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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: To Do Tree

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2008, 09:56 AM »

Dormouse is right, you need to be able to check off completed items and see that you have completed them.
However in keeping with your minimalist approach, a nice compromise would be a View mode that let you decide whether you wanted to see all items (with checkboxes user could mark for completed items), or view only unfinished items (which would hide all checked items).

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR plugin : FSubScript enable loading of multiple javascript plugins

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2008, 09:53 AM »

ecd,
take a well deserved rest until ewe has finished a round of work on your masterpiece 
-mouser

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: To Do Tree

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2008, 09:38 AM »

looks elegant -- i like the minimalist approach. 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LC starts another app instance even though command is set otherwise

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2008, 09:11 AM »

there may be another commandline option to tell outlook to bring up previous copy.

HOWEVER, having said that what i think i will do is add an option to LBC to smartly reactivate a running copy of a program if its already running -- i think it would be useful in general for some applications.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR plugin : FSubScript enable loading of multiple javascript plugins

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2008, 08:23 AM »

been tweaking a tiny bit and talking to ewemoa about how some things work and he is making great progress extending fsubscript to let each plugin script be triggered normally like all other plugins.  I'd say in very short time fsubscript scripts will be 100% as powerful and flexible as normal fscript plugins.  This is truly a great thing 

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Ontop bug?

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2008, 08:21 AM »

i will try to fix.
i'll see if i can't release a launchbar commander and farr update this weekend.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to make a local copy of an ancient Web forum?

« Last post by mouser on November 21, 2008, 07:46 AM »

i still prefer Offline Explorer (Pro?) over teleport (last time i checked at least), but it is also expensive.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Intro

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 11:03 PM »

id love to send 30 NANY mugs all over the planet so let's see more and more participants.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Intro

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 10:58 PM »

I'm really only submitting it to NANY 'coz I know Mouse Man will cry me a river if I don't at least try to participate this year

exactly.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LATEST LaunchBar Commander VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.83.01 - Nov 03, 2008

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 08:59 PM »

 
that's not really good is it..

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Intro

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 07:08 PM »

The participation this year looks like it's going to top last year -- yay! 

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Living Room / MOVED: Sitepoint book for free PDF download "The Art and Science of CSS" for 15 days

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 05:32 PM »

This topic has been moved to Found Deals and Discounts.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=15811.0

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Living Room / Re: church managment software

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 02:47 PM »

Maybe starting a new church program would be a good project for NANY 2009.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DI.FM/SKY.FM Aliases/quick launch via FARR

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 01:37 PM »

if tranglos solution works you could even create a special farr alias that knows where the pls files are and restricted a search to them, so you could type:

difm blah

and it would show all .pls files in a certain directory that match the term "blah"

using pls files would also probably have the advantage that:
it would launch winamp if not running, or leave winamp running and just open stream if it was already running (like a browser).

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2007 / Re: New Getting Organized Experiment?

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 11:38 AM »

How about we begin GOE 2009 in January to usher in the new year?

Does someone want to volunteer to be the the supervisor of whatever "Getting Organized 2009" entails?

I think waiting until january would be a good idea for several reasons, not the least of which is we have our big NANY 2009 thing that ends on or around January 1st so we don't want GOE 2009 to start until a couple weeks after that finishes.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DI.FM/SKY.FM Aliases/quick launch via FARR

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 11:28 AM »

seems fairly easy to do but im not sure it would depend on winamp i guess.

let me ask you this.. is there a commandline you could invoke that would open winamp and tell it to go to those stations you mention?
or, is there some windows messages you can send to winamp to cause it to do that?
or maybe there is simply a url that when opened in web browser (or winamp) causes winamp to open to that?

in other words, your first step has to be to figure out how to call winamp and have it open those streams, leaving aside any issue of interfacing with farr.  once you figure out how to do that non-interactively, then ask again how to add such triggers to farr.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR plugin : FSubScript enable loading of multiple javascript plugins

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 11:07 AM »

cool, trying now.

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Annoying border..

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 10:36 AM »

That is annoying -- let me try to remove.
What operating system are you using?

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Developer's Corner / Re: DC loads fast. What is the secret.

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 09:11 AM »

we use SoftLayer for the main server.. they are not cheap, but they are good: http://www.softlayer.com/

History of DC servers:

• DC started on a $10/month normal web hosting account in march 2005
• Upgraded to $60/month vps at some point
• Then upgraded to dedicated server after that (maybe in the $150 range?)
• Last year after much anguish decided to spend the big bucks and go for a high quality dedicated server ($280 a month)

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Developer's Corner / Re: DC loads fast. What is the secret.

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 08:59 AM »

well we do get about 1 spam post per day i think, but because we have such nice readers they always spot it and report it -- and then we have great moderators like jgpaiva and carol haynes and others who quickly delete the spam posts and ban the user.

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Developer's Corner / Re: DC loads fast. What is the secret.

« Last post by mouser on November 20, 2008, 08:26 AM »

The secret is a $279 a month dedicated server. 

And it needs to be pointed out that the only reason we can afford that is because of donations from ordinary people to support the site.

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft drop OneCare subscription product

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2008, 06:10 PM »

one step forward, one step back.
someone tell Microsoft to focus on operating systems and stop trying to write one of every program in the world.  not helping.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR plugin : FSubScript enable loading of multiple javascript plugins

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2008, 04:26 PM »

ecaradec is right -- the plugins should not do the filtering -- farr can do a smarter job (or else farr should be fired!)

i think it just requires an extra function for me to write that the plugins can call.

Let me explain:

There are two ways that a plugin normall gets called:
1) either because its keyword is typed by the user
2) or what user types matches a regular expression.

in case 1, usually what farr does is automatically filter the results returned by the user based on subsequent words on the search string after the first keyword that matched plugin name.

in case 2, usually you do not want subsequent filtering, since presumably you are catching other text on the line besides just the one keyword at the front.

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now i think the problem with fsubscript is that the parent fsubscript script basically has to match on the raw string (or by matching .* regex) -- so farr doesnt know how to do subsequent filtering.

so i think what i need to add is a pluginp->set_strvalue("filteron",rest of typed search to filter on)

and then fsubscript can call this function with search words after the first matching keyword.

does that make sense?

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: New FARR plugin : FSubScript enable loading of multiple javascript plugins

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2008, 02:13 PM »

basically the first plugin that matches will prevent others from generating results.  but thats the way all plugins work.

alternatively if you think some plugins want to generate results and not stop others from making results, you could have a per-plugin option to say whether to stop or not.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Intro

« Last post by mouser on November 19, 2008, 01:18 PM »

if you are rewriting something from the ground up i think it counts as a new application.