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I've heard of GAE and even though it doesn't support PHP, people have gotten around this limitation by using Quercus I think (I haven't tried it, but supposedly it works). But what factors should I consider when evaluating whether it's a match for me? For example, what made you not go with GAE? Or if you went with it, what are you not happy about?
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Thanks to those who saw value in the question and defended it. I've seen questions here that were much less programming-related than mine and which were left open. In terms of it being a dupe, it isn't in anyway. That other question was specifically about PHP support; mine is about why not GAE in general (the php was a sidenote). I doubt the guy that yelled "dupe" even read both questions to see how mine is obviously so much different. You can vote it reopened if you still see value in it. Some good answers were already coming in, too bad the 5 of you killed a Perfectly Good Thing. I voted for a reopen, 4 more people could hop on if interested.
Because GAE is less flexible and tightly coupled to Google's framework.
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I have asked one of my hostings to update the version of PHP and MySQL and they have replied telling me to be sure I have a backup of my databases as well as of the content of the page because during the update some data can be lost.
Is this just a way to cover their back in case of any incompetent doing bad their job? Or can it really result in a potential lose of data for some reason?
I am not really on the mod of downloading all the site, which is quite big and with thousands of images, and I was wondering which are the probabilities of suffering lose of data in this operation.
Thanks.
This is a normal procedure of any hosting company to inform their clients to perfom a backup before they touch the server. I think its more to do with technology. Things can go wrong regardless of how well the person is trained. I advice you in addition to making this backup, to have a regular backup schedule for your website in case things go wrong in the future.
This is not a question that anybody can really answer here.
Normally updating the versions of php and MySQL shouldn't cause any problems but like with everything in life - it can go wrong... J
So you can never be mistaken to have a recent backup at hand.
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I am looking to create a website in which I want to give users an option to create the floor plan of their house. I am looking to replicate something like http://floorplanner.com/demo#assets .
I tried to do code it with jqueryui, but found it very hard as I am not a programmer by profession.
Is anyone aware of an open source plugin that I can use in my website to create a similar tool. I searched the net for same (javascript and flash plugins) but did not get what I was looking for. I am not looking for an ideal solution, rather anything that will make it easier for me to make a final product.
Thanks,
SY
Concerning Javascript/HTML5 approach, probably the best way to solve this problem nowadays would be to make use of some HTML5 canvas library like:
- http://www.kineticjs.com/
- http://fabricjs.com/
or SVG library like Raphael.js:
- http://raphaeljs.com/
However, this is a complex problem and you'll hardly make a good and scalable solution without deeper understanding of Javascript programming.
Take a look at a similar thread, might help you.
SVG/Canvas vs Flash for FloorPlanner app
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I am not sure if the question fits SO's guidelines, but I would like to know if there is a specific situation where I can use micro-frameworks. Going by the nomenclature, it's suitable for small projects. But we can never tell if a project, which is small in nature at the moments, won't grow large later. Does this mean we can use micro-frameworks only for REST APIs and stuff (which are almost always smaller part of a large project) ?
It really depends mostly on your needs. If I want to create something that takes few hours and it's more or less just "Hello world" with some spice, I use Silex. If I need something even slightly bigger, I grab Symfony2 and spend next hour configuring it (just because it's probably worth spending more time on it). But it'd be naive to think it's as simple. I know people that roll bigger frameworks even for the tiniest projects, just because they can one day grow. Other people do them in micro-frameworks and just rewrite them if they need to. Just sit with your team and write down pros and cons of using micro-framework in given situation, that should work the best.
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I am getting ready to learn PHP. I am looking for advice from other ColdFusion developers out there who have made the transition. I'm also looking for a guide showing some tag equivalencies (fingers crossed). Thanks!
Not sure why you just accepted a terribly biased answer like Best solution: stick with ColdFusion or Railo :) from ColdFusion is just better.
However, if you are looking at an idea of commands I would say start by looking at some common string / functions in php by going through things that might matter to you like:
arrays (http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.array.php)
strings (http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.echo.php)
You could also look at some frameworks (MVC - similar to coldfusion MVC frameworks):
CodeIgniter (http://codeigniter.com)
CakePHP (http://cakephp.org/)
Hope that helps, rather than give a blatantly one sided answer.
There are large differences between CF & PHP however both are beginner friendly (from my perspective) and offer great documentation.
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As a developer, I've learned a heck of a lot from the global community and I believe like any community, you need to participate and contribute.
I've worked on several small projects that I want to offer up for free, but I want them to actually be used.
For the sincerity of this post, I am not going to promote them here.
What are some good ways to offer a free resource like a widget that does x,y, and z, for free. With an honest-to-god intent to just contribute?
Assuming it's open source, add to freshmeat for example to help people find it.
Write really good documentation, with examples etc. There's load of code out there which is lacking documentation making it pretty useless no matter how good the code is.
Make it easy for people to report bugs, suggest features, etc.
make a screencast showing how you made the software - other programmers will watch the video and may in-turn blog about it
i'm sure you'll get better suggestions than that though, good luck