Musings.
- Websites are hard to build - even with lots of help and bagels.
- Websites are fun to build - even when everything dies minutes before you get techcrunched.
- Caffeine and sugar really can allow you to code for well over 56hrs straight.
- Coding for more than 55hrs straight will cause you to have a mental breakdown.
On a more techie note.
- RDS… total let down Only available in Virginia (US-east region) and only available with MySQL5.1 (not 5.0). Which considering we’re primarily London based traffic (for now) and 3rd party software support for 5.1 is still low, I recommend against it. At least until the support increases. Servers are one of those things you can’t really afford to go with an unknown player.
- CSS… the fat kid Who invited them to the party? I’ve been a designer for years, I keep up with CSS and its changes, but its only hit me now how totally inefficient a language it is. Front-end designers are clearly vastly under-valued and under-paid. They’re stuck with slow moving and antiquated technology, both in terms of the language and browsers that run them. There are other technologies out there, but no-one knows how to use them and to be honest they’ll never get into the main stream. Which means you won’t be able to recruit anyone for open projects or hire them for your company. So learning is - suck it up but way over budget for front-end and UX treatment.
—originally posted on our blog in response to
