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Developer's Corner / stackoverflow.com - programmers Q&A site by jeff atwood + joel spolsky is public

« Last post by mouser on September 15, 2008, 07:49 AM »

Stackoverflow.com, the site created by programming gurus joel spolsky and jeff atwood as gone from a closed beta to an open public beta and is worth checking out.

You can read the original dc discussion thread about stackoverflow.com here: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=13077.0

Basically the website is a community question and answer system much like yahoo answers but focused on programming-related questions.  Users can vote for questions and answers (like on digg) so that popular ones rise to the top.

http://stackoverflow.com

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Living Room / Re: News Article: Old News, Served Fresh

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 10:16 PM »

And that's why I don't understand the stock market and the economics of the world. People are buying and selling imaginary numbers and for some reason the government has to take control of banks to keep the country from going into economic emergency?

Welcome to the wonderful world of capitalism!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Resize and/or Move the Capture Region

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 09:14 PM »

i always recommend people just capture whole screen and then size and move crop window from within sc, as i find that easier, BUT for people who want to do what you want, just go to options and change to Red Box capture mode for Regions:


once you activated the red box capture mode for Regions you should see the new interface for capture regions which allows you to resize and move the selection region prior to capturing.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 03:44 PM »

green = currently online signed into forum.
red = currently offline.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 01:47 PM »

363 members on the map.. still some time to make it 500 by monday!

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: Two 'essential' features

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 08:05 AM »

thank you for reminding me -- i am long overdue in updating this.. stay tuned this month for an update.

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Developer's Corner / Re: XULRunner - XUL & JS For Desktop Applications

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 08:02 AM »

Very cool stuff.. has anyone here done any XUL application building? I have a book on it but i've only just skimmed it.

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Living Room / Re: News Article: Anti-Spam Law Declared Unconstitutional

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 07:46 AM »

damn it 

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Living Room / Re: Vuln. Alert: Malformed URLs Crash Acrobat 9

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 07:38 AM »

Um.. what *doesn't* cause adobe acrobat to crash? 

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Spore: a Codyrific journey

« Last post by mouser on September 14, 2008, 07:37 AM »

They now demand money from me with threats of declaring war if I don't pay up.

Definitely sounds like Cody has let all the donations go to his head. 

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

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:38 PM »

As for who should win.. I think nudone has to call up cody and ask him.
My votes are for:
Deozaan and p3lb0x.
Deozaan for his first hillarious videos and super cute cody.
And p3lb0x for actually evolving his Cody race and taking them into space.

I can't remember if one or both of you already have a mug? If not then i say whoever doesn't have one gets it.

Special mention has to go to Stoic Joker who's evil cody creature definitely deserves to be evolved and go into space.

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

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:34 PM »

Deo i like your first cody better.. it was cuter.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to choose programming language?

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 07:13 PM »

DC member by the name of tinjaw is a python enthusiast here on the forum.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free uCalc calculator just for trying the new animated tutorial

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 05:21 PM »

Hi Daniel, I'm just watching the tutorial now.  Very nice 
Couple of observations:

• First, very cool work on the tutorial -- that's actually quite fun (for those who haven't tried it, it uses MS wizard to give instructions and point out various features as it walks you through them).
• Second, very nice work on the multiple base support, both in input and output.
• And nice work with the tape measure history and history of past expressions.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Automatic Network adapter Dector Failed to find suitable network driver.

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:42 AM »

always nice to hear when things work out right 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Forum Guidelines - subjects to avoid?

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:05 AM »

Discussion about religion and politics is very frowned upon here on this forum (that would include debates about atheism).

Don't get me wrong, I encourage everyone to engage in vigorous debate about these issues, but just not here on this forum since it tends to divide us and not bring us together, and is not at all related to the things we like to focus on here.

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Older Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter For September 11th, 2008 - Codename "Mapping the Members"

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 10:01 AM »

ClustrMaps looks cool.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Help me with this game please

« Last post by mouser on September 13, 2008, 02:15 AM »

i clicked on vampire werefolf link.. harmless enough -- didn't beg me to register or make me click on things.. seems like harmless fun.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: New Member Map Mod for the Forum -- Configure Your Profile Location!

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2008, 06:17 PM »

211 members on the map and counting!
go go go!!! let's make it 500 by monday!

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Try out the Spore Prototypes

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2008, 05:36 PM »

Very cool find. 

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General Software Discussion / MOVED: Help me with this game please

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2008, 01:40 PM »

This topic has been moved to DC Gamer Club.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=14888.0

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Help me with this game please

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2008, 01:39 PM »

very good, just going to move this to the dc gamer section 

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Living Room / SplitWords - fun new flash word game

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2008, 01:16 PM »

Split words is a compelling little casual word game, sort of similar to a word search, except you have to assembled pairs of partial words into full words that match a theme.

What makes it fun is that as you put together more words you have less and less pieces which help you solve the trickier words as the clock ticks down.  Quite good. 

http://www.boomj.com...ult&brainGame=87

from http://www.neatorama.com/

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Living Room / Re: How many countries represented here on DC ?

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2008, 10:57 AM »

where are our japanese and russian brothers and sisters!!! 

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Help me with this game please

« Last post by mouser on September 12, 2008, 10:53 AM »

mr monkeyz -- we try to discourage links like this.. maybe instead you could edit your post and tell us about the site and the game rather than asking people to click on your link.