@cornyg Copying passwords from a password manager to the PayPal site works now, but if your password is longer than 15chars you can't login afterwards. That's especially nice if you changed your password and now you are wondering why the fuck you can't login to PayPal anymore when you are using the exact same password from the password manager

@philcr yeah that's also my approach, but I am unsure how powerful that infrastructure should be in the beginning. I don't want to invest a lot of money in the infrastructure, not knowing if even somebody wants to use it.

I would really be interested in some figures to see how others approached the launch :)

I have a simple rule: Never do anything for the company in your free time (unless it's really really important). If I am working on something in my free time, it's always for my personal projects.

oh man.. the typedef "hack" brings back memories to an old rant, I posted a while ago...

@Linux that's nice...did you enjoy it?

thanks for the tip, i'll definitely take a look at it.

Hey guys,
I just wanted to give you a quick update. As already said in a previous post I have tried out vultr. Up to now I am really happy with the it...three instances up and running and currently no problems. I still want to try out digital ocean, but as vultr works so smoothly I postponed that a little bit.

I hope it's okay if I ask another question, but maybe someone can give me another tip. I am now looking for a mail provider, but again I am unsure which one I should pick. I recently read that google (gmail) has something for businesses. Has someone experience with that? I really want to avoid setting up/maintaining my own mail server.

Any tips are really appreciated. thanks again!

@Linux hey cool, which part of Austria did you visit? Vienna?

I also thought about buying a server but to be honest I am not sure about if that benefits me at the moment. I am not really sure if there is a place for the app and people will like it. As it is a hobby project, I want to keep the costs at a minimum. So I think a cloud based approach might currently a little bit better. :)

Wow guys, many thanks for all the tips! I am currently trying out vultr and after that digital ocean. :)

@Linux I am from Austria.

Wow guys, you are awesome. Thanks a lot!

Will definitely look at Vultr..never heard about it before.

@dfox many thanks for the info. In that case I will plan a separate instance for neo4j :)

many thanks for the suggestions so far!

Sorry for the dumb question, but is there an advantage over putting the webserver and the database on separate instances? On my local development system I put the webserver and the database on the same system but now I am thinking about whether it makes sense to put them on separate instances. Does that make sense? Or is that something that one should only consider for later?

I see what you mean. I just thought that there are maybe some books out there that give you examples why certain user interfaces are good or bad.

Currently I feel a little bit lost when trying to create a nice looking interface, as I am always questioning my decisions. Should I use a list or radio buttons? Do the colors that i am using for background an foreground harmonize?...

It would help me a lot if there to have a list with "do's and dont's" that helps me in my decision making. e.q: "Usually a list is used when...". or "It makes more sense to use radio buttons when..."

Made the same mistake as you once - also forgot the "where" clause. I was really happy that I made a full dump of the database before running the query. Saved my ass that day.

Didn't know that neo4j offers something for startups, thats really great. Many thanks for the info, @dfox!

I scrolled a little bit through the documentation and I am pretty impressed about what neo4j offers (I like the simplicity of neo4j very much). However there is one thing that I couldn't find in the docs and that is something like "node level security". I don't know if it's the right term, but I am basically looking for something similiar to PostgreSQL's row level security feature.

Does anyone know if there is something similar in neo4j?

As you have tried both Qt and Xamarian, why do you prefer Xamarian? I never tried Xamarian but I really like that Qt is making some really great progress with their mobile part (especially Qt 5.6 and Qt 5.7 introduced some nice things).

I think it's often not about how long you have spend thinking about it. At some point you have to make a decision and usually you don't know every detail about it at this point.

e.q frameworks: Even if you tried a few small examples in that framework you most probably just scratched the surface. So when the project matures and gets bigger you realize that your framework has also some disadvantages/ "not so nice things". At this point now it's pretty easy to look at other frameworks and questioning your own decision (not knowing that other frameworks have disadvantages too). Yeah it's always the grass that's greener on the other side..

Never used Cordova or any other mobile application framework besides Qt so I am not sure how Qt compares against other frameworks. I primarily decided to use Qt, because I had experience with Qt (did a pretty big project with pyqt, worked out pretty well) and I love their framework. They have a really well documentation and a great community.

In my experience however the mobile part of Qt is still in it's early stages...there aren't that many people that use Qt for mobile applications, so if you want to do something tricky you most probably have to figure it out yourself ;-). What I really like about Qt is, that you can run the UI and most of the other parts of your application natively on your development machine (i.e without an Android emulator). This is a really big timer saver. If there is really platform specific code that you need to implement you can always ifdef between those targets.

So all in all I think Qt is a solid framework (although I ranted about it yesterday ;-))

A (bigger) project is usually the only thing that works for me. If I am just doing tutorials I usually lose motivation pretty fast. I always split the project in smaller chunks and try to implement them step by step. If I do not have a project to try out new things I often also use an existing project and try to implement a new feature with that particular library/tool/framework (of course that often only makes sense if the feature is kind of isolated).

Is there anyone using vim together with Qt? I really like vim, but I am unsure if vim can be configured in a way that it integrates nicely with the whole Qt toolchain.

Thanks for the freelancer tipp. I looked a little bit around for freelancer reviews and found a lot of negative ones (even some where people lost their money). So now we are unsure if we should give freelancer.com a try. Do you have experience with freelancer.com?