Have you used this framework?

[krycor]

So often when I am looking to do something, more often at home with side projects than work, I look for open source frameworks which do something similar and build out from there.

Figured I’d just re-use this thread continually to ask about frameworks that I see and wonder if it is worth trying to ab/use.

 

[B-1]

Reserved.

 

[krycor]

Apache Tika

Worth it? So I need to parse a PDF documents for content and busy looking for something to do it with.. saw this the other day and wondering if it’s worth using. I see it supports a few file types too.

Use case I need is to periodically process pdfs(not done pdfs before) so wondering if it will be filled with pitfalls and better with something else.

 

[battletoad]

Haven't used tika, but have used tesseract for OCR. it kinda does the job (tesseract), but it does get tripped up when there are multiple boxes of text side by side.

 

[animal531]

I use iText/iTextSharp for PDF processing.

 

[bridgeburner]

I use iText/iTextSharp for PDF processing.

Just reading "iText/iTextSharp" is bringing back nasty memories

 

[animal531]

Just reading "iText/iTextSharp" is bringing back nasty memories

Hah, working with PDF's are never fun, but it's a pretty functional library.

 

[CorneliusCenturion]

Why do you need us to hold your hand? If you want to learn a framework, learn it. All the documentation is there you don't need anyone here.

 

[_kabal_]

Stunning contribution

/s

 

[randomcat]

Why do you need us to hold your hand? If you want to learn a framework, learn it. All the documentation is there you don't need anyone here.

Because it will save a lot of time if someone warns him about a framework that might be problematic or a project that does a similar task but better.

 

[krycor]

Why do you need us to hold your hand? If you want to learn a framework, learn it. All the documentation is there you don't need anyone here.

Because not all frameworks are worth learning..

For better or for worse, there are numerous frameworks for any given problem or task. Sometimes you get lucky and there are two or three or maybe just one obvious one that is a winner to use..

Slap in polyglot ability and your choices expand significantly. You then start a simple project and all is fine in the world till you hit that one crucial task that becomes all important and not capable with the chosen framework. And the struggle to make it work begins or refactor entire thing.

It sucks and happens when it’s something new though granted you learn to spot what’s good. Fortunately(or unfortunately) I value experience and advice vs my gut when it comes to things like this (where available, perfectly happy to go my own route).

 

[kolaval]

Any UI libraries for Angular, especially desktop?
I see ExtAngular, Kendo UI, material etc but which one to invest the time and money in?

 

[charlieharper]

Ever since the launch of Rails 7, I’ve been interested in learning it for good.
I’ve dabbled with it and added a few little features on top of existing apps, so I have a brief understanding of it. And yes, it’s really fun - I can see why Rails to this day have such a passionate community.

So I’ll eventually take the plunge and build a small CRUD + Auth + JSON API app from scratch for fun.
I think those are the fundamentals of a framework, if you can do the above in X framework you can easily build on top of it.

Even though they claim Rails is in decline, I think in the future there’s going to be a lot of high paying jobs to maintain and optimise existing projects - kinda like we’re seeing today with legacy Java applications.

At the moment I mostly use (Python) Django and ReactJS - and can find my way around NodeJS (Express) as well.

But yea, learning new stuff is fun.