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General Software Discussion / Re: Recent Blog Discussions of Open Source Donations, etc.
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 11:04 PM »
rover i think it's important to realize that many of us fall into the category of:
"1.23) I want to create something to share with humanity....we can be one bonded by our shared use of something I created... (angelic singing) - but i don't want to be locked up for failing to pay my student loan - can those who can afford it donate so i don't have to choose between homelessness or giving up this project."
30402
Older Newsletters / Newsletter for August 2nd, 2006 - Codename ''Blogs and Bosses"
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 09:35 PM »
Newsletter for August 2nd, 2006
Codename "Blogs and Bosses"


"If you read nothing else on our site, read the newsletter!"



1. Software Releases
DonationCoder.com is first and foremost a site about software.  Let's see what's new since our last newsletter.. And remember to donate some DonationCredits to these coders to support their hard work!
  • InstantBoss - A really cool Coding Snack implementation by app103 of the (10+2)*5 Procrastination Hack Idea (send her some donations if you like it!)..
  • GridMove - What started out as a Coding Snack has grown into an amazing desktop tool for quickly moving and resizing windows into specific screen "zones", with lots of options and multi-monitor support (coded by jgpaiava - send him some credits to support this work!).
  • TweakeMPE - A Coding Snack implementation by JazW of the request for a randomization helper for the Maya Paint Effects Screensaver (send JazW some donations to support this work!)
  • MultipleSend - Send text to multiple windows at the same time (coded by jgpaiava) 
  • LaunchBar Commander v1.54.01 - Major new release with advanced virtual folders


2. New Mini-Reviews by Members
The mini review section is looking great and Josh is doing a superlative job as the official demo screencaster on the site.  If you have a program that you think deserves a screencast be sure to drop Josh a note.


3. Audio Radio Show Podcast Producers Found!
We're very excited to have found two forum members who have volunteered to take over the production and editing of the monthly DonationCoder.com Podcast Audio Radio Show.  How can you help? We're glad you asked.  You can help by recording and submitting a short audio segment between 2-5 minutes in length.  Be creative, be funny, be grumpy, just be yourself, and find something to talk about related to software.


4. Programming Contest Updates
Make sure you check out some of the great entries we've gotten to the C++ Builder program contest - you can download and use most of them. If you're a programmer, you've still got a little over 10 days to enter the C++ Builder Programming Contest (ends August 14), but if you miss that deadline, why not give our Accessibility Game Programming Contest, where the object is to design either a game whose output is audio only, or a game with a single button as input.


5. General Software Discussion
Lots of great software discussion on the forum in the last two weeks:


6. Fun and Games
Who ever said not to mix business with pleasure? That's all we do here! 


7. Web Discoveries, Debates, and Articles
What's worth reading on the web? With so much information out there it can be hard to know.  Here are some recent discoveries we're talking about on the forum.


8. Developer's Corner


9. August's Discounts and Giveaways
Each month we contact companies you have told us you want discounts from, and ask them if they are willing to provide a month long discount to our DonationCoder.com members, and donate a few copies for us to give away in a monthly drawing (thanks Ampa for organizing all these!):


10. New Site and Forum Features
Your donations enable us to keep working hard to improve the website.  Hardly a day goes by when we aren't trying to tweak it and improve it and add new features.


11. Site of the Month



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30403
Site/Forum Features / Re: DonationCredits CodyCoin Web Page Links!
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 09:15 PM »
I have finished making a series of changes to information that is kept track of when people donate, so that if someone follows a link to donate to you, whether from within the forum, or if you put a codycoin link to your account from an external web page (see above), that if they are not yet a donationcoder.com member and choose to donate to the site, it will remember that they came looking to donate to you, and re-prompt them, after they activate their donation, to choose how much to give to you.

(You are of course as always encouraged to provide an external direct donation link in your DonationCredits profile so people can donate directly to you using paypal or whatever you choose).
30404
Unfinished Requests / MOVED: IDEA: Maya Paint effects screensaver randomizer
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 08:25 PM »
This topic has been moved to Post New Requests Here.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=309.0
30405
Living Room / Re: Storm the House
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 08:12 PM »
ps. spacebar reloads
30406
Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast #4 Submission Time!
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 07:10 PM »
that's what i was hoping to hear  :Thmbsup:
30407
Podcast Radio Show / Re: Podcast #4 Submission Time!
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 05:27 PM »
mukestar and JavaJones have generously agreed to take over the podcast shows -
let's show some appreciation by sumitting segments and helping them make it a good one!  :up:
30408
General Software Discussion / Re: Recent Blog Discussions of Open Source Donations, etc.
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 05:12 PM »
well put NeilS.

Do what you can.

People can help projects in different ways, and to different degrees depending on their abilities, time, financial resources, etc.  There are lots of ways to help support a project, big and small.

Those of us who have been advocating for a donation based approach to funding are very keen on the idea of being flexible about letting users figure out for themselves how they can and want to contribute..

it's frustrating to hear someone say that its foolish to contribute to an open source project.  Different people can help in different ways - the central tennet of donationware advocates is to figure out a way to let people express their support and help a project in a way THEY choose to.
30409
Living Room / Re: IRC channel error ...
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 02:33 PM »
hurry back carol, we miss you already  :-*
30410
LaunchBar Commander / Re: v1.54.02 - file sorting is A-Z and then a-z ?
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 02:04 PM »
yes, agreed; it's on my todo list.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Recent Blog Discussions of Open Source Donations, etc.
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 01:56 PM »
nice take on it that i agree with:
http://haacked.com/a...FreeLikeAFlower.aspx
30412
Find And Run Robot / Re: [RFF] Key to override custom application
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 08:42 AM »
im not all that fond of such hotkeys, BUT this might be something solved with the new planned context sensitive actions ideas for v2, where you could say that files with certain extensions should have certain "actions" available to them.

then you could say that .html files should have options like "open in opera", "open in firefox", "open in maxthon" etc., and easily choose.
30413
Screenshot Captor / Re: Print Size Bug
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 08:40 AM »
hi vycon,
and welcome to the site!

try changing the default DPI in the options to something smaller:

[ Invalid Attachment ]

I think the smaller the DPI, the larger a screenshot will be considered when brought into your word processor.

You can also change the DPI of an existing image from within the SpecialFX -> Adjust color + dpi dialog.

Let me know if this solves it please :)
30414
General Software Discussion / Recent Blog Discussions of Open Source Donations, etc.
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 04:25 AM »
I absolutely love jeff atwood's Coding Horror blog, but found myself in rare disagreement with him this morning.
He posted some reflections on another blog entry by Scott Hanselman on the death of the open source project NDoc.



Scott:
NDoc: The Death of a (great) Open Source Project

On a related note, it's going to take a while (6 months to a year?) for Microsoft to really get Sandcastle to the point where Kevin Downs got NDoc. Will this new tool be as rich and useful? Or will it be forgotten like HTML Help Workshop?

Recently Kevin Downs, the leader of NDoc, emailed a NDoc folks announcing that NDoc is dead. I was shocked to get this email, but sadly, not surprised. Here's an important part of his email:

Unfortunately, despite the almost ubiquitous use of NDoc, there has been no support for the project from the .Net developer community either financially or by development contributions. Since 1.3 was released, there have been the grand total of eleven donations to the project. In fact, were it not for Oleg Tkachenko’s kind donation of a MS MVP MSDN subscription, I would not even have a copy of VS2005 to work with!

To put this into perspective, if only roughly 1-in-10 of the those who downloaded NDoc had donated the minimum allowable amount of $5 then I could have worked on NDoc 2.0 full-time and it could have been released months ago! Now, I am not suggesting that this should have occurred, or that anyone owes me anything for the work I have done, rather I am trying to demonstrate that if the community values open-source projects then it should do *something* to support them. MS has for years acknowledged community contributions via the MVP program but there is absolutely no support for community projects.
...
For "base of the pyramid" fundamental stuff like Build, Test, Coverage, Docs, will we pay for them? We should. Should we have given the NDoc project $5? Did NDoc help me personally and my company? Totally. Did I donate? No, and that was a mistake. I agree with Phil. Support those 5, 10, 20 truly Open Source projects with a little of your time or money.



Jeff:
...
Open source software is at its best when you aren't obligated to do anything at all other than use it.
..
You definitely shouldn't have to pay for it.
...
Personally, as an Open Source project co-leader, I'd much rather folks who use DasBlog pick a bug and send me a patch (unified diff format) than give money. I suspect that Kevin would have been happy with a dozen engineers taking on tasks and taking on bugs in their spare time.
...
Contributing code to an open source project is a far greater extravagance than any monetary contribution could ever be. It's also infeasible for 99 percent of the audience-- those who have both the time and the ability-- which makes it an even more extravagant demand.
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If contributing money is foolish and contributing code is an extravagance, what's a poor user to do? Nothing. Nothing at all, that is, other than use the software.
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The highest compliment you can pay any piece of open source software is to simply use it, because it's worth using. The more you use it, the more that open source project becomes a part of the fabric of your life, your organization, and ultimately the world. Isn't that the greatest contribution of all?



I'm not quite sure where Jeff is coming from with his conclusion that "contribuing money is foolish".
Here is what i wrote in reply to Jeff:
i wrote about these issues in my article on donationware, "When Do Users Donate":
https://www.donation...icles/One/index.html

if you back up from your conclusion and simply ask yourself the question: "*IS* contributing money foolish" - i'm not sure youd often come up with an answer of yes. in fact you might come to the conclusion that donating $5 to an open source project you love, if many people did it, would enable a few developers to quit their day jobs and improve the quality, reliability, documentation, of the projects.

isn't it at least feasible that widespread acceptence of a donation-based approach to funding open source projects, if we all took it seriously, could make it possible for open source coders to spend more time polishing their software and working on some of the finishing touches that many of us bitch about (lack of docs, etc.)?

Your thoughts?
30415
Living Room / The Hive: New Long Article on Wikipedia
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 03:04 AM »
The Hive: Long Article on Wikipedia

Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge
by Marshall Poe
...
Several months ago, I discovered that I was being “considered for deletion.” Or rather, the entry on me in the Internet behemoth that is Wikipedia was.

For those of you who are (as uncharitableWikipedians sometimes say) “clueless newbies,” Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. But it is like no encyclopedia Diderot could have imagined. Instead of relying on experts to write articles according to their expertise, Wikipedia lets anyone write about anything.
...
Yet Wikipedia has a value that goes far beyond the enjoyment of its contributors. For all intents and purposes, the project is laying claim to a vast region of the Internet, a territory we might call “common knowledge.” It is the place where all nominal information about objects of widely shared experience will be negotiated, stored, and renegotiated. When you want to find out what something is, you will go to Wikipedia, for that is where common knowledge will, by convention, be archived and updated and made freely available. And while you are there, you may just add or change a little something, and thereby feel the pride of authorship shared by the tens of thousands of Wikipedians.
...


from http://www.dashes.com/anil/
30416
General Software Discussion / Re: SQL-based replacement for Filemaker Pro?
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 02:30 AM »
another thing to consider is something like Ruby on Rails, which has some pretty clever database management stuff that takes only a few lines of code to write.. depends how much custom scripting you want/need.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: v1.54.02 - long time to read shortcuts
« Last post by mouser on August 02, 2006, 12:52 AM »
i have a good solution to this. please remind me if i dont post about it by the end of next week.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: [a Chinese article of SSC] 抛弃Hypersnap/Snagit　投入Screenshot Captor的怀抱
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2006, 11:50 PM »
great! thanks xbeta :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
And welcome to all chinese users.

ps.
i had no idea the forum could post chinese text!
30419
Living Room / Re: Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 - nothing but problems
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2006, 10:49 PM »
this is slightly off topic.. but is it just me or does that look like a bootleg woodstock sitting on snoopy's nose? something about him seems not quite kosher. actually now that i look at it, snoopy seems a bit fat there too..
30420
Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Template for users wishing to write a mini-review
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2006, 10:41 PM »
i think the mini reviews dont have to be so strict - the template is reallly useful as a starting point, but writers can deviate.  i think we want to keep the idea that it should be easy to whip up a mini review without much stress. so it can be as little as a picture with 1 paragraph of opinion.  at least thats my 2 cents.
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Template for users wishing to write a mini-review
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2006, 09:19 PM »
it might be nice to have a somewhat tighter spacing and perhaps some indenting after the section headers.. maybe i can whip up a custom bbcode thing for it.

ps.
when the template is ready i will add it as one of the Preset Text template items in the dropdown field in the post form, so everyone can use it very easily.
30422
Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Control Freak - living in the game
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2006, 06:38 PM »
i really like the idea of this - maybe if you guys could hone down some more rules and display ideas based on nudone's enunciated central concepts:
my belief is that one way of getting things done is by using peer pressure or by incorporating a competitive element. so, in order to get the things done that you keep putting off for absolutely no good reason we make a kind of pact - we vow that we'll play by the rules of the game i'm about to outline and by doing so, your incentive will be to do well in the game, which is as a direct result of your non procrastinating efforts.

it might make a good coding snack and/or web scripting challenge for the programming school.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: half-qwerty keyboard with onscreen keyboard
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2006, 05:46 PM »
give it a bit of time..
i think its just a matter of skrommel seeing the request :)
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Best E-mail Client / Re: The Bat! - annoying word wrap
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2006, 04:01 PM »
the auto indenting can be annoying..

i love the inplace spellcheck though..
30425
Living Room / Re: Here's a brilliant example of thinking outside the box in flash games
« Last post by mouser on August 01, 2006, 02:52 PM »
i loved the genius of this.
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