jamespaden

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by jamespaden 4y ago
It's only $3 for life for beta users :) More seriously though, thanks for the feedback. We're not sure what the best pricing is yet. $10/user/mo is in line with similar products and is a small price to pay for getting ri
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by jamespaden 4y ago
Probably not as interesting now that you can play with the actual tool, but we also wrote several blog posts describing our thinking and goals for solving this problem: https://www.expectedbehavior.com/building-burndown&#x2F
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Show HN: Big Picture” project management for software developers(projectburndown.com)
8 points by jamespaden 4y ago|5 comments
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by jamespaden 4y ago
Thanks for the insight!
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by jamespaden 4y ago
Ha! I think project managers as infrastructure makes a lot of sense. Just seems like there should be ways to smooth out the process, especially with smaller teams/companies so less project management is required.
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Agreement and estimation through Product/Feature Sketching(expectedbehavior.com)
3 points by jamespaden 4y ago|0 comments
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by jamespaden 4y ago
No problem! It's a weird question to ask. A lot of companies just hire a project manager and let them work it out. There seems like there should be a better way, or at least some partial alternatives. I'm hoping to find some answe
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by jamespaden 4y ago
There's obviously a lot of different project management strategies. Some companies seem to have project managers assign daily tasks to each developer. The PMs then spend a lot of time defining the tasks and moving the schedule around.
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by jamespaden 4y ago
Who breaks the work down: you or the PM? Does the PM ever bother you to get the status of something, or is it always clear from the kanban board? I've seen the "bug the developer for a status update" move a lot in the past. A
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Ask HN: How do you avoid wasting time on project management?
5 points by jamespaden 4y ago|12 comments
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by jamespaden 6y ago
How do you differ from Skypher.co, which is another YC company? We're about to sign up with them.
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by jamespaden 7y ago
Biased cause I work there, but DocRaptor offers a saas API version of the Prince library with a much lower usage-based monthly fee.
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by jamespaden 7y ago
Those things can be really difficult with the browser-based libraries because the browsers don't yet (and seemingly never will) support CSS Paged Media. That's why commercial engines like Prince and DocRaptor (which uses Prince) e
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by jamespaden 8y ago
Hi, I'm a developer at DocRaptor. What about DocRaptor didn't work for you?
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by jamespaden 9y ago
I'm a developer at https://docraptor.com . We're an official Prince partner with a SaaS pricing model, but we've got a separate JavaScript engine for that very reason.
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by jamespaden 9y ago
That's also an API service, http://docraptor.com , with a different pricing model that uses the Prince library for PDF rendering.
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Amazon Kinesis: the best event queue you’re not using(instrumentalapp.com)
3 points by jamespaden 10y ago|0 comments
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by jamespaden 10y ago
DocRaptor is based on PrinceXML, but also includes a much more advanced JavaScript engine
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by jamespaden 11y ago
PrinceXML is definitely the best tool, but there are a couple similar commercial alternatives and wkhtmltopdf have become a decent open source solution as long as you want basic docs.
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Why you should stop using the us-standard Region in S3(instrumentalapp.com)
9 points by jamespaden 11y ago|0 comments
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by jamespaden 11y ago
Commercial, but DocRaptor does with some additional Javascript parsing on top of PrinceMXL
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by jamespaden 11y ago
It, it used QTWebkit directly. Wkhtmltopdf uses a forked version of Webkit with several PDF-specific enhancements (better support for paging, fixes a couple bugs, etc).
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by jamespaden 11y ago
http://get.gaug.es/ was built to do exactly this with unlimited sites.
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by jamespaden 16y ago
I'll consider that, but I don't think netbooks generate enough traffic to be truly relevant yet.