There’s been quite a bit of talk in the last few days about the state of shared hosting as it relates to the ever-so-popular world of web frameworks. I’ve struggled with this myself, and I understand that it basically amounts to the fact that this kind of web development is new. Newer than the people who are used to throwing .php files on a server are accustomed (myself included).
James Bennett and DHH both think this is time for the web hosts to start putting in work to make this easier for developers. I agree that it’s in web hosting providers’ best interest to make the process easier. However, I also think this is a great opportunity for code monkeys (I’ll count myself as one) to really understand what goes into making a web server tick. There’s more going on than the world of PHP and shared hosting would have you believe.
For those that don’t know, I’ve been participating in Whiskerino (a beard growing “competition”) since the beginning of November. Whiskerino has a sister site, Vaginarino, that does parodies / tributes of photos from Whiskerino.
I am very excited that one of my photos got a tribute:
In trying to decide which (open source) license to use for Yark, I wanted to see what other projects that I respect were using.
Here are some (listed alphabetically):
So the most popular options seem to be:
I get a feeling the cool kids are going for the MIT License these days.
Update: I believe I’m going to go with the MIT License. This page helped me understand things a bit better (via).
Another Update (2008-08-05): Now I’m considering using Apache 2.0 because of this (via).
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Time to try to stem the brain crack addiction–I’m going to get some of my ideas for web apps into the world. If 37signals can do it, so can I.
If someone wants to take any of these ideas and run, so be it. I guess this might also be a cry for the lazy web. A note of credit back here would be nice. Please ask permission if you want to use any of the names (especially since I probably own the domain already).
Idea #1: LocalBean – find local coffee shops where you are.
When I’m traveling (or moving to a new place), I like to find non-chain coffee shops to hang out and leach some wi-fi. This isn’t as easy as it might sound. Sometimes even the locals don’t know where cool coffee shops are.
The idea for this app is to have an easy way to type in a ZIP code or otherwise browse to find independent coffee shops in the area. Users would be able to both enter new shops and rate existing ones. Photos would be pulled in by Flickr photos tagged a specific way. Shops could also be categorized / tagged to show what kind of goods were offered: specialty coffee, food, local roasting, etc.
An iPhone/iPod Touch optimized version would be really helpful–probably more so than the full-sized version.
Here’s what I’m thinking about:
All almost as much as just the body of an XTi ($677.00).