Regardless my absolute disgust for any sort of censorship, I must admit that it would be quite interesting to look, through a sociologist-like point of view, how a whole nation has developed (or not developed) without any string attached to the rest of the world, to know what the people there are thinking and what's their idea of the rest of the world. Too bad it's almost impossible to get there and roam around for a western citizen.
While a VPS or a Cloud solution may provide you greater flexibility for the reasons explained by pedoh, in my personal experience dedicated servers are better served in terms of bandwidth and throughput stability. At the current state-of-the-art however, I'd choose VPS over dedicated anytime (as long as it's cheaper).
To be honest, I'm a bit more impressed by the flash-like capabilities of raphael.js rather than the icon set itself. It's great stuff. http://raphaeljs.com/
I might be a rampant first-time entrepreneur wannabe, but I still believe ideas have a little value. I'd rather say: Bad ideas are worthless, great execution makes the difference.
In daylight, consultant/business analyst at major IT company, during the night, I put togheter jquery, css, rails, perl scripting, dedicated servers and obscure new stuff to build my contribution of innovation to the human society.
Good point, it wouldn't affect javascript based stats, but it's surely going to mess up with webserver log-based analytics such as webalizer, awffull etc..
I'm not interest whether or not this is a copy of something already in place, it looks like a neat little app. Anyway, honestly, the 'buy - go to the store' button at the end of the page was a bit unexpected..
It makes sense, I've studied 'IT engineering' here in Italy, and we can also get the best of both worlds.
The sad thing is that as an engineer you'll be always labeled as a technical person, and somehow not competent when it comes to crucial functional decisions, especially when you end up working for a big corporate, where business analysts are more likely to be former MBAs..
VCs are good to share risks and gain economic stability while building something on your own. I wouldn't drop out my day job to sink into a project and risk all my money, I must be backed in order to start.
What you need is experienced, advising, business savvy VCs. They're a necessity, not Freaks. The article is bogus.
Mark Pilgrim's site http://diveintohtml5.org/ is the best resource I've found on the subject. Once you have an overview of all the new features, you might just want to read some examples and start playing with them, at least this is my approach (I'm not a big fan of programming books, can you tell?).
Hi David, I'll be there too. I also believe you can't really get something up and running in 2 days, but when I found out about this few days ago, it sounded fun and I mindlessly subscribed. The Venice event will be hosted at H-Farm, a very rare example of italian private VC/incubator, so it might even be a decent launchpad. I'm Francesco, a software engineer from Verona, hope to see you there!