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If this interest you guys, you will most likely be interested by what we do over at prismic.io too. Basically, we're a service too, we output content as JSON too, and are very focused on versioning too; but we also have what we call the "writing-room", a very user-friendly UI to let non-technical content writers write comfortably without needing tech tools such as Git; and we come up with our own content query API.

It works with most technologies (we have kits in JS, Ruby, PHP, Java, Scala, Python, ...), and we did release a static website generator based on a JS engine which we called baked.js.

Check us out if you're interested in tech-flexible, design-flexible content management where content is nicely versioned.

With the time you have, start a startup that solves this! \o/

(Yes, I am very serious!)

Well, that other news of the day seems to bring an alternative: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7738801

This is a great use case for prismic.io!

Since all of your content is structured and delivered through your API, you can simply pull it from your application, and use the content the way you want. Look at me take an existing Bootstrap site, and inject content in it: https://blog.prismic.io/Ux-CMgEAAFwI9kFg/turn-a-bootstrap-th... (here in PHP, but you can use any technology you want). Here, it's a static Bootstrap site, but if your application was more complex, it wouldn't me more complicated to embed prismic.io powered content!

Indeed, you need to set up your application yourself, with your technology of choice. You want to watch that "Getting started" video to get a better understanding of how to do that: https://developers.prismic.io/documentation/UjBaQsuvzdIHvE4D...

Google Drive is great for writing unversioned content that you don't need to deliver elsewhere and/or manipulate programmatically; I use it myself a lot for this kind of tasks. But if you want your content to end up automatically online or in another application, if you want to keep full control of how it's displayed easily, and if you want to track and plan changes in an advanced way, then it's for sure not the right tool, and prismic.io sounds more like it.

You get the idea roughly, although use cases are likely to go beyond that, but your mum's chocolate shop sounds like a great case to start with! :)

Here is more details in video about how to get started: https://developers.prismic.io/documentation/UjBaQsuvzdIHvE4D...

And here more about how to develop: https://developers.prismic.io/

Have fun!

There are a lot of interface optimization coming, that will indeed make your life even easier progressively. Those optimizations are all easy to make, it's all a matter of building the right ones. :)

There will definitely be support for several languages in the writing-room too.

For our pricing all of the answers to your questions are here: https://prismic.io/pricing

Thanks for liking it! :)

Hey, indeed, part of the easy learning curve is that all of the kits (i.e. the part that developers actually use in their projects) are open-source on GitHub: https://github.com/prismicio Also, learning how to develop with it could really hardly be easier, check out the 10-minute video on the developer's portal: https://developers.prismic.io/

We call it the "activity". It exists in two different fashions: you can view the one of the whole repository, or just focus on the one of a given document.

For your front-end, you can use absolutely everything you want! Open-source template, or anything; I usually use Bootstrap3, because I'm a huge fan myself. :)

And to answer your last question: we're not using Yahoo's PureCSS in the writing-room.

It's nice... and also very wrong, if you take the initial definition of adaptive web design!

Adaptive web design as introduced by Aaron Gustafson in the "Adaptive Web Design" book has little to do with layout design, and everything to do with progressive enhancement and adapting the website's behavior to the browser's abilities (geolocation, ...)

But I guess, most people didn't read the book, and now everyone has their own definition for it, so in effect, it doesn't mean much anymore; some say it's non-fluid RWD (like here), some say it's server-side components (like most people), some say it's exactly the same as RWD... oh well, pick your favorite!

My MacBook was stolen in September, and it was the same for me: they were smart enough not to connect to a WiFi, and FindMyMac knows nothing about it. I requested it to lock itself, but since it never connected to a WiFi, I'm pretty sure it never did...

I just enabled FileVault on the MacBook I have now, thanks for that! :)

I'm from France, now based in San Francisco, and the situation in France is similar to the one in Italy; some interesting startups, but you have to "know someone" to get in, and a generally conservative culture that appreciates to compare present to the past, rather than project to the future.

What I can tell you now that I've done what you dream to do: - You're not as stuck as you think you are (even without a visa). The startup scenes are more progressive in London, Berlin or Amsterdam, although not quite as much as in the SF Bay, of course. If I lost my right to be in the US, I would be amazingly disappointed, but I would simply go to one of these cities, and stop worrying about my country being far behind. I only realized this once my plan to get here was on track, so I stayed in Paris far too long, I'm afraid, but you don't have to make that mistake. - You have a decision to make about effort. Legally moving to SF with a job and legally moving to London with a job are both possible things, they just take a different amount of effort. For London, you'll have to make a little money first to make sure you can go from time to time to look for your next life, and to make the big move when the time comes. For the US, you'll have to make far more money first, come here 3 revenue-less months to look for a job, limit yourself to large companies (those that mind visas issues less), be overly patient with people who don't mind abusing your weakness, ... It took me 5 years to make it with this project, and I'm still one of the lucky ones; but I was willing to take a chance, and to keep fighting through the effort. - There's another road that is made possible by the European crisis; it's riskier, but faster: create your own startup. Work a Java dev job at the same time, but find an awesome startup idea, and work on it on your free time. Find time (and money) to come meet investors in SF (save money and time, and make sure you'll have interviews before coming). Investors in the US know that there are no serious investors in France or Italy these days, so they love to meet European entrepreneurs with nice startups, who are willing to move to SF. Once you're well-funded, getting a visa gets much easier.

Get in touch with me if you need help with anything else.

There is one use case where Facebook likes are useful, even critical: in online brand protection. Users that actively "like" your page to receive your news have been proven to "like" the page with your company's name that has the highest number of likes (in other words: the most liked page is perceived to be the official page). If there are other pages about your company created by third-parties, and that get enough likes to be mistaken for you, you definitely want to have more likes, to make sure to remain the page that is perceived as official, and keep using Facebook as an information channel.

My main distraction is noise, since I mostly work from home, and my home can be a rather noisy place sometimes (I don't live alone). The sound of the TV, for instance, can be anywhere from a nice background presence (like for a documentary) to an impossibility to work (like an action movie that tries very hard to catch your attention).

But one day, I tried this, and boy did it change my life! http://simplynoise.com/

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work for everyone and can get annoying to some people; but for me it was a revelation and solved a problem for good.

You should probably talk to an immigration attorney, it depends on a loooot of factors. And let me tell you first that there is no easy road.

The "obvious" answer would be to file for a H1B in April 2014, in order to hope to be allowed to get that contract signed in October 2014... but I guess you won't take that for an answer! :)

You can base a more ambitious visa strategy on stuff like: * the outstanding stability and growth of your business (E visas, I believe) * the outstanding career and unique skills of your guy (O visas) * the existence of a stable branch of your company in your guy's country, if there's one. (L visas, I believe) * ...

Whatever the road you guys take, it will cost you a lot of money, will take a loooot of lawyer time to build a convincing case, and then quite some time to get it reviewed, with no guarantee about the outcome. Who said the US immigration system was broken?

Good luck!