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webpop.com
Company blog · webpop.com/blogwebprogramming
webpop.com is the company blog at webpop.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link webpop.com as an example of a splash page and as a hosted blogging platform one commenter said they were moving to. The comments do not discuss any writing on the site.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2010-10-09
What Hacker News says?
Bootstrap and Zurb are actually quite different, in my opinion. Both are based on solid resets and (now) great, nestable, responsive grids. Bootstrap is great for when you're not a designer and you need to get something out there that looks passable. It includes a lot of fully styled elements and have very nice typography and forms out of the box. I found Bootstrap a lifesaver to get something up at http://www.event…
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on “Bootstrap 2.0, From Twitter”Submitted Can a Puppy Sell a CMS? as a story · 177 points
HN discussionA good trick we've been using while building http://www.webpop.com has been to use the cheap small instances on the Rackspace cloud to build a mini version of a nice distributed setup with load balancers, web servers, database servers, monitoring, etc... The small instances are very cheap, and we've been automating everything with chef, so it's east for us to gradually scale up by adding large instances to our clust…
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on “Chart of YC companies' hosting decisions, 2010 edition”Submitted Speeding up your Webfonts as a story · 20 points
HN discussionWe're also aiming to solve this with Webpop ( http://www.webpop.com ). we dont do inline editing, but on-site editing where you navigate to the page you want to update and click edit, we then highlight all dynamic content on the page and bring up the relevant form when clicked. In our first prototypes we were playing around with inline editing, but ended up concluding that it causes more problems than it solves when…
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on “Create - A new kind of web editing interface”Submitted Top 10 CSS Generators as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWe're working hard at building the best fully hosted one at http://www.webpop.com Our aim is to get close to the power of something like Drupal with a simple and usable interface that's a joy to use. All fully hosted, requiring no maintenance. We're the only hosted system that is also truly extendible (you can build extensions in server-side javascript) and we're seeing both tiny one-pages and large content driven p…
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on “WordPress has left the building”Submitted Contextual Code Completion for CodeMirror as a story · 6 points
HN discussionWow - this is an amazing offer. I'm sure you must be swamped in work already, so expect a "no time anymore answer", but I'll send you a request for help on documentation for http://www.webpop.com
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on “Offer HN: Will Work For Karma”Submitted Mozilla Persona: Say goodbye to passwords as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe're definitively aiming for launching http://www.webpop.com during November - so I guess I was in already before I read the post!
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on “Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?”Submitted Why we use Stripe payment integration for our shopping cart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's pretty much what I mean when calling Haskell hard to learn. For me it's also been a steep learning curve, and my experience hasn't been altogether different than yours. I started out maybe 5 years ago following tutorials, reading up on all the metaphors about Monads and doing project Euler problems. After a while I started to tackle some small web related things with Haskell and had exactly your experience of r…
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on “Is Haskell the Cure?”Submitted Building a Custom Shopping Cart with Stripe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe're using it for Webpop ( http://www.webpop.com ) and have generally been very happy with it. We were very well aware of its characteristics when choosing our DB, and didn't go in expecting any magic Web Scale or somehow getting a HA setup with plenty of durability with just one server. For a multitenant CMS where you want to store documents with custom schemas, need more than just a key/value store and want some…
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on “Why MongoDB Never Worked Out at Etsy”Submitted Simple Responsive Images: Picturefill in One line as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe do something similar for http://www.webpop.com (video of it here: http://www.webpop.com/blog/videos/on-site-editing-the-easies... ), but with the difference that we always do open up a form. In our first prototypes we were experimenting with inline editing, but we actually decided against it. The really good thing with allowing editing right on the site is that it matches non-technical end-users conceptual model…
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on “Build a CMS, no forms allowed”Submitted How to Build an Event Calendar with Elastic Search as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou'll work with a template language to define what parts of the page the client should be able to edit. Webpop lets you work with structured content, pull the content into your templates and define exactly the HTML used to present the content. The system then automatically detects what part of your site is dynamic content that the client should be able to edit and what's design. The client then get a simple on-site…
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on “I want to solve the uploads problem”Submitted Foundation vs Bootstrap: Why we picked Foundation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave just been writing something similar for http://www.webpop.com Wrote a small service in Haskell to handle large uploads in preparation for a new feature. Does interleaved IO and streams the uploaded file directly to Cloudfiles while also saving a copy on the local disk to be able to extract some metadata and add them to our DB at the end. Also did play with the idea of creating a general upload service based on…
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on “I want to solve the uploads problem”Submitted Key Takeaways from Mobile First Design with ZURB Foundation 4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFor Webpop ( http://www.webpop.com ) we ended up going with TinyMCE as our rich text editor after trying both CKEditor and WymEditor because Tiny was the only one that handled pasting into the edit area fairly well. It's really tricky to handle right, and the Paste plugin for Tiny has to use a lot of tricks to do it properly. The onpaste event doesn't really work for this, because even in browsers that supports it,…
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on “Aloha Editor - HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor”Submitted Top Free Icon Fonts as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCan attest to Haskell and Snap being excellent for small web services where you need a boost - especially when concurrency is involved. Wrote two small services for http://www.webpop.com in Haskell, both based on Snap. One for dynamically resizing images on the fly and one for handling uploads of large files and streaming them straight to Cloudfiles. In both cases I started by trying node.js (both cases deals with e…
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on “High-Performance Web Applications in Haskell”Submitted Webpop announcing Compass support for their cloud code editor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou should checkout http://www.webpop.com (disclaimer, I'm the co-founder). We've managed to make a dead simple on-site editing interface that works with any design, without any need to stick to any 'template'. Our goal is to allow designers with a knowledge of HTML and CSS to make completely custom designed websites that a client can easily (and safely) keep up to date.
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on “Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers”Submitted Building a Scalable CMS in the Cloud as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe difference is being able to specify a containing element, so the pinned part gets unpinned once you scroll past the bottom of the container. We first developed the plugin for the Webpop gallery page ( http://www.webpop.com/gallery ) to make the description next to each screenshot stick to the top while you were viewing that gallery entry. Later we also used it for the pinned navigation in our documentation secti…
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on “Show HN: jQuery.pin – a plugin for making stuff stick”Submitted Webpop Announces Plans and Pricing as a story · 1 points
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