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fesuffolkon What it's like to be listed on Product Hunt, twice

I'd not even heard of product hunt, is it a UK only thing?

fesuffolkon Duckie: Rubber Ducking as a service

http://www.fesuffolk.co.uk/talks/40

fesuffolkon Duckie: Rubber Ducking as a service

Nice! we started with a random response but decided to try and get some object recognition. it's a little like the thing small children do 'Why?' over and over.

fesuffolkon Duckie: Rubber Ducking as a service

It was inspired by a mixture of turning it off and on again and that sharp intake of breath before 'nevermind'.

fesuffolkon Duckie: Rubber Ducking as a service

unfortunately so, we're looking into other contexts some some more specific programming ones.

fesuffolkon Duckie: Rubber Ducking as a service

Source at https://github.com/atleastimtrying/rubber_duck

fesuffolkon I'm a beginner javascript coder. Please give me some ideas for creating webapps.

Make one that pulls data from a json feed and presents it. heres what i mean > http://atleastimtrying.github.io/codeschool-report/

If you don't have a codeschool account try mine (in the placeholder text) and see what I mean.

fesuffolkon Developers, what makes a local meetup worth attending?

Its in Ipswich, Suffolk in the UK, we meet once a month near the town centre in one of the university buildings. Could I have picked a better location?