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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever copy
« Last post by Ath on February 20, 2011, 04:59 AM »
I'd suggest to only pursue this request at your new thread in the Coding Snacks section, over here. That's the best place for it.
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General Software Discussion / Re: DVCS ?
« Last post by Ath on February 19, 2011, 02:59 PM »
... But since I have perfectionist tendencies...
With that said: Do get some kind of VCS!

If working alone or in a small local team (in the same office): Get SVN, it's easy to set up (locally) and very well documented.
If working in a geographically 'wide area' or a large group of people, get GIT or Mercurial and a hosted central server, or create a project at SourceForge with SVN if somebody really wants that to be used.
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General Software Discussion / Re: 3-Day Money Back Guarantee~! WOW~!
« Last post by Ath on February 18, 2011, 09:49 AM »
Oh, nearly as good as on Android, there's the refund policy (recently) changed to 15 minutes after download :'(
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Developer's Corner / Re: [PHP] 'Dynamic variable name' ?
« Last post by Ath on February 18, 2011, 08:56 AM »
No reputation system, Eternal Gratefulness will also work nicely.
Or a (small) donation to the person that helped you out so nicely :-[
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Living Room / Re: USB 3.0 stick - anyone taken the plunge?
« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 06:22 PM »
It came formatted Fat32.
Bummer :o But that's not something you can't easily fix.

If I'd need another thumb-drive I'd probably get one of those too, even without the LED indicator.
And I think it looks decent as well.

Thanks for the mini-mini-review.
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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?
« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 03:25 PM »
Isn't that just a collection of apps that happen to be portable?
Yep, but there's a quite huge collection already. Most likely all the OP needs is there :D
I think the only true way to take your setup with you would be as a complete virtual PC running in virtualbox or similar.
That would have 2 disadvantages:
  • You'd need a quite big USB drive
  • You still have to install the virtualization platform before you can do anything
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General Software Discussion / Re: how to make every app portable?
« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 02:52 PM »
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What happens when the user forgets their password?

They get slapped on the cheek, and sent to the KeePass website :-[
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it shows how long it took the DC server to create and serve a page.  That will normally be < 1second.  If that is short and it took a long time for the page to load in your browser anyway, then you know the problem is not on our server but on the wider network.
That probably doesn't include the load-time of any graphics on the page, like embedded images and user-avatars. I get page times often between 0.02s and 0.04s, but the entire page can take up to 10 seconds to load. Mostly depending on the amount of graphics, IMHO.
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: new software - dst
« Last post by Ath on February 17, 2011, 02:48 AM »
Is this just for fun or are you trying to create another msn/skype/im platform with a new proprietary protocol?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Bulk Creating Folders
« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 09:25 AM »
Wasn't there a CSnack creating directories listed in a file? (no time to check right now)
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I'll pledge at least 1 from the Unfinished CSnacks section. (There's 1 I'm thinking about right now). And more if I can find a way to solve some more requests. I'll check that later this week (or weekend) and possibly re-pledge that one.
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Living Room / Re: Can anybody recommend a free XML to PDF or RTF converter?
« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 04:34 AM »
XSLT and FOP is useful for presenting (structured) data, generated elsewhere, not being produced/modified from a wordprocessor or something like it. So you're correct in selecting (LaTeX/Any document management system) for maintaining your docs.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How long can PC stay in Standby Mode in XP
« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 01:40 AM »
It takes longer to start up from Hibernate on my netbook than doing a fresh boot. :-/
Still glad I didn't get one of those :o It's totally not worth the annoyance.
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Living Room / Re: CPU Question: More Mhz per core or more cores?
« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 01:38 AM »
Okay, so I finally got some specs to compare to. I ended up building my sister a better machine for about $300 less than what the other person was trying to sell her. :Thmbsup:
Wanna share those final specs?
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Living Room / Re: Can anybody recommend a free XML to PDF or RTF converter?
« Last post by Ath on February 16, 2011, 01:33 AM »
It looks like at first glance that that tool will require some serious configuration to convert an xml file to a nice output.

Sure would be nice to have something automated that maybe could read an xml file and make some reasonable assumptions in order to generate a nice looking layout.. or maybe use a kind of gui tool to let you configure the arrangements of fields for pretty printing..

Quess there is a tool for that already. Didn't look close lately (researched it a bit about 5 - 7 years ago), but I wouldn't start a project without finding all the tools for creating either FOP layouts or full-blown XSLT layouts.
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Living Room / Re: Can anybody recommend a free XML to PDF or RTF converter?
« Last post by Ath on February 15, 2011, 05:47 PM »
That's where XSLT comes in :)
It may be like using a hauler-truck to do the weekly shopping-mall trip, but hey, it's free: http://xmlgraphics.a...e.org/fop/index.html
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best SQL software for writing queries?
« Last post by Ath on February 15, 2011, 01:44 PM »
Oh, then I won't suggest the Microsoft toolchain then :P
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General Software Discussion / Re: What's the best SQL software for writing queries?
« Last post by Ath on February 15, 2011, 01:36 PM »
I'm working with an SQL database ...
What database platform (brand) are you working with?
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Site/Forum Features / Re: DC Forum Mods Thread
« Last post by Ath on February 15, 2011, 01:27 AM »
prev+next mod -- installed.
Ah, that's nice, and quick :tellme:, thanks!
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Site/Forum Features / Re: DC Forum Mods Thread
« Last post by Ath on February 14, 2011, 02:45 PM »
Oh yes, that would make life much more enjoyable when browsing DC on a smartphone. The page numbers are really small when you try to hit them with your finger on the touchscreen
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What if the existing donations system was leveraged to work both ways. So that donations between members are split (say 50/50) with the DC. So if say I gave 40Hz a $10 donation, he would actually get $5 and the other $5 would go to DC.

Granted it would have to be time limited and made very (very) clear as to why/what was happening. But it could be an interesting way of greasing all the wheels at one time (so-to-speak).

Great plan SJ, That would be a nice addition to the standard toolset of DonationCoder :Thmbsup:

This 'split-the-money' option could be a checkbox or percentage-slider (with a loud and clear label describing it's function), so anyone making a donation could split his/her money between the direct beneficiary and DC, where the slider would normally be at 100% user, 0% DC, and for the fund-raiser at 50/50.
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It would just be a mug available for purchase at that very high markup, so people who wanted to "donate" by buying it could.  Just another funny way to donate.

Oh, OK, then I'll prolly be aiming at that one :-*
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Perhaps for the fundraiser we could have a special mug or tshirt for those lucky and generous enough to be able to afford a large donation, that shows Cody's banker-looking Uncle (never before seen on a DC mug) sitting on top of a huge pile of his gold coins, thumbing through his bank book.

Cody's Uncle:

But you said earlier that the amount of donation doesn't matter... :-[ so this 'reward' should IMHO be a buy-only 'donation'-order?

I do like (to imagine) that image on a mug though :up:
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