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sp4ceman said:
spent some time last night getting the bugs ironed out. css stuff still remains but it shouldn't break. also added raygun.io as an error handler. its pretty badass
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We've built our own health platform, integrated with log4net. Reports errors to a hive service which aggregates our crashes/stats in to a dashboard.
 
that's cool. i downloaded a nuget package and added 2 lines to my global.asax and got the same thing.

for a company to pay a grand a month or whatever it's a bargain instead of taking on one more system to maintain. i can't see the point in a big giant mega corp investing making every single aspect of a system themselves when services like this are cheap and easy
 
sp4ceman said:
that's cool. i downloaded a nuget package and added 2 lines to my global.asax and got the same thing.

for a company to pay a grand a month or whatever it's a bargain instead of taking on one more system to maintain. i can't see the point in a big giant mega corp investing making every single aspect of a system themselves when services like this are cheap and easy
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Well i cant see paying for something that can be easily developed. And our app does a lot more than just crash reports as well.
 
DO THIS:
Create a list of different perks that companies offer devs. Assign a value to each perk.
Let companies add themselves and select all the perks they offer.

Generate the total score based off this - that way its instant gratification.

As a dev company I wanted to immediately compare what we offer to others in the industry - ensure I can do this without registering/logging in.
Then I am free to go list my company in order to attract potential employees.
 
Er, I had a version that allowed people to add stuff without registering or logging in.
Then I put it live for half an hour and had a million spam bots all hit my site, so I put it behind a registration wall. Registering an account and logging in is a free and simple process. If you're registering with an existing google account its like 2 clicks. I don't see it changing anytime soon, there is no benefit to letting strangers do anything except view only.

As for the perks its a pretty good idea thats sort of already in progress. But the problem with perks is that they're just perks, or fringe benefits. There are loads of places that allow you to add perks as the sole deciding factor for a companies rating, and I honestly feel as though they can be misleading at times. No good working at a place that has 20 days of leave a year but no solid development fundamentals...

I will look at implementing this sooner rather than later.
 
Rolled out perks and industries last night so companies can now have perks. I just don't know what perks or industries to add to existing companies.

When creating a company you can add your own so the list should grow over time.

Oh and I fixed the auto complete ui glitches
 
sp4ceman said:
If any of you guys have added companies and want to add industries or perks or whatever pm me and let me know...

Right now editing a company isn't really public facing but i can do it for you
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Ok then - have a look in your inbox. Sent you a mail asking exactly this about 10-15min ago. Would be nice if the person that created the company or some formal representative from the company would be allowed to edit the company. Any other person would then need to send a request to the company representative or you the site owner. That would be something in the direction of getting this sorted?

Anyways, nice idea. I can see some form of potential for this.
 
Just an update on what I've been doing...

companies can now request a company account and are then linked to their company.

Once linked they can see stats and scores but only averages not individual reviews. And it's all anonymous.

Companies can also personalise their profile page with a bit of custom text. Images and banners etc to come soon. This was quite fun to work on. Markdown is awesome.

you can also now invite coworkers to review a company as well. It's a simple email with a click through but was pretty cool to do. Sendgrid is pretty badass and let you email 200 emails a day for free. So right now I'm loving it.

2 companies are giving me awesome feedback, entelect and derivco so that's pretty cool...

Oh yeah I made a cdn via azure for my images. Makes **** load a lot quicker and was pretty cool to implement
 
Cool stuff sp4ceman. I need to test out sendgrid vs mandrill.

I've seen the cdn option on my azure account but never touched it. How does it work? Wouldn't you need a node in SA for them to load faster for SA users?
 
Yes its technically not faster for sa users. But it does help when doing speed tests and the like. googles dev tools kept whining about my images and giving me crap speed scores.

my site is hosted on azure anyway so all optimisations have to take that into account.

And one day when ms finally gets us an africa server then we'll see. Hot damn then we'll show them.....

One thing I need to figure out is how to enable browser caching on images etc. i know how via iis but i don't think it's setting expirey headers and i don't know where to do it on azure.

As to how to enable it, http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Penny...ImagesToTheAzureCDNAndUsingACustomDomain.aspx
 
i would say the biggest difference is the reviews aren't as subjective im using the same scoring criteria for all.

the companies can then use this to compare themselves to other companies and the average.

the average is actually a pretty interesting tool here. eventually it would be pretty simple to say the average c# company has these pros and cons while the average php company looks more like this.

companies gain feedback and hopefully improve and devs get a better idea of what they're about.
 
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