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Comparison of of PHP, Python, & Ruby for File Uploading (Word or PDF), User Authentication, Sending E-mails to Admins for Approval [on hold]
First, I am looking to create a site where the basic function will be to allow the exchange of documents. So, say for example, if it is a resume, legal document, or essay-sharing site (these are just ...
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Days of week office hours to sentence algorithm [on hold]
Say I have the days of the week in an array:
weekdays = ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"]
A user can pick one or more days. Based on the user's ...
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Which technology enables real-time multi-user editing? [on hold]
I want to create a web app which allows me Multi-User-Editing of
documents.
Where do i start? Is there a library for JavaScript oder Ruby, Python? How handle Google those things with Google ...
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2answers
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Static site generator with dynamic components
I'm looking for a good static site generator. I'm looking into either Jekyll / Octopress (Ruby) or maybe Phrozn or PieCrust (PHP). I only have one thing that holds me back:
How do I create a sidebar ...
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2answers
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asynchronous messaging/notifications for real time feed back to users
Looking for some advice and general opinion.
Im looking to build a notification system for a site to message users on at certain times and events.
So for example when a new blog post is added to the ...
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Can we use pip downloaded files after an install error?
This is a newbee question. I forgot to add sudo before my pip install, and got the permission denied message after a whole while. Is there a method by which I can make use of the downloaded files when ...
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Why doesn't it work when using Python to encrypt, then Ruby to decrypt?
I'm trying to encrypt then base64_encode a string using Python, and base64_decode then decrypt the result with Ruby, but the string is messed up.
I don't see any difference in the two methods. I ...
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3answers
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Best practices for management of a developer system on Mac OS X for non-developers [closed]
I'm a designer who writes mostly Sass, Less (CSS pre-processors), HTML, Javascript and usually starts off with static site generators such as Jekyll, Yeoman, etc. While working with developers who ...
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How can I do really cheap command line parsing in Python?
I've been making heavy use of the answer in "Really Cheap Command-Line Option Parsing in Ruby". It's great and for my purposes, always what I need.
Now I find myself back in Python land for a bit ...
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Suitability of PHP in place of a shell scripting language [closed]
I am putting together a comparison of the benefits and pitfalls of various programming languages to present to management of a company I do work for, and one point of comparison is the suitability as ...
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Hash in Ruby & Convert python to ruby
I am using Hash in Ruby, just check whether a certain word is in the “pairs” class and replace them. Initially I code in python and want to convert it into ruby that I am not familiar with. Here is ...
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Run bash script on `cd` command
I'm python developer and most frequently I use buildout for managing my projects. In this case I dont ever need to run any command to activate my dependencies environment.
However, sometime I use ...
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1answer
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Dealing with large json file
I have a large json file from a web scraping project I've been doing for a while. Now I'm trying to build a web frontend using the JSON data. I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to go ...
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1answer
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How to iterate through a directory of XML files POSTing each one to a URL and recording the response? [closed]
I have a folder of XML's requests that have been created, I need to post them to an endpoint and record the response, same filename different folder. It is also important that I can control the speed ...
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PyPy vs Cpython, will either one drop GIL and support POSIX Threads? [closed]
Given that the GIL limits pythons ability to support true threads, is it possible to strip it out of current python implementations so that the language can finally support true multithreading. ...
