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I get it's a piece of history, but how do you monetize this? Convert it to paid software? Streaming service subscription?

Clearly there is a pain point with PostgreSQL and GUI front-ends. Wish I could see the site.

Only one improvment for me: It should bounce at the top and bottom!

They don't necessarily even need to make a phone call. Once I heard the news I sent emails to about 10 lead/senior developers.

no NYC?

AD60 - Brooklyn, NY (http://www.ad60.com/jobs/)

We build mobile apps for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone 8. We need mobile developers and web developers.

Most recently we've built apps for Songza (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/songza/id453111583?ls=1&...) and YouSendIt (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yousendit/id442140135?mt=8)

For one of my apps it says that I'm not using a production ready database. I'm using Amazon RDS. How well will the DB add-ons integrate with this check?

How about an option to frame it?

Agreed. Although, as a person who runs an agency, I do get a lot of emails a day from freelancers. So, you should try to stand out by showing your best work up front and be a real person. Don't try to sound like you're a team of 12 by saying "we" and attaching your company logo to everything. Simply say...

"My Name is protoweek and I really like what you guys are doing. I especially like your app XYZ. If you need help on a project I'd love to work with you. Here are the last three apps I've published. If you need an invite code let me know.

http://www.protoweek.com/app1 http://www.protoweek.com/app2 http://www.protoweek.com/app3 "

Something as simple as that usually gets my attention.

None of us will know the complete depth of their relationship, but TomTom shouldn't be so removed from this PR. What they should have said is "Although Apple provides additional layers of functionality on top of our map data, we've reached out to Apple to help support in fixing these issues."

That sounds a lot nicer than "it's not our problem"...

I'm logged out of FB at work for productivity reasons. I read FB probably about twice a day. Once in the morning and once at night.

I'm not missing much.

Brooklyn, NY - AD60, MyBankTracker.com

Web Developer - http://www.ad60.com/jobs/

About the twitter/facebook buttons. You can just delay until after the window.load event has occurred. It will have no impact on the page load, since the page is fully rendered at that point.

  $(window).load(function() { /* load twitter and Facebook buttons */ });

I love that favicon is the first tip. It's got me more than once, which is a sad testament to my ability as an engineer.

It's MailChimp, so super easy.

Just to clarify... I love Airbrake. Apologies if it didn't come across as that way. I use it on every site and app we create.

Agreed. I attack the most pressing errors ASAP. It just that the errors weren't actionable. Check out my reply above.

Well... Yes. It was helpful for that reason. I waded through many of the errors and traced them back to actual lines of code. It just so happens that many of the errors weren't particularly useful to me. I.e., not actionable.

Our browser tests include IE7, IE8, IE9, Safari, Firefox and Chrome. None of those errors are present in our tests. As you note, in many of the cases I could wrap the errors with notifications to the user.

But, really, if the google variable isn't loaded for a small set of users and I can't easily configure a test system that can reproduce it, I'm not going to take the time right now. I have too many other pressing things on my list.

I tried Airbrake yesterday and it wasn't that helpful. I had to turn it off quickly as I was inundated with errors.

You can see from your screenshot that you're getting Script Error at line 0. A number of other errors pop up that I couldn't quite figure out.

For instance, when the variable 'google' isn't found it's because the google javascript never loaded. But, how many browsers are rejecting the google maps javascript?

One quick note: I tried to select something on this page and nothing would happen. I finally figured out that I had to sign up for a service first.

Have you considered creating a bit of javascript that any site can embed on their site that would allow a visitor to annotate? This could be a really powerful channel for getting sign ups. Especially if you partner with some quality sites.

Also, have you considered making it anonymous to start like github:gist? It would be great to test it out without making a commitment of signing up. I.e., "Do I really have to sign up for something, before I even know if it will provide value to me?"

Good to know. I'm running a test right now, so I should have a good idea if I need to pull it in the next hour or so.

Any idea if they're laying off software devs? They're still in high demand here in NYC.

My biggest issue is merging the project.pbxproj file every time someone on my team commits. Merging never works and we have to manually edit the XML.

It's an awful feeling to always be afraid to change anything in the project outside of the source code. Did you both add a new file? Too bad; conflict!

Airbrake (formerly known as Hoptoad) has a JavaScript notifier. We use it for server side logging, but this article has inspired me to add it the client side as well.

http://help.airbrake.io/kb/troubleshooting-2/javascript-noti...

Can't believe I wasn't doing this already. Thanks!

Need this for NYC. I have to imagine that this is the next area to expand to.

Here's my version that we use on MyBankTracker.com. We hardcode the z variable using a power of 0.05.

https://gist.github.com/2292254

Now that I remember it... I found it odd that it was asking me my profession. I entered Engineer and it dropped substantially.

Anyways congrats! It's really interesting stuff. I have very similar issues to Leaky on my personal finance/banking startup. Really like the way you incorporated the ratings at the end.

I'm glad you put up the notice about California rates only. I'm in NYC and saw that I was paying nearly double what I should be paying within the same insurer.

My question... Is it possible to vary that much between the different states?

Taking advantage of the system is what humans do; as much it can be despised. I hope the people that are in it for the wrong reasons get weeded out. With all the experience that pg and the team have, it can't be too hard, right?

Just wanted to say congrats. I purchased something for the first time yesterday. It's missing a few things, such as search and links to each brand, but overall it's a very nice execution. Examples:

1. Search: I found a few things that I wanted to purchase. Came back later and couldn't find them again.

2. Links: I found myself often (web and iPad) on a product page and wanted to see more by that brand.

Also one thing that has annoyed me, but I understand why you do it. You show sold out items. 99% of the time I don't want to see it.