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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FarrUninstall plugin - v1.0
« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2007, 06:59 AM »
An idea before this becomes widely distributed.  I think it would be better to use a keyword to trigger the plugin that wasnt so likely to be used in normal searching.

what about instead of "un" using like "unstall" -- im just trying to think of a word that isnt likely to get typed while searching for a real program.
25977
Find And Run Robot / Re: 8start review
« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2007, 06:52 AM »
seems like more of a launchbar (e.g. LaunchBar Commander, True Launch Bar) than a keyboard-based launcher (e.g. FARR, Launchy).

(note: people have suggested that LaunchBar Commander and FARR be merged).
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Living Room / Re: Mintcamp: a new blog of interviews with developers and web designers
« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2007, 06:32 AM »
Very nice  :up:
I'd love to see an interview with Skrommeland Wordzilla and some of the other mystery coders on dc.
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Developer's Corner / JayIsGames.com 4th Flash Game Design Competition - Oct 1 Deadline
« Last post by mouser on August 07, 2007, 04:05 AM »
Another great flash game competition from JayIsGames.com:

For the 4th Casual Gameplay Design Competition, we are asking for entries that incorporate this theme: BALL PHYSICS. As before, you are free to interpret that any way you choose; however, the extent to which your game addresses the theme is left up to the competition judges to decide. Also, your game must not have been in general release (publicly available to play on the Web) prior to the deadline of the competition.

Prizes:
    * 1st place:
          o $2,500
          o (1) Adobe Flash CS3 Professional license
    * 2nd place:
          o $1000
          o (1) Adobe Flash CS3 Professional license
    * 3rd place:
          o $500
    * Best use of competition theme:
          o $500

The deadline for entries is Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 11:59PM (GMT-4:00).

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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.19.01 - Aug 5, 2007
« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2007, 03:00 PM »
yeah i think it's a great idea.. not sure about the details but yeah it wouldn't be very hard to do and i like the idea a lot.
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Developer's Corner / Re: C++ Development: win32 or .NET?
« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2007, 02:24 PM »
FARR is built using Borland's C++ Builder, which is basically c++ and an added layer of visual components for windows gui stuff, and a nice IDE.  It's a commercial product but you can use the new version (Turbo C++) for free if you don't need to install 3rd party components.  Its 100x nicer to do gui programs using c++ builder vs. mfc or native win32 api, in my opinion.

I'm a long time c++ coder (20 years), and it's hard to break old habits, but c++ is showing it's age these days -- and i never recommend it to new programmers.  you'll have a happier experience and learn better coding technique using a more modern language like C# or Java.

In general though you have to ask yourself what you want to code?  Do you want to do cross-platform stuff? then you can forget c++ builder. and win32 stuff.  wxwidgets could work if you still were dead set on c++.  If you just want to get a little experience coding and learn basic techniques, and windows is your main operating system, then go for c#.
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Developer's Corner / Re: C++ Development: win32 or .NET?
« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2007, 01:15 PM »
what is DK?

if you are going to do .net from scratch, i'd say go for c#.
the only time i'd recommend c++ .net stuff is for legacy code.

25983
Screenshot Captor / Re: Minor typo...
« Last post by mouser on August 06, 2007, 12:01 PM »
thx  :up:
25984
Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: God Hate Penguins, But He Love Threading and Delegates!
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 11:58 AM »
the whole thing is extremely professionally done; nice job.  :up:
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: God Hate Penguins, But He Love Threading and Delegates!
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 11:25 AM »
lol  ;D
hahahaaha i love the style and humility.
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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.19.01 - Aug 5, 2007
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 08:44 AM »
You can still get the old buttons if you want (view -> advanced controls).
The same commands can also now be accessed via the File menu.
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Official Announcements / Re: ZillaRank: An improved search for smf forum
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 08:27 AM »
I know i posted this before but it is so useful i have to post again.
If you are reading a long multi-page thread, the new ability to search within a thread is invaluable:


note: a normal ctrl+F from within your browser is not comparable, this can search multiple pages and do full highlighting.  really wonderful.
25988
DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.19.01 - Aug 5, 2007
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 06:49 AM »
Another feature added is more support for manual stuff.  You can now right click and tell the updater to just download the new file for you.

Screenshot - 8_5_2007 , 6_47_04 AM.png

It will also let you customize how these files get named, and even keep an archive of every downloaded+installed update:

Screenshot - 8_5_2007 , 5_45_43 AM.png

You can now also uncheck packages you dont want to check by default (you can always check them manually with a right-click).
25989
DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.19.01 - Aug 5, 2007
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 06:25 AM »
Ok major new version released..

The big work here under the hood (and above the hood as well), is lots of support for installing new packages, not just updating existing packages.

For example, one idea is that you should now be able to download a plugin .zip file and drag+drop it onto the dcupdater window, which will report about its contents and know where to install it and install it (or check web for update).

You could do the same with simply a plain .dcupdate file which is not yet installed.

--

This new system will be used with FARR 2 release, which will no longer come with all plugins pre-installed.  Instead, the updater for FARR will know about the available plugins, and you will be able to quickly install any plugin you want simply by choosing it in the updater.
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Living Room / Re: new PC options:-
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 05:35 AM »
i can't speak for different brands or speeds, that stuff is beyond me.
BUT you need to get 2gb of ram (as 2x1gb sticks). do not get only 1gb, it would be a big mistake.
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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: umm what key is what
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 05:22 AM »
the only license keys on this site are for the programs we create :)
you'll have to buy a license for the program you want.
25992
Living Room / Re: Thoughtful Article: Blogging Ethics: When And What Should Bloggers Disclose?
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 03:40 AM »
Related links from the comments section of the read/writeweb article:
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Living Room / Thoughtful Article: Blogging Ethics: When And What Should Bloggers Disclose?
« Last post by mouser on August 05, 2007, 02:16 AM »
Worth a read:

Is there a new blogger scandal brewing? Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks seems to think so. Allen takes issue with the new video blog Webb Alert (which mentioned Read/WriteWeb today), saying that the blog doesn't disclose its connection with advertising network Federated Media (which hosts it and sells advertising for it) and suspects that the whole thing may be an elaborate scheme to push traffic to FM clients (and notes that FM clients have been gushing over the show in return for the disproportionate links they get).

...

Disclosure is a tricky business and as a practice is still ill-defined even in the realm of traditional journalism. The general idea is that anything that might be seen as a potential conflict of interest between a writer and the subject of his story should be disclosed to the reader.


More from the article:

Disclosure is necessary, however, and at times I think that maybe it is the overzealous trend toward complete and utter transparency offered by bloggers that makes blogs so attractive to readers. So when should you disclose?
  • Financial association -- I don't mean advertising, which is obvious, but less clear affiliations such as investments, ownership, or partial-ownership. For example, WIRED should mention they own Reddit when they write about the company. (Of course, you might not always even know when you're investing in a company.)
  • Employment -- If you are paid by a company you are writing about as an employee, contractor, or consultant, you should disclose that.
  • Competition -- If you are writing specifically about a direct competitor to a company you are involved with in an aforementioned manner, especially if you’re writing in a negative way, it is probably best to disclose it. For example, WIRED should disclose that they own Reddit whenever they write about Digg.
  • Personal involvement - This is by far the trickiest. As I illustrated before, personal or emotional involvement with stories can get complicated and, well, personal. I don't think it always needs to be disclosed. For example, I don't feel the need to disclose my political views whenever I write about politics. However, if I'm reviewing a company run by a close friend, I would disclose that fact or pass the story to a writer with less emotional involvement.

You'll notice that I don't include a rule about disclosing when you were paid to write about a specific topic or company. The reason is that any blogger who wants to be taken seriously as a journalist cannot and will not accept money or gifts from a source (or vice versa). That said, it should also be noted that there is a big difference between accepting gifts in exchange for writing a story and accepting review copies of goods for free.
25994
General Software Discussion / Re: Photo panorama creation
« Last post by mouser on August 04, 2007, 07:06 AM »
Hang in there Carol!  :Thmbsup:
25995
General Software Discussion / Re: Photo panorama creation
« Last post by mouser on August 04, 2007, 01:38 AM »
Nice find demonstrate  :up:
25996
Official Announcements / Re: Site of the Month for August 2007: NirSoft.net
« Last post by mouser on August 04, 2007, 01:34 AM »
maybe turn off nod32 "heuristic" guessing option.
25997
Living Room / Article: The Economics of Open Source Donations
« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2007, 06:14 PM »
Donations play a crucial role in supporting Free and Open Source Software projects. At times readers will write in to share their positive experience with a utility or program or a distribution that I have written about. Now don't confuse them with your average technical-bent-of-mind Linux user. These are accountants, home-office businessman, and even carpenters and plumbers, who've saved a lot of money thanks to open source software. And they have one question in mind -- how do I help the person behind the program?

This month, Packt columnist and open source enthusiast Mayank Sharma explores the economics behind open source projects, what they do with their donations and how crucial they can be to their future.


from http://www.fsdaily.com/
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Developer's Corner / Exhibit: Display adjustable data tables on web page without server software
« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2007, 05:58 PM »
This is an open source tool that lets you take your spreadsheet or data files and create a web page built only using javascript, that supports interactive manipulation/sorting/filtering by viewers.

It's designed for small scale stuff, but this could be very useful for some things, like if you want to display a small table of data to your reader and want them to be able to explore the data a little.

There's a video presentation showing how it could be used for teaching here: http://bionicteachin...exhibit/Exhibit.html
They also have a wiki -- fun stuff.

Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS and Javascript code.

It's like Google Maps and Timeline, but for structured data normally published through database-backed web sites. Exhibit essentially removes the need for a database or a server side web application. Its Javascript-based engine makes it easy for everyone who has a little bit of knowledge of HTML and small data sets to share them with the world and let people easily interact with them.
...
Exhibit consists of a bunch of Javascript files that you include in your web page. At load time, this Javascript code reads in one or more JSON data files that you link from within your web page and constructs a database implemented in Javascript right inside the browser of whoever visits your web page. It then dynamically re-constructs the web page as the visitor sorts and filters through the data. As the visitor interacts with the web page, only the web browser is responsible for providing the interaction; the web server is no longer needed.
...
We also provide a complementary service called Babel that lets you convert data from various sources, including tab-separated values (copied straight from spreadsheets) and Bibtex files, into formats that Exhibit understands.

Important fine print, emphasis mine:
Exhibit currently only scales to a few hundreds of items, but maybe that's all you need. Furthermore, we are working on optimizing Exhibit and on ways for you to smoothly transit over to server-side solutions as your data sets grow.

from http://www.nedbatchelder.com
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Living Room / Re: Amazon to expand their payment system to compete with PayPal?
« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2007, 05:21 PM »
More relevant text:
Developers are free to set up an unlimited number of payment instructions. This makes it possible, for example, to have a different set of payment instructions for each counterparty with which you do business.

Developers can create payment instructions that are as simple or complex as they desire.  For example, creating a relatively complex business model around micro-payments is easy to do with Amazon FPS. Our aggregation feature lets you track and aggregate micro-payments into a single payment transaction, saving on transaction processing costs and avoiding having to build complex ledger functionality into your own applications.  Without this capability micro-payments would be difficult or cost-prohibitive.

Micro-Payments Support: With Amazon FPS you can track and aggregate micro-payments (e.g. payments less than $0.50 or even $0.01) into a single payment transaction and can charge the customer before (prepaid) or after (postpaid) the service is provided. This features lets you minimize transaction processing costs and avoid having to build complex ledger functionality into your applications.

Aggregate micro-transactions into a single larger transaction using Prepaid and Postpaid capabilities.

If it seems like i'm getting a bit excited about this new service from amazon.com it's because I am.  Amazon.com has always felt to me like they are serious about their web services, and interested in building things right.
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Living Room / Re: Amazon to expand their payment system to compete with PayPal?
« Last post by mouser on August 03, 2007, 05:19 PM »
so it looks like they copied paypal for the most common datapoint (2.9% plus 30 cents).
but they added more friendly micro-payment rates for < $10 payments, which is somewhat exciting.

Commissions they take from a $2 payment break down like this:
Amazon = 10 cents + 5 cents = $0.15
Paypal = 30 cents + 5.8 cents = $0.36
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