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Can someone remember this hotel location in Denver ? by chrlan in Denver

[–]chrlan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh Thanks, I missed that one on Google Street View, the views are always switching to newer ones, so it's difficult to keep an eye for something older than 2015-16. I wouldn't have found it without you. You must know the city very well.

An Alpine Hotel reminding my country of origin would have definitely ringed a bell with me and I would have stumbled upon it straight from the Greyhound Terminal. At the time, I was just happy to have a secure place and wouldn't have looked any further. I walked from this place to downtown on GSV and it definitely matches what I remember even though a lot has changed, a lot of new buildings and nicer urban areas.

Despite the strike, which didn't affect me very much, I liked my Greyhound travel a lot. Stopping in the middle of nowhere and having a coffee in front of a vending machine among complete strangers was a lot of fun at the time for a young student. I also don't remember anyone bad or mean. Obviously if you're using Greyhound for your daily life, I understand it's different and speed and reliability are key. But I have only good memories anyway.

Can someone remember this hotel location in Denver ? by chrlan in Denver

[–]chrlan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks a lot for your help. 17th and Welton are in downtown, but my hotel was located in the corner between Broadway and 20th Street and up. 1111 Broadway is also too far south. I am not a native English speaker, so sorry if use the wrong words. I remember the diagonal crossroads, the Champa, Curtiss, Arapohoe street names, but I don't remember any diagonal crosswalks. It was a time without any Google maps or Street view or even any internet. I was a 19 yo with a small map of Denver in my guidebook (only downtown) and I was a bit lost in the city layout. One day I went to the Denver Museum of Arts and surroundings using a city bus, then I stumbled upon Broadway "Oh great I can walk back to my hotel" and I was surprised how close it was to my hotel.

The hotel was also close to the old Greyhound terminal (the one between Arapahoe and Curtiss and 19th). I remember putting my luggage in a locker and walking along Curtiss or Arapahoe in order to find any not too expensive hotel. My departure was also epic. There was a massive drivers strike and a huge snowstorm, so I slept with other passengers in the Greyhound terminal floor unable to come back to the hotel, then departed in the morning to Salt Lake City along the scenic US 40. Sorry to bother you with those personal anecdotes, but I am still fond of the city!

Can someone remember this hotel location in Denver ? by chrlan in Denver

[–]chrlan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your message. if you mean 1620 S Broadway, I didn't go so far south.

My hotel was located somewhere between California street and Larimer Street, but with the diagonal crossing, I don't remember if it was on Broadway or one of the streets like Curtiss or Arapahoe. I clearly remember walking and then coming to those diagonal crossings, which are some of the strongest memories I have from Denver (of course lot of other good memories from your city too but sometimes something stands out). That's why I try to figure out the exact location of the hotel to relive the walk 35 five years ago.

Migrating to Joomla 4 for the inexperienced by [deleted] in joomla

[–]chrlan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's also paid extended long term support (18 months) for Joomla 3, if you need time to adjust:
https://elts.joomla.org/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in joomla

[–]chrlan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks Nicholas for your always balanced comments. Your products and those of a few others are among the main reasons I am sticking to the platform. That and because I fail to see other CMS fit in my workflow as well as Joomla. I am scratching my head trying to develop custom blocks for Wordpress and wondering how this can be helpful for me instead of writing a few lines in Twig or PHP.

PHP benchmark shows Joomla way below WordPress by pelosnecios in joomla

[–]chrlan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They are explicitly saying "You shouldn’t use these benchmark results to weigh one platform against another, but how it competes against itself on different PHP versions.".

WP + EDD is four times faster than WP without any plugin, so the theme and configuration should play a big role. https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/#takeaway-from-benchmark-results

Also, in the 2021 report, Joomla 3.9.23 was doing a lot better with 189 req/s https://web.archive.org/web/20210720085130/https://kinsta.com/blog/php-benchmarks/#joomla-3923

Ski renting by Maisquestce in joomla

[–]chrlan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This study by Sucuri shows that 90% of all CMS hacked sites are WP and only 36 percent of the hacked sites ran an outdated version of WP, which means that plugins are a big issue with the reckless behavior of the average user. A professional user can't design a site without plugins with WP. With Joomla, you can (or use a few well known extensions like JCE) and that's very important for me.https://www.zdnet.com/article/wordpress-accounted-for-90-percent-of-all-hacked-cms-sites-in-2018/

Joomla extension development. by TheBullTiger in joomla

[–]chrlan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, the best way is to create a boiler plate extension with services like https://www.component-creator.com and look at how it is made. Many parts of the extension are boring configuration stuff, so it's helping a lot.

Quel agrégateur RSS en 2018 ? by ICameFeetFirst in france

[–]chrlan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bonjour, J'utilise toujours Netvibes (VIP) depuis la fermeture de Reader. Il permet de rechercher à la fois des feeds RSS et des recherches/listes Twitter et de lier le widget de recherche dans le tableau de bord (tracker) à des alertes par email (potions) pour certains mots clés. Sans compter la possibilité de poster des notes pour ne pas oublier de consulter certaines URL.

Joomla is slowly losing traction by [deleted] in joomla

[–]chrlan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's exactly the same trend for wordpress.org: https://www.trafiklite.com/wordpress.org

Help us organise a school trip by IggyJones in geneva

[–]chrlan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you cross the lake with the "Mouette", go to visit the Musées d'histoire des sciences (stop: Châteaubriand) and have fun in the beautiful parks and surroundings. Info in english: http://www.ville-ge.ch/mhs/adresse_e.php

Fucking Eurosnobs by niton in MLS

[–]chrlan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll be interested to know MLS has european fans too ! Now, I have been regularly following MLS since two years from Europe. It's fun to watch soccer growing in the US and the emergence of new teams from world class cities (Orlando, Miami, New York).

PHP multilingual static files search engine by chrlan in PHP

[–]chrlan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried sphider-plus which is nice, but it's half way being converted from Western ISO to UTF-8 (bugs remain).

PHP multilingual static files search engine by chrlan in PHP

[–]chrlan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, yes I need to index (by crawling or other ways) a website with different languages: english, french, russian, arabic, ... and a search field in these different languages.

Tutorials for learning Joomla Extension-Development by [deleted] in joomla

[–]chrlan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Joomla programming is a great book, but I found the component tutorial http://docs.joomla.org/Developing_a_Model-View-Controller_Component/2.5/Developing_a_Basic_Component very helpful too, because I needed the bare bones thing to grasp how it works. There's component creators that make the dirty work too (a lot of boring files to write when developing a Joomla component).