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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a lightweight multi-user cms/blog for hosting coders

« Last post by mouser on October 31, 2017, 12:01 AM »

Another set of items on the dcmembers wish list is:
1. subdomain urls like we currently have (e.g. http://mouser.dcmembers.com instead of http://www.dcmembers.com/mouser)
2. option to use top level domains, so a dc member could register on their own codythebird.com and use THAT to point to their dcmembers.com site); this would be ideal for people who might one day want to move away from dcmembers hosting.
3. ssl certificate support for the above cases.  for the subdirectory case (http://dcmembers.com/mouser) this is trivial; for subdomains it can be done with a wildcard certificate, which could cost real money.  For remapping top-level domains to a wordpress multisite network.. I don't know.. it might not even be possible..

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Living Room / Entertaing story: I Forgot My Pin: An Epic Tale Of Losing $30,000 In Bitcoin

« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2017, 04:30 PM »

Really entertaining story about someone who forgot his password to a bitcoin hardware device and went on a quest to recover it.

Spoiler Alert:

Spoiler

In the end he does recover the password and get his bitcoin money.

https://www.wired.co...lar30000-in-bitcoin/

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Living Room / Re: Is this laptop a good option?

« Last post by mouser on October 30, 2017, 12:19 AM »

Just want to mention that I have had really good luck buying older used laptops on ebay.. you can get real bargains for models that are a few years old.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 29, 2017, 12:28 PM »

Check your forum messages.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Code-It is now also writing for Linux

« Last post by mouser on October 29, 2017, 05:28 AM »

very nice 

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2017, 09:27 PM »

So here's a question.. The plan plan is/was to physically move servers when the new cms was ready, allowing us to start with a nice clean install of the new site, without any of the old files.

And we are definitely going to move to a new clean managed server.  So the original plan is to install the new cms on the new server, test it there in private, and then shift the domain to the new server.


But since the new cms is just about ready, I wonder if there would be a benefit to putting the new joomla-based cms in place on the current server (moving the old files temporarily out of the way) until we are ready to move physical servers.
It would have the advantage of being easier to undo if we run into trouble, and perhaps reduce the number of things that can go simultaneously wrong..

Are there drawbacks/dangers that I am not considering?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2017, 06:30 PM »

Btw I had pretty good luck with this free website spider/sitemap maker to get a list of all donationcoder urls to check for redirects:
https://wonderwebwar...om/sitemap-generator

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2017, 06:29 PM »

Was trying to use "open link in new tab" functionality in a browser for submenu items (of the menu along the top).  Noticed that when the pointer moved to the context menu (and hence off of the submenu), that the menu containing the submenu disappears.  Subsequently, choosing "open link in new tab" seems to work, but felt slightly disoriented.
Does this explanation make sense?

yes.. maybe we can try to improve the menu system before we go live.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2017, 06:28 PM »

It's true that some (2?) of the lines at the bottom are faded to indicate there might be more, but perhaps it'd be nicer to see the "Read more..." text without having to hover first.
How does that seem?

Yes that would be better..   I had a hard enough time getting it to work as well as it does but I will try to improve it..

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 28, 2017, 02:17 PM »

For beta testers of the cms site -- I have attempted to put in redirects for all of the old urls to map to the new ones.. Let me know if you find any old urls that dont go to the right place on the new site!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Q: Best Prog Lang for Building a Text-Based Flight Simulator?

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2017, 09:01 PM »

The good news is your flight simulator mathematics will be fast, and c++ would be the language of choice for doing hardcore simulations where mathematical calculations need to be done as quickly as possible.
The bad news is you've made your job a lot harder, and you've already bitten off more than almost anyone can chew.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a lightweight multi-user cms/blog for hosting coders

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2017, 05:00 PM »

Yes.  We're not going to be creating hundreds of these sites.  They will be for established members of DC who have demonstrated that they are trustworthy and have something to contribute.  It will mostly be for coders who have software to share, though non-coders who will be blogging regularly would be eligible too.  And in order to reduce security risks we will want to know some real information about the people we give accounts to.

What we could also do as well is have a catch-all member web page where we could give restricted access to a larger number of people, combined into one account.  That might be more appropriate for one-off software releases, etc.

Does that make sense?  Did you have some specific concerns or ideas/suggestions?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 suddenly black and white :-(

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2017, 12:14 PM »

Webcrawler in the donationcoder irc chat seems to confirm my theory, he says: "there is a grayscale filter in ease of access settings"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 suddenly black and white :-(

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2017, 12:05 PM »

I wonder if you haven't activated some sight-impaired screen reader mode or theme... Have you tried going into your windows display properties and checked your theme?

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a lightweight multi-user cms/blog for hosting coders

« Last post by mouser on October 27, 2017, 10:23 AM »

Trying to improve the download page look a bit:

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 26, 2017, 07:14 PM »

I hope the maintenance angle works out

one thing for sure it can't be worse than it is now

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Print Size "Normal" seems abnormally small

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2017, 11:37 PM »

 

Welcome to the site, I hope you will make yourself at home.

Don't hesitate to post feature requests or other questions, or join in our other non-software conversations.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Print Size "Normal" seems abnormally small

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2017, 11:00 PM »

I'll look into it -- I agree I can't see any reason why there is so much whitespace on normal mode -- has never occurred to me since I have never used that option..  It is a bit of an unusual option..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Print Size "Normal" seems abnormally small

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2017, 10:47 PM »

I think i see what you mean -- you are just saying that on Normal print mode, its wasting too much border whitespace in all cases..

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Print Size "Normal" seems abnormally small

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2017, 10:40 PM »

I always choose "Fit to page".

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Living Room / Wildlife webcams?

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2017, 06:06 PM »

Do we have a thread for natural wildlife webcams?

Look at all the creatures hanging out in this watering hole!

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a lightweight multi-user cms/blog for hosting coders

« Last post by mouser on October 25, 2017, 03:08 PM »

I'll give crayon a look.

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a lightweight multi-user cms/blog for hosting coders

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2017, 11:43 PM »

Anyone have any additional features they'd like to see on the dcmembers sites?
Any wordpress folks have favorite plugins that they think would be useful to make available on member sites?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Official CMS Migration Progress Thread - September 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2017, 10:32 PM »

And here is what the new dcmembers site will be like, with a standardized way to give more dc member users their own website area for hosting their software:
https://www.donation....msg413709#msg413709

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General Software Discussion / Re: In search of a lightweight multi-user cms/blog for hosting coders

« Last post by mouser on October 24, 2017, 05:35 PM »

From the screenshots you can see the basic idea -- a dc members page is a blog and a download repository for the coders software.  The blog functionality is standard wordpress; the download repository is handled by a plugin that handles the display of the downloads (both as a master searchable list and as individual pages) and makes it easy to add new downloads, update new versions, track download stats, etc.


To elaborate a little on what I am trying to do.  I think the current solution satisfies all of these requirements handily:

• I want us to be able to easily create and host small websites for dc members that are coders, where they can have a clean website and host their software.
• I want us to be able to very very easily maintain and backup these sites using a single simple interface.
• I want us to be able to keep these sites secure with little effort, without having to keep track of updating lots of different software packages, etc.
• I want it to be very easy for the coders to have basic site functionality out of the box including a blog, a contact page, and a nice downloads area for their software.
• I want to let the dc member customize the appearance of their site and do fancy stuff, but be able to use a standard look that is elegant out of the box if they don't want to mess with it.
• Ideally it should be easy for a coder to export their site data and migrate to another hosting solution.