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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2012, 08:27 AM »

ps. if someone wants to create an alternate mug design, that would be great too -- I can provide cody source images..

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Instruction for Adding to the Favorite Clips

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2012, 08:24 AM »

Welcome to the site Shmuel, and thank you for your post.  I agree with you about showing it by default, i will make it so -- and add your text to help file.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2012, 08:09 AM »

hehehe oops.  will correct. 

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2012, 07:51 AM »

Images:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY 2012 Mugs, etc. -- All participants please read in

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2012, 07:04 AM »

I just sent out an email to all participants registered forum email addresses.

If you participated in NANY but did not get an email, please sent me a forum message.

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Email contents:

Congratulations and thank you for participating in the NANY 2012 event!  I hope you had fun, I know I did.

And now it's time for your reward, a DonationCoder mug (or other similar thing).

But first I have to make sure everyone can receive mail at their forum email address.

Please reply to this email and let me know you've received it.

My plan is to do like last year, and send a cafepress email gift certificate that will cover the cost of a mug including shipping internationally, so that everyone can fill out their own shipping address at the cafepress website.

In addition, if you would like a mailed "certificate" of your participation in NANY 2012 (see this thread https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26871.0 ), then please say so in your reply and tell me your shipping address.

Oh, and if you would rather have a rare deck of CodyCards as your NANY give *INSTEAD* of a mug (see this thread: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26210.0 ), then please say so in your reply and tell me your shipping address.

Thank you again for kicking us off to a great start of the new year!


ps. Thank you to the wonderful donator who donated funds to send out the mugs this year.

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Living Room / Re: Board Game Review Site Roundup

« Last post by mouser on January 05, 2012, 06:40 AM »

Just wanted to add an update -- the creator of WatchItPlayed has begun a little indie fundraiser to help him do more videos.  I love their videos and I love these independent funding projects (like kickstarter).  This kind of grass roots direct funding is one of the greatest things and we need to all support it whenever we can  

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Official Announcements / The NANY 2012 Event at DonationCoder.com Wraps Up!

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2012, 07:48 PM »

Read all about the NANY 2012 software releases here.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: The Official WriteUp for the NANY 2012 Event

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2012, 07:26 PM »

A huge huge thank you to DC member Kyrathaba for shepherding through this year's NANY.  It's a huge undertaking (just ask DC member Perry Mowbray whose skills at it may never be repeated but who after 2 years of it had to go on a 2 month long walk in the wilderness just to recover).


Congratulations to everyone (including myself!) who participated by releasing a new application.

Now let's all chip and and make a donation or two to some of the authors of these programs (if you aren't familiar with how to do so, you just make a donation to the site, and then you're donation will be credited to your forum account -- after which you can send parts of your donation to specific members).

See a list of all NANY 2012 coders (with a quick link to donate to the them at the bottom of the page) here.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Uncle Cody's Dice Game

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2012, 03:32 PM »

82 is my high so far:

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / NANY 2012 Badges

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2012, 03:16 PM »

The NANY 2012 badges were assigned.  Here's the list:
https://www.donation...badges;show=nany2012

Did I miss any participants?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: P-FANCI: Petition For A New Cody Image! POST HERE!!

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2012, 03:15 AM »

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Finished Programs / Re: Solved javascript for forum

« Last post by mouser on January 04, 2012, 02:12 AM »

no i just moved it because of your report -- it used to be in requests section -- you weren't imagining things

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Developer's Corner / Re: Web designer needed to convert a Joomla template to a WordPress theme

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2012, 02:24 PM »

you really sure you don't want to start fresh with a new wordpress theme?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Silly question about localizing C/C++ applications

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2012, 12:54 PM »

There is no one standard solution, but the closest for c++ is probably gettext.

However, for C++ Builder (and of course it also works for Delphi), I have had reasonably good experience with the commercial product Korzh Localizer.

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Finished Programs / Re: Solved javascript for forum

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2012, 07:37 AM »

yes, you are right. done and complete.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2012, 07:09 AM »

Two other concerns:

1. Malicious users sending spam using your script+server+account.

2. While it may be similarly possible for your server or the users server to get hacked.. in the former case, *YOU* are going to have a ton of apologizing to do and take a lot of heat if it happens.. Whereas if an individual user has their computer hacked, you are not to blame.  Something to consider.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2012, 06:54 AM »

All fair points regarding the disadvantages of smtp configuration.

One solution if you really wanted to keep going with this tool would be to support both methods, smtp configuration for those that cared, and central server script for those that didn't.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge: Fast Latex Automatic Kompiler (FLAK)

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2012, 04:58 PM »

Is it safe to assume Flak is withdrawn from NANY?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: Pledge: Fentwiss (a simple calculator / converter)

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2012, 04:55 PM »

Tim, is FentWiss in release state?

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Baby Cody Photo Screensaver

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2012, 12:57 PM »

I'd love to see someone make a photo screensaver with photos from all the people and places that Baby Cody has visited, using my new MultiPhotoQuotes Screensaver Builder.

Maybe someone can volunteer to build it and solicit full resolution photos from each person who has hosted Baby Cody?

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2012, 10:03 AM »

I think the concern lies in how big of a target the noteme server/account is in this scenario.  It represents a single point of attack that would give someone access to every note sent by every user.  And a single point of failure where if your server script goes down, no one can use the program.

Maybe this is not ever going to have more than a handful of users so the concern is more theoretical than practical,  but i think in principle when there is no *NEED* to send sensitive messages through a middle man server, it should not be done.

There is a definite advantage in not having to configure mail settings, I'll give you that.  Maybe if people only send non-sensitive messages it doesnt matter.  And maybe I'm just old-school when it comes to privacy.. But no matter how much i trust someone, I don't want my email going through anyone's hands that it does not absolutely have to.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2012, 09:12 AM »

I got the same error after setup too.

However I think there is a much bigger problem, this:
"Privacy Policy: Notes are sent to a serverside script and delivered by GMail for easy of use and reliability. "

While I trust you justice completely -- there is just no way on earth i would ever recommend people use a program for sending email to themselves which routed them through some external server script.  Even if you are trustworthy, you don't have control over who might be trying to snoop into your traffic.  Plus, if your server goes down, the program becomes unusable.

I think the correct thing for such a tool is to directly send the emails, using a mail sending too like sendmail.exe or whatever.

I'm sorry I didn't post this comment earlier but i didn't realize until now how it was sending stuff.

Being able to quickly send an email to yourself is a nice useful idea -- but when i want to send a note to myself, i want it to go from me to my email account, not through someone else's personal server.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release Day Getting Close!

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2012, 07:41 AM »

Just an update: Kyrathaba and I are working to have the writeup and screencasts ready in the next day or two.

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General Software Discussion / ghacks Best New Windows Software of 2011

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2012, 06:32 AM »

Ghacks, one of our favorite freeware sites, has posted their list of top new Windows programs for 2011:

This is the third part of the Ghacks best of 2011 series. In this top list, I’m going to look at the best software for the Microsoft Windows operating system that we have reviewed in 2011 here at Ghacks. We posted a total of 937 Windows related stories in 2011, of which the majority were software related.

http://www.ghacks.ne...ws-software-of-2011/

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for December 19, 2011 - "Snowy Feathers"

« Last post by mouser on January 01, 2012, 10:42 AM »

Please tell me you are using an App to collate your links!?

I don't use an app for it but i've written some small custom code that helps format the recent posts for the newsletter, so it's mainly a matter of pruning and reorganizing.