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General Software Discussion / Re: Most Awards Award Nomination for Emil Fickel

« Last post by Veign on January 25, 2007, 04:20 PM »

Except most of the awards are meaningless because there are only given (and given to anyone with software on the site) to generate backlinks in Google.

Easy way to generate backlinks is to create an award of some sort and give it out.  Lots of people will proudly display them on their site.

Too bad people don't realize that Google will penalize you for linking to a 'Bad Neighborhood' (which some of these site are).  Since you control the out going links on your domain, if you choose to link to a 'Bad Neighborhood' then your domain will be penalized.  The way around it to either not link to them or use the rel="nofollow" attribute in the anchor tag.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Crossloop.com - Remote Control freeware

« Last post by Veign on January 24, 2007, 06:46 PM »

Just try to submit them to Digg and you will be shown a message that they can't be submitted.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Crossloop.com - Remote Control freeware

« Last post by Veign on January 24, 2007, 06:11 PM »

Hmmm.  Wonder why they are on the banned URL list over at Digg.

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Official Announcements / Re: Winner of Veign's Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Announced

« Last post by Veign on January 24, 2007, 05:54 PM »

Cool.  Glad you got it. 

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Living Room / Re: Amazing tabletop parts fabrication machine

« Last post by Veign on January 24, 2007, 03:07 PM »

I have a turbine blade on my desk that shows FEA colobands created from a 3D printer.  Quite impressive.

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Official Announcements / Re: Google Ads are gone from the site once more..

« Last post by Veign on January 22, 2007, 12:08 PM »

You can't.  That would be againt the TOS of Google Adsense.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by Veign on January 20, 2007, 02:47 PM »

any simple definition is not valid since it can never match the past and the current situations.

-rkarman (January 20, 2007, 02:16 PM)

That is probably the only 100% accurate statement made in this thread as most are a percentage of an opinion.

Its just such a hard thing to define.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by Veign on January 20, 2007, 11:28 AM »

Should have read something like a scripting language vs. compiled language.  That's how that definition should have come across.  Totally messed that definition up.

I end up typing something and by the time I get to the end I forget the intent of what I am typing  .

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scripting vs. Programming

« Last post by Veign on January 20, 2007, 11:03 AM »

I skimmed through this thread and it seems people have confused script, scripting, programming, and compiled.

Script is a segment of code that performs a specific function.  A script can be written in any language, whether compiled or scripting.  Not sure there is a length restriction but the idea is it performs one thing.

Now the confusion comes in when a scripting tool uses the term script for everything.  If scripting tools wanted respect in the development world they would have dropped that and opted for a different terms and stuck with the more main stream definitions.

Scripting is a method for which a script or program runs through an interpreter at the time the functionality of the program is requested.  This is what converts a set of instructions to something a computer can actually perform.

Scripting Language is one where the code is run through an interpreter at the time the functionality of the program is requested.  This is what converts a set of instructions to something a computer can actually perform.

Compiled means the higher level code is pre-interpreted (used this phrase to better associate with scripting) down to code that the processor (or framework) can understand.  Compiled is usually down to single unit.

Program (IMO) is a script, algorithm, collection of scripts, scripts with binding code that has an interface*. 
* - interface may not always take the place of a User Interface.  An interface could be invisible to a user as in the case of a background program.  Lets say we had a program that sat on a server monitoring a folder for files and everytime it saw a new file it processed the file (maybe pushed data into a database) - no interface but still a program.

Application.  See program.

As we move forward the umbrella of the word program (I prefer Application) must be expanded to accept the cutting edge stuff developers are doing (i.e. PHP, AJAX, Javascript, Ruby).

I defined the things above using very non-technical terms so anyone can understand it so its definitions may not be 100% technically correct as they are just trying to convery an idea.

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Developer's Corner / Re: 10 Business Lessons

« Last post by Veign on January 18, 2007, 04:13 PM »

#2 and #6 are so true.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Cody Mug for NANY Participants

« Last post by Veign on January 18, 2007, 12:34 PM »

I think he's talking about the one behind you at work.  Nice!

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006

« Last post by Veign on January 17, 2007, 05:47 PM »

I decided to add a link to What's Its Color on Digg so if you like it than consider Digging it.

Thanx.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Page Headers by Veign

« Last post by Veign on January 17, 2007, 09:14 AM »

I have a whois script ready to go, just need time to implement.  Also, I'm trying to think of what other information may be useful for someone looking at page headers.

Keep the ideas coming.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Page Headers by Veign

« Last post by Veign on January 16, 2007, 09:38 PM »

I updated things. 

Whats new:

• Common http response codes now link to information pages
• Added quick view graphic (either X or check mark) for displaying status on URL
• Cleaned up the results page a bit

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Page Headers by Veign

« Last post by Veign on January 15, 2007, 09:51 AM »

Cool idea. I added some of them

I need to go look at Regular Expressions in PHP to get the status code (will do this tonight)

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Page Headers by Veign

« Last post by Veign on January 15, 2007, 09:16 AM »

What it does:
Page Headers will return the http (server) header information from any valid URI. The http header information contains information about the webpage like: last modified, what type of server, if a redirect occured (and the location of the redirect) and the content length that will follow.

Where it is:
http://pageheaders.com/

Sample:
http://pageheaders.c...http://microsoft.com

Please make suggestions on how I can make the report better or more useful.  Also, if you have an idea for an online application that you would like please contact me and lets talk.  See more of my online applications.

[ed. by mouser to add thumbnail image]

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software tutorials based on pictures

« Last post by Veign on January 09, 2007, 11:58 PM »

One main negative of the site is the amount of clicks to get through a tutorial.  Its so slow just to get any information.  The concept is OK but the execution is poor.

How about a bookmarkable slide-show where the user can stop, play or speed up/down the 'flipping' of pictures.  This way I can watch at my pace, stop and bookmark in the middle, and not feel like I'm playing a video game by scrolling and clicking a 100x.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006

« Last post by Veign on January 09, 2007, 10:10 PM »

Not sure I follow.  I understand the define sections (I think like a region selector) but not sure what you mean by 'background and foreground separately defined'.  Explain in more details and I will see what I can do.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Cody Mug for NANY Participants

« Last post by Veign on January 05, 2007, 05:44 PM »

Gonna have to learn how to code by then

-TucknDar (January 05, 2007, 05:32 PM)

If you start now you could have one killer app in a year - even with no experience.  The idea is the hardest part.

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Whats Its Color - December 25, 2006

« Last post by Veign on January 05, 2007, 05:05 PM »

Picked up by a pretty decent blog:
http://hyperculture....whats_its_color.html

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N.A.N.Y. Challenge 2007 / Re: Cody Mug for NANY Participants

« Last post by Veign on January 05, 2007, 05:02 PM »

Oh, man! I'd like one of those.

Can I buy one?

-TucknDar (January 05, 2007, 04:54 PM)

Gonna have to wait for NANY 2007 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodness! Is there NO Win utility to do "DIR /S/B C:\ZZZ\*.JPG > RESULT.TXT"?

« Last post by Veign on January 05, 2007, 02:37 PM »

Why can't it simply offer a way to save search result to file in the "find panel" 's user interface or something like from right-click menu?

-tslim (January 05, 2007, 02:32 PM)

Check out the Reg Hacks on have on Viewing / Printing a folders contents.  Might be able to quickly modify for your needs:
http://www.veign.com/download_main.asp
(bottom of the page - Print Directory / View Directory)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Goodness! Is there NO Win utility to do "DIR /S/B C:\ZZZ\*.JPG > RESULT.TXT"?

« Last post by Veign on January 05, 2007, 01:17 PM »

My Seeker application (donationware) can handle the searches and provides four different reporting modes (one is a simple text report):
http://www.veign.com...load_app.asp?app=104

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Living Room / Re: Enigma - One of my most favourite games

« Last post by Veign on January 04, 2007, 05:58 PM »

I played that one before - probably saw it here.  Another fun game.

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Living Room / Re: Enigma - One of my most favourite games

« Last post by Veign on January 04, 2007, 05:23 PM »

That is a great game.  Thanx for the find!