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You can't buy food with an IOU from your employer.

There's Petty's Orchard in Melbourne (Templestowe): https://www.manningham.vic.gov.au/venues/pettys-orchard who maintain about 200 varieties of apple.

I have no idea what it's like now, but I went to an open day there years ago and it was incredible. What I learned is there are some extremely ugly Apple varieties that would never get picked up by supermarkets, but tasted unlike anything else I've sampled - literally like candy. Looks like Heritage Fruits still do antique apple tastings periodically: https://www.heritagefruitssociety.org/Antique-Apple-Tastings...

I agree with you.

Whenever I've been in seriously challenging situations at work, having real, deep, personal relationships with my team made it far easier to have difficult conversations.

Forging real bonds gives you a foundation that you can actually build a strong team on top of: you can have tough conversations from a position of empathy and compassion; and if you need people to just "get it done", it's much easier to ask a friend to do you a solid and just get the work over the line.

I work for a company with full pay transparency – well, complete transparency across all parts of the organisation – I can't imagine working in an opaque environment ever again. I love it.

My nephew built this as one of his first Mindstorms projects. It works amazingly well, especially given the limited components - quite extraordinary to see in action.

Definitely interested. My email is also in my profile.

I love this idea. I did a quick pure-CSS implementation, not bullet-proof by any means - biggest downside is it's reliance on the `required` attribute: http://jsfiddle.net/thetron/qpsnH/

I started using Airmail[1], and I love it. Mainly for label support with Gmail, but there's lots of little bits of UI features that I love about. Definitely worth the $1.99 or whatever it is on the App Store.

[1]: http://airmailapp.com/

Thanks for mentioning this! I had completely missed the announcement. That's really exciting, I wonder if pin.net.au will adjust their pricing to match Stripe's. Good to have some healthy competition locally.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Melbourne or Sydney, Australia - involved.com.au

With a content-first approach, we develop bespoke digital experiences for some great clients – from global travel and tourism companies to local boutique arts- and media-based clientele – including a long-established interface research relationship with University of Melbourne. We design and develop eCommerce sites, custom CMS-driven sites, Android/iOS apps, digital campaigns and much more. Our clients are Australian, Asia Pacific and UK based, we’re open source and proud, in love with Ruby and all things mobile, and enjoy helping good people futureproof their digital presence. Our flat structure and open communication encourage contribution from every level.

We’re looking for…

An experienced front-end developer to join us in Melbourne, working closely with our design team and technical director. Someone that’s adept at crafting high quality user experiences for desktop and mobile, with at least a couple of years experience in a similar role. A team player, that quickly becomes instrumental in every project, from inception to delivery, as we firmly believe in a collaborative, inclusive approach to our projects.

You’re ideally...

* a lovely person, committed to continual learning and sharing;

* passionate about great web experiences, quality design and fanatical detail;

* experienced in building nice things for appreciative clients and end-users;

* equally happy to contribute to client workshops and design sessions, as you are getting stuck into serious code;

* established and active in the development community, with a GitHub profile we can have a poke at;

&&

* you.skills.include?(“Ruby”) == major_bonus_points

We offer...

* a lovely little studio space in the heart of Collingwood, with top coffee at arm’s length;

* a busy but relaxed, friendly environment with constant music and no politics;

* the chance to work with some major brands, on influential projects that matter;

* a great salary, negotiable dependent on prior experience;

* a realistic approach to working hours and life balance;

* the opportunity for personal growth through attending relevant conferences and workshops.

Congrats Ruby team - really well done. 20 great years.

Because it makes me happy.

We love sentry. We made the switch from Hoptoad/Airbrake, because the pricing based on event volume rather than number of projects. We use it to track a group of small-scale Rails applications - which are growing in number, but reasonably low traffic.

I love everything about it, looking forward to having a poke around the new design!

Super relieved to see that - I was seriously disappointed to see Corey's name in amongst the mob. That's how an apology should be written.

It's definitely my intention to. At the moment it's a bit of a hodge-podge, but it's definitely on my to-do list to release it as a properly packaged (and tested) rubygem.

We tend to run out of private repos on our organisation gold plan, but have a little ruby script which can pull down some of the older projects (and their wikis), zip them up, archive them to S3 and then remove the repo on Github.

It can also do the reverse, pull the archives down, create a new private repo and push everything back up.

It works quite well, and certainly solved the problem of hitting that ceiling.

Oh absolutely. As you said, procfile (or similar) support would be amazing.

You could probably use 'container commands' to start/stop worker processes after each deployment. I'm only reading the Elastic Beanstalk docs for the first time, so I haven't tried it myself - but it looks like it could be the right solution:

http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg...

Yep, it's working fine here too (Melbourne, Australia).

SEEKING FREELANCER - local preferred (Sydney or Melbourne, Australia)

Involved (involved.com.au) is currently seeking a freelance Android developer to port an iPad app that we have developed for one of our larger clients. Native app development is a must, but we'll only be needing to test on a small number of more popular Android tablets.

What we love:

* Happy people

* Good attention to detail

* Solid coding chops

* Knowledge of the locations of good burgers and/or fries

Feel free to drop me a line at nicholas@involved.com.au - with github profile, resume, portfolio, or whatever you've got.

I find that when I've been working late my mind is a mess of racing thoughts and it's impossible to get to sleep quickly.

What I have been doing lately is listening to audiobooks, which really help to prevent my thoughts from jumping around. My books of choice have been the Harry Potter series (the ones read by Stephen Fry, of course) - his voice is really soothing, and the books are (generally) not too loud, or varying in volume. I find that generally I fall asleep within about 10-15 minutes of starting.

The worst thing is that I struggle to get to sleep without it now.

We had a app finally get thought the review queue last week after a 12 day wait. Maybe there's a recent surge of apps hitting the store post-WWDC? No problems with corrupted binaries for us though.

Brilliant. Thank you. :)

That's brilliant - I've been searching around for a Australian stripe equivalent for while. Thanks for the tip!

I am really excited for the day when Stripe will be available in Australia (if ever). Is anyone aware of any stripe competitors that are available for use in Australia?

Correct - it's all trust based. For reference, here the 'accountability' section from the Kickstarter FAQ:

http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/backing%20a%20project#Ac...

I think these 'big budget' projects are generally from groups/people that are known to communities, or have some existing goodwill. Looks like these guys had previously taken a watch to market that worked only with Blackberry devices.

As I understand it, Kickstarter projects get the money as soon as the 40 day countdown is up, but only if they get 100% funded.

For me, the big win is the vibration motor - I never feel my phone when it vibrates in my pocket.

I had contributed to a Kickstarter project (a piece of software) that failed to finish. Recently, the author wrote an update offering refunds (plus 5% interest) to all backers.

Personally, I consider all Kickstarter donations to be be just that, even if the reward includes some sort of 'preorder' - although saying that, I would be super disappointed if I invested $100+ in a project that then fell on its face.

I guess that the risk of investment, right?