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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => General Programming => Topic started by: truste1 on December 16, 2009, 02:54:20 pm

Title: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: truste1 on December 16, 2009, 02:54:20 pm
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?
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: rabbit on December 16, 2009, 03:44:16 pm
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.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: abc on December 16, 2009, 07:20:44 pm
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?
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: Newby on December 16, 2009, 08:43:01 pm
Yeah. If you want to do one for your school, just make a Facebook group like my school did.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: warz on December 17, 2009, 01:29:49 pm
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.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: Joe on December 17, 2009, 01:40:56 pm
So you mean you want a FML clone, right?
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: truste1 on December 17, 2009, 02:06:17 pm
Obviously.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: rabbit on December 17, 2009, 02:37:13 pm
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.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: iago on December 17, 2009, 03:14:10 pm
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.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: warz on December 17, 2009, 04:38:53 pm
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.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: iago on December 17, 2009, 05:25:22 pm
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).
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: MyndFyre on December 17, 2009, 06:09:49 pm
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.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: warz on December 18, 2009, 09:42:19 am
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.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: MyndFyre on December 18, 2009, 03:32:45 pm
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.)
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: warz on December 18, 2009, 03:38:11 pm
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.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: iago on December 18, 2009, 05:30:00 pm
You're making it sound like being a scripting language is a bad thing.

Scripting languages are awesome, though -- they're pretty much the only thing I program in these days.

I don't know how you define scripting languages, but to me, it includes Python, Perl, PHP, Lua, Ruby, etc -- they're all incredibly useful languages, but I still think they're scripting languages.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: warz on December 18, 2009, 06:48:55 pm
I still think your definition of scripting languages is a little inaccurate. Unless you use Python as a scripting language every day then I could see where you'd be confused. They're not a bad thing, but that doesn't mean I'm going to call Python a scripting language.
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: Joe on December 19, 2009, 12:55:16 am
I think PHP can be compiled and used for local applications. Doesn't that make it not a scripting language?
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: warz on December 19, 2009, 04:07:09 am
calling python a scripting language is similar to being a retard... both are stupid
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: Newby on December 19, 2009, 03:46:17 pm
This settles it:

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29
Like other dynamic languages, Python is often used as a scripting language.

EVERYONE WINS!
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: iago on December 19, 2009, 06:10:13 pm
This settles it:

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29
Like other dynamic languages, Python is often used as a scripting language.

EVERYONE WINS!
No, everybody loses. :P
Title: Re: Texts From Last Night Clone
Post by: Joe on December 20, 2009, 12:24:25 pm
Vegan pessimist.