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Well said Tom, my IRC access is borked :/ Need to fix.

@pwired, +1 for @arjen's post if you are doing business as a small corporation. In my (limited) experience you will have an initial upfront cost to both 1) and 2) when you initially setup, then you will likely need to use the lawyer very rarely indeed and the accountant often only once a year. Of course such advice depends a lot on the detail of your position, plans, skill set, desires etc. One thing I am sure of is that I am glad I did the 1) and 2) from @arjen's list for my particular circumstances. Continued good luck

Hi pwired, very sorry to hear you just got fired. A positive outlook will be the bedrock of your success and the advice above is excellent and I'm only sorry I can't add much to it. The only practical things I would mention are looking (and of course being) highly professional on a budget, so simple stuff like if you are going to be billing anyone then be you@yourdomain rather than you@hotmail.com and using a professional (entry level cost) invoicing system such as FreshBooks; which incidentally makes charging for time very clean (with, if on a Mac, apps like ChronoMate). This is all a bit specific so likely no use immediately but if it's of any help then I'm happy. In the short-term this is a great training opportunity for you to see what you can learn from the Blog profile, Skyscraper profile and Module building; but of course rightly you will need to also be tackling where to use your skills to make money. So perhaps slice your days: hours a to b = PW learning and hours b to c = the sort of market and work surveying and research mention in the great posts above. You have a lot of good will from lots of PWers and I wish you the best of luck and am only sorry I am not a wealthy PW dev looking to outsource some work right now.

Very nice site and congrats on launch!

There's a ton of controls you can call on depending on the code you use to embed. It's ages since I looked but I Googled and dev pages on youtube.com had lots of advice, so I am guessing that, especially with the rise of HTML5 will be the place to go to get the appropriate embed to establish HTML5 over Flash as a pref'.

Welcome, only sorry it's no help :/

Just in case this is of help, I use this code from Ryan to turn a YT URL in it's own paragraph into an embedded YT vid.

Hi valan, in case you'd not spotted it, this thread also has some good info.

Grays I went through the same cycle as you and in case it helps at all all I will say is that using the default site that PW comes with and reading this forum and the links the others here have posted gradually got my PHP+PW engine started and even though it's only a low capacity engine (to stretch a metaphor) it is a very happy and productive one. That is to say I am *extremely* glad I found and persevered with PW and PHP because with the help of the generous people here and the great product PW is, I have been able to fly up and away from my old 'stuck' CMS to where I am now where I feel I could tackle almost anything with a little planning and QnA on the forum. So I'm sorry this post of mine won't help you practically but I hope it helps you feel that you will be able to do as I have (and likely more and better) and end up having a superb tool in your tool belt for future website work.

IF you have debug turned on, try turning it off just to check if it was slowing page load down.

+1 for what Peter said about excellent new Modules presentation and not having seen it and thanks to Ryan.

Hi lenoir, I've not used the Context facility before, thanks for drawing it to my attention; but I see your problem (that until the context is set your alternate name is not shown). Others in the forum will likely come up with more complete solutions to suggest but one simple thing I do quite a lot is to use the Description for a field to inform the user; carefully worded copy there with for example emphasis provided by judicious use of uppercase can go a long way to providing a self explanatory experience for almost all levels of users.

Excited to try this new editor, thanks Ryan, apesia et al who have made it so. One question, does anyone know if out of the box it has keyboard shortcuts for H2, H3, P etc (as TinyMCE does (I think))? Edit: OK, so Alt+F10 allows you to access the menu and then cursor/enter to choose a tag (H2 etc). That's a good start.

I'm betting apesia's suggestion has solved this for you but just in case.., I used to get locked out sometimes with TXP and the advice below always helped. It's not directly applicable here (different named tables etc) but in case it's of any help I thought I'd note it. (Tks to TXP docs for this tip)

onjegolders I thought it might be coming from Zen (Emmet now) too, but I did a clean install and it worked right out of the box just like diogo said before I'd started re-installing Emmet and other Packages. But all good now

So that'd be 50% wrong then? Do you see how I oh so cleverly got this onto my strong(er) skill set—the ability to type peoples names correctly? Versus yours (and all the other clever people here)—the ability to be brilliant at web stuff and also usually type peoples names correctly Srsly, I am only too delighted to call you diogo and promise not to behave like a foreigner and type it wrong (although a Brit who's moved to Canada IS possibly a foreigner, so apologies there if that counts )

Long story short, if you had the problem I had then you will find that you cannot have SASS syntax and still have CSS autocomplete working properly. The answer is in the edit at the end of this post. Phew!

[bIG SMILE HERE] Thanks diogo, gonna revert ST2 to default and try again! And thanks Soma, diogo is in good company, I get called Adam a lot. I just feel sorry for Adam who must sometimes get called Alan Edit: ST2 working perfectly after reset!

This is likely a cheeky question for the PW boards even though it is in the Dev Talk section, so apologies in advance. Does anyone here use Sublime Text 2 and when writing CSS is able to get autocomplete to suggest text-decoration by typing say tex [tab] I have the emmet plugin installed and have looked at lots of others but I just can't seem to find a way to achieve a comprehensive CSS autocomplete like that found with say Coda and Espresso. Thanks in advance to anyone out there with some ideas! Cheers!

Thanks for the tip Steve, yeah I'd already gone off like fox in a chicken coop and so far was playing with 6 6 (it's addictive just seeing those lovely long random strings) Doing something else right now but really looking forward to coming back to this and tackling implementing it for real.

I do it as per SiNNuT/Philipp's "2.". The only things I would add are: on a Mac I now use Navicat for all database import/export (as it's so quick, but it is commercial and costs) these tips on dual config files

Thanks Steve and sorry I missed the inline doc there (doh...). Cheers, -Alan

Steve, this is a way cool Module, thanks so much I am (once again (no surprises here)) a total newb at PPP so I wonder if I might ask you a quick question? I would like to as you say in github. Using this code $key = CryptoPPP::genKeys(); $key = CryptoPPP::keyToTokenBlocks($key); I am getting this sort of output mEq:-U#nJ What do I need to do to adjust the number of characters and also to ensure I get codes like the example you have (ones that will be safe to use as GET variables such as X7gM-jA9v-KtWs)? Thanks very much in advance for any comments. PS: I have no clue how I am going to do it (yet) but I am hoping to use this as part of a verification process so when someone makes a booking, they are sent an email with a link back to example.com/check-the-email/X7gM-jA9v-KtWs and if the X7gM-jA9v-KtWs is found then we know they got the code in the first place so we are happy and can continue. I think I know the steps I want but not done the code yet; exciting!

I think the benefits of portability might make me switch to always using the wire( version since that would indeed allow me to move stuff in or out of functions without breaking or needing re-writing. This also explains why I've often seen code examples with wire( — thanks for the tip Ryan!

Thanks VERY much teppo and adrian; I am relieved to say I actually understand the concept of scope (a bit) and so I totally get the distinction. I had just never realized until now that the PW API stuff such as $input->urlSegment1 were not somehow 'god-mode' things that worked everywhere, now I know they are (sensibly now I think about it) limited by scope in a similar way to variables I can totally see that some other construct such as wire is needed to show I need to look 'outside' the function. Brilliant! I feel I have learnt something subtle but significant thanks to you helpful fellows, thanks again!