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Developer's Corner / Re: The D programming language - an interview with the author

« on: July 26, 2008, 11:06 AM »

There's also a new book available on D, which seems very short and isn't getting great reviews, but is cheap

-mouser (July 26, 2008, 11:03 AM)

Cool! This is a book from 2007, so I guess it's fairly recent, which is important because D has changed a lot over the years.

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Developer's Corner / The D programming language - an interview with the author

« on: July 26, 2008, 10:42 AM »

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Recently featured on the OSNews blog was an article on compuworld with the author of the D programming language, Walter Bright.

D takes C++ and incorporates elements from more modern programming languages such as ruby,python,java,etc...
I find this particularly interesting because D remains a true systems programming language, with many of the original concepts that make me stick to C++ in it.

It looks like D has come a long way since I last tried it, and they are getting ready for their 2.0 release (alpha has been released now).

D is not without it's problems, for example, it's standard library has been forked and is not compatible with the original stdlib. Bright addresses this and other criticisms on the language in the article above.

Very interesting read!

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Living Room / Re: July 25th - Happy SysAdminDay you poor b*stards

« on: July 25, 2008, 08:44 AM »

Thanks!
I didn't know about this one, hehe.

made all that much harder by the fact that the entire internet infrastructure is a disaster.

No kidding!

Email is evolving into a situation where only a handful of very large providers trusts eachother. (the situation is growing into a situation where yahoo, hotmail, and google will trust eachother and suspect anything else to be spam). The spam problem keeps on getting worse despite new technologies being invented all the time to combat it, and it gets very hard to identify genuine email from spam sometimes. People today send html, images, documents and even movies via email on a protocol that was initially designed to handle just text. None of these old protocols were designed with the internet of today in mind.
Don't even get me started on DNS. Recently they just found a huge vulnerability in the protocol that would allow an attacker to poisen the cache of a dns server. (eg: when you type in donationcoder.com the dns server at your isp could very easily LIE to you and give you the ip of some other -possibly malicious- website.) Mind you that this was not a vulnerability/bug in some program. This was a protocol weakness, thus affecting many if not all programs that implement it. Moreover, the exploit code for this vulnerability was released way too soon. ISP's barely had the time to upgrade their software (and I bet many still didn't!)
The www is a mess and html standards suck, browsers implement them randomly...
I could go on forever I think

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder/Veign Programming Contest Results Posted

« on: July 23, 2008, 06:15 AM »

Thanks mouser and veign for making this contest possible, and thanks to the contestants for giving us a few new exciting apps! 

I still think these need to be advertised better.
I had to look for a while to find this thread..

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Developer's Corner / Re: redmine: website tool for collaborative project todolist/wiki, bugtracking, etc

« on: July 22, 2008, 05:44 PM »

If you get tired from it (RedMine), today I just found out today that you can request a free license for JIRA [http://www.atlassian.com] when you create/have an open source product.

Looks like you have to be a registred non-profit organization:

JIRA is free for use by official non-profit organisations and charities (proof of non-profit status is required).

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Living Room / Re: DC Forum Members -- Tell Us About Your Website

« on: July 21, 2008, 11:42 PM »

linkerror.com
Misc random projects, some coding snacks I made for dc.
Haven't made much updates to that page lately because I've been busy with my server admin work.

adminking.com
This is the professional website for my new serveradmin startup.

Spaceduck site
This is the web site for the spaceduck game which I was developing quite some time ago. I still plan on finishing it some day, but I suppose for now you can consider it vapourware.

Eternal site
Even older than spaceduck, a roleplaying game I was planning to develop. Yet another thing I hope to finish some day. This is something I'll probably finish on my deathbed or something Just like spaceduck it's dead now because of work and other exciting projects. One of my more-active-but-still-not-so-active projects might actually serve as a platform for this eventually.

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Developer's Corner / Re: redmine: website tool for collaborative project todolist/wiki, bugtracking, etc

« on: July 21, 2008, 08:31 PM »

Also, the wiki documentation is slightly out-of-date, and it isn't a 100% step-by-step newbie guide.

But with some linux experience and time for googling, it worked out without too much trouble.

I found that the easyest and most flexible way to deploy it, supporting multiple installs and/or other RoR applications, is using passenger(modrails) with Apache, especially if it has to co-exist with php webapps and lots of other stuff.

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Developer's Corner / Re: redmine: website tool for collaborative project todolist/wiki, bugtracking, etc

« on: July 20, 2008, 11:36 PM »

I looked at the dotproject demo(admin/admin) but the UI seems very cluttered and clunky compared to redmine imo. Thanks for mentioning it though. It would be nice to see more of these systems, since I already found redmine to be very useful.

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Developer's Corner / Re: redmine: website tool for collaborative project todolist/wiki, bugtracking, etc

« on: July 19, 2008, 06:17 PM »

The only bad thing...the annual pricing scheme

No kidding I try to stick to Free software (GPL) for most things I do.

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Developer's Corner / Re: redmine: website tool for collaborative project todolist/wiki, bugtracking, etc

« on: July 19, 2008, 05:27 PM »

there are many project management apps out there, mainly web based ones... will have to check this one out when i get the time.

-mitzevo (July 19, 2008, 10:30 AM)

Yeah, I tried quite a few. So far this is the only one I like enough to stick with.

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Developer's Corner / Re: redmine: website tool for collaborative project todolist/wiki, bugtracking, etc

« on: July 19, 2008, 06:29 AM »

thanks for discovering it gothic

Thank urlwolf, he's the one that made me initially install it on his server

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Developer's Corner / redmine: website tool for collaborative project todolist/wiki, bugtracking, etc

« on: July 19, 2008, 06:19 AM »

mouser and I have been using redmine lately for various projects, and I must say it really helps productivity.
I find this kind of the ultimate `getting-things-done` tool, even if you don't need a bugtracker for what you're doing per se. It's a bit hard to explain everything so I'll just break down the features below:

• It has advanced issue tracking (bugtracker), with customizable fields. (ie, you can add your own fields issue reporters can fill out, or customize existion options of issue categories, bug status, etc...)
  
  
• It integrates with most common source control systems like subversion, cvs, mercurial, etc...
  This includes showing colored diff's if you want to compare 2 different versions of a file from an older revision for example.
  
  
• It can generate gantt charts for all tasks a project. And it will even output these in PDF or PNG format so you can print them or easily share them with people!
  
  
• It has a calendar feature, showing when issues are due and when they were filed.
  
  
• It can send out email notifications for issues you 'watch' -or- for all changes
  
  
• It can generate atom feeds for pretty much any page. So you can have an atom feed of all recent changes, all latest issues assigned to you, all latest unassigned issues, the latest svn commits,... If you can view it, you can get an atom feed from it, pretty much.
  
  
• It has advanced user and permission management. It has matrix tables of what user group is allowed to change what field in an issue, and which projects are to be private and which are to be public.
  
  
• It lets you make wiki pages for your project.
  
  
• It has a built-in editor for notes or other documentation, which you can categorize.
  
  
• It allows you to upload files for projects, which can also be categorized.
  
  
• It has version management, which lets you define (multiple) versions for a project(eg: v1.2.0). These can have a due date, and this will be shown in gantt charts and the calendar view. You can assign for which version a specific feature is due.
  
  Related to this is the roadmap feature, which will show a progress bar for each version you defined. Based on how many open/unresolved issues you have for a specific version of a project, and how many closed tickets there are. (if you have 10 open tickets and 10 closed tickets, the progress will thus be 50%)
  
  
• It allows you to log time for specific issues, or for a project in general. And shows the total time spent on each project, or the total time spent 'this week' on your personal page (my page). This is a great feature allowing you to track how you spent your time. It can also generate detailed 'spent' time reports, which you can even filter by category etc... Great for GTD and tracking how you spend your time on things, and to see if you can improve your efficiency.
  
  
• It has built-in forum support, you can have a discussion forum for your project at the click of a button, however it's nothing like smf(what we use for donationcoder). it seems a bit limited in what it can do, but could come in handy nonetheless.
  
  
• It lets you make a 'news' page for your project, where all project members can catch up on the latest stuff they need to know. I don't use this feature a lot since it's mostly just jesse and me, and we talk about most stuff on IRC anyway, but I see how it could be handy if you have a project with more people, or even in an office environment.
  
  
• It has a link to give you the PDF version of any page you're looking at, this means, very nice reports to print of anything!
  
  
• Oh and it also allows you to mark certain projects as sub-projets of others.
  

I'm really a crappy writer/reviewer so please look at the screenshots of all this stuff :

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Will someone in this section please start creating a massive MMORPG

« on: July 14, 2008, 06:12 AM »

Perhaps it would be more productive to contribute to an existing F/OSS mmorpg under development like planeshift.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Will someone in this section please start creating a massive MMORPG

« on: July 07, 2008, 07:20 AM »

How about finishing you know what so we can make this stuff in it and more.... some day

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wanted: Seamless forum <==> mailing list integration

« on: June 30, 2008, 01:25 PM »

I've been looking for that too. Nothing found yet.
It's feasible to have forum posts to be forwarded to a mailing list, but mailing list posts to forum seems more tricky, especially since 'thread' detection on mailing lists is buggy at best in current software.

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Living Room / Re: How Interesting is Your IP Address?

« on: June 25, 2008, 10:07 AM »

My IP:




I tried to see what donationcoder.com's IP shows:




Looks like donationcoder.com is the winner so far !!

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Living Room / Re: Cedega on linux

« on: June 19, 2008, 11:26 PM »

Josh,

I found this for you, I think I remember you asking for a demo or trial...:

http://www.nzone.com...edega_downloads.html

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Living Room / Re: Spore Creature Creator Released - Make Cody Creature Contest!

« on: June 18, 2008, 09:08 PM »

Very cute,...
makes weird sounds for a bird though.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do we need a Linux and/or Mac child board?

« on: June 15, 2008, 07:57 AM »

I wonder how many people have that same impression as you, and don't feel as if they are welcome here among the windows users? Perhaps we have forum members that have never posted for such a reason.

If there was a section for non-windows users, (perhaps with it's own coding snacks area, too?) we could see more members contributing posts that never did before, and even some non-windows coding snacks requests that non-windows developers could fill.

The way I see it, adding a section for non-windows would be branching out and a step towards expanding the site into areas not really covered before.

This is definitely something to give a lot of thought to before going ahead and doing it.

Thank you, app.
I agree 100000000000000% with this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do we need a Linux and/or Mac child board?

« on: June 13, 2008, 06:46 AM »

sorry, I tried Plan9 once, WAAAY to geeky.

I thought we were all about being geeky.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Do we need a Linux and/or Mac child board?

« on: June 12, 2008, 05:31 PM »

I'm all for it, as it would help attract a more varied user base.

However, if you start making a Linux board, and a Mac board, you also have to make a *BSD board, a Solaris board, a plan9 board, etc... you get the drift.

Maybe call it a non-windows board or an 'alternative OS' board or something.

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Living Room / Re: Interactive Linux kernel map

« on: June 11, 2008, 03:31 PM »

It's actually kind of a handy overview when you're doing kernel development, especially since it takes you right to the documentation+source when you click an item.

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Living Room / Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?

« on: June 03, 2008, 11:27 PM »

Just disconnect the router and connect a PC direct to the wall.

I had suggested that too, but
he has a modem/router-in-one as far as I understand, so that's not an option.

However a similar effect can be obtained by disabling NAT and putting it into bridge-mode.

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Living Room / Re: Help! Any NetGear experts out there?

« on: June 02, 2008, 11:56 PM »

The first thing you should do is try and determine if it's a software problem or a networking problem, or you could be trying to hunt this down forever.

You say they had tracked it down to a winsock error? Did you try from a different computer on the network, or even a different operating system(try a livecd)? If you only have the problem on that one PC, it is most likely NOT your router at fault.

If the problem is OS/computer independent, then you are indeed most likely looking at a router problem.

But it's important to figure out first which of the two you're dealing with, your you'll be chasing ghost's.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The internet hijacked

« on: June 02, 2008, 07:10 PM »

There is no MITHM attack with SSL. That's what SSL stops.

Erm, yes there is
There are plenty of different SSL mitm attacks possible.
While it protects the casual kid from reading plaintext stuff, the attacker can inject false ssl certificates into the tcp stream, and most users will accept them without thinking twise.

No ISP needs to be compromised. It only takes one trojaned machine on your network, or a wireless router with a cracked WEP/WPA/WPA2/... key.