Texts From Last Night Clone

[truste1]

I want to make a website that is pretty much identical in function to Texts from Last Night. (Users can submit for review, post comments, etc.) I know there are tutorials and software packages out that mirror twitter functionality, and I think it might be easier to extend upon one of those. Any suggestions or run down of what this type of site is actually going to entail? Or anybody interested in working on it?

[rabbit]

Nowadays, you'll probably be dealing with a lot of AJAX and jQuery, and SQL, regardless of what language you use.  PHP and ASP are the two big choices you have for primary language.

[abc]

I want to make a website that is pretty much identical in function to Texts from Last Night. (Users can submit for review, post comments, etc.) I know there are tutorials and software packages out that mirror twitter functionality, and I think it might be easier to extend upon one of those. Any suggestions or run down of what this type of site is actually going to entail? Or anybody interested in working on it?

I may be interested in it, if you could just fill me in on why you would want to make a site pretty much identical to Texts from Last Night?

[Newby]

Yeah. If you want to do one for your school, just make a Facebook group like my school did.

[warz]

Nowadays, you'll probably be dealing with a lot of AJAX and jQuery, and SQL, regardless of what language you use.  PHP and ASP are the two big choices you have for primary language.

Python is a very practical choice, too.

[Joe]

So you mean you want a FML clone, right?

[truste1]

Obviously.

[rabbit]

Nowadays, you'll probably be dealing with a lot of AJAX and jQuery, and SQL, regardless of what language you use.  PHP and ASP are the two big choices you have for primary language.

Python is a very practical choice, too.

True, but the two big choices are PHP and ASP.  There's also Perl and Python, and probably some other things.

[iago]

Nowadays, you'll probably be dealing with a lot of AJAX and jQuery, and SQL, regardless of what language you use.  PHP and ASP are the two big choices you have for primary language.

Python is a very practical choice, too.

True, but the two big choices are PHP and ASP.  There's also Perl and Python, and probably some other things.

I disagree -- the two big languages are ASP.net and JSP.

PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc aren't things I would call "big", they're all basically scripting languages.

[warz]

haha, i disagree with both of you. i don't think asp is necesarilly a big option for most people. i'd say easily the biggest is php, no argument there. although i'd never use php. i don't think the average, just-for-fun developer would choose to go with asp because mono sucks and windows servers are expensive. the most practical choice is something that will work just fine on a typical linux server.

please, dont call python a scripting language. it's most definitely not. i won't defend php there because i think it's the epitomy of shit.

[iago]

Python is most definitely a scripting language.

And I'm talking "big" as in the ones used for commercial-grade stuff (I rarely see php used that way, and when it is, it's almost always a disaster; not because of the language, but because of the people who use it).

[MyndFyre]

Python is most definitely a scripting language.

Agreed.  That's one of its strengths, I'd think.

Incidentally, the next version of ASP.NET will allow IronPython to be used.

[warz]

Python is not purely a scripting language, whereas AutoIt and mIRC scripts are. If Python is what you call a scripting language then Java and C# are also scripting languages.

[MyndFyre]

Python is not purely a scripting language, whereas AutoIt and mIRC scripts are. If Python is what you call a scripting language then Java and C# are also scripting languages.

Would you feel better if we classified it as a "dynamic" language then?

(In my mind the two amount to the same thing.)

[warz]

In my mind a scripting language is one that has one purpose - to be a scripting language. It's pretty obvious Python doesn't fit that classification.

Call it what you want, but I just thought I'd let both of you know that calling it a scripting language isn't very fair.