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Thermopyle posted:Thanks for this high level overview, it's helpful! This with like, the form and the card side by side, unless you mean the actual form morphs into the card. Honest Thief fucked around with this message at 18:09 on Jun 5, 2017 |
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Anybody have any experience with CraftCMS? Out of curiosity I thought I'd give it a look but I'm having trouble understanding why you'd pay $200 to use a CMS when things like WordPress and Drupal are free to use.
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Jun 6, 2017 16:41
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nexus6 posted:Anybody have any experience with CraftCMS? Out of curiosity I thought I'd give it a look but I'm having trouble understanding why you'd pay $200 to use a CMS when things like WordPress and Drupal are free to use. On that note, I started to really like it. Their "matrix fields" let you create custom combinations of inputs (text, fulltext, file uploads, etc...) that get exposed to end users as widgets they can place into their pages. I didn't take things too far but I was able to port a Jekyll site to it fairly painlessly, creating a rudimentary CMS around an otherwise static site to make future content updates possible for non-techies. That said the control panel does nothing to educate you about what everything does so if you do decide to give it a try I highly recommend deep-diving into its docs. There's an obvious way they want you to use Craft but out of the box it's decidedly unclear how to do so.
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Jun 6, 2017 18:09
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Any recommendations for a self-hosted bulk emailer? Something like Dada Mail but ideally free / without any branding links in the emails. It's for an academic society that wanna send occasional newsletters to their 500 or so members. I've always suggested Mailchimp in the past but it seems like overkill in this case because all emails will be plain text and they don't care about tracking opens, subscriber list growth etc. I know self-hosted is risky but I'm hoping it will be ok if it's only a few hundred emails and they go via my MailChannels account.
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Jun 7, 2017 16:56
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fuf posted:Any recommendations for a self-hosted bulk emailer? Something like Dada Mail but ideally free / without any branding links in the emails. Self-hosted will almost definitely be more work than using mailchimp or sendgrid or any of a bunch of other services like that.
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Jun 7, 2017 17:11
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Thermopyle posted:Self-hosted will almost definitely be more work than using mailchimp or sendgrid or any of a bunch of other services like that. Sure but I don't mind more setup work if it makes it easier for them to send emails in the long run. Explaining mailchimp templates and campaigns to professors in their 70s would be a bit of a nightmare, and they'll be put off by all the marketing terminology. I just want them to login and see a nice big "send an email to our members" button, or as close to that as possible. Definitely open to services like mailchimp that are more geared to small organisation newsletters and less towards marketing though.
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Jun 7, 2017 17:31
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fuf posted:Sure but I don't mind more setup work if it makes it easier for them to send emails in the long run. Would Mailchimp's Email Beamer feature help? It lets you create and send campaigns by email instead of on the website. http://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/ways-to-build/use-email-beamer-to-create-a-campaign
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Jun 7, 2017 18:08
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fuf posted:Any recommendations for a self-hosted bulk emailer? Something like Dada Mail but ideally free / without any branding links in the emails. If you're not worried about templates I've always found Amazon Simple Email Service to be mind-blowingly convenient as compared to their other services.
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Jun 7, 2017 18:55
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fuf posted:Sure but I don't mind more setup work if it makes it easier for them to send emails in the long run. Right, but what I'm getting at is that there's nothing about self-hosted that means its going to be simple. I think your actual question is "what's a simple way to do what mailchimp does" and self-hosted doesn't have anything to do with it...right?
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Jun 7, 2017 19:13
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Anyone have any idea about Foundation 7? Our site uses Foundation 5 and there aren't any upgrade docs to Foundation 6. I figured by the time I'd be able to complete an upgrade, learning about breakage along the way, Foundation 7 would be out, so I'm waiting for that. The only reference is an unattributed line in Wikipedia "The team started working on the next version of Foundation for Sites 7 which most likely will drop support for older browsers and implement newer technologies like flexbox or maybe calculated grid system."
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Jun 7, 2017 19:50
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GigaFuzz posted:Would Mailchimp's Email Beamer feature help? It lets you create and send campaigns by email instead of on the website. That's a cool feature that could help if we end up going with mailchimp. Scaramouche posted:If you're not worried about templates I've always found Amazon Simple Email Service to be mind-blowingly convenient as compared to their other services. Good to know but still need to figure out the front end bit. Thermopyle posted:I think your actual question is "what's a simple way to do what mailchimp does" and self-hosted doesn't have anything to do with it...right? Pretty much  I figured self-hosted would let me cut things down to the absolute minimum to make it as easy as possible for the client. After looking a bit more I think a wordpress plugin like https://www.thenewsletterplugin.com/ might actually be the best way. They just about have a grip on wordpress.
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Jun 8, 2017 11:49
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Hey dudes; looking for wisdom. I have a web app that uses React DnD to drag and drop things from one part of the page to anther. I'm trying to make it so you can have a separate window (maybe not literally another browser window since I don't think that would work with drag and drop) that I can have my draggables in. This would allow for better use of screen space, second monitors etc. Is there a way to make a fake separate window in JS, or something, that will work with drag and drop? Alternatively, is there a way to make it so after the window is bigger than a certain width, all columns (ie bootstrap for now) don't get any bigger except for one on the end?
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Jun 8, 2017 15:07
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Dominoes posted:Hey dudes; looking for wisdom. I have a web app that uses React DnD to drag and drop things from one part of the page to anther. I'm trying to make it so you can have a separate window (maybe not literally another browser window since I don't think that would work with drag and drop) that I can have my draggables in. This would allow for better use of screen space, second monitors etc. Is there a way to make a fake separate window in JS, or something, that will work with drag and drop? There is probably some way to do between window drag & Drop with message passing, but I haven't had enough coffee yet ot talk smartly about it. As for the last thing you said, yes. Use flexbox and let the last column grow. You might wind up fighting bootstrap though. It always ends withs fighting bootstrap.....
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Jun 8, 2017 15:48
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Lumpy posted:There is probably some way to do between window drag & Drop with message passing, but I haven't had enough coffee yet ot talk smartly about it. As for the last thing you said, yes. Use flexbox and let the last column grow. You might wind up fighting bootstrap though. It always ends withs fighting bootstrap..... Bootstrap.... Bootstrap never changes....
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Jun 8, 2017 15:58
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Has anybody had any luck view locally hosted sites with Microsoft Edge? I'm using Vagrant + Virtualbox for a local development environment and not a single browser has an issue in loading local sites except Edge. I've tried a variety of solutions for the localhost loopback setting, CMD line settings and intranet settings but nothing seems to work. It seems totally bizarre that this issue isn't resolved.
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fuf posted:Good to know but still need to figure out the front end bit. Have you seen Sendy? I haven't used it but their entire selling point is that it uses Amazon SES for sending newsletters while being selfhosted.
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Jun 8, 2017 16:49
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nexus6 posted:Has anybody had any luck view locally hosted sites with Microsoft Edge? I'm using Vagrant + Virtualbox for a local development environment and not a single browser has an issue in loading local sites except Edge. I've tried a variety of solutions for the localhost loopback setting, CMD line settings and intranet settings but nothing seems to work. Is it an SSL issue? It connects to localhost for me and I don't remember doing anything special to get it to do that.
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Jun 8, 2017 17:19
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A gypsie witch cursed me, my curse is that I never find a web problem I cant solve. But my solutions for the harder problems are stupid, ugly and evil. I respect this thread too much to share them. But if anyone is *really* desperate, I could "help".
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Jun 8, 2017 17:22
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Munkeymon posted:Is it an SSL issue? It connects to localhost for me and I don't remember doing anything special to get it to do that. It looks like it might be a virtualbox/vagrant issue. I just tried WAMP on my home PC and it is fine but at work it just won't connect.
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Jun 8, 2017 20:48
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Does anyone have a suggestion for how to mock up a mobile demo? Like having some outline of a phone or tablet around html content to give the illusion of running inside a phone?
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Jun 9, 2017 00:57
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FateFree posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for how to mock up a mobile demo? Like having some outline of a phone or tablet around html content to give the illusion of running inside a phone? That seems like a pretty reasonable way to do it: https://venmo.com/about/product/
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Jun 9, 2017 01:39
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nexus6 posted:Has anybody had any luck view locally hosted sites with Microsoft Edge? I'm using Vagrant + Virtualbox for a local development environment and not a single browser has an issue in loading local sites except Edge. I've tried a variety of solutions for the localhost loopback setting, CMD line settings and intranet settings but nothing seems to work. This rings alarm bells in my head. I'm about 98% sure that I suffered the same problem as you for a week or more (VMware in my case at the time) before learning the fix (some windows security option had to be massaged, I think). I'm going to think real hard about it for the next 3 minutes. Hmmmmmmm....... e: wait, 'every other browser' presumable includes IE. My problem was definitely with IE.
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Newf posted:This rings alarm bells in my head. I'm about 98% sure that I suffered the same problem as you for a week or more (VMware in my case at the time) before learning the fix (some windows security option had to be massaged, I think). I'm going to think real hard about it for the next 3 minutes. Hmmmmmmm....... Yep, IE works fine. It's gotta be some network setting with Edge.
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FateFree posted:Does anyone have a suggestion for how to mock up a mobile demo? Like having some outline of a phone or tablet around html content to give the illusion of running inside a phone? Do you just want to show a phone frame around the page? You can do that natively in Chrome. Just hit Ctrl+shift+m, select your device from the drop down at the top and in the 3-dot menu at the top right click 'Show device frame'. 
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Jun 9, 2017 15:29
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Can anyone recommend any good books/articles on how to architect mobile apps well?
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Jun 10, 2017 02:48
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TheCog posted:Can anyone recommend any good books/articles on how to architect mobile apps well? No, but you might try the iOS / Android threads, as they would likely know a bunch more than we do on the subject.
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I've always used Apache 2.4 as a reverse proxy for things like Ruby and Java applications (as a place to attach and remove SSL and potentially for load balancing), is there a higher-performance/more stable option nowadays or is Apache still the default choice?
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Jun 15, 2017 19:40
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When I create a html file like this:code:code:
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Jun 15, 2017 19:42
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<th>'s are just <td>'s that live in the header you still need to enclose them in a <tr>, or the browser will do it for you
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Jun 15, 2017 19:43
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NewForumSoftware posted:<th>'s are just <td>'s that live in the header I get that. I was asking what is it called when a browser does that.
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huhu posted:I get that. I was asking what is it called when a browser does that. http://taligarsiel.com/Projects/howbrowserswork1.htm#Browsers_error_tolerance
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Paul MaudDib posted:I've always used Apache 2.4 as a reverse proxy for things like Ruby and Java applications (as a place to attach and remove SSL and potentially for load balancing), is there a higher-performance/more stable option nowadays or is Apache still the default choice? Apache has always been a clunky option, HAProxy, NGINX, and Pound are the common alternatives. Varnish is supposed to do it to but I find it utterly unstable.
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What's the advantage of those over Apache? I know from osmosis that (for example) Nginx is event driven and therefore much more efficient at serving static files than Apache, but I don't have enough context to be able to stump for it against someone who says "raar Apache is best for all things, it's ubiquitous and developed by people who know what they're doing and if you get bad performance from it you just don't know how to configure it"
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Generally you want something stable, and usually Apache is good at that, however Apache is a kitchen sink kind of product and the docs and configuration may be counterproductive in getting what you want done. HAProxy, Pound, and Varnish are primarily reverse proxies and so one would hope more convenient to deploy. NGINX is basically a web server that generally performs better than Apache. Any of them are going to have a learning curve, I'd recommend a perusal of the docs just to see if any of their features are conducive to worth investigating more.
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Jun 16, 2017 00:37
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Apache's docs are like a computer science textbook and I can never figure out how to do anything
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Jun 16, 2017 00:42
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rt4 posted:Apache's docs are like a computer science textbook and I can never figure out how to do anything Me neither. The EBNF format of a command is simultaneous too much and not enough of what I want. Is generally easier to find some sort of tutorial that talk about the subject you have a problem with.
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Has anyone used position: sticky before? We have a ton of sticky navigation features coming up soon and it seemed like such a good feature to prevent excessive eventListeners, but sticky totally does not work as we know "fixed" to work. Which is how caniuse and other articles define it; relative until "fixed". Some caveats I've found so far while working on this project: container of sticky element cannot have a set overflow except "visible"; cannot be inside of a block level element or it stops at the bottom of said element; and cannot be in an element with a defined height (presumably making it block). Essentially, it works based upon content-root not really document-root. Many combos of these will prevent using it in our already coded site without massive rewrites which are not and should not happen. We sort of want a one stop JS function to control all of this (fallbacks included and built already). Anyway, is there a way to prevent it stopping on, what seems to be, the first block level element it is contained in besides switching those containers to inline? It's a shame, it works this way. It's a legitimately great feature if all your architecture is set up to use it. Like sticking main navs when you know they're just an element of their own? Perfect, works amazingly. Using it on an existing site? Seems blah.
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I'm building a webapp with some calendar features. Is it a bad idea to use Google Calendar as a backend for managing calendar events? That is, users will not interact with the calendar through Google Calendar, rather the backend would store and retrieve events using the Google Calendar API rather than dealing with all the intricacies and corner cases ourselves (e.g. all-day events, events with local timezones, etc.). Being able to easily integrate with the user's personal calendar is another perk but not the main selling point. Really I'm just looking for calendar-as-a-service and am not seeing any other option.
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Presumably using CALDAV? You could just host your own service using something like http://radicale.org/ so at least you know it is not going to change.
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Okay thanks, that seems like a better option.
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