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brolewis··on Learn from your Data with Dataclips 2.0
Is there any equivalent to Dataclips for non-Heroku databases?
brolewis··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?
Surprisingly, its such a pain point that a company would spend $50,000 - 150,000 for a single installation.
brolewis··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?
Desktop apps still have a place in some B2B settings. For a year I worked for a company that developed software that managed fork lift battery inventories for warehouses. These were warehouses that had little to no internet connectivity on the floor and so having a desktop application was crucial. It was a niche market but highly profitable.
brolewis··on No departments
I started to write a comment here but it became a bit lengthy and so thought I would post it to my blog. You can find it here<http://blog.parishmedia.info/post/708546766/no-departments-y...; if you are interested. For the tl;dr version, the problem isn't departments, its communication.
brolewis··on Poll: What web server do you use?
Sadly, I had a feeling that might have been the case. As stated before, I think Cherokee is a great product that just doesn't have the popularity other projects do.
brolewis··on Poll: What web server do you use?
Reading the comments, I noticed that Cherokee was added after the poll started. I wonder how many Cherokee users voted "Other". I, for one, am a Cherokee user and a big fan. The admin interface is easy to use and I love that its written in Python. As a Pylons developer, I also love that uWSGI is built right into the system.
brolewis··on The HN tax? FTC mulls taxing online news aggregators
As a listener to NPR, I don't agree that there is a bias toward government spending programs. This, to me, gives more credance to the poor writing in the article. If the writer believes there is a bias, then provide reference to some articles that support their statement.
brolewis··on New in Sphinx 1.0: Domains
Wow. I missed the date on there. I just stumbled onto that site while surfing and thought it was interesting as a Sphinx user.
brolewis··on IE9 will support VP8 and H.264 video
There was an article earlier on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361442) that talked about there still being patent concerns with the new codec and so it seems like Microsoft may wanting to avoid being named in any potential suits by requiring the end user to install the codec rather than providing it by default.
brolewis··on 3 things I wish somebody would build
Possibly. I'm a Python guy doing this is Pylons so if you have experience with that, I would take some help. Also, if you have any experience with interfaces, that's my weakness.
brolewis··on 3 things I wish somebody would build
For the first point, there resources out there, but I personally don't think there are many that are that easy to use and work with other social sites. This is actually an interest of mine and is the first side project that I have started working on. I hope to have something out there in the not-to-distant future and I hope to get feedback from people like you who are also looking for such an app.
brolewis··on Common business card mistakes
The only purpose of a business card isn't to get scanned into a system and stored away in a CRM. Another purpose of a business card is to extend the brief encounter that started the process. A catchy and well designed business card should jump out and be remembered so when the recipient is going through the people he recently met, that card serves as a reminder and hopefully elevates your name above the others.
brolewis··on How Sales Complexity Impacts Your Startup’s Viability
This is a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1304234
brolewis··on Cherokee (High Performance Webserver) 1.0 is out
I've worked with Apache, nginx, and Cherokee and I think that Cherokee is the best. The authors have worked hard to make it fast and robust. I agree with jonesy that the gui might be a putoff, but I have actually come to enjoy the gui interface and love the elegant simplicity of it.
brolewis··on Simply adding more features does not equal a better software product
While I don't feel that this post brings up anything particularly unique, I think that it is a good reminder to keep away from feature creep and to stick to doing a subset of tasks well. As I work on my side projects, I keep reminding myself that my goal is not to match every possible feature but to do a simple task well.
brolewis··on Ubuntu 10.04 Released
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that. I've have several times where I thought I was switching applications only to minimize an active window due to the "inverse" colors.
brolewis··on Is Facebook a Brand that You Can Trust?
While I read past the "think of the kids" argument, I was disappointed analogy of the locksmith. The locksmith didn't unlock the doors while you were sleeping. To follow the analogy, there would have been something over the lock requiring you to either allow the locksmith to unlock the door or to keep the locking mechanism functioning as is.
brolewis··on [dead]
Actually, not it is not. I am on linux and the link went to a Windows binary