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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.

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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, 07:11 AM »

A very minimalist example:






Hub start page:

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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 23, 2017, 11:57 PM »

I think this is going to work -- and will let us provide dc members who want it with a nice clean web area with their own blog and software download area in a very clean simple way, which they can customize and manage to whatever extent they want, and allow us to maintain and backup all member sites very easily.  It's what we originally set out to do with the dcmembers area but never were actually able to do much of because the maintenance and security issues were too much work.

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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 23, 2017, 09:01 PM »

An update: I think I have settled on using Wordpress for this function.
It seems to offer the best trade-offs in terms of ease of use and ability to run multiple sites from a single install, and has some reasonable plugins to allow the site owners to host their software downloads.  And of course have their own blogs.
We can have a unified theme for those that want it and those that don't can use a custom one.

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Living Room / Re: Portuguese Translation Question

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2017, 03:13 PM »

you at least need a comma:

// If any value has already been applied to the TOTAL purchase, the BALANCE will be equal to the new value minus what has already been paid

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2017, 03:06 PM »

Only takes a second to regenerate the files, no worries.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 23, 2017, 02:10 PM »

Games generated from your list -- can you please check the words in the games and make sure the character encoding is correct?

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2017, 11:53 PM »

Simply translating the list wouldn't really work -- as you say, many of the words have a couple of meanings -- that would be lost in translation.

I'm not so sure -- I don't think the specific words make that big of a difference to be honest.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 22, 2017, 02:17 PM »

https://boardgamegee...ad/1413932/word-list
https://boardgamegee.../codenames-word-list
https://boardgamegee...tors-codenames-games

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Developer's Corner / Re: Some talks from CppCon 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2017, 08:12 PM »

[Packt] New Book: Learning C++ by Creating Games with UE4 - https://packtpub.com...offers/free-learning

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2017, 04:07 PM »

Here's the combined english wordlist from Codenames and Codenames Duet.
It's what I'm currently using.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2017, 03:53 PM »

It's the 400 word list used in the original board game.
There was a discussion thread on boardgamegeek about using alternate words and it was mentioned that many of the words used have alternate meanings, which was by design.

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2017, 02:03 PM »

Excellent.  Yeah that can be confusing -- maybe I can put a reminder about that up front.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Some talks from CppCon 2017

« Last post by mouser on October 21, 2017, 02:03 PM »

Thanks for the heads up.  I watched the Undefined Behavior talk -- good stuff.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2017, 09:06 PM »

There's nothing like relaxing at home with your dog:

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Needing a utility to search multiple programs at once

« Last post by mouser on October 20, 2017, 04:19 PM »

Yeah, and until such a time in the future that there is established some kind of unified API for all such programs, you are asking for something that would be incredibly time consuming to write and maintain.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR V3 Discussion

« Last post by mouser on October 19, 2017, 09:45 PM »

Yes I am going to add that very soon -- I have a few more minor bugs I need to fix in FARR as well.. I apologize for the delay -- I've just been very busy focusing on the new website upgrade.

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Developer's Corner / Re: MySQL Syntax Question

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2017, 11:29 AM »

Code: Text [Select]

1. SELECT * FROM table WHERE id LIKE '$id'

Just make sure before you change it to an = that the $id variable is never used with % inside it to do a wildcard search.

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Developer's Corner / Re: MySQL Syntax Question

« Last post by mouser on October 18, 2017, 09:43 AM »

https://stackoverflo...ildcards-the-same-as

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 17, 2017, 04:12 AM »

Update: I extended the utility to make books for standard team-based Codenames as well.. Standby for samples..

For team play you can get away with only 2 books, one for the leaders, and one for the guessers, which mirrors how the real game is played (one key card shared between the leaders and then the public display of cards that everyone can see).

But a nice aspect of the play by paper version is you could give everyone their own booklet and they could spread out across the room in any way they wish and play.



[EDIT: See first post for download]

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Living Room / Re: Hi strangers!

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2017, 10:08 PM »

Good to see you, stephen!

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release: cnpaperplay - Codenames /Codenames Duet Play on Paper Clone

« Last post by mouser on October 16, 2017, 07:45 PM »

For those curious -- I wrote it first in PHP, thinking I might use the codebase for a web-based version of the game.  Then for fun I re-wrote it in python.

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Living Room / Awkward humor videos

« Last post by mouser on October 15, 2017, 01:54 PM »

I can't get enough of comedians who employ these awkward pauses, etc.  Think the British version of "The Office", etc.
My latest favorite -- a big long series by Tim Heidecker, "On Cinema at the Cinema":

https://www.youtube....oDTYwY7v_V12KJfQueXZ

If anyone has other similar awkward, subtle, comedy shows they'd like to share, I'm all ears.