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I started TouristEye.com 4 years ago with Symfony 1.1. We kept pace with the new releases (updating when 1.2.2, 1.3.2, 1.4.2 was out). Last November we decided to simplify our website and completely change our website, so we felt it was the right time to do the migration. It took 5 months (myself as the backend of the website & api, and another developer as the frontend). It was a big rewrite, but the code now is so much better to maintain and learn. We are right now using 2.3, and I'm way happy coding :)

About your case, I agree with you that the best way for you is to add component by component, extracting and encapsulating functionality so you can use Symfony2, Zend or whatever framework you want in the future. Go for a service oriented architecture. And let's hope you have everything tested!

There is a simpler reason. The biggest blog of web/apps in Spain (http://www.genbeta.com) has written several articles about Bitcoin this week so there have been more downloads thanks to that.

Don't overthink ;)

I have been using it for several months, and it's really interesting to compare valuation between accelerators, former colleges and companies. It helps startups & investors to understand where the market is (if they care).

thanks naval & team!

Hopefully one day you will be able to drop a Zipcar in another garage. That would be awesome!

From my days in Ubuntu... I remember that when I was installing some programs, it was asking me for dependencies. That's not user friendly.

The App Store is user-friendly. Do you want that program? Download it! No worries of dependencies. So it doesn't matter if it's proprietary or not. It's a matter of user experience and wanting to make it easy for non-techies. They have improved a lot but it's sad they weren't the first to make that change.

Someone should explain why Linux has been the latest of the big operative systems to have a user-friendly app store, when they were the first to have one with apt-get!!

It's a pity, Linux on desktop could have gone way further on market share and popularity. Now, they are doing just a copy (wait for Apple to demand).

So much welcome to Europe! It's amazing it has taken so much years to have a decent solution for the continent.

Stripe next?

If i have to make a plugin out of the vCard RFC (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc6350.txt), i kill myself before ;)

I couldn't have said better!

let's work on that WP plugin dan! ping me if you want

that's a really good question on which i have no answer. I will think about it.

PD: i hate when we have to complicate things because of bad human behaviours!!

I don't know what's the correct word for this, and even if it will arrive somewhere.

The only thing I know is that there is a problem local businesses and website providers have. And there isn't an efficient solution yet. I've propose a solution so we can discuss it and see if it makes sense. That's where we are now.

About going international, I'm from Spain, so of course I will be the first one interested in having an international "standard". People are already giving suggestions in github!

Does anyone have the contact of people in "Data harmonization" team of Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Yelp, etc? Could you share this idea with them to see if we can discuss it further?

my email is javier at touristeye.com

Is it being implemented? I mean, I can find http://www.ietf.org/robots.txt but not http://www.ietf.org/.well-known/robots.txt

about the fields, check out the docs https://github.com/fesja/businesstxt/blob/master/structure.m...

about rich snippets, go to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438320

added to the README file of companies supporting it!

go to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4438320

done!

I completely agree with you that an interface on Wordpress would be much easier to a business owner than editing directly the text file

Having said that I also believe that a txt file is way more easier than schema for the rest of people who can edit a file. That txt file is done in minutes, the schema file is done in hours :P

What i feel necessary are 2 things:

- Having a separate file

- Doing something that the big websites support so we can "sell" to local businesses.

So if more people believe we should extend schema instead of going with txt, we can work on it.

1. we are not a local business ;) 2. this is just a proposal for now. If many websites support it, we will implement it!

Apart from the really complicated thing for non-developers, another thing I don't like from schema is that it seems to targeted to websites like Yelp or Foursquare; but not too the original local business website.

The owner of the local business is the one who knows which is the correct address, phone, opening hours, menu, etc. All the other websites (yelp, foursquare, google places) can be wrong. We just need the local business to tell the rest of the world which is the correct data.

thanks! Let's see what the big ones think about it.

We want to be a human friendly file. If we had a JSON or XML file, it would be too complicated for a non-developer to write or read it. On this way, I think it doesn't matter if the website is done in wordpress, drupla, static files, flash, etc. It's just a simple file.

Also, we are following the same pattern as the robots.txt file.

I will start using Arq when it supports Glacier. When will it be ready ;)

Not really, Apple is not obeying European law.

Looking at the UK warranty page: http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

They are clearly saying that they are only going to fix problems within the first year (Apple One-Year Limited Warranty). They say that the EU law says: "Defects present when customer takes delivery". But that's very open and misleading. If I hard drive breaks on the 15th month, is my fault or Apple's? If the battery drains too quickly? If the screen starts doing faulty things?

The European law is very clear, if something breaks within the first 2 years because of a factory/design problem, it's Apple fault. They have enough margin not to be cheap about that and making European customers angry.

The same happens in Spain. They don't (initially) respect the 2 years warranty. I believe Spanish authorities should do the same: fine them as much as they can until they start obeying local laws like everyone else.

However if you protest you get the 2 year warranty, but not everyone knows how to protest and what do say to convince Apple employees ;)

I really agree with Dave, private gTLDs shouldn't be allowed. One thing is to open new gTLDs as .data (interesting!), .kid, .book and another thing is to get it and use it for yourself. That's not how the gTLDs should be run. Those gTLDs have not public interest!

Google and Amazon should be ashamed of themselves for trying to buy .blog, .book (etc) and just want them for their own interest when those gTLDs, used wisely, can be really useful.

We should write a public letter to ICANN about this issue and email them through here https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/applicationc...

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