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Are there any good solutions for tracking the time people are logged into and using a web app?
Got a scenario where we want to share the cost of a floating licence fairly between multiple teams. And rather than us logging into a spreadsheet manually, I was wondering if there's a tool that could do that easily.
Would an SSO tool be able to do that?
I know there's browser extensions but it feels like a hassle to set up.
Perhaps a web proxy? Would it be possible to set something good up with nginx, Apache or HA Proxy, that would sit in front of the web app?
Perhaps a firewall could do the job? Somehow counting sessions per IP? But then it gets tricky to work backwards to user, and would have to MITM the traffic?
Or maybe there's some nice opensource tool that does this in a really nice and easy way?
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Check previous threads about this. I'm not a consultant but it seems you already have a network to start.
This is something I saved up from here:
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1) Produce publicly visible artifacts which demonstrate that you're able to apply technology to impact business outcomes. You do not need many of these; ~3 is fine. You do not need to block on the other steps. You do need to plausibly connect the technology to a business outcome; blockchain and beginner-level cryptography probably do not get you there.
2) Begin getting into conversations with people who either a) have purchasing authority or b) talk to people with purchasing authority, at your target clients or firms very similar to them. This can be as simple as bonding over technical things with technical people. You want to become Internet buddies with e.g. senior engineers / team leads / etc at software companies.
3) Walk the network of your new friends to engagements, either at their firms or peer firms. Do not make another WordPress site for the average business; make something for a software company.
4) For every engagement you land, attempt to get referrals to more clients, attempt to land follow-on work with the same client, and attempt to land ongoing maintenance/retainer/etc agreements with the client.
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What is the alternative to tools like Gulp or Gatsby for those of us who want to make (fairly)simple websites?
In my case, I’m a Data Scientist looking to make a portfolio website. Nothing too crazy but more than hello world.
Should we just work with HTML? Materialize CSS? GitHub pages w/ Jekyll? Nextjs? Bootstrap?
Should we just head back to Wordpress and Wix? Wixcode? Is Gulp the best option?
Is it worth paying a professional to create the site for me?
I’m very intereted in developer opinions. Any feedback is much appreciated. Thank you.
Nine years ago I made a wedding site with Wordpress but sent invitees either the URL or a traditional paper invitation for those that appreciate that touch. When everyone is around the country or even several other countries it would be impractical to visit everyone in person. We didn’t have much money and financed the wedding entirely ourselves so this was necessary as well.
A couple situations have arisen for me.
One, adopting necessary libraries that are lacking features, have way too many features, or questionable code quality. Examples have been an animated slideshow carousel, Python and PHP OAuth, and a WordPress theme. I thoroughly read the code for each of those, deleted the parts I didn’t need, and literally rearranged everything.
Then there are the times I go back to my code after a few years and have no idea what is going on. If possible, I just leave it alone if it’s working. Sometimes I need to use a new language or have developed a better coding style. In those cases I’ve rewritten it with a close eye to whatever edge cases I seem to be handling in the old code.
So, you're saying you love WordPress? :)
I hear your complaints, but WordPress is still the best tool for marketers and companies. What we need is something that combines the benefits of WordPress with the benefits of static sites.
Maybe something like Strattic: https://www.strattic.com :)
The current version of ChangeOver is like an assembler! I had to go through this painful process to build "base" version. I understand you. What you're seeing right now is just point&click GUI, relational database and point&click programming with REPL. Nothing new. But there will be a lot more. Today's IDEs can finish the words(sometimes lines) for you. ChangeOver will finish your algorithms. Try imagine two cloud apps side by side and you just connect them without using APIs or some 3rd party services like Zapier. And more.
I believe that everyone wants to make their ideas real. And sure, there will be always incidental complexity and people will suffer a little bit. Today's platforms don't really have IDEs, they just tell you: give us file with javascript/python/etc.. Web, Mobile and Desktop apps are mostly fixed for end-user. That's why I really like PowerPoint for it's all in one(run/browse presentation, but also create/edit). Of course, presentations have limited use-cases.
What we need is a new "standard". People don't put Excel on their CVs anymore, because everyone knows it. When you have a problem with a spreadsheet you don't call MS technical support or outsource it like a web development, but you solve it inside the company. Web or WordPress are probably still too complicated.
Many many years ago I had a small web development business making websites for clients. These clients were typical small to medium sized business. Most of the websites we produced were made with WordPress, because, all our clients wanted to update their own website. However, out of the many clients we had built websites for over the years, only one client actually managed to update their own website by themselves. The others just called us whenever they wanted to update their website and just paid us to do it for them. This was because updating websites was easy for "us" since we did it day in and day out, we had "context" and we "understood" how it worked whereas for our clients, regardless of all they easy buttons they could click, it was still to difficult to operate.
I admire the work you have put in and you've created a great project. But point and click programming will make it easier for "programmers", not for everyone else to write software.
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I have come to realize that design is not partial to any particular product or profession.
It is integral to every good thing on this here earth.
Thinking about the website user, the person who's going to live in the house, the person who's going to drive the car, and the person who's going to use the tool, etc. 7
They are really the same thing when you get down to brass tacks.
So I ask you HN, is there a general design book out there that teaches the aspects of good design in general?
Or is it so straightforward that the only thing required is common sense and a lot of it?
Cheers.
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I've done a similar setup, working part time remote doing freelance web development for the last several years. My one paragraph answer:
The book The E-Myth makes the point that people fall into this trap: I've been doing a technical skill as an employee (coding). I could just quit my job and do that skill myself! Problem is once you go out on your own, you have to become the CEO, manager, and coder of your little enterprise.
In short, you have to learn business skills. Specifically, marketing, positioning, negotiation, people skills, etc. The more you know about these the easier freelancing is. Coding chops are absolutely necessary, but not sufficient.
The reason sites like Upwork are saturated and pay low rates is because everyone on there is basically acting like an employee and Upwork is serving as a stand in for the boss. People on Upwork are "PHP developers" and "Wordpress developers" and "Javascript developers". These get commodity prices because in many ways they _are_ commodities. Valuable commodities yes. In demand commodities yes. But commodities nonetheless.
Don't compete on Upwork, build your own pipeline. This will require selecting a target market, going out and actually speaking to them, and finding out what their business problems are. Nobody needs a "Wordpress site". But lots of people need a site to sell their product, market their service, etc.
I'm relatively convinced that any person who can combine competence in programming with competence in sales can do anything they want.
One of my favorite really accessible introductions to this idea of selling something that isn't a commodity is Sean D'Souza's The Brain Audit. Read it in one sitting and then change all the copy on your website to be targeted to solving the client's problems instead of what technologies you know.
Happy to chat with more about this - my email's in my profile. Cheers!
Outside of registered trademarks, no one really has a "right" to a domain name. If the Mormon church couldn't buy LDSMatch they'd use something else. Now it's obviously financially or otherwise beneficial to them so they are willing to pay for it, but that's not really a need.
If there was a rule, squatters would just put up a WordPress blog with two posts.
>One of the reasons PHP is so successful is that (in most cases) you don't have to set it up beyond the default installation. But when you need something done "correctly" it takes time. The same is true for every other server environment, where what's correct for you isn't necessarily correct for me.
I disagree. I think PHP was so massively successful because it was part of the mighty LAMP stack. The LAMP stack wasn't great because it was free of configuration, it was great because anyone could pick up an existing setup and just use it. A non-technical person could get a Bluehost or Hostgator account and get Wordpress running in under an hour.
But once you move from shared hosting to VPSes, the plug and play fun goes away. At reasonably moderate traffic, you have to tune things and debug weird issues. And debugging it, in my experience, is actually very challenging.
The best part of the LAMP stack today is that it offers a very quick way to get a good development environment. Since scripts are read off the disk, you get "auto reload" for free. That is nice, but given how mature other development environments have become, it's no longer a huge selling point to me.
Is the ease of use of the LAMP stack worth the negatives of PHP as a programming language? In my opinion, no. To me, it's only really 'yes' if you already have a very large PHP application, or you are writing software for people running LAMP stacks to deploy.
>I don't have any experience using PHP with Nginx - we use Varnish at $dayJob, alongside some very basic non-PHP routing e.g. foo.domain.com goes to one set of servers, bar.domain.com goes to another. Everything else is done in PHP, with a simple wildcard .htaccess pushing everything to that front-controller you were talking about.
If you're using .htaccess, it sounds like you're probably using Apache as an HTTP server. Varnish is a caching server.
>Edit: the article you posted is from 2011. It's not entirely fair to say PHP is bad, and use evidence from 7.5 years ago to back up your claim.
I never said PHP was bad. I am making the case that the application server paradigm where you have long running programs handling requests is better than the CGI and Fast-CGI paradigms where you run scripts per request. You can put band-aids on it, like caching very aggressively, but at the end of the day you will never get the 'free' amortization of per-request costs like you will with a proper application server.
That said, I totally think it's fair to use evidence from 7.5 years ago. A, these configuration difficulties exist today, and my proof is that I also have them today. B, Track record matters! PHP and PHP-FPM have been around for decades. Having constant security issues is a sign of endemic issues, such as what we saw with software like Wordpress or Drupal.
Just because Google doesn't have a use for PHP doesn't mean it has no use or that it's dated or having "a hard time keeping up." Why would Google want to use PHP when it doesn't have a core competency that uses it?
On the other hand Microsoft does use PHP in some cases, where it makes sense, like company blogs. What's wrong with that? Nothing. The right tool for the right job. People that hate on PHP are usually people that over engineer things. Why build something like Wordpress in .NET or Node.js...when you don't need that, because you already have Wordpress and it works fine for a small site or blog? People will spent 10x the amount of time trying to -not- use PHP on a simple project than to use that time doing something else.
It's like this new "let's containerize everything" movement. Ok, you just spent an hour setting up something that would normally take 5 minutes, and you now have access to a bunch of features your little app will never ever use. Congrats.
No one is saying use PHP to build a super complex webapp, (though you could do that if you wanted!) But for small project PHP is very hard to beat when it comes to time/benefit. Right tool, right job. Simple. Biggest complaint I have against modern developers is the tendency to make a simple thing complex because it's en vogue to use X, vs Y. Gotta build this small web app with 50 users and no need to scale, better build in Node and Kubernetes. So laughable.
PeachPie is really interesting. I haven't had a chance to use it, but the most fascinating bit to me is that it can compile PHP to .NET. Could be a great way to incrementally move legacy code if you like writing servers in .NET, potentially. I do wonder how things like Wordpress extensions and dynamically generated code work, though. phpBB, for example, generates PHP files at runtime for its formatting engine (s9e TextFormatter, it's quite a nice library.)
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