I just cancelled my Lynda.com membership. I think Lynda.com is great. You can learn just about any software program, lessons are taught through video, and the lessons are far more exhustive than their competition. I have tried Codecademy and Team Tree House. Codecademy is great, but they only teach a few programming languages, which are far from exhaustive. Codecademy is free, so I can understand why they have such a limited curriculum. Team Tree House is good, but it costs $25/month and I think Lynda is better for the money. I hate how Team Tree House's videos show the teacher…
I was at a networking event last night and was telling someone that I wanted to build something similar to Yelp. His first question was, “I wonder if there is a clone script for that?” What the hell is a clone script? It basically turns a CMS like Drupal or WordPress into a popular site. Want your own Twitter? Get a Twitter Script. Want your own Facebook? There are almost a dozen Facebook clone scripts. There are sites like clonescripts.com that host hundreds of sites. It seems like if there is a popular site, there is a clone script for…