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by xtimesninety 18y ago
CakePHP for me too. I also use Zend Framework. I like both. CakePHP is great for it's simplicity, but if their conventions don't work for you try out Zend Framework.
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
One of my projects use it ( http://eatmycharts.com ).. I'd say it removed the registration barrier, but that's about it. People will come back for the service. I can't track which users publish to their mini feed (is there a way to tell? yo
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Year In America(blog.yearinamerica.net)
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
It eases the registration. You can also publish your votes to Facebook, which some people may like (like being a fan to an artist). On the part of making money, there's the usual ads, and I'm planning to sell mp3's from Amazon.
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
Thanks for checking it out! you have a point there.. I was also debating with myself on that before, but I decided that going with songs/singles will make the charts move faster (people will be encouraged to vote more often). Also often whe
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Ask HN: Review my webapp EatMyCharts.com (Social Music Charts on Facebook Connect)
5 points by xtimesninety 18y ago|4 comments
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
a simple iphone book/html reader that downloads my latest bookmarks on delicious tagged 'read' so I could read them offline. This way I don't have to sync and stuff ;) does instapaper already do this? I tried it once before.. I forgot the r
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Try my new app: Social Music Charts on Facebook Connect(eatmycharts.com)
2 points by xtimesninety 18y ago|0 comments
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
has links to some nice fonts too ;)
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
It's not 100% accurate, but it's close. The reason I did the website is so I can catch up with the good stories that were submitted earlier during the week (I usually read during weekends).
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
now with rss feeds!
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
I scrape only the front page once every ~4hrs (minimum) Nearlyfreespeech.net doesn't have cron yet, so I'm using onlinecronjobs.com. If you want to scrape it on demand just go to http://hnweekly.watdahel.com/index/scrape
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
alright :) http://hnweekly.watdahel.com/?order=comments
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
I once used latin1_to_ascii (The Unicode Hammer) in python: (works great) http://code.activestate.com/recipes/251871/
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
I might have problems with unicode in PHP (I really don't know much here yet) so I opted to remove them (for now) using regex. btw I'm using http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ to scrape/parse which is great, it let's you use jquery sty
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
nice work too :)
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
just an update: I created something that does this: http://hnweekly.watdahel.com
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
yep it's sorted by points. reddit already has this: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top/?t=week not sure about the other sites, I'm just usually on hn, reddit and stuff on my google reader
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
good idea :)
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
thanks, i'm planning to add that too. you can also try this (to see more recent links): http://hnweekly.watdahel.com/?days=1
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
I've been looking for something like this but didn't find one. btw I only started scraping like 2 days ago :) so it's not yet a week's worth of data. fyi: there's also http://news.ycombinator.com/lists which shows the top stories in 2 we
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Hnweekly: weekly top stories from Hacker News(hnweekly.watdahel.com)
62 points by xtimesninety 18y ago|29 comments
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
cool! i think this will do it!
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Ask HN: website for viewing hackernews on weekly mode
14 points by xtimesninety 18y ago|12 comments
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
the homepage lacks punch, but I really like the clean design when browsing and comparing
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by xtimesninety 18y ago
I use Google or Skweezer to "mobilize" any website :) http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=news.ycombinator.com http://skweezer.com/s.aspx?q=news.ycombinator.com