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76 karma · joined September 2, 2008

Web Application Programmer. HTML, AJAX, CSS, etc...
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pwoods··on Booby-Trapped Treasure Buried off the Coast of Nova Scotia?
I hope you meant HOPE not HOME. ;)
pwoods··on [dead]
Maybe it's running on a tandy server
pwoods··on The British Government should apologize to Alan Turing
At the very least we should apologize for the chemical castration! WTF is that? Yeah not good.
pwoods··on Ask YC: Whats the Best Shared Hosting around?
Well I use dreamhost.com but not sure if it's the best. I used to be on mosso but too much downtime and too expensive.
pwoods··on Thanks to Twitter, I'm creating my own Twitter
Oh please spare us and dont!
pwoods··on Adeo Ressi Fights “Atrocities Of Investors” With New Class Of Founder Stock
Summary Please. This is hurting my brain.
pwoods··on Robot achieves scientific first, discovers new knowledge w/o human input
What? Do people still register to read new sites? Thought this idea had died already.
pwoods··on Add "pwn" before youtube in the url of any youtube video to download it
I don't think the flash file will play. Try it.
pwoods··on Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?
Write your own!
pwoods··on Ask HN: What web framework(s) do you guys use?
Top Down Programming BABY!

Seriously, just install smarty and do it yourself. Then somebody can always do a basic edit to the templates and you don't have to weight the merits of the 10000X different frameworks against eachother and get back to Making Money!

pwoods··on Ask HN: Is Hacker News a Waste of Time?
Yes, but so is working for a living.
pwoods··on Ask HN: CSS vs table based layouts
Although tables is easier than CSS, most browsers will render CSS almost the same way. But not always true for tables. Especially wider sites that need to shrink to fit a screen. I just weigh amount of work I have to do against how much I'm getting paid and do which ever way I feel comfortable with.
pwoods··on Windows 7: "The Linux Killer"
Yes well, all that Linux work and Now Windows 7 for Netbooks kills it. I guess I can retire as a wealthy opensource programmer as my work is now done!
pwoods··on Ask YC: Hiring contractors to convert PSDs to HTML/CSS
Oh welcome to my Hell...
pwoods··on Ask YC: How to get your startup noticed by non-techies
Seth is that you?
pwoods··on What your computer does while you wait
Honestly, I was hoping for a joke or a comic. Sigh.
pwoods··on Quality Alternative to the Silk Icon Set (CC 3.0)
Excellent!
pwoods··on Is it going to rain?
It's always nice to meet progressive Oompa Loompas
pwoods··on Is it going to rain?
How fast is your temperature in the UK?
pwoods··on The Top Nine "Top 10" Lists on How Startups Should Handle the Downturn
Well at leas there are only 90!
pwoods··on CNN/Fox Projection: Obama wins presidential election.
Gotta give it to Eric R for his convictions. His wife must get tired of his stubbornness though. Geese.
pwoods··on Vancouver, Canada Startup Meeting
I'm interested and I emailed you. Paul
pwoods··on ASK YC: Do VC's sign NDA's?
hmm I hadn't thought of that. lol
pwoods··on Ask HN: PHP Tricks and Best Practices?
Oh and also sometime I stop writing features and review the code base thus far. This allows me to bring everything up to snuff with the the latest Ideas I may have had. I've rewritten my own code about 20 times and it's now the way I like it.
pwoods··on Ask HN: PHP Tricks and Best Practices?
Don't look at other frameworks. I did that and found it a complete waste of time. The best I found was to loosely follow the Ideals of a framework you like. I say loosely because frameworks always have the best intentions but they can't be built for everyone. So sometime I've had to cheat. I've seen code where somebody has made a work around instead of cheating and it's a mess.

Other than that my personal preference is to use jquery for form submits and manipulation, smarty for templating and everything is tied together following MVC ideals. Class inheritance is where it's at too. Simple one is that your Page class inherits the functions in your DB access class which inherits your config class. Silly I know but it works great for me. Which in the end is the point.

pwoods··on Ask HN: PHP Tricks and Best Practices?
So is anyone using Smarty anymore? Or is this short form php now all the rage? Just curious because I'd update if it was.
pwoods··on ASH HN: How do I turn my Beta into Pay-ta
Yeah and I'm ashamed I did it... It's just that I didn't want it to be affect by what I say online as a developer. I guess I'm uber paranoid that all this good fortune is going to run disappear because I posted something stupid.
pwoods··on ASH HN: How do I turn my Beta into Pay-ta
I was featured in a few industry blogs and it has caught on like wildfire.
pwoods··on ASH HN: How do I turn my Beta into Pay-ta
I appreciate that but I already posted it here and the response was mute. That aside, I'm keeping it quiet until I launch as I still want people to sign up so I can at least market to them when it goes live. Besides, I have already set a close date at the end of the month and I'd hate to sound disingenuous from the start.
pwoods··on Ask HN: Is there a name for the 'web shortcut' services? (tinyurl, tinypaste, cli.gs, etc)
I think they are referred to by there services. Like tinyurl is a tinyurl. But if you wanted to coin plink I'll support it! Only 1,499,999,999 internet users to go
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