Re: [SiliconBeach] Scalability Guru wanted for some Consulting

2010-10-24 Thread Sheng Yeo
Hi Kevin, It is great to hear that your applications are doing well and seeing some traffic. Load/Scalability issues can be a pain, but it does mean that your site is getting more traffic, so it is a good problem to have :-). I am the one of the founders of OrionVM http://www.orionvm.com.au

Re: [SiliconBeach] New website design

2010-10-24 Thread Graham Lea
Hi James, My understanding is that the deliverable from a 99designs web comp is just photoshop files - you need to pursue other professionals to get it web-ready. Cheers, Graham. -- Graham Lea Belmont Technology Pty Ltd gra...@belmonttechnology.com.au On 18/10/2010, at 9:39 AM, James

Re: [SiliconBeach] New website design

2010-10-24 Thread James Howarth
Thanks Emmanuel and Graham. I hadn't heard of HTML Blender. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Emmanuel Negri emmanuel.ne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi James, Once you have photoshop files you can convert them into HTML templates using HTML Blender services (http://www.htmlblender.com). Cheers,

[SiliconBeach] Hadoop / Nutch / GRUB - Distributed Search and Indexing Applications

2010-10-24 Thread Nick HaC
Hi guys We are a full microsoft shop and we have been using lucene and other open source search/indexing solutions. Is there anyone in Sydney with exposure to Hadoop or other distributed search applications that we could have a chat with? Any thoughts or help would be most appreciated Nick --

[SiliconBeach] Australian angels

2010-10-24 Thread Elias Bizannes
Why haven't we got more angel investors in Australia on Angel list? http://angel.co/australia This would be a great resource to build Australia's funding community. I just got back from beers with Naval Ravikant and he shared with me some crazy ideas about what he is going to do with Angel list

[SiliconBeach] IT sector? Australia doesn’t need i t, claims Reserve Bank

2010-10-24 Thread Renai LeMay
Sorry to toot Delimiter's horn here -- I just think Silicon Beach might be interested in this one :) Personally I think Stevens' comments are a load of bullcrap and I will be saying so publicly. Let me know what you think on this one -- I'll be following this up. Cheers, Renai

Re: [SiliconBeach] IT sector? Australia doesn’t ne ed it, claims Reserve Bank

2010-10-24 Thread Rob Manson
Only an economist would try to draw such a strong and obviously artificial line between IT producers and consumers. The lesson from the dot-com bubble wasn't that IT isn't important...it was that new technology ventures need to actually create real value! roBman On 25/10/2010, at 4:18 PM,