Location: BC, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies: C#, .NET, F#, iOS, Python, C++

Resume: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/marty

Github: http://github.com/martydill/

Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/184630/marty-dill

Email: martyATcode-ninjaDOTorg

10 years of experience, primarily in the .NET world. Desktop and server as well as web experience. Degree in Computer Science. Experience working with distributed teams as well as working remotely for a centralized team.

You are right on the money with regards to the changes, but the timeline is a bit off. All FB apps created after April 30 automatically get all the new stuff (whether they want it or not). Existing apps have April 2015 to switch to the new system. So, the outage is probably unrelated to to the new stuff.

Source: I'm a FB app developer who is seriously affected by the Login and Graph API 2.0 changes.

I'd work on my "brilliant but stupid and perhaps useless" idea - automatically generating web apps from desktop apps, in realtime (i.e. as you use the web app, it's really controlling the desktop app behind the scenes).

Yup, exactly this. My own startups are running on Azure thanks to BizSpark, and so is my full-time job. It's a pretty ridiculous amount of free stuff.

Yup, graduation is now completely free.

Heck, it's been a problem since 2002. My G3 800 iBook's power adapter literally went up in smoke.

This has been an issue as far back as a decade ago with G3 iBooks. I had my G3 800's logic board replaced twice under warranty, but it failed again after that. The 'hot coin on the gpu' trick solved the problem, albeit temporarily.

http://forums.macnn.com/69/mac-notebooks/210232/diy-ibook-du...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook#Quality_issues

Sadly, no. Neither http://reminderhero.com or http://surveylitics.com are profitable. And that's not because of high costs - it's because of a lack of sales and customers :)

I think I need more appealing landing pages and better web design in general.

I took a quick look at reminderhero, and don't think your issue is visual appeal. It isn't blatantly obvious from your landing page how the app works. Do you talk to it? Text and/or email it? I know there is mention in one place that you can send an email, but that doesn't ring out loud and clear, that it applies to all uses. I would recommend adding a simple diagram of input to output in layman's terms, or a short video, or at least say "talk" or "text" on "email" in, get whatever out.

I started something along these lines a while ago. Haven't touched in quite some time though.

https://github.com/martydill/node.fs

Unlike my previous side project attempts, I do use http://reminderhero.com a few times a week. It's handy for things or times I need to remember.