News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

pwoods

Re:Booby-Trapped Treasure Buried off the Coast of Nova Scotia? on Sunday September 20, 2009 @11:38PM (#833950)
I hope you meant HOPE not HOME. ;)
Re:When programmers build websites on Monday July 13, 2009 @01:17PM (#702080)
Maybe it's running on a tandy server
Re:The British Government should apologize to Alan Turing on Tuesday June 23, 2009 @10:22AM (#670426)
At the very least we should apologize for the chemical castration! WTF is that? Yeah not good.
Re:Ask YC: Whats the Best Shared Hosting around? on Monday June 22, 2009 @04:05PM (#669364)
Well I use dreamhost.com but not sure if it's the best. I used to be on mosso but too much downtime and too expensive.
Re:Thanks to Twitter, I'm creating my own Twitter on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @02:04PM (#660584)
Oh please spare us and dont!
Summary Please. This is hurting my brain.
What? Do people still register to read new sites? Thought this idea had died already.
I don't think the flash file will play. Try it.
Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:51PM (#447301)
Write your own!
Re:Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use? on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:50PM (#447297)
Top Down Programming BABY!

Seriously, just install smarty and do it yourself. Then somebody can always do a basic edit to the templates and you don't have to weight the merits of the 10000X different frameworks against eachother and get back to Making Money!

Re:Ask HN: Is Hacker News a Waste of Time? on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:21PM (#447241)
Yes, but so is working for a living.
Re:Ask HN: CSS vs table based layouts on Friday January 23, 2009 @05:19PM (#447235)
Although tables is easier than CSS, most browsers will render CSS almost the same way. But not always true for tables. Especially wider sites that need to shrink to fit a screen. I just weigh amount of work I have to do against how much I'm getting paid and do which ever way I feel comfortable with.
Re:Windows 7: "The Linux Killer" on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @12:37PM (#407819)
Yes well, all that Linux work and Now Windows 7 for Netbooks kills it. I guess I can retire as a wealthy opensource programmer as my work is now done!
Re:Ask YC: Hiring contractors to convert PSDs to HTML/CSS on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @06:20PM (#393633)
Oh welcome to my Hell...
Re:Ask YC: How to get your startup noticed by non-techies on Wednesday December 03, 2008 @02:21PM (#384669)
Seth is that you?
Re:What your computer does while you wait on Monday December 01, 2008 @02:06PM (#381972)
Honestly, I was hoping for a joke or a comic. Sigh.
Re:Quality Alternative to the Silk Icon Set (CC 3.0) on Monday December 01, 2008 @12:50PM (#381896)
Excellent!

Ask HN: Anybody working on Rich Media for Mobile Devices

I just finished a project to provide rich media to Blackberry devices via FLASH and I'm looking for a real money maker idea. It uses PHP script to render Flash files with dynamic content. Fits all models and looks good. I thought maybe an on-line game or something of the likes. Any ideas? Know of anybody who might have a project in this regards?thanks, Paul

( Read More... | no comments | on HN )
Re:Is it going to rain? on Friday November 28, 2008 @10:09AM (#379339)
It's always nice to meet progressive Oompa Loompas
Re:Is it going to rain? on Friday November 28, 2008 @10:07AM (#379337)
How fast is your temperature in the UK?
Well at leas there are only 90!
Re:CNN/Fox Projection: Obama wins presidential election. on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @10:37AM (#354567)
Gotta give it to Eric R for his convictions. His wife must get tired of his stubbornness though. Geese.
Re:Vancouver, Canada Startup Meeting on Monday November 03, 2008 @03:03PM (#352441)
I'm interested and I emailed you. Paul
Re:ASK YC: Do VC's sign NDA's? on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:23PM (#347777)
hmm I hadn't thought of that. lol
Re:Ask HN: PHP Tricks and Best Practices? on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:19PM (#347769)
Oh and also sometime I stop writing features and review the code base thus far. This allows me to bring everything up to snuff with the the latest Ideas I may have had. I've rewritten my own code about 20 times and it's now the way I like it.
Re:Ask HN: PHP Tricks and Best Practices? on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:17PM (#347763)
Don't look at other frameworks. I did that and found it a complete waste of time. The best I found was to loosely follow the Ideals of a framework you like. I say loosely because frameworks always have the best intentions but they can't be built for everyone. So sometime I've had to cheat. I've seen code where somebody has made a work around instead of cheating and it's a mess.

Other than that my personal preference is to use jquery for form submits and manipulation, smarty for templating and everything is tied together following MVC ideals. Class inheritance is where it's at too. Simple one is that your Page class inherits the functions in your DB access class which inherits your config class. Silly I know but it works great for me. Which in the end is the point.

Re:Ask HN: PHP Tricks and Best Practices? on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @02:13PM (#347754)
So is anyone using Smarty anymore? Or is this short form php now all the rage? Just curious because I'd update if it was.
Re:ASH HN: How do I turn my Beta into Pay-ta on Monday October 27, 2008 @11:28PM (#345981)
Yeah and I'm ashamed I did it... It's just that I didn't want it to be affect by what I say online as a developer. I guess I'm uber paranoid that all this good fortune is going to run disappear because I posted something stupid.
Re:ASH HN: How do I turn my Beta into Pay-ta on Monday October 27, 2008 @05:45PM (#345642)
I was featured in a few industry blogs and it has caught on like wildfire.

Older »