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Post by Narretz »

dtwest wrote: post #213
Narretz wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some Feedback on the site: "Free demo" makes you register and the description makes it sound like you have to link your account to Stripe right aways. This is quite misleading, imo. "Demo" in my mind doesn't even include registration, it should be a demo of how the service would operate. "Sample Menu" is something that looks like a demo, but it is quite worthless, because it's not a bit interactive. You can't even ad…

The registration description was inaccurate, you don't need to sign up for Stripe right away to look around the members area, thanks for pointing that out. Also, I agree with the free demo comment, I'll change the button to "Sign Up". The add to cart functionality on the sample menu should work, what browser are you using?

Firefox 35. I also see a bunch of errors in the console.

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Post by xavi »

goda90 wrote: post #368
xavi wrote: post #334

I'm working on BankBotsBank ( https://github.com/bankbotsbank/bankbotsbank ), an open effort to develop a collection of open-source bots that provide API access to accounts on any bank. I developed the first bot, which can be used as a sample, with JavaScript (ES6, and ES7's async/await) and Nightmare (based on Electron, so on Chromium). It's awesome because free API access to this data for any bank in the world may…

I've actually been thinking about such an effort because I was sick of Mint being more geared at selling me loans than giving me the tools that others and I have requested, and none of the other services that automatically pull in bank data are much better. Have you thought of making some sort of framework that can handle security and aggregate the data, and have developers plug in the bank specific bots?

My idea is to keep it simple: just a collection of bots that accept any required credentials and return accounts data in a common JSON format. Storing credentials and aggregated data is not in the scope of this project. If that's needed (not all applications may need it), it has to be handled by the client app.

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Post by dangrossman »

bbcbasic wrote: post #369
dangrossman wrote: post #92

I rewrote https://www.w3counter.com from scratch over the past month, and just put it online two days ago. W3Counter was a 12-year-old website offering web stats reports and hit counters with 30-something-thousand users. I ditched all the old code, and the data model, and the business model, and started from scratch. New framework, new way of storing and analyzing stats that scales better and provides more value, and…

What was the old tech stack, and what did you replace it with?

Old: Just PHP (Symfony 1.x from 2006ish) and MySQL.

New: Node.js for data collection, Redis for data caching, Amazon Aurora for data storage, Cloudflare/ELB/EC2 for frontend serving, and the web app rebuilt in modern PHP (with Silex).

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Post by schoen »

Let's Encrypt CA - https://letsencrypt.org/

We made it free and fast to get browser-trusted certs and have already issued over 1,000,000 certs for over 2,500,000 domains, most of which have never had browser-trusted HTTPS before. Now many major hosting providers and platforms are in the process of making an HTTPS cert automatic and standard for every hosted site.

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Post by bazillion »

tmaly wrote: post #380
bazillion wrote: post #220

I created a completely new branch of advertising, which basically superimposes advertisements directly over images in a way that actually benefits consumers: http://pleenq.com/ . Here's a demo video (fairly old, have to still update with the latest look): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GfKBvs53Ss Say you have a picture on a blog post showing a car engine, explaining how to fix something inside of it. You could high…

How has mobile use been with this concept? I could see it working well on desktop, but on smaller screens?

I actually have multiple interactions that I'm experimenting with, and the website owner chooses what interaction fits with their site design.

One of them is where the mobile user taps on the image, and all of the object highlights pop up one at a time. Tapping on a non-highlighted region hides the highlights.

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Post by hokkos »

bonquesha99 wrote: post #178

Misc tools to make development more efficient: https://github.com/shuber/owners - Take ownership of your code! Knowing who owns a project or section of a code base is very helpful when asking questions or requesting feedback. This gem allows developers to define OWNERS files throughout their repository to provide a human and machine readable way to determine who the maintainers are for specific files of code. https:/…

Your monolith project seems very interesting to me, because I have 3 repos for components of a common project that leaded to duplicated code. But I also regret to have added some assets code that lead to a massive and slow repo, so it seems it is also possible to filter the history from some directories but I am not quite sure from your description.

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Post by geocrasher »

mikejarema wrote: post #306

I'm spending some time creating a logo generator tool targeted at idea/early stage products and companies, or for side projects, open source projects, etc. It's called Logocaster - https://logocaster.com Logocaster is meant to help you explore a huge universe of logo designs when brainstorming your brand/logo. It makes it quite easy to scan a bunch of style/font/palette options and then "drill down" and see designs w…

Thanks for posting this- it's really neat. I'm not much of a designer (or developer for that matter!) I used one of your logos on a site that I put together with wordpress. It's my own little link aggregator. Instead of bookmarking something, I post it on my link site for future reference.

http://geekymug.com (re-used domain name, not relevant to what it is) if you'd like to see your work on my site :)

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Post by perrylaj »

I'm finishing up a retooled build for our primary product Ignition (quick info https://inductiveautomation.com/scada-software/). The build itself is only 'awesome' to those of us who need to work on our product. Nearing the final stretch of the project, but so far we've cut build times by 80+%, and added in a bunch of tools/processes that will improve quality, not to mention greatly ease onboarding for new devs. Been a fun little project.

Our product itself pretty awesome (IMO) for a number of reasons: performance, flexibility, extensibility, easy of use (relative to other SCADA/HMI/Industrial Automation platforms), secure, highly connectable. We're one of the only companies (as far as I know) actually delivering real "Industrial IoT" (ugh, that term) solutions that are able to support the scale and scope that we do. There are definitely others attempting similar things, but not in such open and interconnected ways, and certainly nowhere near the same value. Our technology is pretty innovative, but just as innovative is our business transparency: We've done away with industry-standard artificial pricing schedules that relate to how many data points you have. The result has been adoption by many customers who simply couldn't afford to implement automation in the past.

Anyway, as a developer, I really like being a part of a platform that touches so many industries, in hugely varying ways. It's a fun challenge to build things that are easy to use, yet abstract, powerful and scalable.

Now that I have met my "sound like someone from marketing" quota for the year, I need to go wash it off with some code.

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