mrfish

I'm a programmer and I'm interested in doing something new with my life. If your considering applying for YC funding this year and you live near Vancouver BC (i.e. Southern BC works) then please send me a message as I'm…

Should I open and close the DB connection everytime i do a query (i.e. put the DB stuff in a class/function) or open once and then close at the end of my app? Which uses less memory? Which makes the page faster? Anybody…

I want to know what is your current most successful strategy for getting good side jobs? i.e. Do you have an Elance or Guru account? Do you comb craigslist for postings that are legit? And what are some of the hurdles…

Ok, I'm up shit creek here and I don't know where to turn. I live in Vancouver Canada and I recently started to plan for my wedding. Now my wedding is on Saturday and I don't have enough money to afford it! What the…

I love to make fun UI's with Javascript. I primarily use jquery because it is well documented with examples and works across multiple browsers, it's easy and I havn't learned the other frameworks enough to give it a…

I am writing a proposal for a company that has a lot of data in all forms, text, video (youtube I think and others), mp3 and wants to index it and make it relevant to searchers. For example, if a cook signs up, they get…

this will blow your mind!

I have an idea to build a blackberry game based on some tech I recently implemented on another project. It uses SVG to create interactive web pages that work on Blackberries, mobile phones... pretty much everything…

Does anybody know of any good VC's in Vancouver BC? Or VC's investing in Canadians?

Ok I know about the GPL and open source. But I want to write a copyright to give a client that says I have rights to use the framework for other clients. Essentially giving me the right to reuse code. Anybody have…