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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: What is the Great DonationCoder.com GTD Experiment of 2006?

« on: August 18, 2006, 01:26 PM »

Great to see all the new names and faces - welcome one and all 

-mouser (August 18, 2006, 07:29 AM)

Yeah this has really pulled a lot of people out of the woodwork, which is a very good thing

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Living Room / Re: USB sticks - do you need a famous name?

« on: August 18, 2006, 09:48 AM »

You can't rely on either types exclusivly, always have backups of any data you have on. I've heard stories of them failing suddenly with no warning. Plus you could lose it .

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2006 / Re: What is the Great DonationCoder.com GTD Experiment of 2006?

« on: August 16, 2006, 05:51 PM »

Yep count me in too.

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« on: August 14, 2006, 06:23 PM »

With so many people showing their desktops full of icons I feel compelled to show how I launch programs. I use a custom start menu which is simply just a directory structure of shortcuts set as a toolbar on the taskbar.

Here a pic of it currently:

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Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?

« on: August 13, 2006, 11:30 AM »

Well thanks to Tweak UI which allows me to turn off all the icons and Skrommel's FadingTaskbar, my desktop shows nothing other than the background image when idle.

That said I'll therefore posts a few of my favourite wallpapers (all are from deviantART):

• Changing (this is my favourite by far)
• Balance
• Aetherium
• Tongues of Fire
• Chess Globe

Indeed most of the popular walls from the Abstract category I tend to like

[edit]Fixed bad grammar.[/edit]

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas - Essay #40 by Scott Berkun

« on: August 13, 2006, 06:14 AM »

That was a long read, but very insightful and very well written.

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Living Room / Re: comparative study of international acceptance of evolution

« on: August 12, 2006, 10:27 AM »

I recommend deleting this topic, there are too many conflicting viewpoints here and debate on the issue I fear could turn ugly.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's the Best Scripting Language?

« on: August 11, 2006, 01:13 PM »

Whoa thats a lot of imformation to take in .

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scripting to be added to Screenshot Captor

« on: August 11, 2006, 08:53 AM »

[Select]

for(AList::iterator it = list.begin(); it != list.end(); ++it)
{
  // Do something with 'it'
}

That's a pretty common code sequence in a lot of C++ programs. There are various ways to implement it so that the for loop is more concise (e.g. functors).

-NeilS (August 11, 2006, 08:22 AM)

Sorry mouser for dragging this so far of topic, but NeilS another option for C++ code is Boost.FOR_EACH .

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Living Room / Re: Addictive Dice Game

« on: August 10, 2006, 07:43 PM »

Very cool, can you move dice between your own zones? I couldn't seem to.

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Living Room / Re: Math is an Attitude

« on: August 10, 2006, 06:48 PM »

I was led to believe that a limit only existed pv the left limit equalled the right limit, which isn't the case here.

-tsaint (August 10, 2006, 05:30 PM)

Ah yes, excellent point and I stand corrected. I suppose you could add "x belongs to [0,8)" and then perhaps it'd be ok but thats moving the goal posts .

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Living Room / Re: Math is an Attitude

« on: August 10, 2006, 04:15 PM »

I'm a bit worried about the limit(x-8)^-1 as x->8 being equal to infinity. I'd think the limit doesn't exist.

-tsaint (August 01, 2006, 03:17 AM)

I believe that while (x-8)^1 for x = 8 doesn't exist, the limit as x tends towards 8 does, and that limit is infinity.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scripting to be added to Screenshot Captor

« on: August 10, 2006, 03:09 PM »

... squirrel (http://www.squirrel-lang.org/) really seemed to appeal to the c++ coder in me

-mouser (August 10, 2006, 12:39 PM)

I must admit it grabbed my attention too, it would be nice to hear from people who have worked with both, but such people might be hard to find.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Scripting to be added to Screenshot Captor

« on: August 10, 2006, 11:05 AM »

Hmm, hadn't heard of Squirrel before must look ito it, but must mention I was always fond of Lua, especially with the luabind library which seems to make interaction with C++ a breeze.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Mailing lists or Message boards for offering software support?

« on: August 09, 2006, 07:57 AM »

I must say the security concerns over phpbb were niggling at me a bit over the past few days when I happened across PunBB. It’s a lovely lightweight bulletin board software, none of the fancy frills like PMs, polls, etc. which I don’t want anyway and the clincher for me was that someone had ported the very style I was working with from phpbb.

Now I don’t know how it stacks up against either phpbb, smf or the rest when it come to security but I gather that its developer(s) take(s) this matter very seriously. I’m hoping that security through obscurity will work in my favour, i.e. a small unknown site running a relatively little known bb software hopefully won’t attract the wrong type of attention.

Just thought I’d share this little gem with you all.

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Living Room / Re: build your own shirt folding machine:

« on: August 09, 2006, 07:47 AM »

For those of you who gave up on constructing a shirt-folding machine that works (and still think you need help with this very difficult task ), here's an origami version.  I haven't quite gotten the knack of it yet, and am left with kind of a bunched up mess on one side.  Maybe you'll have more success.

http://www.2flashgam.../v-4.htm&id=1260

-momonan (August 09, 2006, 06:59 AM)

Thats very impressive, gotta try that when I get home.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Mailing lists or Message boards for offering software support?

« on: August 06, 2006, 04:48 AM »

I think a forum software review would also be a great idea.

Regarding the security concerns, I have to admit I made the choice for phpbb mainly because of aesthetic reasons, i.e. I saw a nice style available for phpbb which I knew I could easily adapt to fit it in with my site. Probably not the ideal reason to base a decision on.

On the mailing list v forums discussion, one great thing about mailings lists is that you can sign up for a number of low volume list and have them come to you rather than you being forced to check a larger number of sites everyday to see if there have been any updates. Thank fully though RSS support and even subscriptions mean that forums also offer this feature just in a less obvious way.

Also on a personal note I think forums are more welcoming to new users. In the past where I've needed support and it was only available through mailing lists I was very conscious that any post I make would be ending up in the inbox of a large number of people, with a forum I don't feel like I'm imposing as much when I ask a question.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Mailing lists or Message boards for offering software support?

« on: August 05, 2006, 04:43 PM »

Thanks for your feedback mitzevo. I actually decided to opt for the forum solution. A bug plus for it was the fact it more easily acts as an archive of answered question than a mailing list does, though I know a mailing also offers this.

I agree with you regarding the initial workload but thats once off, however the security issue you mention is very valid, espicially since I opted for phpbb over smf, and I believe phpbb has a higher history of exploits.

I'll try it for a while anyway and see how it works out.

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Developer's Corner / Mailing lists or Message boards for offering software support?

« on: August 05, 2006, 08:12 AM »

Hi, I'm working on a small project which is approaching a state where it can be released. I am curious as to how I should let people contact me to request help or just ask simple questions. I would be expecting a very low volume of support issues certainly initially while the library is being developed.

The two obvious choices are mailing lists which I can get through SourceForge or setting up a small message board which I can do with my own web space provider. Now personally I prefeer message boards but I get the impression that for low volume support mailing lists seem to be the norm.

So I'm interested to hear opinions from the developers here (ok I suspect you'll be a bit biased towards a forum seeing as how well this one is run).

Thanks, Eoin.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Control Freak - living in the game

« on: August 04, 2006, 10:13 AM »

is anyone up for a test game?

-nudone (August 03, 2006, 10:18 AM)

Count me in.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The Mozart Programming System

« on: August 03, 2006, 06:14 AM »

I must say it sounds fascinating, I'll bookmark it in the hopes I'll remember it in the future should I need something like it . Good find.

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Living Room / Origami Paper Cd Cases

« on: August 02, 2006, 07:01 PM »

I came across this ages ago with stumbleupon and thought I'd share it; Paper Cd Cases. I love origami and since coming across this I've haven't used anything else since for holding the multitude of cds I burn .

Now personally I don't bother with creating a printed page from the site, nor do I follow the steps as they're described in the PDF. I simply place a cd on an A4 page to judge the width needed to form the two initial length-wise folds which gets you to step 1  (thats step 1 in the photos, not pdf) everything after that is easily judged, no real guides are needed as the design is very tolerant.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Control Freak - living in the game

« on: August 01, 2006, 03:20 PM »

it would be nice to have a cut down simplified version of 'Trac' incorporated directly into the 'Control Freak' game (if it helps players) but i have no idea how difficult these sorts of things would be to accommodate.

-nudone (August 01, 2006, 03:05 PM)

Thats what I was thinking but I do agree that it could be alot of work.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Control Freak - living in the game

« on: August 01, 2006, 02:44 PM »

Trac is an example of web based software for setting goals and keeping track of the progress of a project. Now it's not particularly suited to this as it's really desinged for managing collaborative opensource project (it even has a SVN browser bultin) but I think its concept of milestones and tickets is something to learn form.

Basically you setup up some milestones and then you create tickets which can represent tasks (or bugs, etc) you assign tickets to milestones and it'll give you a roadmap view of your progress. I find it great as I type up a few tickets when I'm feeling idle but not in the mood to program, then later when in the right mood I check the trac site as say; "Ah i'll work that specific task now". If you finish it you tick it off and you really feel like you've accomplished something.

There are a number of projects using trac, one randomly chosen would be [url=http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/]YASM[/trac], you could browse it to see what I'm talking about.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Control Freak - living in the game

« on: August 01, 2006, 01:37 PM »

I like this idea and could certainly see myself participating. I've alot to do, a reasonable amount of time to do it in but.... well actually there really is no excuse for why I don't get things done .