SEEKING FREELANCER

Location: UK, Midlands

Technologies: Node, SQL, HTML

Experience: Must have a few years doing full-stack web development with good recent Node experience.

Anything from 10 hours per week to full time available.

Email me: floyd _at_ hampton _dot_ io

I tried to email you but the email bounced. If you're still looking for a developer please drop me a line jcieslik_at_whiteboarddynamics_dot_co .

Thanks for developing this library, I have used it on several projects and really can't say anything bad about it... It just works!

:-) You're very welcome!

This is a great! Well done guys you deserve real credit for building and maintaining such a well written and well thought out piece of software.

Congratulations on reaching 3.0!

You prioritise! its as simple as that, like exercising or walking the dog... if its a priority you will do it.

You can do that, its on the download page after you purchase.

I know DHH divides opinion here on HN, but this book is a real Gem (not to be confused with RubyGems).

This and "The Pragmatic Programmer" are my top two books, relating to Software Development and Running a small business.

Can't wait to see what features the new Paid (Enterprise) version will have over the Open Source (Community) version...

These guys deserve to make a good living from this product as its made a profound difference to the Ruby community which i think sometimes gets taken for granted.

I'm amazed at the number of different hacks people have employed to solve this, just goes to show its the simple things that make the difference.

FYI, this illustrates the solutions impact pretty well: http://cl.ly/0C0C1j3U1e2G0a193F35

Has open source changed? I remember when people didn't fork projects, rebadge them as there own and then promote them over the original.

Now don't get me wrong, I think its amazing that Twitter are opening up these enhancements to the community, but it feels like a kick in the teeth to the memcached folks to slap a twitter badge on it, why isn't this a collaboration that benefits the whole community? you know, like open source used to work.

I know at 34 I'm a dinosaur in this industry but I do try to keep up with the new way of doing things... This just feels wrong to me.

I think open source has changed a bit with the rise of the GitHub era. IMHO, I think @mikeal did a good post regarding this change "Apache considered harmful" http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/apache-considered-harmful....

Even in the old days, it's easier to fork than work with upstream. I think these days it's just easier share those forks with services like GitHub. It should help spread ideas and improved solutions IMHO so downstream consumers actually benefit.

In Twitter's case, they are planning to do what works for them at the moment: "While we initially focused on the challenging goal of making Memcached work extremely well within the Twitter infrastructure, we look forward to sharing our code and ideas with the Memcached community in the long term."

I really don't understand the negativity around here for this, is it really that hard to believe that somebody paid good money for a profitable business? Now clearly 27 Signals have moved slightly from the original flippa terms, they are not imposing that customers re-ender details which I imagine was a show stopper for any potential buyer.

The subtext to some of the comments here suggesting that its all made up, is really odd! Why would 37 Signals even need to waste ours or their time making this up? They run Basecamp!! they really don't need to impress us with selling a relatively small business! its completely beneath them!

Instead of poking holes in this story, we really should be celebrating it. Building a business of this size is not that hard, a few hundred customers and a solid model and by solid model i mean, Charging for your product is all it takes. If this doesn't serve as inspiration to us all then i don't know what will.