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Christian Heilmann's thoughts on where we are going with web components: http://christianheilmann.com/2014/04/18/web-components-and-you-dangers-to-avoid/

Git annex is soon truly cross-platform: https://git-annex.branchable.com/install/ Sparkleshare might not be for you, but good to review nonetheless: http://sparkleshare.org/ Kolab also has a file cloud now, but maybe it has too much other stuff for your taste: http://kolab.org/news/2014/04/09/kolab.org-3.1-released-file-cloud-plenty-irony

You guys know this online GUI configurator for Puppet & Vagrant: https://puphpet.com/

From Mozilla: http://mozilla.github.io/brick/ UI Components for Modern Web Apps

There's a plugin for DataTables that exports XLS: http://www.datatables.net/extras/tabletools/ Soma has created a module that let's you easily apply DataTables to your PW modules: https://processwire.com/talk/topic/5364-jquery-datatables-modulejs/

I'll call you, when the value of litecoin skyrockets But seriously, it would be interesting to list, which components of a forum or a forum construction kit would be unique and not useable in any other system. There was a guy on the forums offering ~$10k for community site functionality. This has a big overlap with forums. Then there are things like project management, CRM and what have you that deal with users, user profiles and communication.

I think we might one day wake up and realize we have a "forum creation framework": pieces of the puzzle like the UserGroups module will continue to appear and eventually reinventing the wheel will not be such a huge task anymore.

I feel like rambling some more. The Year of the Linux Desktop is a cliché at this point, but I don't understand why it was even predicted when Linux wasn't a gaming platform. Now the situation has changed: we have Valve, Crytek and GOG. Combined with XP EOL and the Windows 8 disaster, we might see a dramatic increase in desktop Linux adoption this year. It is worth noting that in this post-Snowden world, even the European Parliament recommends open source as much as possible: When considering FOSS communication solutions, we are lucky to have PRISM BREAK to guide us. Adobe suite replacement is a real issue for professionals. I really wish an entity like EU would sponsor the development of FOSS graphics software to nudge them to the pro level (they are so close). For projects that have organized paid development, the development speed has been noticeably faster than the ones that just plod onwards in an aimless fashion. Case in point is Krita (paid dev) vs. Gimp. In this case, the success of the Qt toolkit might have boosted Krita's development, while GTK+ (used by GIMP) is being abandoned in favor of Qt by an increasing number of projects (f.ex. LXDE and Subsurface). This is a benchmark that demonstrates how it is easier to build stuff with Qt than GTK+. Regarding a replacement for Illustrator, Inkscape is another slow-moving project and it uses GTK like GIMP. Both Inkscape and GIMP only use the latest GTK version (3) in a development version. There is a new vector editing software called PrintDesign, which uses the wxWidgets toolkit, but unfortunately the developer lives in Ukraine and the current crisis may have affected development. An InDesign alternative is Scribus, which uses Qt, but has seen periods of even zero development. While development is active again, the history means that Scribus, too, is just "getting there". When thinking about dropping Photoshop, it makes sense to use several FOSS tools: Krita for painting, GIMP for general editing and darktable/digikam/etc. for photography/RAW editing. Note: Krita has adjustment layers and 32 bit depth support, while GIMP does not. If you feel you have too much money, you can boost the development of important FOSS graphics tools. There's a whole bunch of fundraisers going on right now: Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 - an important event, which keeps collaboration between projects going Blender Foundation feature animation project Gooseberry - a huge project with 12 studios participating. Will impact the whole field of FOSS graphics and video and even audio. Pitivi 2014 fundraiser - I have named 2014 The Year of the Linux Video Editor. Synfig development for April 2014 - 2D animation tool Synfig (uses GTK+) has had very good results with paid development since fall 2013. Symmetry Painting for GIMP - GIMP doesn't pay developers, but nothing prevents devs from raising funds on their own. If you think you will suffer from having too much money in the future, be sure to follow this thread of mine: Ongoing crowdfunding campaigns

Distance calculation is improved in MariaDB 10.1 https://blog.mariadb.org/jquery-and-gis-distance-in-mariadb/

Have you looked at MariaDB (drop in replacement for MySQL, soon all major Linux distros will have it instead of MySQL): MariaDB Geographic Features Screencast: MariaDB GIS demo

Worth following: KDE Visual Design Group KDE is finally focusing on its looks in an organized manner and skilled crew. My own switch to Linux has turned into an epic 3 year journey.. Early on I identified what aspects need work. Along the way I have funded applications and tried to help in other ways. When preparing to switch to Linux I think it's smart to devote some of your time to strengthen a weak area that is important to you. For a FOSS software project, this might involve community organizing, documentation, translation, web stuff.. You don't need to be a C/C++ coder to help.

The situation with web hosts (webhotels/shared hosting) and PHP 5.4+ looks surprisingly good in Finland. I researched the subject and discovered 58 out of 67 web hosts either offer PHP 5.4 or 5.5 right now or at the very least starting from summer 2014 (5.3 EOL is in July). The information comes from company websites or from customer service (I didn't receive a reply from 16 companies). An increasing number of web hosts give their customers the ability to switch PHP versions (with .htaccess or some web interface). It seems this trend will speed up the installation of fresh PHP versions. One company stated they will offer PHP 5.6 immediately after it is released. These new versions of popular PHP frameworks will require PHP 5.4: Laravel will be moving to 5.4 for its May 2014 release (said in the GoPHP5 thread). Version number will be 4.2. http://fuelphp.com/blogs/2013/08/2-0-an-update (comments) https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/wiki/3.0-Roadmap http://www.yiiframework.com/news/76/yii-2-0-alpha-is-released/ https://github.com/zendframework/zf2/pull/5229

Foundation 5.1 introduced a pretty cool equal height tool: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/equalizer.htm http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/changelog.html The elements with the data-equalizer-watch attribute should not have any margin, padding or border applied or it won't work.

Simple Solution for IE8 and Foundation 5

More comparisons: http://responsive.vermilion.com/compare.php?framework=current http://usablica.github.io/front-end-frameworks/compare.html http://archetyped.com/know/redesigning-archetyped-comparing-css-frameworks/ The article linked by adrian has good points. When you design mobile-first, you avoid potentially having to retrofit your responsive design (painful).

Respect.. Rest in piece, Toivanen (1938-2011)

One more solution: http://www.resumablejs.com/ Browser support is not great, though (only FF and Chrome).

This will also benefit anyone building an ecommerce solution or any community-centered service.

Thank you very much, it seems I have a hole in the head that leaks information

Here are my docs for the shop I've been building with PrestaShop: presta-docs.zip Using prism.js to highlight code and this wonderful js function to escape html entities I discovered at the last minute after worrying about this for over a month. If he has time to review it, I'm interested in what Antti thinks about my Checkout.fi implementation (I'm still a newbie to stuff like this and serious development in general). The docs show how PrestaShop users have to jump through all kinds of flaming hoops to bend the shop to their will. I also have one open issue that you SQL wizards might know the answer to: in the PrestaShop SQL manager that does CSV exports, I'd like to be able to concatenate all the addresses of a single customer into one field, while this creates a new row for every address: SELECT CONCAT_WS(' ', g.lastname, g.firstname) AS Customer, g.id_customer AS customerID, CONCAT_WS(' ', ad.address1, ad.address2, 'City:', ad.postcode, ad.city, ad.other, 'Phone:', ad.phone, 'Mobile:', ad.phone_mobile) AS Addresses, gl.name AS group_name, g.email FROM ps_customer g LEFT JOIN ps_address ad ON (g.id_customer = ad.id_customer) LEFT JOIN ps_group_lang gl ON (g.id_default_group = gl.id_group) AND gl.name LIKE 'piiri%'

Somehow I can't imagine a presentation on PW in this format: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/why-i-hate-drupal.html

Something to consider: http://blog.arshaw.com/1/post/2013/09/fullcalendar-news.html The date system overhaul has not yet happened. I wonder, if it will break backwards compatibility.

Here's some inspiration on discount rules: http://doc.prestashop.com/display/PS15/Creating+Price+Rules+and+Vouchers

Here's another easy Windows SASS tool (works also on Linux and OS X): http://sword.mu/ It is in active development, too.

Btw. I want to thank you, Antti, for releasing also this payment module: https://github.com/apeisa/PaymentSuomenVerkkomaksut I built my own PrestaShop module for Checkout.fi payments last year