kfullert

Hi,

I read a blogpost from FogCreek that was posted here this week (original article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8959036 and story http://blog.fogcreek.com/random-meet-ups-to-maintain-company-culture-with-remote-workers/) which resonated with me (I work remotely for a company with ~100 employees spread over remote, 3 offices in the UK and 1 in Sweden) so I've built a service (no idea if it's monetiseable) to see if I can get my employer interested in the idea, but from sending the original blog post to HR and the link to the site I've built they don't seem to "get" the idea.

Based on the article and my welcome screen (http://breakmates.co.uk) do you get the idea, is there anything I can improve on the front-page to communicate how it works better (ie it doesn't schedule anything, it just pairs people together and lets them arrange a date/time that week to get together physically or virtually for a chat)

Cheers

Kevin

So, background is I'm primarily a C# and VBScript dev (mixed with T-SQL and domain-specific program knowledge) but I want to expand my knowledge, primarily I've been playing with ruby writing some small apps but I've started looking at Angular for doing SPA apps.

I've written a small (less than 1 day) SPA (literally a single-page) with Angular, however at the moment I've got everything in a single controller, not using directives, services or even testing - is there anywhere I can get good, constructive feedback on what things I should be looking at doing to follow more of the "best practices" in terms of how to test it, what to test, how to break it apart into a more modular/maintainable app?

Also, at the moment all the data that it needs is stored in the controller itself as I've designed it to be used offline (it doesn't need to write any data ever, it's primarily making decisions and displaying results based on user input and the static data that it holds itself)

Many thanks

I'm 33, from the UK (around 30-40miles outside of London), married, two children who I'm sole provider for, work full-time (mixture of development, consultancy and support) and kind of at the top of where I can go without involving massive upheaval to progress in my current company (I work full-time from home, however to move into a pure development/consultancy role I'd have to commute 2hrs each way to the office every day of the week, or move closer to the office which isn't where we'd want to live)

I work primarily in .NET/MSSQL during the day (but love Ruby), and by the time everything is done in the evening (dinner, kids to bed etc.) I've not got the desire/motivation to do anything other than some casual gaming.

Is this common, I'd love to work with Ruby/Rails for a startup, but my professional experience is all .NET based, so the salary cut I'd have to take seems to be massive - any tips/pointers as to what/where I should be doing?

Hi,

I'm a primarily ruby developer, however a friend has asked if I can help with an iOS app for his site (integrating features so it's not just a wrapper for the site)

I've looked at, and done Hello, World style iOS test apps in the past, but this was in iOS4 days, looking at XCode now it's all Storyboards which doesn't seem to tie in with the eBook I bought way-back-when (PragProgs iPhone SDK Development from 2009) and things have moved a long way since then.

So, what are the resources you'd recommend (paid eBooks included) for a developer who's basically new to Obj-C and iOS development?

Cheers!

Kevin

I've got a ticket logged with PayPal currently, and I've seen reference in 2011 to a similar issue, but does anyone use the CreateRecurringPaymentsProfile with Express Checkout in the Sandbox and see it not billing?

I've got a recurring profile setup (and can see it in both the seller and buyer accounts in the sandbox OK) but the "next billing date" is set to 2 days ago (when I created it, the same as the start date of the profile) but the billing hasn't gone through (ie I can't see the funds either gone from the buyer or into the seller accounts)

I'm not using IPN (relying on periodic polling of the PayPal API to check the status of the subscription) but if I can't mimic the entire subscription process and check the periodic billing is working, I can't guarantee that everything's doing what it should - anyone using PayPal in a similar way and have any advice?