Recent content by Adrian Schneider

You'll need to also fix the underlying problem that is generating errors, otherwise it'll just fill up again. And more importantly, the error being logged might have some actual impact to your site or your users. Errors can mask deeper issues. In the worst case, it could even be an attacker...

If you have the luxury / foresight of planning ahead: all customizations contained within addons (even if it's one big custom one): git managed addon contains migrations and what not work locally, and a production deploy is just upgrading the addon(s) via script optionally, do same upgrade...

I told him earlier this week that I'd be dropping the project and refunding his deposit once I can shift money to PayPal. I'm not sure why he calls that scamming... That cleared today and he was refunded as promised. The requirements were too fuzzy, and I had to pull teeth to try and extract...

Do you guys know of any of the forum admin sites that have an active chat section? Ideally XenForo related, but not required. Or even an IRC/slack channel? Thanks

Long time Windows, and Ubuntu user here. I picked up a rMBP 13" about 2 years ago (late 2013 edition, maxed out) and love it. I had a similar model at work, so I forced myself to switch at home too. Just recently upgraded this week to the latest 15" rMBP maxed out as well, and it's absolutely...

I hope they continue with 1.x releases while planning architecture for 2.0. There is a fundamental architecture problem that will continue to make the developer/designer lives miserable. There is no API. There are two schools of thought... A) Make everything open so anybody can edit (extend)...

I'm actually quite happy with the policy here for 3rd party add-ons. vBulletin out-right banned them which I never understood. A marketplace would be a welcome improvement. I just finished integrating Stripe into a custom shopping cart / license system I built. While it wasn't fun, I prefer 100%...

Yes, that's definitely one of the realities, at least on an official capacity. But for the rest of us who use that platform, there is still room to document our knowledge and work together to refine the processes. It also adds a bit of push back to XF to know where we need help. I don't need to...

Another free option is Zoho. I almost went with Outlook this time around, but some undying hate for Microsoft told me to keep looking. Thank goodness.

With their latest financing round they are trying to compete more directly with AWS. http://www.eweek.com/cloud/digitalocean-raises-37.2m-in-new-funding-to-build-cloud.html And on that note, have you tried setting up AWS from scratch? It's extremely overwhelming. I think they have a pretty...

Build an amazing core that is easy for developers to extend, and the problems with solve themselves. Like magic. Seriously. Everybody wins. Developers can make money servicing the clients here, and perhaps with commercial add-ons. Admins actually get service (it seems there is high demand)...

Just because the platform we are working has no tests, it doesn't mean our code has to. I just treat it like legacy code: isolate your stuff from the platform and build it the best you can. The only shady parts are the integration, which are the static callbacks. It's easy enough to isolate them...

Hey Rigel, I appreciate the detailed response. I am going to compile some comparisons between the various "development environment" options, including my own. Each seems to have an overlap in features, and of course different short-comings. Basically, given the existing tools that are out...

I installed my tiny site on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet. There are tutorials to get up and running with php-fpm and nginx, then you are good. Dirt cheap and scalable as you grow.

I don't want to pick on anybody specific here. By volume I mean the number of resources. Each resource is fairly shallow, although there were a few there that were helpful. The big missing piece is from zero to an add-on. What does that process look like. (and don't answer that - I know the...