crystalmace | 7 years ago | on: Moving from Go to PHP Again
Check out OctoberCMS. The simplicity and ease of use of PHP while being a very modern and stable platform to build one. Disclosure: I'm the community manager :)
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crystalmace | 7 years ago | on: Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
I agree with this 100%. When you sit down and think about it, there are a lot of major projects used all over the world with just a few developers working on it, volunteering their time.
I would also love nothing more than to work on my open source project (OctoberCMS) full time too, but gotta pay the bills somehow.
crystalmace | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week
Or your Macbook Pro if it originally came with an HDD. Apparently the device orientation API can utilize the triaxial accelerometer that Apple used for drop detection. Really neat experience tilting my laptop around like a mad man.
crystalmace | 8 years ago | on: Server-Side Swift from Scratch
If you read the transcript you'll notice that they are mentioned, along with Vapor
crystalmace | 9 years ago | on: Kirby is a file-based CMS
Depends on how you set it up. I usually use the RainLab.Pages plugin to have a nice interface for clients to manage page content instead of having them use the CMS editor.
I'm looking forwards to the frontend editing component that's coming to October soon, it should make client interaction with the site much nicer.
crystalmace | 9 years ago | on: Kirby is a file-based CMS
With all the discussion around other decent options for Content Management Systems, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned OctoberCMS (http://octobercms.com/) yet.
It's an awesome, highly extendable, very clean CMS to work with as a developer. Based on Laravel, it's also open source: https://github.com/octobercms/october
It gives you all the power of Laravel with some very nice features built in that make developing for it a breeze. Runtime extendable classes, event listeners, Twig templating, and an AJAX framework for interacting with the PHP side of your code are just a few of the features that it includes by default; not to mention the rapid development experience empowered by the Form & Lists widgets.
Disclaimer, I'm a maintainer on the project :)
crystalmace | 9 years ago | on: Why is Google working so hard to cripple Picture-in-Picture on iPads and macOS?
Does YouTube actually pay for music licensing though? It's users are the ones that upload the music, afaik all YouTube is responsible for is responding to takedown requests
crystalmace | 9 years ago | on: University of Waterloo created a goose-tracking map, because geese are bullies
Not to mention all the bird crap that gets everywhere. It got to the point where I'd only walk around Wascana when it was raining out to avoid them as much as possible
crystalmace | 9 years ago | on: Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
I've been considering applying to your company, any advice / comments about working for them?
crystalmace | 10 years ago | on: How to Center in CSS
I use a similar trick all the time, especially for vertically centering elements. Also, mine usually includes the various vendor prefixes for the browsers.
crystalmace | 10 years ago | on: Amazon to start air delivery network with leasing deal
It's even more expensive to become a commercial helicopter pilot, closer to $100,000. And this is just in North America. In Japan, I believe the going rate for commercial pilot training is somewhere around ¥3,000,000
crystalmace | 10 years ago | on: Pentagon admits it has deployed military spy drones over the U.S
I'd apply for that job, 172s are all I have hours on
crystalmace | 10 years ago | on: Websites are becoming intelligent, so are website hackers
FYI: This reads like an antivirus advertisement for nontechnical users.
crystalmace | 11 years ago | on: The day I left my son in the car
While I recognize that homeschooling is done by some because of their religious beliefs, and yes, some of those beliefs are pretty unusual, I would like to remind you that homeschooling is actually not 100% a cover for the nutjobs out there. I was homeschooled, and I'm now graduated highschool at 16. Homeschooling is a great way to avoid the mess and poor education that is public school, and in my experience with other homeschoolers, there aren't as many nutjobs as you seem to think. I apologize if I missed the point of what you were saying, but I wished to present an alternative view of homeschooling.
crystalmace | 12 years ago | on: What’s So Scary About Smart Girls?
Very good story.
crystalmace | 12 years ago | on: The Sims You Left Behind
what
crystalmace | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: I don't understand why app stores charge 30% of app sales
Because they can. They have a large userbase; being the only legitimate way that users can get apps for their iDevice gives them a monopoly on a huge market
crystalmace | 12 years ago | on: U-2 spy plane caused widespread shutdown of U.S. flights
Sometimes the simplest solution is still the best :)
crystalmace | 12 years ago | on: U-2 spy plane caused widespread shutdown of U.S. flights
That sounds plausible
crystalmace | 12 years ago | on: Gimli Glider
Yes, and he was a glider pilot in the air cadet program which aided to his ability to properly land the plane without engines
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