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General Software Discussion / Re: General brainstorming for Note-taking software
« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2006, 03:37 AM »
i wonder if with all this discussion around this thread, we might see if any of these companies might be willing to offer a nice generous discount to our members in april or may?
(and if anyone wants to do some little mini reviews..)
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature request: automatic shortcut generator
« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2006, 03:34 AM »
this is an interesting idea..
as has been discussed elsewhere, farr is getting an indexing/caching feature that should solve this problem more efficiently than creating a directory of shortcuts, so as a helper for farr, an indexing thing would be better.

but it does sound like an interesting idea - maybe there are other uses for it..
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: testers post your first impressions here
« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2006, 03:30 AM »
the autohide is definitely buggy, it's on my todo list.
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Developer's Corner / math for programmers - nice big blog entry
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 11:23 PM »
http://steve-yegge.b...for-programmers.html

Math is a lot easier to pick up after you know how to program. In fact, if you're a halfway decent programmer, you'll find it's almost a snap.

They teach math all wrong in school. Way, WAY wrong. If you teach yourself math the right way, you'll learn faster, remember it longer, and it'll be much more valuable to you as a programmer.

Knowing even a little of the right kinds of math can enable you do write some pretty interesting programs that would otherwise be too hard. In other words, math is something you can pick up a little at a time, whenever you have free time.

Nobody knows all of math, not even the best mathematicians. The field is constantly expanding, as people invent new formalisms to solve their own problems. And with any given math problem, just like in programming, there's more than one way to do it. You can pick the one you like best.

Math is... ummm, please don't tell anyone I said this; I'll never get invited to another party as long as I live. But math, well... I'd better whisper this, so listen up: (it's actually kinda fun.)
...


[link from osnews.com]
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Developer's Corner / 30 AJAX tutorials
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 10:54 PM »
Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, or its acronym Ajax, is a Web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire Web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user makes a change. This is meant to increase the Web page's interactivity, speed, and usability.

http://www.maxkiesle...f_30_ajax_tutorials/

link from furl.com

wikipedia entry on ajax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX
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Developer's Corner / php reading list
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 10:37 PM »
http://www-128.ibm.c...library/os-php-read/

[link from slashdot.org]
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PageSpy - A swiss army knife for web-developers
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 09:23 PM »
am i the only one having problems seeing the images?  they are hosted on imageshack so it could be a local problem.

in the future when you add pictures to a post, use the attachment feature (click additional options at the bottom of your post) to add pictures from local file directly to your post.  you can place attached pictures anywhere you want after you attach them by using:
[Select]
[attach=1][/attach]
where 1 is the # of the attachment you want to place.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature request: text background color by frequency of launch
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 02:44 PM »
i forgot where we left the titlebar thing - yes that is planned.
as far as hiding the help+options icon, you can do this - just grab the right hand side of the edit box and drag it rightward on top of the icons.
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: testers post your first impressions here
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 02:42 PM »
dock to icon - interesting idea i hadn't thought of..
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Living Room / interesting post on possible manipulation of digg.com
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 02:38 PM »
interesting post on possible manipulation of digg.com

http://www.siliconva...digg_is_used_fo.html

Scoop: Digg is used for Sun stock manipulation
Something extremely weird is going on over on Digg.com. Today for the third time in a short period, a story got promoted to the front page where a blogger raises a baseless rumour about Google buying Sun. And as is explained further down, it appears that this is the result of a coordinated effort to fool Digg into promoting the story.
The blog author has no sources, zero credibility and most importantly his reasoning is completely erratic.
...
I can only guess about the motives of this group. Hopefully they are just trying to prove that Digg is easy to manipulate – in the worst case, they are speculating against Sun's stock price for financial gain.

this is an inherent problem in any group-dynamics system - being open to manipulation for marketing and publicity.
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Developer's Corner / so you want to sell your software - slashdot book review (micro-ISV)
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 02:34 PM »
slashdot reader review of "micro-isv" (indie software vendor)

When you read a news item about a company buyout or a two-person research project hitting big, how many times have you thought "I wonder if I could run a software company." Apparently, quite a few of software developers are discovering the entrepreneur within, which explains the ever-increasing number of threads on the Business of Software, Software CEO and other similar forums. However, most of the software entrepreneurs are coders, and not business majors. For them the business side of running a company constitutes that grey area that people with suits, expensive glasses and knowledge of word "synergy" learn in business schools. What will be the market for your product? What should you charge for a software app? Should you go freeware, ad-ware, shareware, trialware or open source? How will you accept payments?

http://books.slashdo.../03/17/1448208.shtml
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Living Room / fun kid friendly puzzle game - guide the cows home
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 02:07 PM »
fun kid friendly puzzle game - guide the cows home

(it's not in english but you'll figure it out, rules are simple just drag and drop)


from http://flash.plasticthinking.org/
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Developer's Corner / tutorial on using the google maps api
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 01:41 PM »
from digg.com comes this nice long tutorial on using the google maps api:
http://www.econym.de...googlemaps/index.htm
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 01:39 PM »
from digg.com, a page listing security extensions for firefox: http://www.cerias.pu...t-practices/post-22/
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Living Room / American Inventor - Live blog, full recap from Makezine
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 01:32 PM »
American Inventor - Live blog, full recap
This is a new show in the United States where people compete to have their inventions judged.


from http://www.makezine.com
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: PageSpy - A swiss army knife for web-developers
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 01:19 PM »
it also pays to mention that firefox has a number of very good addons to do this kind of thing.
not sure how they compare to pagespy.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: use cache to improve FARR start
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 01:17 PM »
i'll talk a little bit more about my fun idea for how to do the index/cache in a smart way that i think people will like.  and of course it will be optional for those who dont want it.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR acts a little bit slow if a CD is in the CD-Drive
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 12:50 PM »
go to your path search options, and UNCHECK recent folders from the search list, or move it to bottom - it's the cause of this slowdown probably. i need to add code to avoid checking removable media and network lan locations.

actually if it's at startup:
check your launch history and delete any items from the cd, which would cause it to verify their existence on startup.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: use cache to improve FARR start
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 12:48 PM »
this is coming - i've already decided to implement it, and do it in an interesting way.
just be patient everyone, and all your farr dreams will come true :)
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Living Room / Re: www.alexaholic - see web traffic reports for sites and compare them - cool
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 12:17 PM »
here's a graph of millions of pageviews per day (according to them, but im not sure how accurate their stats are for pageviews):

dcpageviews.png
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Living Room / Re: www.alexaholic - see web traffic reports for sites and compare them - cool
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 12:03 PM »
yeah it's weird, i think it means that of the million people they track, 60 of them visited us.  though im not entirely sure.
i will post more traditional stats again soon, we are definitely growing well and getting a large amount of traffic.
the only way to make real sense of it is to check out some other sites and see how well other sites do.
60 out of a million might not seem too good, but it's not bad at all compared to many sites.
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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature request: text background color by frequency of launch
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 10:23 AM »
something like this might be nice - though maybe the color would be distracting.  what about just a column of results which showed frequency or score as a color bar?
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Older Newsletters / Newsletter for March 17, 2006 - Codename 'Fancy Forum'
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 08:10 AM »
Newsletter for March 17, 2006
Codename 'Fancy Forum'

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


1. The DonationCoder.com Forum Gets a Major Update
We've upgraded the forum software to Simplemachines.org software v1.1RC2, and taken the opportunity to add a bunch of new features:

2. Contests and Giveaways
  • Do you have some graphics skills? Think you can design a better website banner for our web page?  Enter the contest to design the new DonationCoder.com banner: https://www.donation...p?topic=2802.?ref=nl
  • We're giving away an unusually large number and variety of programs this month, so be sure to enter the drawing (remember that if you choose one of the less common programs you are much more likely to win it): https://www.donation...eedrawing.php?ref=nl

3. Software Releases
Some minor updates since the last newsletter:

4. New User Mini-Reviews

5. New Coding Snacks

6. Games

7. Other Fun Diversions

8. On a More Serious Note

9. For Developers and Web Designers

10. New Sites and Services

11. Upcoming Reviews
We've got some new big reviews coming up and request your help in making sure we don't miss anything:

12. Current Discounts
  • Just a reminder that at the end of march many of the existing discounts will expire, including those for Directory Opus and xplorer^2, as well as Mp3 Tag Assistant and TaskPatrol Pro - https://www.donation...ts/index.html?ref=nl

13. Coming Soon
We've got some really exciting stuff coming up in April, including:
  • Some great new discounts and giveaways which were organized by fellow donationcoder.com forum members like you, on software forum members have requested
  • A major new programming contest.
  • Our own micro-donation system, to make it easier for forum members to make small donations to other people on the site.




IMPORTANT! Time is Running Out to Join the Site as a Charter Member
The end of March will mark our one year anniversary (hooray)!  After that we will no longer be offering Charter Member accounts at our site.  All donors after the one year anniversary will be known simply as Supporting Members.  So if you want to be part of the founding members of DonationCoder.com, with all the benefits that may entail, you don't have much time left to make a donation before the new changes take effect..  And if you're already a member, don't miss this opportunity to tell your friends about our site!

   




If you have good ideas about how to improve the newsletter or the site itself just reply to this post.

More links:
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MyLife Organized (Time Management To-Do list maker)
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 05:26 AM »
good work superboyac - look for a discount on this in april :)
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Living Room / Re: The DonationCoder.com Funding Club - coming some year in the future
« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2006, 05:24 AM »
you may have noticed the teasers about a new micro-donation system currently in the works for DonationCoder.com, which will make things like this easier.  should be working before the end of march.

will allow people to donate to each other easily.
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