marcloney

This is a fantastic anecodote and after the year we've had I'm finding the challenges people are having from entering Linux are becoming less and less.

Earlier today I marvelled at running a game through Steam whilst listening to streaming music through Spotify whilst being able to switch window into bash.

I recently bought a new laptop and dual boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 13.04. It took me 3 hours to get all the drivers working in Windows whilst the only issue I had with Ubuntu was the fact my video card drivers (ofcourse, Nvidia) were going to be proprietary.

Locks and Alarms are the lowest common denominator of security - it stops people from walking in but more than anything just gives an illusion of security.

I think there is more to it than a buzzword though, the HTML5 way of doing web ie, paving the cow paths is radically different to the methodologies of XHTML, such that the range of technologies to be born/adopted out of that paradigm shift could be thought of as HTML5 era technologies.

Welcome to the wild west, where we blog first and confirm later.

Congratulations to the guys at Pin!

As an Australian, I welcome this wholeheartedly. It has been extremely frustrating watching the payment revolution in the states, whilst at home there is next to no alternative to getting a merchants facility through a bank up until now. It will also be nice dealing with an API that isn't stuck in the 90s.

I remember early on in my web development career to make sure you are selling a service not a product. You aern't building a website - you are providing a marketing service, requiring expert advice and a component of that service is building a website. As people have said, websites are easy - Wordpress + theme + hour of time and you are done.

Sell your knowledge of digital marketing - SEO, Adwords, etc in order to drive sales for your client, which is ultimately the reason they want a website in the first place.

If you place rate limiting on email accounts by default and then for the lower percent of users that need a higher rate do it on a case-by-case basis. In my experience most users that fall victim to these types of phishing attacks do not need to send high volumes of emails.

What exactly makes it impractical to do powerful things? You may have disdain for certain language features but I don't understand how that makes it impractical.

Most of the tech demo's we're seeing coming out of the JS crowd are from people who have only just started using the WebGL API (which is still experimental). I'm extremely excited to see the things that experienced OpenGL developers will be able to do as the API becomes more mainstream.