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ninja fix... but probably to quick, now it says january 2012

i want an armchair, which has one part of an divided keyboard embedded in each armrest, an extended right armrest for my mouse, and a monitor which is(somehow) mounted to the chair but adjustable. i couldn't afford it right now, but i value it at about 1,5-2k

i'm also in the process of creating a personal portfolio site. so far i got: http://muellerwolfram.prtfl.io/about

also, i think that creating a personal website is such a common use case that as a side project, i'm creating a saas webapp for creating portflio sites. checkout http://prtfl.io in coming weeks.

the second page, whatever second page there is at this time. this would mean that it might shows me stuff that I read earlier, but isn't that better then getting an error page?

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora for example. diaspora is also using backbone.js for some front-end stuff, which is quite interesting to have a look at.

also, check out http://railsapps.github.com/rails-examples-tutorials.html

i usually don't mind sending a tweet to get free stuff. i did it to get an awesome free font the other day for example.

what bothers me with this site is: after sending the tweet you are not done. you still have to create an account first. and the "login" function via twitter redirects you to a sign up page. whats the point of offering single sign on services if users have to fill in a signup form afterwards? btw. i'm 5 minutes into to process and still haven't gotten to the content.

i wish you luck finding someone, because i know how good it feels to have a mentor. but if you don't: don't worry. you actually don't need a (single) mentor. the internet is your mentor.

i started learning rails 2-3 month ago, and because of its popularity their are tons of free resources, tons of people willing to help out on stackoverflow. almost every question i had, and typed into google, was already answered on a blog or on stackoverflow. and if you do have a very specific question, that is not already answered (i doubt it), i guarantee you, someone will answer, if you properly ask on stackoverflow.

good starting points are:

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

http://railscasts.com/

i would especially recommend working through the rails book. its not your typical programming book. its more like a really long, in-depth and well written tutorial. it took me two weeks (i skipped some of the chapters) to work through the book, and afterwards i really felt i knew enough to start working on my own project.

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http://www.themescroller.com

http://indiegamr.com/

agreed. in the release note it says "Authors should stop using this option as a way to get hardware acceleration"... this sounds like there is an other option to do it, does anyone know?

as an add-on question... does anyone have experience with selling wordpress plugins? is there a market for commercial plugins, or are most people not willing to pay since there is a lot of free stuff?

I can recommend the lenovo x220 ultrabook. mine is lasting for 5-7 hours, but with additional battery packs, you can get it up to 24 hours apperently

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/lenovos-x220-thinkpad...

i wish i could donate some karma right now... very good answer!

just for doing basic css stuff. i'm just too lazy or maybe don't enjoy interfacing enough to do it manually.

for example if i'm creating a new landingpage and just need a simple layout it would be really cool if there was a tool i could quickly build a design visually.

i made ~80$ in the first month after launching http://www.themescroller.com

i had a lot of traffic coming from my show hn thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4354376) but since then i'm struggling to find new traffic sources...

slightly off-topic: i'm not a big reddit user, so i dont know whats what. can you recommend a good subreddit for showing webapps. is there a show-hn-like subreddit?

wow lots of great advice. thanks for the feedback, especially the long-url-thing blew my mind...it's so obvious..but i never thought of it!

1) hard to say. i started 2 month ago, and maybe spend about 3 hours a day on average on app-related stuff. when i started i only had little experience in rails, but had absolutly no experience in backbone. so it took me quite a while to get into it.

2) to start out i read this http://coenraets.org/blog/2011/12/backbone-js-wine-cellar-tu... and then everytime i was stuck i search for a solution on stackoverflow. i'm not using nodejs btw. just backbone for the frontend. once you done a couple of tutorials, i recommend using http://www.brunch.io

3) the themes are coming from my rails backend. i have a mongodb database on http://www.mongolab.com. the backbone app makes a request to my rails server and gets a respond as json. you can see how that looks like at http://www.themescroller.com/themes.json

1) yes, through affiliate links. most marketplaces give you commission on sales.

2) yes better filters/ more infos is on the roadmap. getting data of ~4000 themes is not a task i want to do by hand. and the infos i get by scraping the sites is limited. but as someone said before, the user doesn't care about how its done, the user cares about how it works. so i'm going to think about that. maybe i let mechanical turks look for all that data.

but for now: there is a filter for responsive themes. its the layout-> responsive layout filter. if you select that, you will get all the themes where i definitly knew that they are responsive.

mh yes that makes sense.

i think the reason why i did this, was because initially the preview und market links didn't open in a new window. but you're right, if the user is staying on one page, he doesnt need a 'back' functionality.

thanks for the feedback, i already changed it, going to push it later...

yes, exactly, that's how i do it. maybe i'm missing something, but why do you suggest not making an entry in the history?