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code4payon Closed Gardens: Don't repeat my mistakes

A couple of great little web sites there. It id interesting how Dropbox etc are enabling a more decentralised internet.

code4payon PHP is much better than what you think

yeah he has done an amazing job.

code4payon Building Backbone.js/PHP based stack

Nice, I think backbone and bootstrap type products are going to make builders like this more practical and common.

code4payon Flotr2 : a library for drawing HTML5 charts and graphs

I'm currently working on a project to combine it with pivot.js. should make it a pretty good js only reporting solution

code4payon Doodle on Google.pl

expected a Perl script

code4payon DARPA: reconstruct shredded documents, win $50,000

You know will go "missing" once you have put it back together and seen the document.

code4payon Show HN: Folderus Demo - Dropbox, Google Docs and local folder collaboration

love it, I think this has great potential in SMB arena, I know several companies using that combination of services individually.

code4payon How to Learn Perl

We started a new project a year or two ago and evaluated using Perl,Python Ruby and the main factor in the reason to use Perl was that the libraries for our particular usage cases where better in Perl than the others at that time. For LDAP and SNMP in particular there exists Pure Perl Libraries that are very mature, at the time similar libraries for Ruby and Python where just wrappers around C classes and not as mature (Might be different now).

Java might have been a good choice in this regard as well but our team was used to using Dynamic languages.

I would suggest that anyone looking at a particular language should consider what they want to achieve and then investigate the existing libraries etc to complete that task.

Having committed to using Perl we have had no regrets things like Moose and roles IMHO put it on par with Languages like Python and Ruby. Edit: Formatting

code4payon Show HN - Random business from the INC5000 list in json (for business ideas)

If you are a Perl user you can do curl -s random-inc5000.herokuapp.com | perl -MJSON -e 'print to_json(from_json(<>),{pretty=>1})'

Just thought I'd try it out of interest. :-)

code4payon Decision Fatigue

Looks like a good segway to my startup www.decideall.com (Honestly I have no connection to the OP!). It is an attempt to make Decision Making more rational.

code4payon Ask HN: Why seek seed funding/Investors?

I have an idea and I would like to work on it full time but I have a family to support. The idea will not make money until it reaches a critical mass of users. If I got funding it would allow me to bridge that gap. That is the reason I would seek funding.

code4payon Experiments in Early-Stage Customer Acquisition (ESCA)

I would have signed up but I am in Australia on Optus?