Who are you and why are you giving away free conference calls? - Will participants hear ads during the call? - Is there a limit on the number of participants? - What about international callers (btw what country is this for?)

I like the clean and simple design and I encourage you to keep it that way. Perhaps linking to a FAQ or a page with a little more background.

Good luck and congrats on the release!

A lot of the large domain owners use Moniker or Fabulous for their domains. They both have good prices and good support. Plus they don't lead you through a mine field of extras just to buy a domain.

I personally have had good luck with Moniker. They also have a great API.

Seems like it is primarily scraping content from the USPTO search (http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=login&p_lang=engli...) and being monetized by trying to sell their own legal services? Maybe I am missing something.

Many of the good programmers avoid services like eLance because they simply can't compete against the lousy coders who will bid $200 to develop an eBay clone in 7 days.

Perhaps you could look in the open source community of your language or technology?

My wife and I own two small software companies (similar product, different niches) and have a small cattle ranch. We work from our house and also have a 14 month old son. Being productive is essential for us to manage our work/life balance.

A few things that have worked for us:

1) Hire someone to be on the "front lines" so you can queue your tasks while your business still has timely responses

2) Minimize switching hats throughout the day (marketer to programmer to customer service)

3) Avoid computer distractions - Remove programs from dock (use QuickSilver instead) - Remove notifications (menu bar items icons, widgets, growl notifications) - Remove bookmarks bar from Safari and FireFox - Remove email notifier and only check 1-2x a day and when you are ready to answer them

4) Plan ahead by creating tomorrow's ToDo list today

5) Separate Google Reader feeds by subject and only read specific subjects when wearing that hat

6) Stop bookmarking URLs and saving code snippets - it will probably be out of date by the time you need it (assuming you can remember where you saved it)

http://emberapp.com/explore/categories/ is sort of like a Flickr for artists/designers with lots of user-submitted screenshots.

http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-skins has actual HTML+CSS coded templates for sale.

He gave more to this world than he took.