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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by dreur »

joshfinnie wrote: post #63

Working on a few things: Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow. Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites…

I would recommend Symfony as a PHP framework.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by raphaelb »

dreur wrote: post #291
joshfinnie wrote: post #63

Working on a few things: Starting to get the word out for GISQuery.com, a Q&A site for GIS professionals using OSQA. Having an interesting time getting the word out on this one since I need participation for the site to grow. Learning CodeIngniter as a PHP framework to help get a few other ideas off the ground (a revamped 140Pl.us and a new beer website). I am getting tired of trying to build highly functioning sites…

I would recommend Symfony as a PHP framework.

I like symfony as well but as of late I've found several things in the documentation to be segmented - such that you need to read around in several parts to find the secret recipe that actually works. I'm planning to contribute to the docs soon hopefully but with a brand new baby boy I haven't had a tremendous amount of time.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by jaxn »

rubyrescue wrote: post #60
jaxn wrote: post #41

Writing some systems integration stuff to allow US ecommerce companies to sell to Latin America.

would love to hear more about that...

Http://BorderJump.com

We are already helping companies sell to Latin America. I am working to make it easier for us to do it.

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Post by abi »

WesleyJohnson wrote: post #149
abi wrote: post #85

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I'm surprised that was your conclusion. Why do you blame HTTP if the point of failure in your case seems to be the database?

That's a good question. I suppose it's because even with Memcached taking the load off the database, we still have other issues. For example, because we're dealing with stateless connections here, it's hard to know if a client is still connected to the chat. We're polling from the client to the webservice every few seconds to 'pull' new messages and also tell the server, "Hey, I'm still alive". In order to determine…

To get new messages, you could simply use long polling so it becomes push instead of pull. For checking if the user is online (I'm assuming your clients are running in web browsers), you can use the onbeforeunload to send a HTTP request that the user is leaving. Of course, you still have to poll at regular intervals because the user might have put his computer to sleep which wouldn't trigger onbeforeunload but your interval can now even be as high as 60 seconds because most clients will trigger onbeforeunload.

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Post by detst »

shaddi wrote: post #115
abi wrote: post #91

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This sounds cool. Real-time auctions on the web should be a lot of fun. Post a link whenever you're done.

Genuinely curious: how is eBay not a real-time auction?

I assume they mean like an in-person auction. People increasingly bid until their max and when there are no more bids, the auction ends.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by Qz »

city41 wrote: post #246
Qz wrote: post #238

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That's why I like binding in Flex -- making something bindable is as simple as plopping [Bindable] in front of it. And binding also isn't all or nothing, you can easily do something like text="{loan.interestRate}%" . It also has code completion for anything you put in the binding, although not quite as robust as elsewhere.

Interesting. I actually don't know the first thing about Flex. I think you've inspired me to look into it.

Flex 4 is pretty interesting -- they separated layout from the core of container components. So for example in XAML you have Grid, Canvas, Stack, etc. In Flex 4 you just have Group, which then has a layout property -- there's a few basic ones like basic(canvas) vertical, horizontal, and tile, but you can easily code your own... and then switch them on the fly.

Flex is basically a really damn good system for UI coding and design, but the ActionScript that backs it up is pretty weak compared to C#. If I could mix C# with MXML I would be in coding heaven...

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on today?

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

brianmwang wrote: post #263
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #80

Now: drinking coffee and laying in bed reading HN. In an hour: Building an iPhone app in tandem with its Rails backend for a client.

I must say that your personal site/portfolio is fantastic. I LOVE the design.

Thanks! It was $22 from themeforest.net: http://themeforest.net/item/twicet-business-portfolio-templa...

I took the theme, converted it into Haml and SCSS, and slapped it on top of a Rails app.

It also manages my client proposals. I'm planning on adding time tracking, invoicing, and other features I need to manage client accounts sometime in future (Basecamp integration, LH integration, etc.). I might end up turning it into a SaaS product down the road. Not sure yet.

I hate getting nickeled and dimed by 37Signals, Proposable, Blinksale, and all of the other SaaS products I need to use, and would rather have everything integrated into a single stack.

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