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General Software Discussion / Re: What in the world is "Refactoring?"

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 05:00 PM »

it really depends on what kind of coder you are and how well you take to these new fangled IDE fancy tools.

if you're anything like me, it's too late for your brain to really make good use of them.  when my code needs to be improved i do it by hand or with dead simple search and replace stuff.  i've just never really learned to make use of refactoring tools and don't see myself doing so.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: NetLaunch

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 04:58 PM »

v2 icon is nice!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What in the world is "Refactoring?"

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 04:49 PM »

when an IDE says it has "Refactoring" tools, it means it has a bunch of separate small little ways it can help you refactor/modify your code, like worstje said.  these may range from simple things like renaming functions, adding arguements to functions, splitting up functions, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What in the world is "Refactoring?"

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 04:40 PM »

whoever wrote that is trying too hard to make something sound complicated, kind of like people try to do when they are writing their resume and want to make their job sound important.

When people talk about "refactoring" their code, what they really mean is going back into the code and improving the way it is written (typically without adding functionality).

In other words, it's when you take the time to reorganize your code and use better data structures, and make it work better, and usually make the code cleaner and more stable.

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Flash Games and 2XL Simulator / Send us your 2xl tapes to be digitized and added to the simulator

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 02:32 PM »

It looks like we may finally have someone who is ready to volunteer to digitize 2xl tapes, so if you have some tapes that aren't yet in the 2xl simulator please contact me (send me a message via the forum or email to [email protected]) and i'll give you an address to send the tapes to.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Speed Monitor

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 01:51 PM »

Looks like speed monitor was written up on ghacks today 
http://www.ghacks.ne...-websites-over-time/

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 12:37 PM »

i've put back the low-tech email backup code, so this is a test to see if its still fast.

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Living Room / Re: RedLetterMedia Reviews Star Wars and more

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 11:54 AM »

Yeah i could definitely do completely without all the back story fake stuff and just have the review -- though i like the cursing and stuff in the review.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Full screen capture

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 11:33 AM »

programs that use full screeen accelerated graphics cannot be captured properly by normal screenshot techniques.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 10:58 AM »

Let's see how fast this new post goes through..

ok folks i think the posting speed issue should be fixed and should be super fast now.  let me know.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com NEW SERVER ACTIVATED Dec 17, 2010

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 10:54 AM »

Just a quick update:

Thanks to Gothi[c] and XDebug, we have conclusively identified the problem with the slow posting, and it should be fixed now.

The first clue was what i did myself to improve it, which was remove some custom code that was emailing each new post for archiving.

The connection i dind't make is that when people subscribe for notifications on a thread, this also causes emails to be generated when some threads are posted on, which made posting on those threads slow.

I'll post again as soon as we have the emailing speeds fixed and things should be superfast then.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 10:48 AM »

ok i'm about to start making screencasts, so if anyone else is willing to make them for their own or others, let me know asap.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Full screen capture

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 10:39 AM »

here is the most important question:

does SC take good full screenshot images when ms flight sim is not running? is it ONLY flight sim that has this problem?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 10:33 AM »

great, thanks tim.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Full screen capture

« Last post by mouser on January 03, 2011, 06:50 AM »

I wonder if this is your problem:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=16024.0

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Living Room / Re: RedLetterMedia Reviews Star Wars and more

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 10:24 PM »

One more thing to add:

Make no mistake, this guy sees details and makes connections that i guarantee you missed.  He will find inconsistencies in the story and lore and SHOW YOU with clips where a previous scene in a previous movie contradicts something in a latter one.  His reviews of the star trek movies are much less epic and interesting, but it's incredibly impressive to see him pluck out really esoteric scenes from the long running tv series that contradict details in the movies.  Despite the tone and presentation, this guy has the attention to detail of a super fan/nerd, while at the same time ripping these things apart -- that's part of what makes sticking with the long review so rewarding.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 10:05 PM »

Lemme know if I can contribute in any way.

you could write the book

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 10:04 PM »

nope thats fine.
what we will probably want to do though is get it uploaded to youtube so that it can show in a live box on the NANY summary page and people can just click play to watch it without leaving the page.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 09:51 PM »

Nudone and i think also timns and I have very briefly discussed the fun idea of a book teaching programming with a cartoon Cody illustrating concepts

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 09:44 PM »

yeah -- actually if anyone who thinks they might be willing to do their own screencast (please do!!) just posts here or emails me or messages me to that effect, at least i can skip doing them initially -- that would save me some time.  i do think i need to have them all done by end of next week.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: For what it's worth, DC Homepage is now google PageRank 6

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 09:40 PM »

40hz, yeah like i said the main site pagerank is fine.
It's the forum pages that used to be pagerank 7 and are now 0: https://www.donation....com/forum/index.php

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 09:32 PM »

i should clarify: the best thing you could do is make your own screencasts.

BB Flashback Express is free and is an excellent choice but there are other tools too.

If you've already made a screencast of your NANY entry, we will use that as the official one 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Recording Screencasts of the NANY 2011 Projects

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 08:44 PM »

No one has volunteered to create the 30+ screencasts for the NANY entries, and claim a copy of the amazing Camtasia program for their troubles.

This is your last call to do so before i buckle down and do them.. It's a lot of work and you need to be proficient in doing them efficiently and quickly if you hope to survive with your sanity intact.. but if you are interested contact me asap.

OTHERWISE, assuming no one else volunteers, I will begin making them.

AND LASTLY: If you are a NANY 2011 coder, this is your chance to email me ([email protected]) or message me any details you want me to specifically highlight in my screencast of your program.  Because these are really quick and dirty screencasts, I often don't do justice to the entries, and have been known to totally miss the point and fail to recognize genius when i first see it (like i tragically did when not appreciating the wonderfulness of timns' Twigatelle game in last year's NANY).

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UserQuotes.com Web Service / UserQuotes spin offs?

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 08:39 PM »

With so much work still to be done on UserQuotes, this is really premature, but..

Since the main thing that the UserQuotes service does is allows a GROUP of people to collect, maintain, and annotate a collection of references to web pages, complete with thumbnails and complete archives of the web page, we have wondered if people might any ideas for ways we could repurpose the code to serve other functions -- like a social/group bookmarking tool, etc?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: For what it's worth, DC Homepage is now google PageRank 6

« Last post by mouser on January 02, 2011, 08:18 PM »

looks like our forum pagerank which was 7 is gone completely now that we moved and simplified the forum urls from /forum/ to /forum/, even though we have a permanent redirect.  not sure if that's something to be concerned about or not..