Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread I Dream in PHP
Hi Anthony, phpMoAdmin needs code-contributors, if you have time to develop then please see if there is something within your expertise on the ToDo list at the bottom of: http://wiki.github.com/MongoDB-Rox/phpMoAdmin-MongoDB-Admin-Tool-for-PHP/ You can check-out & commit code via GIT from the pr

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread David Krings
On 1/20/2010 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people would actually use. Unfortunately the blank canvas that is my mind is still blank. I guess it would be

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Michael B Allen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: >> >> Unless you need polymorphic behavior where extending a type so that it >> inherits the behavior of another is clearly better, it is very likely >> that you can achieve the same ob

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Mitch Pirtle
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > > How about a phpMyAdmin clone for MongoDB? Already have two underway: http://www.phpmoadmin.com/ http://rad-dev.org/lithium_mongo -- Mitch ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
Yeah I know I just found that link myself while doing research and talking with fellow developers. Back to the drawing board. -Anthony ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyph

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Fernando Gabrieli
What about Selenium/PHPUnit? you might be able to extend it to include new test features, i'm running it around 0.5 times per new method :) some others might help in telling "todo" features On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wro

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Snyder
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Eddie Drapkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: >> >> How about a phpMyAdmin clone for MongoDB? > > > Like this? http://www.phpmoadmin.com/ Wow, that was quick! ;-) Oh well, Anthony, keep looking. _

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: >> I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the >> house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people >> would actually use.  Unfortun

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Paul McGrane
You can always try to solve or improve an internal work flow issue...like how you handle invoicing, or tracking time for your billable tasks...you may come up with a solution that not only streamlines your workflow, but can benefit others as well. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Justin Dearing w

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Justin Dearing
If you know C, care about soap and interacting with .NET, you might want to hack at the PHP soapclient. http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50698 That code code use a bit of a cleanup. I've been trying to hack at it for a while. On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: > I have a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Hans C. Kaspersetz
> > How about a phpMyAdmin clone for MongoDB? > +1 Hans K ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Snyder
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: > I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the > house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people > would actually use.  Unfortunately the blank canvas that is my mind is still > blank.  I

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Sgro
I try to think about things that are a PITA - and how software can fix that. Maybe its simply automating a process for myself - or something larger, like a full blown site for this or that. I think the best ideas come when your not really trying - but also, if your attempting to brainstorm, th

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Hall, Leam
MongoDB based PHP tool that gathers news on Haiti and publishes it to interested parties. Then you can expand it later. Leam From: Anthony Wlodarski Sent: Wed 20-Jan-10 15:08 To: NYPHP Talk Subject: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects. I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was

[nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread Anthony Wlodarski
I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people would actually use. Unfortunately the blank canvas that is my mind is still blank. I guess it would be called "coders block" akin to writers block. How

Re: [nyphp-talk] Color Scheme picker

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Snyder
Give kuler a try? http://kuler.adobe.com/ ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > > Unless you need polymorphic behavior where extending a type so that it > inherits the behavior of another is clearly better, it is very likely > that you can achieve the same objective more efficiently without using > objects at all. This

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Michael B Allen
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: > Hello all, > > As I work on refactoring an app I'm working on and getting more of a feel > for OOP, I wonder if folks can recommend any best-practices guides for > general OOP principles. A broad description of "OOP principals and best-p

Re: [nyphp-talk] Color Scheme picker

2010-01-20 Thread Gary Mort
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:28 AM, tedd wrote: > At 5:39 PM -0500 1/19/10, Gary Mort wrote: > >> Yeah, that gives the HTML color codes, but no usage for them. >> >> I work with colors all the time and use several tools. > > Well, those are fun and cool tools, and I can see using them from time to t

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Paul A Houle
Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: That's actually one way I've used the static factory - to handle a situation where there is no Bar that can be created from Foo, but this is expected: $foo = new Foo(); $bar = Bar::factory( $foo ); // false if ($bar) { // do stuff with $bar } Is this good practice

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
On 1/20/2010 11:34, Paul A Houle wrote: Another one is that Foo::create() can return false or null rather than throwing an Exception; that said, much of the time throwing an Exception is a better error handling mechanism than returning "nothing". That's actually one way I've used the static fac

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Paul A Houle
Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: When should one use a factory method $foo = Foo::factory( $this ) as opposed to using the constructor in the client code $foo = new Foo( $this ) There are multiple reasons, but one of the best reasons to write something like $foo=Foo::create($arg1,$arg2); is t

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Eddie Drapkin
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: > Hello all, > > As I work on refactoring an app I'm working on and getting more of a feel > for OOP, I wonder if folks can recommend any best-practices guides for > general OOP principles.  I read most of the Zandstra book, and found it ve

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Chris Snyder
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: > > When should one use a factory method > $foo = Foo::factory( $this ) > as opposed to using the constructor in the client code > $foo = new Foo( $this ) > ? The static factory pattern has always bugged me. I suspect it is much more usefu

Re: [nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: > Based on Amazon reviews, I just bought a copy of the 1994 ed of > Object-Oriented Software Construction : Bertrand Meyer on Half.com; any > further recommendations? I would recommend a book on Design Patterns. The classic text on this is the Gang

[nyphp-talk] OOP noob - general best practices

2010-01-20 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
Hello all, As I work on refactoring an app I'm working on and getting more of a feel for OOP, I wonder if folks can recommend any best-practices guides for general OOP principles. I read most of the Zandstra book, and found it very helpful for understanding the fundamentals of the OOP approac

Re: [nyphp-talk] Color Scheme picker

2010-01-20 Thread tedd
At 5:39 PM -0500 1/19/10, Gary Mort wrote: Yeah, that gives the HTML color codes, but no usage for them. The problem is I'm a great fiddler/incremental changer. I hate making 20 decisions though, I'd rather make 40 adjustments to 20 changes on a blank sheet of paper. So I have 6 colors and