xauronx

I'm in a somewhat unique situation of having access to about a decade of git repositories for enterprise projects. Nothing illicit - we're a consulting company and I can access this code. I have two questions: 1) What…

Just a heads up, if anyone uses Netfirms (or considers doing so) for shared hosting. A week ago all of my sites suddenly went down. I had a couple personal sites, a family business website, a friends cooking blog that I…

So, I've been working on something purely because I think it's neat, but I really don't have a valid use case for it. For the sake of making money, is it a valid hope to just say "Well, I'll make it... and see what…

I was listening to a podcast the other day and heard someone reference "black matter developers". I think this is the original source of the term: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/DarkMatterDevelopersTheUnseen99.aspx It…

Hey all I'm in DC for business and going to try out this tech meetup: http://www.meetup.com/DC-Tech-Meetup/events/135565802/ It seems to have a few interesting start ups demoing their products and stuff. If anyone else…

This is slightly "silly" but I was thinking today about how much of the country runs on Microsoft products, including the government. How much power could they leverage from that? For instance, if Bill Gates made a…

So, I'm starting to work on a new side project that is essentially an extension of what you would think of a review site (but for a specific niche). I would love to use something like Google Places to allow users to…

So, I've been working on this project with a co-founder for about a year now in my free time. It's a huge daunting project with way more features than I can possibly implement in a reasonable amount of time. Hiring…