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[Skyrunner]

So... For my web page I have to replace all http://localhost:8080/ with http://skycoders.no-ip.org:60001... Should I use a utility like sed?

[MorleyDev]

Well the ideal is you use relative paths for your links, or can configure it somehow. It does depend on if this is just a HTML website, or if it's using a server-side scripting language like PHP.

A tool like sed may work as a brute-force solution, or you could even define your own macro that you replace with the URL via sed (for example, you could replace all instances of with #{HOST}# with  http://localhost:8080/ when testing locally, and http://skycoders.no-ip.org:60001 when deploying to the live server). It does mean you need to script a local deploy for testing too.

[Skyrunner]

All of the links have to be absolute: one of them is for configuring my backend (CherryPy), and the rest are embedded in HTML/JS to request CSS/JS/JSON from the server.

[MorleyDev]

It's hard to suggest without knowing the system.

In code terms, configuration is really a dependency as much as a class or third party library is and should be treated as such whenever possible (injection and what-not). For example, the Javascript could load a config.json to a json object, then you use that json object whenever you need to specify.

And in the end, these things must be driven by pragmatism. It's often better to implement the best solution you can realistically do now and aim to work towards a better one. For example, you could sed away localhost for now, and consciously move towards relative paths or configuration or #{HOST}# or whatever as you work on areas of the code that need fixing.

In the long term, these things also help maintainability and expansion. Being able to move the backend onto a different machine from the front-end without having to touch every part of the code that talks to the backend is nice for growth.

[MorleyDev]

Ackh going back to Javascript/Typescript after writing the client-side code in Scala is soooo....not as fun as moving from Javascript to Scala

[Parsely]

Visual basic thingie and making macros in Excel is fun. I've never played with this stuff before. I know I'm still a nub at coding but I still feel like a god right now making shortcuts for formatting and stuff. :3

[Mego]

Visual basic thingie and making macros in Excel is fun. I've never played with this stuff before. I know I'm still a nub at coding but I still feel like a god right now making shortcuts for formatting and stuff. :3

Just wait until the first time you Python.

[Putnam]

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import godhood

[Parsely]

Visual basic thingie and making macros in Excel is fun. I've never played with this stuff before. I know I'm still a nub at coding but I still feel like a god right now making shortcuts for formatting and stuff. :3

Just wait until the first time you Python.

Whatcha talkin bout.

[Putnam]

http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python

[Parsely]

I know what it is, was more wondering if he meant that python is cool or really annoying or..?

Money's on cool.

[Skyrunner]

PYTHON IS SUPER COOL

[Parsely]

PYTHON IS SUPER COOL

Now you have to explain, for the babby nublet that is me.

[Putnam]

PYTHON IS SUPER COOL

Now you have to explain, for the babby nublet that is me.

http://www.codecademy.com/tracks/python

[ECrownofFire]

PYTHON IS SUPER COOL

Now you have to explain, for the babby nublet that is me.

This should explain all there is to know about Python.

Basically it's a really good introduction to programming and has a lot of really cool features that "just make sense". Like indexing an array, you want the first element you do array[0], but to get the last element it's just array[-1]. In many other languages, you'd have to get the size of the array and then use that to find where the last element is.