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Finally a full time web dev

kreitje — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:23:09 -0400

So after a few years of doing web dev on the side, I have finally been able to start doing it full time. Along with this nice change, I am moving out to Colorado within the next month or so. On Sunday I am leaving to go scout apartments out there.

What have you guys been up to?

PHP Development Team

hyp3R — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 05:31:25 -0500

Since I'm back to programming and such, I m looking for PHP programmers with |advanced| knowledge to make some kind of a team and progress together in further learning of PHP.

I m planing to invest countless hours next 2 - 3 years to move to a higher level and probably open my own company in my area or online organization.

I need people who are willing to spend 2 or 3 hours a day on skype, going through same lessons and examples. When we are ready, we would start own CMS to implement the knowledge.

I'm pretty much professional when it comes to HTML/CSS and photoshop so that side won't be an issue.
Also, anyone who is willing to join is welcome, with more or less knowledge.

If you are willing to join and study together, please let me know here or add me on skype or E-mail:

Skype: ag-webstudio
E-mail: info@aleksandargrbic.com

Hope to hear some positive answers :),
Regards,
Alex aka hyp3R

Good ScreenCast Software

kreitje — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:58:16 -0500

Hey guys,

I am looking for recommendations of a good screencast software for Mac OSX.

I have looked at Camtasia. Unfortunatley, I the adapter I use for the 3rd monitor for my MBP turns off Quartz and it doesn't work. That forces me to unhook it just for a screencast.

I have also tried ScreenFlow. It's nice and simple to use. I am looking at using this one, however I wanted to get opinions from the field (you) on what application you use and like.

CI Setup

kreitje — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:34:21 -0500

Thought I would throw this out there. It's a simple start to a web app using CodeIgniter. What I mean by that is it provides a start for user registration, resetting passwords, user administration, etc.

https://github.com/kreitje/CI_Init

To use it.

1. Update application/config/database.php to match your criteria.
2. Upload it to your web accessible folder.
3. Go to yourdomain.tld/setup where you will create your admin user

It's meant to be extended for your use and not a one size fits all package. That is why it is pretty bare. I built it as there are a few planned projects I have that will require some of the same functionality such as user management.

The admin controllers are in the controllers/admin folder keeping them separate from the other controllers.

As a note. It does run 2 hooks. application/hooks/AccessControl.php ( IsSetup and CheckLoginAccess )

LF Freelancer for SEO Assistance

hyp3R — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:44:17 -0500

I'm working on a freelancer project running on WordPress and ShopperPress plugin and I need some help with making the best SEO possible.

After the project is done I would reward you of course.
Hit me up: info@aleksandargrbic.com

Google+ Thoughts

kreitje — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:48:30 -0400

The integration they did with the google products is nice. Such as seeing any notification when I am in my email. It does take a while to load though I am not on the best connection around. Often times I see pages partially reloading as it is pulling in new information from plus.google.com such as search results in a tab that has been open for a while.

It's quite filter your stream by your circles.

Chat works the same as Gmail. You can turn off chat in G+ but it can stay active in your email even in the same browser. I generally keep my email open all the time so this is nice that it doesn't kill it across all google services.

Sparks I just got into this morning. I find it well done for specific topics. If you do something like "technology news" you will get a bunch of crap compared to "microsoft sharepoint".

Circles was well done. There have been so many people I have had to show how to make lists on facebook. Most of these people don't know G+ exists, but I can't imagine them having as hard of a time as they had.

The design of the pages are quite bland but it works really well for them and me.

Overall I like it. I haven't posted a lot on it but it looks promising. It's also a lot less buggy than facebook when it comes to javascript actions.

Does anybody know how to set the default circle to post to? That would make life a little easier.

Dreamweaver / Photoshop Extensions

hyp3R — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:17:27 -0500

Lately I've been trying to find some useful mods for PS and Dreamweaver. Even tho I found some, if you are using any of those 2, please post some addons if you are using them.

I know there are many awesome addons like converting html/css style into joomla etc.
Share with us any of those if you are using them.

Regards,
Alex

Hey guys

hyp3R — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 15:17:04 -0500

Finally I found you guys, again!
It's me hyp3R from old YC forums.

Missed you guys so much!
Looking forward to discuss with you again.

Regards,
Alex aka hyp3R

PS. I miss YC community a lot and many others too.

Free web hosting for life - my Christmas gift to you all! :)

michaelkeefe — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:23:56 -0500

Hey guys!

I thought I'd let you all know that I'm offering totally free no-strings-attached web hosting packages for anyone who wants one. All you have to do, is follow my new company on Twitter and post a tweet from our website.

It's all explained over at http://htmill.co.uk

The packages aren't amazing, in terms of disk-space or bandwidth, but are certainly great if you want to test an app or something. MySQL is included :)

Enjoy!

PHP Frameworks

ddreier — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 02:43:44 -0400

So I just had an idea for a web app, and I'm probably going to write it in PHP. So I was wondering if y'all know of any easy/good PHP MVC frameworks. I know about CodeIgniter, but I just thought that I'd check to see if any of you prefered any others.

Thanks!

R/C Airplanes

kreitje — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:00:21 -0400

Anybody fly r/c airplanes? I have had several, broke most of them =(

I just built one and am tweaking it so it's controllable. I almost ran myself over today when I was test flying it.

So I downloaded Xcode, what's next?

ddreier — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:27:53 -0400

Hello folks, long time no see!

I very recently got a new MacBook Pro, and last night I bought, downloaded, and installed Xcode 4. So my question is "what's next?"

Do any of you have suggestions as to where I should go to start learning Objective-C and the Xcode environment?

Network Solutions SuperBowl Parody

kreitje — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:00:05 -0500

If you live in the U.S. and watch the super bowl over the past few years you have no doubt seen a GoDaddy commercial. Network Solutions recently made a parody and it's pretty good.

Here is one of the GoDaddy commercials:

Google Plus Invite - Let me know

kreitje — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:59:18 -0400

I know some of you are already on Google Plus. Those of you aren't and want to check it out let me know.

What's up?

unclekyky — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:01:47 -0500

Some of you will remember me, I hope. For those who don't, I've been a YC member for a very long time. Anyway, I just got back from two years of voluntary service in Portugal. I've had very little access to tech news and the internet in these last two years. So, I just wanted to say I'm back. Also, what's new in the world of tech? Anything major since January 2009?

Link Decay

kreitje — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 06:06:52 -0400

What happened to posting a normal link on web pages? http://www.sigcont.com. I understand using services such as bit.ly for twitter where you are severely limited on how much you can post. I run across these services all the time now to include being on blog posts.

My problem is that most of my day I spend using an internet provider (awesome military network) that blocks access to all the common shortening services. Do you guys run into this problem? I imagine this is going to be a bigger issue when these places close up shop and tons of links stop working.

Another question. More towards articles/blogs that shorten their urls. Doesn't this affect link building? Essentially they are losing that opportunity for Google to rank them a little higher and giving it to these services.

OSX App Store

kreitje — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:19:43 -0500

A few things with the new App Store.

1. Does it run terribly slow when buying/downloading apps? I hit the buy button and it locks up for 3-4 minutes. My internet connection is decent when it does it. In iTunes I don't have the problem with music.

2. Do you think an app in the store will be less likely to be bought if the price is over a couple dollars/euros/etc? I guess I am more apt to buy Transmit for example from the Panic website versus the App Store due to the fact I associate the App Store with mobile phones and wouldn't spend $34 on a mobile phone application. It does help the applications get more publicity but how many people are ingrained with that association?

Rails Resources

kreitje — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 06:05:38 -0500

Agile Web Development with Rails (4th edition):
http://pragprog.com/titles/rails4/agile-web-development-with-rails

Ive read through most of it and it covers quite a few things. It's alright. Not your typical "manual". It's more of here are some key concepts, now you learn as we build this application.

Simply Rails 2:
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails2/

This is a pretty decent book for getting started.

http://tekpub.com/channels/ruby
The Tekpub videos I didn't find to be very good. It covers some topics good but for the most part it's not for those learning ruby.

http://railsforzombies.org/
This is a free resource that is decent. It has 5 videos with labs to complete. The "labs" are even built into the browser.

http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/railslab-scaling-rails/id303252563
A podcast by the guy who does Rails for Zombies. There are some other Ruby podcasts down at the bottom of this page.

http://railscasts.com/
Just found this one. Currently has 253 screencasts related to RoR last udpated 14 Feb 2011.

As more resources come in we can update this.

Anyone else having problems with EastSolid?

Jacob_ — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:14:11 -0500

Since the server migration I've been getting a 403 Forbidden error for both of my domains... this happens with both the new and the old nameservers.

Website for theatre

cpf — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:13:44 -0400

Just finished designing this, suggestions?

http://transcanadatheatre.net/?key=cb

(if you don't include the hidden key you'll get a placeholder page, I don't want it to be fully public quite yet)

Only about 1/2 of the content is in place, thats why some pages are very vague right now. Of course, IE is also having some trauma with the menu items, but that's not surprising...

Happy New Year, and I'm back...

Joel — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:32:51 -0500

wow guys, I have been away for a while. Haven't forgotten about anyone though :)

How has everyone been and what have I missed in the last 3+ months?

Mysterious Error 500

haydenbech — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:54:10 -0500

When I run a PHP file (just one, not any other), I get an error 500.
I can't seem to find the cause, or a solution in Google.
I've read that it might be file permissions - the php file has 0644 along with every other php file. Changing the permissions of this one file to 0755 doesn't seem to help.

I've checked the error logs (cPanel->Error Log), but there's nothing but a bunch of 404's (I had no favicon, 404.shtml or 500.shtml but I now have one of each).

I've utilised every scrap of info I could find on Google and I'm at a loss. Once it's fixed my new AJAX app will be almost ready to release :)

http://universe.haydenb.net

Try and do anything there and search.php will fail.
For example: http://universe.haydenb.net/search.php?keyword=Blah

Java, MySQL and an old YoungCoders Thread

haydenbech — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:33:05 -0500

I thought I would pose this question here, because some of you may remember this old thread. http://www.youngcoders.com/general-programming/28504-massive-idea-program-2.html

I decided it was time I put some hard work into this project and get the ball going.
Even if you haven't read the thread you can easily answer this question.
My question at the moment is:
If I have a Java desktop Application or an Applet, what is (if any) the easiest way for the Java Application to Read (only read) data from a MySQL database (maybe via PHP) on my webserver?

All other data operations such as adding, deleting etc will be done via PHP on the webserver.

Scripting artistic screen

Vento — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:55:32 -0500

Hey,

I and my friend want to make a small program that would make some artistic animations by taking some kind of input. Algorithm is our problem, we will figure it out but I want to separate the engine with the script that does all that stuff. I though about engine getting the screen handler and stuff while it would interpret some other code that decides what to show. I was thinking of Python. Do you think it's good and simple enough? I mean, is the integration to C++ problematic? Is it fast enough? Will, most importantly, it support OpenGL? Well, it can be done through C++ function wrapped with Python syntax but I'm just askin' to know how much I have to code.

P.S. Artistic animation means something like Windows Media Player does using music.

Your languages

CallumJ — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:45:08 -0400

I'm always curious as to what languages people are working on, not because I want to feel superior but because sometimes I've found out about languages I've never heard of and end up being quite useful (such as Prolog or Haskell). So I'm curious as a discussion as to what languages people are mostly working in nowadays.

For me it's

C# - Usually for corporate jobs involving the SharePoint or ASP.Net environment
Ruby/Rails - Just for fun and because I actually love the language
HTML/CSS - Goes without saying, but I've found that the more I work with these markup languages the more I begin to produce better looking websites and begin to get the feel for user experiences
Java - Despite the hatred from some developers I always find myself in Java for developing backend solutions to problems where things like Ruby can't scale such as backend daemons. I also was developing an LED display before it was packed up in a box
Perl - I do enjoy this little language because it gave me a good introduction in Regexp

Odd SDK Agreement

kreitje — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:02:51 -0500

Last night I was looking through a merchant gateway SDK reading the license agreement and came across a tidbit that interested me.

Basically it said you can include this SDK in your work that you sell/distribute as long as it's not used in England, Germany, France, etc. etc.. Anyone ever run into that in the past? It kind of sucks that I have to roll my own just because I don't want to limit my target audience to certain countries.

SMS Gateway

kreitje — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:39:13 -0400

Does anybody know of a decent SMS Gateway company? I was using Clickatell for quite some time with different projects, however they ran into a spam issue in the U.S. and now require a dedicated shortcode which is quite expensive.

I have searched SMS gateways, but have any of you used a different one?

Why is Java so irritating (and popular)?

Umang — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:38:58 -0400

Hi,

(I'm still alive!) I've been learning Java recently, and I've not really liked it as a language.

Java has to run on a virtual machine, so it isn't compiled in the same way that C/C++ are. At the same time, it doesn't have the advantages that a languages like Python have. So, it gets rid of pointers and many other small things that aren't pleasant in C/C++. But you still have to worry about how things work in C++ to be able to get things to work in Java: primitive types are passed by value, objects are passed as pointers (so you still need to understand pointers); you have to use a .equals method to compare strings (and still have to worry about that "\0" even though you are never told anything about it) so you cannot use == to compare strings even though a = "hi"; b="hi"; result in a==b being true; arrays are almost as bad as in C++ and the ArrayList (which isn't even as powerful as it could be) isn't even imported by default!

I feel like I've got a more blunt sword, and wearing more armor, have a few of my fingers taken off and am supposed to fight the same guy when compared to C++. With the same analogy Python would be a sword with one end completely blunt (the one that I can accidentally poke myself with) and the other as sharp, the sword itself much lighter and it comes with built in cool tricks that you can pull off that will make your enemy shriek and jump.

So why is Java so popular?