dmpayton

Although it's missing API's for Hacker News[0] and Fuck Off As A Service[1].

[0] https://github.com/dmpayton/python-ihackernews

[1] https://github.com/dmpayton/foaas-python

Would this cover a language-specific wrapper around an HTTP API? For example, I wrote a Python library for the iHackerNews API[0]. Would something like that count as a reimplementation for the purposes of their request?

[0] https://github.com/dmpayton/python-ihackernews

Web Cube is a CMS+eCommerce platform that powers the website and online stores for a number of large well-known brands.

http://www.webcubecms.com/our-company/clients/

We're looking for solid Python+Django developers to help grow our platform and take it to the next level.

http://www.webcubecms.com/blog/2012/06/17/join-our-team-were...

There's no reason why Facebook, with their size and engineering talent, shouldn't be able to allocate the resources to maintain their Python SDK. Making it the 20% project of a single engineer would be enough, I should think, with a few extra hours thrown in when major API changes come through. Even if they let the community drive the bulk of development, they really can't spare a few hours a week to look over bug reports and pull requests?

It's easy to write a check, but I'd like to see them take some real action and make Python a first-class citizen for Facebook app development.

https://us.pycon.org/2012/sponsors/#sponsor-89

I have nothing but contempt for Facebook at this point. As a user I don't trust them, and as a developer I can't stand them.

If Google was consuming their API (vs. scraping content directly from their site), would this even be an issue?

Let's assume, hypothetically, that Google used the API provided by Yelp to enhance their search results. If Yelp said, "We don't like what you're doing, so stop because we said so", I feel that it would totally be within Googles rights to say, "Fine, we no longer wish to do business with you and will exclude you from our index".

Of course, I'm not entirely sure what the Yelp API of 2010 looked like, nor have I read their TOS. However, I still feel that Stoppelman's testimony did more to remove my desire to ever use Yelp than it did to convince me that Google is this big evil monopoly that's destroying the little guy.

Good luck on your next adventure, Chad!

[Edit] If it came down to it, I might consider an approach like Lanyrd: launch with a donate button, and all donors get special perks and some extra free time when it's time to roll out a proper payment system.

I'd really love to know what the ETA is on a webservice API, even if it's just a rough ballpark. I sent them an email asking about it, hopefully they'll be able to provide further details.

One of the blockers to launching my side-startup is the financial investment required to form the business and setup a merchant account. Money is tight for me, and I'd like to keep my costs to a minimum until there is some positive cashflow.

If Square offered an API, I could launch and start accepting money now, holding off on the business formation beyond sole-proprietorship until paying customers have validated my idea. Hell, they can keep the extra $0.15 for that.

So what's stopping Square from doing that? Could they build that out, or are they blocked by, e.g., regulations? (I know nothing about operating a payment gateway)

http://www.factual.com/

Aza, if you're reading this, I'd love to talk! Contact info is in my profile.

Someone posted that Joel Spolsky is gay. I remember hearing something about that a while back, but had honestly forgotten about it. What matters isn't that he's gay, but that he's smart and gets things done. Same goes for everyone else!

I've found that one of the major complaints that blind users have is that it's a total bitch to work with dynamically updating pages. If more developers paid attention to web accessibility, a lot of the major problems to disabled folks would be greatly alleviated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Accessibility_Initiative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Accessibility_Guide... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_508_Amendment_to_the_Re...

I say this as a visually impaired developer with several blind friends and family. To me, web accessibility is serious business.

http://diabeti.ca has languished as a landing page for too long. Time to clean it up, get it out there, and get more people using it besides my wife.

I usually have Chrome on my right screen, several tabs worth of terminals on my left screen, and Komodo Edit will float back and forth between the two, depending on what I'm doing.

For me, the two features I miss most in HG are the staging area and cheap local branching. There plugins that give you rough equivalents, but I haven't used them and it's much nicer to have what you need out of the box.

On a side note, I paid my monthly subscription fee just a few days ago, but now everyone is on the same (basic, free) plan. Is that money just out the window?