I'm interested in setting up human translation workflows with Contentful through a third-party service like Smartling or Straker. What would be the easiest way to do this?
I don't believe there's anything supported. You're going to want to get the content into XLIFF.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLIFF
Write a process to output as XLIFF, and another process to update from XLIFF. But, understand that you're breaking new ground here.
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I'd like to ask is it smart enough to ship a web service/product without creating any CMS?
I mean in order to ship it faster and get some feedback from users it will be smart from my point of view to ship it w/out CMS and build it as you go but Im afraid from technical point of view - would it create any big problem that would be painful to solve?
Tnx.
Well, it depends on what you expect from the website. Should it be only a one-time web presentation, I think it might be okay to ship it without a CMS. I would also consider it fine if you didn't want to run a database for whatever reason (as most of the CMSs use database).
If the product is meant to be more complicated, it's definitely easier to start with CMS than to hack it in the product later.
However, if you decided for the latter way, you might find CouchCMS interesting. Though I haven't tested it myself, it looks very promising and easy to inject into an existing website.
Let's say I want to build a specialised catalog of information that organisations can provide about themselves. We agree a metadata standard, and they include this information on webites.
Is it possible to use Google's infrastructure somehow to solve the problem of discovering sites with that metadata, and regularly re-spidering to pick up any updates?
The way this kind of problem is often solved seems to involve "registering" the site with the central index, who then build infrastructure to regularly visit each registered site. But I wonder if it can be done smarter - and without the need to formally "register".
For example, presumably you could make part of the metadata standard a unique string, which you could then literally Google search for. Then you'd process the rest of the page. But is there a more streamlined, smarter, more formal way to do this?
I would like to create an app for a myBB forum. So the site on the forum will look nicer and much more cleaner on an iPhone or Android.
Is it possible without an API? It isn't my site ether.
everything is possible, it's just a matter of resources...
technically, you can write an app for everything on the web, but:
an API will tell you how you can do things with the site, without having to reverse engineer all pages/posts/..., and the format of every output resulting from post/get operations. reverse engineering may take a long time, and you will surely not come accross all possible results (error pages, bad authentication...);
an API is quite stable and is always updated with great care from the developpers so as not to break existing applications. without an API, there is no guarantees that your app will not break with the next release of the forum when it is upgraded;
a web API generally defines an output format which is easily parseable: many API outputs XML or JSON, which can be processed with standard libraries. without an API, the output format is plain HTML, which may be difficult to reorganize in order to show the results in a different format.
so, yes, you can definitely write an app for a myBB forum, but it may require a fair amount of work.
You can do, it's called screen scraping and is what was done before XML, the semantic web, SOAP, web services and then JSON apis tried to solve the problem better.
In screen scraping, you grab the site's HTML, parse it, get the data you want out of it, then do what you need with that data. It's more work, and breaks each time the site's layout changes, hence the history of improvements to it.
You mention the site in question is not yours. Many sites do not regard screen scraping as fair use, so check with the site's terms and conditions that you can legally create an app from the data posted there.
you can consider useing HTML5 ... do you think it doable for use app ?
For some time I have been looking at the possibility to integrate PowerShell as a scripting engine in SharePoint but I haven't found the right solution yet.
My main objective is to enable event triggers in e.g. a list to call and execute a PowerShell script (by filename) on the local server. This would give me a lot of flexibility compared to using an ordinary event handler written in visual studio, but the question is whether it is possible and whether I have overlooked some serious security issues?
Since each and every unique idea that I come up with in many years have already be invented by somebody else, I might have missed an existing product/project so any links to such projects will be appreciated, thanks
In the spirit of "already being invented by somebody else", check out http://www.codeplex.com/iLoveSharePoint for some very interesting uses of PowerShell inside SharePoint. Some great code samples and documentation. Haven't tried myself yet, but seems interesting.
I see what you're trying to achieve, but there's something that just doesn't "feel right" about a user indirectly running script code on your server.
The key difference is that the script can be run by anyone logging into the server. Event handlers can only be run by SharePoint. Strict validation of any inputs would be essential. You should also ensure the script is signed so tampered scripts won't execute.
Also, scripts by their nature aren't really designed for enterprise solutions. There is less opportunity for best practices such as good software architecture, design patterns, source control, code analysis, unit testing, and reuse of code. It's also messy/difficult to share code with a common code base that contains web parts, controls, entities, etc.
Finally, introducing PowerShell means another technology to be maintained in the mix we already have with SharePoint. This might be OK if you are comfortable with it.
Depending on how much customisation has already been done or is planned for the future some of the points above may not matter. Be sure to think about how this idea would feel if implemented 6, 12 and 24 months down the track.
Is there a tool that I can give a few people access to so that they can quickly modify the contents of our database? I'm looking for something easy to use and general purpose.
phppgadmin is going to be too complicated for some of the people that will be using it. I really like the django admin, but some of the constraints that Django brings are unacceptable. Something functionally similar would be great, I really do like how it works.
Have your tried using open office? you can get the postgresql driver here: http://dba.openoffice.org/drivers/postgresql/index.html
the you can create a quick form for anyone to add/delete query the database really easy.
and it's FREE to boot!!
I really like EMS's tools: http://www.sqlmanager.net/
They have for various RDBMSs, but they might be too complex for your intended use case.
You really need to state your platform and actual intended use (for instance, why is Django admin unacceptable?)
You can take a look at squirrel-sql.