Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
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Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#2Why not just call it "mod_depeche"? Sexier, more pronouncable name, and punful as well.
Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#3Why not just call it "mod_depeche"? Sexier, more pronouncable name, and punful as well.
That is sexier. Re-brand! But perhaps he just didn't think of it?
Obvious question gets an obvious answer. (Plus, and you may not have meant too, but your question came off a little asshole-ish)
Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#4Why not just call it "mod_depeche"? Sexier, more pronouncable name, and punful as well.
Until I saw this comment, I'd been pronouncing it "drop-ache" in my head, and scratching my head wondering whether it was a reference to dropbears or not. Now I see the light. Maybe instead of rebranding, make a logo that sets the "apache" part in a different color or font?
Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#5How is this different than using Uniform Server, XAMP, sharing on OSX or even SimpleHTTPServer, serving from the Dropbox folder? Setup looks more involved than any of those.
Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#6How is this different than using Uniform Server, XAMP, sharing on OSX or even SimpleHTTPServer, serving from the Dropbox folder? Setup looks more involved than any of those.
Don't those (at least sharing on OS X) necessitate your machine running?
Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#7Why not just call it "mod_depeche"? Sexier, more pronouncable name, and punful as well.
Until I saw this comment, I'd been pronouncing it "drop-ache" in my head, and scratching my head wondering whether it was a reference to dropbears or not. Now I see the light. Maybe instead of rebranding, make a logo that sets the "apache" part in a different color or font?
I don’t follow your (or your parent post’s) line of thinking. Apparently “dépêche means dispatch (or update, message or news),” and has a connotation of “fast.” I don’t see how this really applies to Drapache, which I thought of as “dr’apache,” a portmanteau of “drop(box)” and “apache.” I’m a Depeche Mode fan, but don’t see how it relates.
Where’s the pun? :)
Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#8I have had some encoding issues with Dropbox public files — namely, I’ll create a UTF-8 .html file and use special characters like “educated quotes” without encoding them as HTML entities (as I should be allowed to do, in a properly encoded file). I’ll use the right meta tag. And yet sometimes, at least in Chrome, they’ll show up incorrectly.
Would Drapache be susceptible to this, or could it it perhaps remedy it?
Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#9Stop with the misleading titles, people! I thought this meant you'd somehow make Dropbox run the website for you, which, while a pretty silly idea, would be interesting. But no, it's just a server that pulls files off Dropbox.
Re: Show HN: Drapache - serve a dynamic website from your dropbox
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until I saw this comment, I'd been pronouncing it "drop-ache" in my head, and scratching my head wondering whether it was a reference to dropbears or not. Now I see the light. Maybe instead of rebranding, make a logo that sets the "apache" part in a different color or font?
I don’t follow your (or your parent post’s) line of thinking. Apparently “dépêche means dispatch (or update, message or news),” and has a connotation of “fast.” I don’t see how this really applies to Drapache, which I thought of as “dr’apache,” a portmanteau of “drop(box)” and “apache.” I’m a Depeche Mode fan, but don’t see how it relates. Where’s the pun? :)
Depeche Mode is the name of band from the 80s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depeche_Mode