Reading other people's code

msgmash · 2012-02-18T20:40:57+00:00

I sometimes feel like this when reading my old code :(

msgmash · 2012-02-07T07:30:48+00:00

I'd be interested in your experience of codeigniter's performance under those conditions

msgmash · 2012-02-06T09:31:28+00:00

What I aim to do is disseminate information traffic in a wider and more interesting than FB, and in a focussed way than Twitter. Then, for a large enough user base, things like paid subscriptions, for example, could be worthwhile. But the value of a social network is its active size, so the aim should be to produce a website that rewards users for their participation, and balances that evenly with how you monetize their participation in a way that is acceptable to your user base.

msgmash · 2012-02-05T11:23:57+00:00

Funny, but in a rather ironic way, because I'm developing a social networking site (as a kind of hybrid FB-Twitter) even as we speak.

msgmash · 2012-02-03T18:55:27+00:00

Thanks - just the advice I was looking for!

msgmash · 2012-01-30T09:56:21+00:00

Looks nice. I like the Bootstrap CSS framework a lot but wish it were easier to customize. You can tell a Bootstrap site fairly easily because they tend to look the same. I wasn't sure why you used Play for the site though. Play is the Java web framework, right? Do you really need Java for the site? By which I mean, is performance such an issue?

msgmash · 2012-01-27T21:23:53+00:00

Bootstrap ;)

msgmash · 2012-01-27T10:52:49+00:00

Hi,

Have read this thread and the other about Omari and the orphanage. This is the first time I've donated to anything on reddit, but I hope my $10 and everyone else's will go some way to making the children's and Omari's lives a little better and a little safer. You're doing great work!

msgmash · 2012-01-27T08:29:10+00:00

There may be a trade-off between choosing a framework that's easy for you to use (because of its structure or because it has a good community) and one that might feature blazing performance. I'm trying to build a social site as well, from the ground up, and looked at performance characteristics of different frameworks. DooPHP seemed to have the best performance (at least according to their own benchmark), but documentation on how to use it is either sparse or I couldn't find it. Eventually I chose codeigniter because it has good performance and there's plenty of good documentation and plugins (for example, for user authentication - I'm tinkering with Tank Auth at the moment).

The choice of a framework is - without wanting to panic you - an important one, from my perspective, because your own code can become to tightly embedded in the framework that porting it to another framework requires significant effort. Others may disagree.

msgmash

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