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There's a two- or three-week period, usually around the six month mark, when your baby can sit up unaided but can't yet crawl. During this time, you can put the baby down on an activity blanket (supervised, obviously) and enjoy maybe five or ten minute contiguous stretches of uninterrupted time to do stuff.

Note: activities like preparing a meal and straightening up the place tend to take priority over developing a startup.

A few suggestions to help make things easier for you:

* "Attachment parenting" early on pays off hugely in more independent, more emotionally secure children later. Invest in a Trekker [1], Snugli [2] or other baby harness that lets you carry the baby facing inwards or outwards and frees up your arms to do other stuff.

* Seriously consider having the baby sleep in your bed with you, especially if you/your spouse are breastfeeding.

* Seriously consider breastfeeding. Once established (usually takes a few weeks to get really comfortable with it), it's so much healthier, easier and more convenient than bottle feeding that I can't understand why anyone who has the option wouldn't take it. (Disclosure: I'm male, but my spouse agrees 100%.)

* Accept and embrace the fact that from now on, all your plans are contingent. Learn to build big buffers around all your scheduled activities. Get in the habit of keeping a utility bag with you at all times.

* Don't waste your money on a change table. You will change that baby's diaper wherever you need to do it. (We've changed our baby's diaper in the trunk of our car.)

* Don't forget that you and your spouse had reasons to be together before the baby was born. As soon as the baby is old enough, get back into the habit of going on dates and otherwise spending time together. Don't miss opportunities to let your spouse know how much you cherish them. A little act of kindness at a crucial moment can radically transform your family dynamics for the better.

I'm sure I'll think of more, but that seems to be a good place to start. As always in anything to do with children, YMMV.

[1] http://www.babytrekker.com/

[2] http://www.evenflo.com/category.aspx?id=23
I have a six week old daughter and am running an iPhone dev Agency in London (Future Workshops - 5 employees).

Having a daughter is an amazing experience. Its hard work, but your heart melts at the smallest things. Its true when people say that it changes the way you are for ever.

On the flip side, I found work difficult after the birth. I could operate on a small amount of sleep before, but after my daughter was born the lack of sleep was relentless - kinda like going out on the town every night for two weeks and then having to work a full day.

Our clients have been amazing - heartfelt congratulations and baby clothes in the post, but (rightly so) they still expect project delivery.

I feel that I'm out the other side now - I've trimmed my social commitments and delegated in the right places to my employees, who have stepped up to the task. I've got a good understanding in place with my partner about my time also.

If you are going to have kids and run your own business make sure you plan for reduced sleep and vastly reduced effectiveness after the birth. Things will get back on an even keel quickly enough if you do!
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I cant help you with some simple stuff for your RoR project. Maybe converting your mockups to HAML, working on backed, consulting on something, scalable deployments, adding couple nice features etc. Anything that can be done within 2-5 hours.

You must be not concerned with NDAs stuff.

Feel free to reply in this tread (If you are RoR developer willing to give back to community please comment as well!)

About me: I am doing this startup - Videolla.com and contracting on Rails to bootstrap it. Have over like 4 yrs full-time Rails contracting experience.
As a Norwegian resident, I'm a bit surprised to find that Norway lags noticeably behind Denmark, Sweden and Finland on the chart. I'll have to dig a bit to find out why...
Putting employees' smartphones to work
Two years ago, casino giant Harrah's Entertainment needed to cut costs. One of the first places managers looked was cell phones.As the company evaluated its business, one of the quickest and least painful ways to reduce its yearly budget by more than $1 million a year was to change its cell phone policy. Specifically, the company started allowing its employees to use their own cell phones for work.
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I was mentioned http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts there, and it contains links to the Railscasts as well.
* Seriously consider having the baby sleep in your bed with you, especially if you/your spouse are breastfeeding.

In my experience this leads to drastically less sleep. You disturb your baby and your baby disturbs you. We put the baby in another room and invested in a baby alarm.

* Seriously consider breastfeeding.

Yes, but don't pressure yourself too much...the most important thing is that the baby eats properly. Bottle feeding gives you the critical advantage of being able to measure how much the baby eats.

* Don't waste your money on a change table.

I would say invest! After a week or so of leaning over to change our baby it really affected me sitting at the computer to code. Bad back means bad news for your startup.
> It does have that on the other hand.

I know, but CSS editing is easier with Firebug.

> My DOM inspector does seem to do that as well, though it doesn't highlight the altered subtrees the way Firebug does.

Not nearly the in same way a Firebug does it, I find it very useful for the amount of DOM manipulation I do with JS.

> Has been in for a long time, though it could be missing some bells and whistles.

Again it's the "bells and whistles" that really make the difference for me some of the time. The less time it takes me to debug something, the better.

That said, I still use Chrome inspector on a daily basis, there's no fanboyism from my part.
Nothing aggressive. I make sure people I employ gets paid well. I give tips generously. I have taught young kids in slums and I donate my clothes and other used stuff quite generously. I don't give to beggars because it's like supporting an industry that should not exist at the first place. It really hurts to say not to these folks.

You really need to be on the ground to help these folks. There are NGOs and social organizations doing this on the ground. I think online tech space can either assist this (for example a web app for an NGO that collects clothes) or a startup that tracks/rates various NGOs and monitors their funding/spending etc.

I am no expert. My few quick thoughts.
Not sure I see the connection, but thanks :P
I believe that having your users protected is not a premium feature, but responsibility of any respectable service. If SSL required for that - it should be offered for free.
New father, with 8-month-old son:

- The first three months just have to be got through. Think of it as a survival test. Lack of sleep, complete change of family dynamics, no sex, no relaxation.

- You might well find yourself resenting the baby. No-one admits to it though. Everyone says "it's magical" and "you love them unconditionally". There are nights when that won't be the case. You and your partner just have to help each other, and don't be afraid to say to them "I just need a couple of hours away from the baby". Obviously you have to do the same for them.

- After three months generally any collicky issues settle down, and they start smiling and really recognizing you. Now it gets good!

- Routine (in my opinion) is everything. We used a modified Gina Ford routine and he was sleeping 7pm - 8am every night by 5/6 months. I'm tired in the evenings but only in the usual way - no more exhaustion.

- It's unbelievable how much you care for them. When you hear their pain cry (the staccato one; not just the usual crying) you drop everything and run to them.

- The biggest change/loss at this stage is the loss of intimacy (and I don't necessarily mean in bed) with my wife. Little things like "shall we go out for dinner on a whim" or "here's breakfast in bed" are very difficult to achieve.

- Spare time is almost non-existant for me, apart for a few evenings when wife and baby visit grandparents. My admiration for people with both startups and babies (and especially side-projects and babies) is enormous.

Can't tell you about the later years (not there yet), but I'm looking forward to just being part of a family with a little mini-me to re-experience the world with.
Hmm, I'm not very familiar with Techmeme. Isn't it just a CMS? It doesn't sound very interesting, sadly :/
One point of note is that distances beyond 100M ly are difficult to measure and prone to large errors. Beyond 1Bn ly there is nothing but the Hubble Law. It could be that objects observed to have a large redshift (and hence appearing far away by the Hubble Law) are in fact nearby objects.
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The latest version of Aspose.BarCode for .NET 3.7.0 has been released. This new Release now includes support for saving barcode images in EMF format (Vector graphics). Two new barcode symbologies Royal Mail 4-state Customer Code and Vehicle Identification Number are also introduced in this release. Below is the list of new and improved features supported in this version

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•	Generation of VIN (Vehicle Identification Number) Barcode
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Other most recent bug fixes are also included in this release.
Just tried it again in Chrome, Firefox and IE. It's definitely not working in any of them.

http://tekbob.com/tag/c# developer

Also I don't think you're encoding the input properly, I can inject >, <, quotes and stuff into your html using the search box.

I'm not really a script kiddie so don't quite know what I'm doing, but if the search box isn't being encoded, are the input boxes?
Well, that's another reason for wanting my own company: I'm my own boss. I no longer have to get PTO approved, and report to a boss. If I want to play hooky for a day and spend time with him, I can easily do that if I'm independent; not so much if I have a 9-5.
Thank you for your nice offer! Will drop you an email.
That is a great offer KoZeN, especially for those that are currently seeking a job...
Agree here. Bending over to change does your back in. And when the poop has gone up their back or down their leg, you want a surface you can bleach.

Also agree on sleeping separate - we put ours in the nursery after three nights. He sleeps 7pm - 8am now (at 8 months) and is very happy. Bizarely, tired babies don't sleep well (ie don't keep them up in the hope they'll sleep longer). Put them to bed before they get overtired. If you share a room you will wake each other and you'll all be tired and cranky.
What does this mean for other programs on the same network, such as Frostwire? The program still appears to be working for me.
The time issue is the biggest adjustment for me. I'm in my 30's and have spent 2/3 of my life goofing around on my computer in my spare time (which I apparently had boatloads of, though now it is hard to remember what it was like). I now have a 5 month old girl. The hardest thing to adjust to was the time issue. I have a 40-min train commute to my job, and that gives me my biggest chunk of free time all week. While it is easing up some, the lack of sleep is really hard. I get up several times in the middle of the night to just give her a pacifier and soothe her back to sleep. As a result, I'm much less productive at work.

In spite of all of that, I wouldn't change a thing. All I have to do is look at her smile in the morning and it reminds me what life is really all about.
not sure if I was clear in my comment but I don't mean that people that regret corruption live in a specific part of the world. They are everywhere, just not enough.

And when I talk about evolution I mean cultural evolution, as this kind of ideas are not carried genetically I guess (but a general attitude to benefit from circumstances may be carried genetically I guess).

Still as long as it will be a strong advantage, it will last.

For instance police in Italy here is trivially corruptible. They are payed low to do a work that if done well will put them in danger. It's much simpler to take money I guess. Our society is paying more people misbehaving.
>I want to build a successful company that makes me independently wealthy so at some point, I can spend my time with him and the rest of my family.

Sorry for being cynical but this really sounds like a cheap excuse to justify why you cannot spend time with your baby now. I have a 9 monhts old myself and it's pretty obvious that he prefers having a present dad around right now, rather than a possibly wealthy dad in 20 years.
This is great and I think I can help as well from a slightly different view point(not to steal any thunder!).

I'm head of development for a search related company and as part of my role review all incoming CV's(with advice from one of my senior devs) as well as handle the most of the interviews.

If you'd like two perspectives(Recruiter who will work to get you an interview and HoD who will ultimately hire you) feel free to send them over to me as well. My email is in my profile though I can only honestly help if you're targeting development roles.

Same disclaimer about time though, I will try to do any I get through over the next couple of nights though.

Edit: If you could include what type of role you are targetting(tech startup, agency, finance, etc) it would really help with my advice.
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even worserer it's sort of a tea party hangout.
I'm 38 weeks pregnant so can't comment on having a child yet, but the physical impact of pregnancy took me rather by surprise. In particular, I just haven't been able to sit at a computer for that many hours of a day for the last two or three months. Getting an iPad has certainly helped somewhat with that, but haven't found any way to actually do programming comfortably for long stretches. I feel like my brain is still in full working order though which is a relief!
Do you think you would still find buyers for a 10x price? Or maybe you would only go out of business because costs would not be covered or revenue would not be enough?
From a fellow swede. I've tried to follow SEO best practices on the startup I co-founded, http://www.klicktrack.com/ but certainly have things I can improve. I would greatly appreciate if you could have a look. We provide a turn-key download store for labels and artists.
Now there is the extra hurdle of having some software installed system wide and some software installed only for the user.. at least in Windows XP when I last tried to do this, I found that even on a single user system that start menu items were in multiple locations.
Pitch HN: Simple tool for small businesses to send SMS, email and Tweets
I want to be able to add customer's emails and cell numbers and send them simple marketing messages. I'm sure this is something that lots of small businesses would like to be able to do too. I was about to start fiddling with Campaign Monitor and Twilio when I thought other small business can't do that.

Ideally this would integrate with Twitter and FB too. Is there anything out there that's built for simplicity rather than the enterprise market?

I've looked at Cotweet and Hootsuite but both are for brands/big organisations. I want something that my mum can use.

I'm thinking along the lines of restaurants, hotels, hairdressers and takeaways.
Thanks, I just hope people will be patient with me as the response has been immense!

As a recruiter I get frustrated when I hear about great candidates not even getting a look-in purely because of their CV.

Unfortunately few people are willing to pay to get their CV reviewed because a lot of people believe that it's purely a matter of opinion which can vary from employer to employer which is essentially true but there are a lot of fundamental errors that are universal and that's the advice I'm hoping to offer.
I just had a little boy on 05 OCT 2010. The biggest thing I've noticed is I no longer have much time for my side projects (freelancing) outside of my day job (network administrator). I have to cram fits of coding into little hour blocks of time when the kid is asleep, it's not very productive.

I'm not terribly exhausted, but I am tired. I'm still interested in all the things I was previously interested in, but I have to focus on the kid now and put those things aside until he's old enough to communicate better and isn't near as helpless.

Lastly, I don't know that he gives me inspiration so much as motivation. Previously I worked to pay the bills so my wife would be comfortable, now it's for my son and wife. If I was single, my living requirements would be far less. I'd likely have a small shack in the middle of nowhere and far fewer possessions. That being said, I love my family and my life as it stands. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Sleep separate. We are on baby #2 and #1 slept in our bed for almost 12 mos. It was terrible as the baby got bigger an would move around. No one got sleep. Sleep deprivation is bad for parenting and marriages. If you knew your child's school bus driver was operating on 3-4 hours sleep you'd pitch a fit, why should parents do the same?

#2 is sleeping in her room in crib and we have a twin bed in that room and we take turns sleeping in that room with her. She starting to stay asleep at night for longer periods and is almost 6 mos old. She also has terrible reflux since she was born and would vomit up even breastmilk so she is on a special formula.
Great offer sanswork!

It would be interesting to see how your feedback would differ to mine on certain CV's. I definitely think that you will get flooded with CV's though!
Hmm, that does sound interesting. Is this something that other sites can use to create and track promotions, or something users can use to generate coupons? I'm not sure how these things work...
Have a 1 year old. Have found:

1. Increased desire to move out of ramen profitability as that is not what enough for baby.
2. Baby provides clarity of vision - You're not just doing this for yourself or you and sig other

The hardest part is getting used to the loss of control. That said, it's fantastic (as well as fantastically tiring)
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I have a 4 year old and I'm 26 now, it does change your priorities for sure but more than that you start to realize "you just can't afford to fail", failing when you are on your own is less of an issue than when you have a kid, and that same pressure to not fail will have different consequences on different people, for the ones with the entreprenurial gene it will most likely be a motivator, for the ones without that entrepenurial gene/mindset/spirit will increase their fear of failure and make them pass opportunities or not give it a shot to their ideas.

All in all, I think, it's a great experience! very rewarding even the downsides (you know, lack of sleep, diapers, etc) are not as bad as they sound, you kinda get used to it and trust me, raising a happy kid is priceless, so changing diapers for a few years and missing some sleep hours is a very small price to pay imo.
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Does anyone have any recommendations for paid services that do this sort of thing?

KoZeN's offer to review CV's is really (really) nice, but with well over 40 to read, his offer won't likely meet the demand.

I've thought a few times that there must be something wrong with my resume and I'd like to have it reviewed professionally.

Has anyone paid to have their resume reviewed? If so, where, how much did it cost and was it worth it?

Google brings up plenty of options, but I'm nervous to use any of them for fear that they may not have experience in tech / I.T. / programming or worse, that they'll simply find a couple of grammar mistakes and charge me a few hundred dollars.

Any help?
That sounds good, thank you. I already have a startup, though, so I just wanted to do something quickly over the weekend. I'll give startup weekend a try, it sounds like a good place to meet people!
A full screen Terminator provides a similar effect that you can use between multiple programs. http://software.jessies.org/terminator/

Great terminal emulator that can be mouse or keyboard driven.
Interesting.

I remember Actor (an Algol-ish syntax flavor of Smalltalk that ran on Windows 3) had a similar thing to trim the image file prior to packing up the runtime. It removed everything that whatever your app was didn't depend on.
Just a point - having tests in your code doesn't mean you're doing TDD.

Doing TDD - that is, writing tests up-front - forces you to not only consider the correctness criteria for your code (and gives you the confidence that the code, once written, works correctly), but it also forces you to design your code for test, which enforces separation between components (so that they're individually testable), generation of sane interfaces (so that simple mock objects can be written) and so forth. It's not just about making code that you can be confident in, it's about making saner code for the long term, too.
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4 year old boy and 1 year old girl. Two things change;

Time. I'd worked in banking fresh out of school - have a problem? Throw hours at it. +100 hour weeks were no problem. Not so now - much more than 60 and the big one will ask me where I've been.

Responsibility. Kids connect you to the world; things that were once meaningless, now matter. I care what the two of them do all day, are they getting a good education, eating healthy, exercising, etc. Your role as Dad requires much more oversight than your role as spouse.
I have a root server with http://www.hetzner.de/en/ it is running Windows Server 2008 R2 Web and is extremely quick and located in the EU so much lower latency for the people who visit it compared with one in the US - mainly people based in countries in the EU and Asia.
Having a baby completely reset my perspective on being alive.

The big news in my house today was that our 1.5-year old daughter said the word "yellow" for the first time. That may sound cliched if you don't have kids, but consider that not too long ago my daughter was an inanimate object--and not too long before that she didn't exist at all--and now she's pointing at yellow objects and saying "yellow". That's magical stuff.

Having a baby means you get to experience these small magical moments every day. Pre-baby, I was often getting caught up in minutiae which now seems so unimportant. I think the paths we all tend to naturally take--go to school, start a career (or a startup), climb the ladder, etc--conspire to make us slowly lose perspective. It sort of bleeds away over time. But having a baby smashes that all, and presses the reset button.

It's sort of like the syringe-full-of-adrenaline scene in Pulp Fiction, but in a good way.
Hey Sebastian, great offer! I'd love if you'd take a look at Fridge to Food: http://www.fridgetofood.com

Keywords: recipe sharing, foodie community, ingredient search

Honestly, I could use help coming up with other keywords. I've been having trouble boiling down the concept into a few keywords. The best I can do is TasteSpotting meets StackOverflow (and eventually LocalHarvest).

Shoot me an e-mail at dbingham@fridgetofood.com. Thanks!