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Re:PNG Parser Differential on Thursday December 16, 2021 @07:14AM (#29577412)
If you view it in Finder in gallery mode, the picture in the the gallery says “Hello Apple”, while the preview in the sidebar says “Hello World”:

https://i.imgur.com/Ef1UpCv.png

Hello, fellow hackers! Author of LDAP DN here.

Recently, I was working on a legacy PHP project that synchronises LDAP teams and users. I found several bugs relating to poor DN “parsing” using regexes and string replacement.

There has to be a better way of doing it, I thought. Alas, there’s not much choice in the PHP ecosystem when it comes to parsing DNs. While there are a few libraries and even PHP’s own `ldap_explode_dn()`, I think they don’t have clean APIs.

So I wrote LDAP DN. It breaks down DNs into RDNs and attributes, supports escaping, allows basic manipulation and has 100% test coverage.

Let me know what you think!

Re:Show HN: Camp Fire – chat with people within a radius on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:44AM (#22245061)
I get:

    Error when getting location: 1 User denied geolocation prompt
even though I allowed location access.

Firefox 72.0.2 on macOS Mojave 10.14.6

Don’t blame yourself. Estimation is extremely hard.
A mix of both.

I charge regular clients (the ones that I do some work for every month) by the hour.

I use a spreadsheet to track my time.

Less regular clients, I estimate the project and bill them a fixed amount.

Shameless plug: For estimating projects I use a web app I built (https://estipad.com). It lets me break projects down into tasks and subtasks and estimate those instead of the whole project. It also generates a PDF that can go straight to the client.

Do you use a tool that supports this methodology or do you calculate it manually?

Ask HN: Developers, how do you estimate projects and write proposals?

I’m interested to know how fellow software developers (freelancers, small businesses) estimate projects for clients.Do you use any tools to come up with a quote? Do you send a proposal document to clients? If so, do you use a tool to generate one, or do you just use a template in a word processor? What are your main pain points when quoting for work?Cheers!

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Re:Show HN: Estipad – fast and easy project estimation on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @11:02AM (#18239725)
Hi guys. I’m the founder and sole developer of Estipad.

Estipad is a web app that lets you break down a project into small tasks for easier estimation. When you’ve finished, you can download a PDF estimate ready to send to a client.

Estipad started as a basic CodePen that I used to calculate project estimates for my freelancing clients. A few of my developer friends liked it, so I decided to build it into a web app.

I’d love to hear your feedback and will happily answer any questions you may have.

--

Pawel Decowski

Founder, Estipad

PS. I’ll be writing more about Estipad on the blog: https://medium.com/estipad

Re:The future of education is plain text on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:29AM (#14545505)
UTF-8, Unicode.
Re:Ask HN: What's your backup setup? on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:33AM (#13696781)
1. Local

   a) Apple TimeCapsule

   b) NAS (2 x 3TB in RAID-1)
2. Off-site

   a) Amazon Glacier

   b) GitHub, DropBox
Seriously. How should I have known not to name my Windows account trousersnake?
Hi HN!

I’m the developer behind this. I’ll be happy to answer any questions.

We’ll also be releasing iOS and Android ports soon.

Re:Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location on Thursday October 09, 2014 @04:02PM (#8434721)
Thanks for this. Good to know about it.
Re:Amazon to Open First Brick-and-Mortar Location on Thursday October 09, 2014 @03:29PM (#8434553)
Isn’t that against Google’s T&Cs? I’m sure a website is not allowed to present different content to GoogleBot than it does to regular users. Not sure if there’s a rule that says it can’t present different content when a user clicks on a search result vs goes directly to the website or from another referrer.
Re:Print this file, your printer will jam (2008) on Thursday August 14, 2014 @04:48AM (#8176599)
Reminded me of “The case of the 500-mile email”: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Re:What was your best passive income in 2014? on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @09:47AM (#8108062)
£55 in just over a year from ads on http://jquerycreditcardvalidator.com

Not a lot but it’s something. And I built the validator without even thinking about monetizing so it’s quite nice to get rewarded with some pocket money.

It’s not 100% passive, as I do spend a little time maintaining it and adding new features, but what income is 100% passive?

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014) on Saturday March 01, 2014 @12:07PM (#7325037)
SEEKING WORK – Remote (am based in London for meetings if needed)

I’m a web guy and can do both design and development. HTML, CSS, LESS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Python, PHP, etc.

I’ve worked with businesses like Buzzdeck, Shoply, Kobalt and many more.

I also do open source stuff. I’m the creator of jQuery Credit Card Validator (http://jquerycreditcardvalidator.com) and Forrst Like Button (http://forrstbutton.com).

Get in touch at: [email protected]

Re:Would you like a Django-like framework for PHP? on Saturday January 25, 2014 @09:02AM (#7120782)
I think the core of the framework needs to be written from the ground up. The core is the basis of Django’s API. Trying to mimic it on another framework’s core would hinder the development at some point.
Re:Would you like a Django-like framework for PHP? on Saturday January 25, 2014 @08:16AM (#7120688)
Well, you could ask the same about Zend, Laravel or Symphony — what’s different between them? Even though they support most of the same features, they’re implemented in unique ways. None of them are like Django, though. I think it’d be cool to have a Django-like framework for PHP.
Re:Would you like a Django-like framework for PHP? on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:46AM (#7120638)
Thanks. Why not?
Re:Would you like a Django-like framework for PHP? on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:46AM (#7120636)
Not in production until it reaches a stable version.

It’ll be open source so I’m hoping others will jump on board and help with development and bug fixes.

Re:Would you like a Django-like framework for PHP? on Saturday January 25, 2014 @07:33AM (#7120613)

Would you like a Django-like framework for PHP?

Whenever I can I write web apps in Python and Django. I find the framework right on the money. Sometimes I don’t have the privilege to choose the programming language, or it simply makes more sense to write in PHP. When that’s the case, I really miss logical framework like Django.I’ve already written some classes that mimic Django’s routing and models. I’m thinking of putting it together into a...

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