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Site/Forum Features / Re: RSS Feeds for DonationCoder.com and this Forum

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:59 AM »

App, that's basically what he's saying, actually 

죄송하지만 기본적인 번역을 할 수 있습니다. 우리가 어떻게 도와 드릴까요?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:56 AM »

Actually, I'm with you, superboy. I have to have all my data locally. I would never, ever, trust my (or my company's data) on some server out there on the interwebs. What if they are hacked? What if they catch fire? What if my internet connection goes down? What if a disgruntled employee erases random data? What if they have a hardware failure and restore an older backup? What if they are DDOSed? What if they suddenly raise their rates by 10x?

All of that I believe is covered here by me personally with a UPS, shadowing, and off-site daily backup.

Plus, I do so hate going to some website to run an 'app' - for me, an application launches instantly on my desktop.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to beautify crappy exports from other applications?

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:51 AM »

Shades: yes, although it sounds like you're doing some pretty hardcore coding if you're dealing with SAP: the very mention of which fills me with terror.

Superboyac - if it's just one or two templates that you need, it would be reasonably easy to create you a sample from which you could get a good kick-start. Once you see how to do the basics, the formatting etc. would be up to you, and very similar to creating an html page.

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Living Room / Re: A point of grammar

« on: February 26, 2011, 11:40 AM »

OMG!!    SIT!  (see attachment in previous post)

-nosh (February 25, 2011, 10:21 PM)

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« on: February 25, 2011, 06:54 PM »

Actually, I was going to remark on the absence of a fifth column but I didn't want to provoke a row.

-cranioscopical (February 25, 2011, 06:17 PM)

Crainioscopical...shows up on 'queue' as always! 

-40hz (February 25, 2011, 06:45 PM)

omg 

So - is there somewhere that we can browse the wares? Like a one-page summary of what to look forward to in March?

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Living Room / Re: A point of grammar

« on: February 25, 2011, 03:04 PM »

So if its it's isn't 'it is' then its it's isn't it's, it's its?

Got it.

-40hz (February 25, 2011, 02:59 PM)

Damn, he's good...

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General Software Discussion / Re: A plea for help from a VS developer...

« on: February 25, 2011, 02:52 PM »

How annoying! I would expect regsvr32 to do the trick for you - there is in fact an installer in this archive, but it's incomplete.

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Living Room / A point of grammar

« on: February 25, 2011, 01:57 PM »

It's not "it's" unless its "its" is "it is" not "its", otherwise it's "its" 

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« on: February 25, 2011, 12:48 PM »

I am travelling a lot in March (mouser, I'm coming over your way)

a dc gathering in march!  anyone else want to visit champaign IL for some dinner and board games?

-mouser (February 25, 2011, 12:40 PM)

Well, I'll be in Chicago for a week - it would not be out of the question if things go to plan. I know you're outside the city, but not that far eh? Couple of hours is it?

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Bat: Great program, terrible documentation and support

« on: February 25, 2011, 11:50 AM »

Can this Bat of yours be customised, plug-in'd or otherwise extended? If so there may be a way to shoehorn in a better editor while retaining all the other fine features of the program.

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« on: February 25, 2011, 11:48 AM »

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4.

-timns (February 25, 2011, 11:27 AM)

Wow! 

-cranioscopical (February 25, 2011, 11:32 AM)

You're impressed that I can count, right? I can actually make it all the way to 21, thanks to my vestigial 6th toe.

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Official Announcements / Re: March 2011 DonationCoder.com Fundraiser Celebration -- Pledges?

« on: February 25, 2011, 11:27 AM »

Good point, and getting back to that:

1. A new application that will help you to read the DC forums 'offline'

2. A full review of a large software application

3. An HITC cartoon strip if anyone wants it 

4. A 'How-To' or 2 if I have time... I am travelling a lot in March (mouser, I'm coming over your way) but maybe it will give me something to do between schmoozing sessions 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is DonationCoder too exposed of a brand?

« on: February 25, 2011, 11:21 AM »

Yes, I would definitely not want to say goodbye to the DC brand in any way. But multiple domain names and landings would be nice perhaps. Once someone's interest is piqued, one would hope they'd look around and discover the forums etc.

All this really leads back to the re-design conversation. And app's offer of building the software page could be a huge part of that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is DonationCoder too exposed of a brand?

« on: February 25, 2011, 10:59 AM »

Something that occurred to me last night (and apologies if this has been discussed before) is that one issue is the site's name itself.

Any of my friends who are not coders would probably never visit a site called DonationCoder simply because the name suggests that this is a place where coders who earn or expect money from donations hang out, NOT somewhere to find amazing software, reviews and how-to's.

Has DC ever considered a more 'usery' alternative name, leading to a landing page that eases them into the site?

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Living Room / Re: Show us your desktop

« on: February 25, 2011, 10:06 AM »

Welcome to DC, DJ Azero. Nice to see the old traditional meaning of 'googol' there  (correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't "googol" the first $1,000,000 answer on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?')

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Timns Apps / Re: Auspex Build 1.2.4.104 uploaded

« on: February 25, 2011, 10:02 AM »

e.g. c:\Program Files\Auspex\Auspex.exe -inifile t:\portable\auspex

-timns (February 24, 2011, 06:43 PM)

Hm, that doesn't look really portable, I'd go for:

[Select]

t:\portable\auspex\Auspex.exe -inifile t:\portable\auspex

-Ath (February 25, 2011, 01:19 AM)

Good one. I've edited my post.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« on: February 25, 2011, 09:47 AM »

In a thread like this, often we forget to compliment you on all that is good in Auspex, and growing better.
[If only I could think of something… ]

-cranioscopical (February 25, 2011, 09:41 AM)

How about the icon? That's quite nice.

p.s. Be nice to see a double-click on the tray icon bring up the GUI.

Ah yes - still on the list.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: My google page rank dropped to 0, anyone have any ideas why?

« on: February 24, 2011, 09:28 PM »

I did a few google searches for pretty recent posts, and I'm getting hits now - this is good, right?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's your favorite eBay/auction helping software?

« on: February 24, 2011, 08:53 PM »

events that was. A little more accurate and complete version of events was right before KenR went to the hospital, etc. etc.

-KenR (December 12, 2007, 12:20 PM)

Off-topic I know but if we ever launch the "post of the month" competition, I vote for this one from Ken  

EDIT: oh balls, I only just noticed that post was 1170 days ago 

Or, as Frink would put it:

#2011-02-24# - #2007-12-12# ->days
1170

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Living Room / Re: Attention Traditional Companies: Stop Trying!

« on: February 24, 2011, 07:22 PM »

Interesting, but I can't get past the fact it's a very patronizing tone.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« on: February 24, 2011, 06:57 PM »

Folks, new Auspex is up. I'm wondering if we should lock this thread and move everyone over to the other one here:

Yes, here

@mouser, what do you reckon?

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Living Room / Re: Show us your desktop

« on: February 24, 2011, 06:52 PM »

Well, you've shown me yours, so I'd better show you mine:



I have 3 screens in a row, and I use them in a very strict way.

Left Monitor: this is my "info screen". At a glance I have time, date, system status, etc. I also keep my browsers, todo list, and scratchpad over here.

Middle Monitor: this is where I have my IDEs, CRM, email etc. to hand.

Right Monitor: this is the DOpus, SQL and message screen. Calls, skypes etc. appear here, and this is where all the filing, copying, uploading etc. goes on. And random deletions from important client databases. 

I should make a special mention of a couple of things that didn't show up on the screen: FARR of course, and skwire's marvellous DropMove thingy. 

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Timns Apps / Auspex Build 1.2.4.104 uploaded

« on: February 24, 2011, 06:43 PM »

You can now use Auspex from any location. Simply set up your icon with a path similar to this:

<YourPathTo>\Auspex.exe -inifile <YourPathToItsDataFiles>

e.g. t:\Program Files\Auspex\Auspex.exe -inifile t:\portable\auspex

The rest is just mini fixes - but you folks who have to "wake up" the program before it starts to work: it should get itself going straight away now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is DonationCoder too exposed of a brand?

« on: February 24, 2011, 05:41 PM »

That is a very interesting read indeed. Unfortunately I have to agree with a lot of it, even though I don't want to 

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General Software Discussion / Re: webpage change notifier

« on: February 24, 2011, 03:20 PM »

I can think of 2 off-hand:

Check & Get

Website Watcher

Both are very powerful, lots of features and will definitely do what you need (with a bit of faffing) - but they are both also (relatively) expensive. There are other solutions too - several freeware thingies let you set up a simple monitor to watch for changes to a page. For example I believe RainMeter can do that, but not tried it.