PHP, very powerful and is installed by default on almost every web server.nevon wrote:I don't know what language you're thinking about building the backend in
Fair enough. As an asocial personality, I'm not really bothered by that situation, but I can see how people would feel that it devalues their achievements. I'm strapped for ideas that address that which don't have truly massive work requirements though.Robin wrote:I've thought about that. Although, I admit, I was only thinking of a technical solution.
A scenario which it doesn't fix, is something like:
Johnny tries to win an achievement for winning a level with 100% accuracy. He finds it hard, but still wants to brag to his friends, so after five attempts, he just starts Notepad and types:He brags about his skills and his friends envy him, so decides will do it more often, only using appropriate spacing so they don't get suspicious.Code: Select all
ass.achieve('perfect_aim') ass.send()
The question is then: how much of a problem is things like this (imagine loads of people doing this, it isn't hard to come up with)?
Well then it's easy as shit to switch between databases (unless you're planning to do fancy stuff, in which case I'd say just target MySQL for now).EMB wrote:PHP, very powerful and is installed by default on almost every web server.nevon wrote:I don't know what language you're thinking about building the backend in
Never underestimate the power of social thinking in humans.tentus wrote:As an asocial personality, I'm not really bothered by that situation, but I can see how people would feel that it devalues their achievements.
If openness is an issue, I'd like to suggest a recent fork of MySQL rather than MySQL itself. I don't know much about this, but there seems to be something going on in database land and it looks like MySQL proper is going the way of OpenOffice.org.nevon wrote:(unless you're planning to do fancy stuff, in which case I'd say just target MySQL for now).
What do you mean by this?Robin wrote:If openness is an issue, I'd like to suggest a recent fork of MySQL rather than MySQL itself. I don't know much about this, but there seems to be something going on in database land and it looks like MySQL proper is going the way of OpenOffice.org.nevon wrote:(unless you're planning to do fancy stuff, in which case I'd say just target MySQL for now).
MySQL is currently owned by Oracle. Oracle... doesn't like open source very much. While they can't stop it, they are still trying and this has led to the forking of OpenOffice.org into LibreOffice, and MySQL into a myriad of forks. I don't know which is the most promising, but I do know they all freely exchange source code, so I doubt it will matter very much. I doubt MySQL itself will be able to keep any kind of momentum. If you're interested in the subject, Henrik Ingo's blog might be able to provide more and better information.EMB wrote:What do you mean by this?