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Actually our boots are just about the only piece of clothing that we have not renewed. Most of our other clothes were sourced at second-hand stores (so well worn in ) -- but they were all either getting too thin or worn to take on a 2 month walk (last weekend it was my shorts that I put a hole in ).

Our boots are not that old, they're propper hiking boots (unfortunately they don't come with an odometer), but I'm sure they'll last the distance. They are a little on the heavy side, but we like the confidence that gives: lots of snakes down that way (mind you the light weight walkers swear by just a pair of volleys -- I have read somewhere that 1kg on your feet is that same as 5kg on your back).

The camp shoes we've got double as river shoes and are pretty good walking sandals in their own right -- so will get us out of an emergency.

[78 hours]

Sandi and I are 78 hours from flying out to Western Australia and the start of a 1,000 km walk from Perth to Albany. The Bibbulmun Track is well known, and getting more so; I'm not sure how we came across it now, but it feels like we've been working toward this point for about a year.

We've been in active planning for the last 6 months, and actively training for the last 4 weeks, and at the moment I'm at fever pitch and hardly able to control myself with the excitement (or is it nerves?).

Anyway, we'll be gone for just over 2 months and completely out of communication (to tell the truth, the planning and training has been so intense that I feel that I've not been on the same planet this year: I haven't kept up with NANY at all, and don't even get to read my feeds properly, all my little projects are lying at the bottom of the hard drive...).  Actually, we will be communicating: we carry a SPOT Messenger that acts both as a EPIRB and a satellite messenger, so we'll be communicating our current location -- this will be displayed on our site: mitupela.net/gnw/bibbulmun.html, as well as FaceBook and Twitter (if you're interested). 

It's at this point you stop and ask yourself "Why the hell are we taking leave without pay to spend two months walking 1,000 km in Western Australia's sun, wind and rain?" The answer is complex, and simple: We both enjoy getting away, into the Australian bush, by ourselves and our God. The solitude and isolation that blooms into a deep belonging and closeness feeds both us and our relationship. The simplicity of reducing your day to putting one foot in front of the other generates a buoyancy in our spirits.

Of course, putting your foot in front of the other 1.3 million times is something we've not done before in one go so it'll be interesting to see what lies in the unknown beyond our previous boundaries.

All the best for the next two months whilst we're away!

Perry, that walking trip looks wild. 

It's made me feel selfish really   

It's pushed just about everything else out of the way (NANY, coding, drawing, etc)... But it's an investment into my marriage that I'm very much looking forward to.  It's also for me (which makes me feel selfish)... but hopefully it will reap dividends in other areas 

I'm not looking for investors since i don't think something like this can be sold.. But i'd be very pleased to find a company that would be willing to fund further development/customization for use in other projects, enough so i could keep working on it.

• Can't donations be gathered pre-project? (just give me the opportunity...)
• Can't the project have a funded version as well as a donation version? (although that sounds like a headache)

I'll post some updates and screenshots as I go along -- still a ton of work to do and it's a rather massive project.  And I would be very interested in hearing ideas and suggestions for it.

If it's something all encompassing, maybe if it's done in a modular way so that aspects can be excluded if not required?

For example, if you don't want Projects for a particular site it can be excluded from the Db and interface.

I've got a couple of Yii projects bubbling along (well, not very bubbling because I've got other things drawing on my time at the moment), and the user management on Yii is neat and powerful, but not delivered as a plugin... so the common user functions have to be pieced together each project.

I'm keen to see how you go, and support  

[SQL]

I've probably not understood your problem, but what I generally do to get the last date for a sub-set of records is something like the following (written for a table we use to check this year's changed data... My apologies if I've not understood, this basically gets all the fields from the table where one field is equal to something and it's the last date:

Formatted for SQL with the GeSHI Syntax Highlighter [copy or print]
SELECT DISTINCT
    T1.[CheckDate],
    T1.[Assessment_Key],
    T1.[TPKLAPAPPL],
    T1.[Assessment],
    T1.[Purpose],
    T1.[RateType],
    T1.[Address]
FROM 
    [infoprod].[dbo].[LicenseOnSiteCheckTable] T1
    INNER JOIN [infoprod].[dbo].[LicenseOnSiteCheckTable] T2
        ON T1.[TPKLAPAPPL] = T2.[TPKLAPAPPL]
            AND T2.RateType= 'OSM1'
            AND T1.[CheckDate] = (
                SELECT
                    Max(CheckDate)
                FROM
                    [infoprod].[dbo].[LicenseOnSiteCheckTable]
                WHERE
                    T1.[TPKLAPAPPL]= [TPKLAPAPPL])
ORDER BY
	[Assessment]

Grr! I just started using LastPass since the whole Gawker fiasco! Now I have to switch?

No... I'd just keep your very sensitive passwords (banks etc) out of the cloud.

PayPal is my main issue I think as all my banks use other measures that are not stored in LP.

It seems sensible to focus on the unique aspects of DC, which I think community features pretty high.

It would be great to have a Coding Snack a day, Mini-Review a day, and other ??? a days... organising it could be a bit of an issue... maybe we could just open threads and members can post and a moderator can select to publish?

I also like something simple like "a buck a day"...

Then it can all be packaged at the end of March in a Newsletter (it'd be pretty huge)...

Keeping it simple is key (I think)... "31 Days of Snacks, Reviews and News" type thing?

I was wondering if there is a windows resizing tool that remembers preferences and with one click launches the set of the application in their predefined space to start working without the hassle to reajust windows again.

This is what I designed AMPL to do: FARR Plugin: AMPL [updated to version 0.6.2]

I have not worked on it for some time as there was not a lot of interest shown in it, but I use it every day... though it is still pretty rough around the edges

You've done an amazing job, Perry.  Many thanks!

Agreed    He's DoCo's Agent P!

That's funny: never seen that before.

But (like mouser said), I was blown away by the generosity of the companies I approached for the Giveaway (which really was meant to supply tools for the NANY Volunteers -- but I think I got the cart before the horse with that one  )... Every company I approached immediately said they'd contribute prizes!! I think the DonationCoder Community has a lot to do with that sort of response!!

[everyone]

Congratulations all the winners!!! There are a lot of great tools there... hopefully some of them can be used on DC 

...and thanks to everyone for helping to make the Celebration such a success!!

[Winners of the New Year Celebration Giveaway Drawing]

Winners of the New Year Celebration Giveaway Drawing

January 2011 Giveaway Drawing

Supporting Members, you've got until the last day of the month to take advantage of this month's Discounts..

This Month's Special Discounts and Giveaways:

• Axialis Icon Workshop Professional
• Dr. Explain Advanced
• Help & Manual Pro + Premium Pack
• Camtasia Studio 7
• BB Flashback Pro
• Sagelight Image Editor

Winners of 'Axialis Icon Workshop Professional' (10):

• llc_silly
• u-ki
• rno2
• codemonger
• edbro
• Bionic71
• app103
• y0himba
• dcm
• kimajac

Winners of 'Dr. Explain Advanced' (2):

• limelect
• mrainey

Winners of 'Help & Manual Pro + Premium Pack' (1):

• Renegade

Winners of 'Camtasia Studio 7' (2):

• NinJA999
• vlastimil

Winners of 'BB Flashback Pro' (4):

• kyrathaba
• skwire
• CodeTRUCKER
• wraith808

Winners of 'Sagelight Image Editor' (5):

• tomos
• nharding
• richdr
• HOTGA
• hamradio

All winners are now being notified by email to their forum email address.  If you haven't received an email but your name is listed above, check spam filters and forum email address, and then mail prizes@donationcoder.com and let us know you never got any mail.  It can take a few days for companies to send you your serial number; if a few days pass and you haven't received it - send a reminder to the company email as noted in your winning notification email, or to us by replying to the email you received or to us directly.

Curious about how we award prizes?  See http://www.donationcoder....um/index.php?topic=1684.0 for a discussion about our custom prize optimizer utility. Winning something one month reduces your chances of winning the next month, and being helpful on the forum slightly increases your chances.

Ya know this would be kinda cool if you could have a live link to a forum sig code, where it updates your forum sig with what software your using most (not the page titles or anything).  Could be quite fun to see lol

You can pretty much do this with Wakoopa.

Actually you're probably better going to their social section: http://social.wakoopa.com/

 Check out Perry's sig.

Here:

A sort of shower of software that builds up to the new year and new stuff. Think of it like a fireworks show, with the NANY releases being the big finale at the end.

Yes... it's been my goal since that discussion: I love the fireworks analogy... I've been using the word Celebration, hopefully approaching the same effect 

Not sure how well that works with the March anniversary though.

[Edit:]

But it doesnt make sense to have a programming event then i don't think.. Though i guess encouraging UPDATES to existing apps for march could make some sense.

You don't think that doing a wrap up of the previous year's achievements wouldn't work? for which badges could also be given??

Seems to me that reminding people of the great benefits of DC have given over the past 12 months could have lots of nice follow ons...

Edit: Agreed -- another competition wont work so close...

Would it really change any of the end-of-the-year NANY stuff?  People would still participate in the final push for NANY apps, etc.

This was sort of done this year as we opened the event mid year... and looking at the release dates:

• people were releasing teasers as early as June, and about 30% had teased by end November
• people were releasing final releases  as early as November

We had similar worries for this year, but I think what happened was that each entrant used NANY the best way they could... those that like the end of year rush do that and those that prefer the slow build up do that (and everywhere in between). So it may not have an effect...

But personally I'd keep NANY as New Year and do something else for the Celebration / Anniversary (was it March??)

Should NANY encompass any NEW apps made during the previous year.

NAPY???

[NY]

We've actually discussed previously that the New Year Celebration could / should encompass other aspects of DC's year (NANY just being one). There are lots of facets of DC that get "lost" through the year that could be helped by being repackaged at the end of the year.

Coding Snacks is one, and New Releases of existing software is another.

Where as they aren't really a NANY (more just a NA  ) maybe the badge could extended to the celebration, which could include things like featured:

• coding snacks
• major new releases
• major reviews

as well as New Apps??

I too am in the process of moving from RoboForm to LastPass. One reason I didn't even look at LP previously was I'd paid for RB and RB Portable.

LastPass has done nearly everything I used RoboForm for, though it does have a few issues with one or two websites. But in the main I'm more than happy with LastPass.

LastPass satisfied my security issues, so I'm happy.

Synchronising RoboForm data was always an issue for me... I had the Desktop and the USB version which needed to by sync'd (and with RoboForm cloud) but the free version of their sync software complained there were too many files. This made me very unhappy. There is of course no sync'ing problems with LastPass 

I use KeyPass too, but not for my online password usage: more for other secure stuff I need to remember...

Also there are many ideas submitted for previous NANYs as well:

• NANY 2010 Program Idea Suggestion Thread
• NANY 2009 Communal Idea Thread

Maybe we should bring unused ideas forward? They tend to get lost once the year goes past...

If we're simply counting, it should be number of apps, but I would say that 

...not lines of code?? 

Hmmm... my first impression on seeing them was "very nice!"  Then the digits, "01," "03" and the "05" on the badges provoked an instinctive perception the digits were "years." 

+1

I think the leading zero is unnecessary...

ham is working on the badges now -- i vote for ONE small 16x16 badge showing the # of NANY's you've participated in, and then on your profile and on the badge listing page, it will show one for each year.  i can implement this easily and i think it will reduce clutter on the posts pages (like this one).

 

I'd like a grey one (because I'm not actually Entrant Class 

I think you've (not quite) succinctly summed up my feelings about NANY... it is an amazing community event where the coders do put their pledge on the line, but for most there is a huge amount of help / volunteering / encouragement / etc from the forum.

It's not about the number or quality... it's about the celebration and the community.

The more NANY structure encourages celebration and development of community the better.

You sure they don't just get pasted in a collapsed state??