Comments for Add It Up Development Blog http://blog.letsadditup.com Building a PHP financial management app, one line of code at a time Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:39:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Linklog: Graphs and Personal Project Management by James http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/09/03/linklog-graphs-and-personal-project-management/#comment-205 James Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:17:18 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=25#comment-205 Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James. Hi, I found your blog on this new directory of WordPress Blogs at blackhatbootcamp.com/listofwordpressblogs. I dont know how your blog came up, must have been a typo, i duno. Anyways, I just clicked it and here I am. Your blog looks good. Have a nice day. James.

]]> Comment on Project management for the one-man band by Linklog: Graphs and Personal Project Management | Add It Up Development Blog http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/09/project-management-for-the-one-man-band/#comment-89 Linklog: Graphs and Personal Project Management | Add It Up Development Blog Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:23:08 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=8#comment-89 [...] over at 37signals writes about how to manage long breaks in personal projects. I’m currently using Basecamp to manage this project (which is largely the same method as Ryan describes with Backpack), but I [...] [...] over at 37signals writes about how to manage long breaks in personal projects. I’m currently using Basecamp to manage this project (which is largely the same method as Ryan describes with Backpack), but I [...]

]]> Comment on Is PHP4 worth it any more? by Jon Gibbins http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/07/is-php4-worth-it-any-more/#comment-45 Jon Gibbins Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:16:50 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=4#comment-45 Chris Shiflett has an interesting post about PHP 4 and its end of life: http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/end-of-life-for-php-4 Chris Shiflett has an interesting post about PHP 4 and its end of life:
http://shiflett.org/blog/2008/aug/end-of-life-for-php-4

]]> Comment on Even more independent web apps by James White http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/24/even-more-independent-web-apps/#comment-40 James White Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:22:26 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=20#comment-40 I had a quick look at Cart45 and it does look pretty comprehensive and well put together for a new app. I think a lot of web designers struggling with Actinic will be tempted to at least have a go with Cart45 given the price - but the demo without sound could be better .... I had a quick look at Cart45 and it does look pretty comprehensive and well put together for a new app. I think a lot of web designers struggling with Actinic will be tempted to at least have a go with Cart45 given the price - but the demo without sound could be better ….

]]> Comment on Even more independent web apps by Phil Thompson http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/24/even-more-independent-web-apps/#comment-30 Phil Thompson Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:19:25 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=20#comment-30 Matthew - you're not imagining a lack of sound on our screencasts - we couldn't get the screencast audio to go through in one take without umming, erring and arring too much - which sounded dreadful so we knocked the sound off for the time being. Matthew - you’re not imagining a lack of sound on our screencasts - we couldn’t get the screencast audio to go through in one take without umming, erring and arring too much - which sounded dreadful so we knocked the sound off for the time being.

]]> Comment on Is PHP4 worth it any more? by Phil Thompson http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/07/is-php4-worth-it-any-more/#comment-24 Phil Thompson Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:55:35 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=4#comment-24 My heart says goes with PHP5 but my (business) brain says go with PHP4. The trouble is that you're limiting your potential market by rejecting PHP4 - don't get me wrong I've just released a web app that is PHP5 only and plan another soon but deep down I know it's a small mistake to only support PH5. Sadly a lot of web hosts only support PHP4 at all or PHP5 in a strange way - e.g. with 1and1 (a huge hosting supplier) you have to add a line to your .htaccess file that is beyond the scope of most small time website owners (e.g. 1and1's customer base) My heart says goes with PHP5 but my (business) brain says go with PHP4.

The trouble is that you’re limiting your potential market by rejecting PHP4 - don’t get me wrong I’ve just released a web app that is PHP5 only and plan another soon but deep down I know it’s a small mistake to only support PH5.

Sadly a lot of web hosts only support PHP4 at all or PHP5 in a strange way - e.g. with 1and1 (a huge hosting supplier) you have to add a line to your .htaccess file that is beyond the scope of most small time website owners (e.g. 1and1’s customer base)

]]> Comment on Is PHP4 worth it any more? by Derek Allard http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/07/is-php4-worth-it-any-more/#comment-21 Derek Allard Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:28:11 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=4#comment-21 For building an application, I'd strongly favour PHP5 only if you get to control the hosting (ie: you aren't selling a distributed app). For framework development though, I think its too early for CI and Cake to abandon PHP4. Yes we hate it, yes it sucks, but it still represents 60% of the PHP market available at this time - since the PHP end of life announcement [em]a year ago[/em] that has dropped 15%. If we assume that decline will hold (I doubt it will, but let's pretend) then I think we'll be ready to abandon PHP4 in about 2 more years. ;) For building an application, I’d strongly favour PHP5 only if you get to control the hosting (ie: you aren’t selling a distributed app). For framework development though, I think its too early for CI and Cake to abandon PHP4. Yes we hate it, yes it sucks, but it still represents 60% of the PHP market available at this time - since the PHP end of life announcement [em]a year ago[/em] that has dropped 15%. If we assume that decline will hold (I doubt it will, but let’s pretend) then I think we’ll be ready to abandon PHP4 in about 2 more years. ;)

]]> Comment on Hello World! by Matthew http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/07/hello-world/#comment-8 Matthew Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:32:57 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=3#comment-8 Thanks, Marc, that sounds great - I'm sure I'll be touch when I reach that stage of development. :) Thanks, Marc, that sounds great - I’m sure I’ll be touch when I reach that stage of development. :)

]]> Comment on Moving the system folder in CodeIgniter by Matthew http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/09/moving-the-system-folder-in-codeigniter/#comment-7 Matthew Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:31:11 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=11#comment-7 Thanks, Peter - to be honest, I actually develop more like a programmer. Non-existent interface design, Times New Roman and nasty table borders are the order of the day at this stage! :) Thanks, Peter - to be honest, I actually develop more like a programmer. Non-existent interface design, Times New Roman and nasty table borders are the order of the day at this stage! :)

]]> Comment on Hello World! by Marc Hedlund http://blog.letsadditup.com/2008/07/07/hello-world/#comment-5 Marc Hedlund Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:27:17 +0000 http://blog.letsadditup.com/?p=3#comment-5 Hey, (I'm the CEO of Wesabe.) You're welcome to use our API to provide automatic bank sync for all the banks we support. Not sure if you want to, but it's free, and believe me it's way easier than implementing it yourself. We have API calls for OFX, QIF, Excel, CSV, and others, and also a custom XML format that contains a bunch of data. This would also let you pull out community edits from our database -- rather than seeing the banks' mangled version, you'd see something edited by a person. Let me know if you want help with this. Marc Hedlund, marc@wesabe.com Hey,

(I’m the CEO of Wesabe.) You’re welcome to use our API to provide automatic bank sync for all the banks we support. Not sure if you want to, but it’s free, and believe me it’s way easier than implementing it yourself. We have API calls for OFX, QIF, Excel, CSV, and others, and also a custom XML format that contains a bunch of data.

This would also let you pull out community edits from our database — rather than seeing the banks’ mangled version, you’d see something edited by a person.

Let me know if you want help with this.

Marc Hedlund, marc@wesabe.com

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