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Remove Filter  | I'm thinking of going down the route where members can actually get paid to answer questions. Here's how I am thinking the concept might work, and you tell me if you think it makes sense: Currently, when you create a new thread, you can donate $1 to have the article … |
| | Time once again to ask that question: What could I be doing better? More specifically, I'm looking to answer the following: * Is the UI clear and concise? Is it easy to get around? Is there too much clutter? Are all the features you need/use/want easily accessible? * What features …  |
| | Hi ... so I'm not sure if I have PubSubHubbub set up correctly. I tried setting up subscribing to the feed in Feedly (which supposedly supports the protocol) and now I'm starting a new thread to see if it shows up ASAP. Here goes nothing ... |
| | Is the check: if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) OR empty($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) { // We are NOT using SSL } a fool-proof way of checking if we are NOT using SSL with PHP/Apache? I understand that IIS sets to 'on/off' but that's irrelevant for me. I am just wondering if I additionally need to check …  |
| | So I currently am trying to insert a row into a MEMORY table but only if the primary key doesn't already exist. I'm using INSERT IGNORE but I was reading, much to my surprise, that INSERT IGNORE is actually slower than INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY, but that letting the …  |
| | I keep seeing requests for browserconfig.xml in my server log. Rudimentary research shows that it is for IE browser settings?? I'm not sure I quite grasp the purpose. What are some use cases for this?  |
| | Last week, Google AdWords editor setup wizard crashed in the middle of an install, and Windows Explorer started acting super funky ever since. The desktop icons for My Computer, Recycle Bin, etc. would intermittently show up with the unknown file icon, and Windows Explorer would freeze everytime I pressed the …  |
| | How can I catch and log PHP fatal errors in CodeIgniter? if (defined('ENVIRONMENT')) { switch (ENVIRONMENT) { case 'development': error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', '1'); break; case 'testing': case 'production': error_reporting(0); break; default: exit('The application environment is not set correctly.'); } } When environment is set to production and there's a fatal error, … |
| | Trying desperately to get CodeIgniter and Nginx to play nice. I was able to get it working once a long time ago and I cannot seem to reproduce what I had. I am trying to follow: http://wiki.nginx.org/Codeigniter However, it works fine where / gives me the default controller/method, and I … |
| | If you read my discussion about how [Google started ranking Stack Overflow above all other tech forums](https://www.daniweb.com/internet-marketing/search-engine-optimization/news/459242/stackoverflow-stole-all-our-search-traffic) on the web, you'll learn about our severe ranking decrease over the past year. From browsing around other webmaster forums, it seems as if all tech discussion forums have taken a severe hit …  |
| | Just a show of hands, how many people have taken the plunge and migrated to HTTPS since Google's announcement? I was really against it at first, because I just don't like to do things just for SEO's sake, and it seemed to me like this was one of those things. …  |
| | Strictly from a performance standpoint, what are the differences between remove(), hide() and detach()? If I want to permanently make an element go away on the page, is remove() or hide() even marginally faster than the other? |
| | Last Thursday, I somehow managed to break my little pinky toe. I was walking over to my kitchen sink to do the dishes and I somehow kicked my garbage can. I'm not sure what I did, but I ended up with a broken toe. The next day, I had a …  |
| | Mobile-friendly is pretty much here ... let me know if you spot any bugs. That being said, designing for mobile is suuuuper easy! Anytime that I can't find a way to squish so much information in such a small amount of real estate, I can just get rid of that … |
| | A couple of days ago, in Google Webmaster Tools, kilobytes downloaded per day skyrocketed like 3X, while pages crawled per day remained consistant. It's been like this for a couple of days now. I haven't make any big changes that I can think of that would cause this type of … |
| | I'm seeing some non-standard behavior between devides when on desktop mode in mobile browsers. Encouraging people to load up DaniWeb from your mobile device, and then click the 'Desktop View' link in the footer, and post a screenshot of anything that looks off. Much obliged! |
| | As often happens, a professor emailed me last month asking that we delete a forum thread because it contains an assignment from his course, with the student asking for assistance, which violates his department's honor code. As always, I responded saying that we have a strict policy where we do …  |
| | Our up/down voting buttons don't do anything on iOS devices (iPhone, iPad). Confirmation that they work fine on Blackberry and other mobile devices. Additionally, they work fine on all desktop browsers, including Safari. HTML code looks like this: <div class="vote-arrow downvote" data-vote="-1"> </div> <div class="vote" title="Vote on posts with a comment …  |
| | Have been surfing around forums for forum owners tonight, and an ENORMOUS problem seems to be bot spam. I'm feeling pretty proud of myself and all of the custom tools that I wrote to keep bot spam at bay since switching off of vBulletin. :) It's really seeming like we …  |
| | Google already talks about using ATOM activitystrea.ms for the social hub in Google Analytics. Does Google also use activitystrea.ms in its search algorithm? How beneficial might it be? I know they put a lot of emphasis on microdata as of late but this is a different beast entirely. |
| | Using microdata markup such as this on Dani's profile page with URL http://www.example.com/dani.html <body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ProfilePage"> <h1 itemprop="name">About Dani</h1> <div itemscope itemprop="about" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"> <link itemprop="url" href="http://www.example.com/dani.html" /> </div> </body> Is it appropriate to set the URL element to the ProfilePage item or the URL element for the Person item to … |
| | Just upgraded to Firefox 30.0 and sessions no longer seem to work. The cookie just doesn't set. Using `$this->session->set_userdata()` Not using Firebug, although reading on the web indicated it has been a culprit with similar issues. |
| | The following is an explanation of our rewards system. Does it make sense? How can I reword it to be clearer and more concise? (I'd like to send this out in an email to everyone and have it make sense.) > We get lots of traffic, and servers are expensive, … |
| | I have a Verizon FiOS Internet line coming into my office here at DaniPad, and it has a block of 5 static IPs (x.x.x.18 - x.x.x.22) that I'm paying for. The line is connected to a switch. Also connected to the switch, among other things (such as our security system), …  |
| | We just lost what little bit of organic traffic we still had left ... :( |
| | [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]How to Turn Off Automatic Updates [/color][/size][/font] [list] [*][size=2][font=Arial][color=#000000]Click Start , click Control Panel , and then double-click System. [/color][/font][/size] [*][font=Arial][size=2][color=#000000]Click the Automatic Updates tab, and then click Turn off automatic updating. I want to …  |
| | I just noticed tonight that the Login via Facebook feature hasn't been working for an embarassingly long time (aka multiple days). I checked it out, and apparently FB decided to change something on their end to break our OAuth integration. It was an easy fix, and it's working again. Sorry … |
| | Upgraded my computer from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. It's on a domain that uses Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2. In doing so, Windows Server Essentials no longer detects the computer. Do I have to run that /connect tool again?? |
| | I've been in bed with the flu for the past week and haven't even looked at my computer. I'm finally starting to feel better! I'm going through everything that I missed, slowly but surely, but I'm likely not going to catch *everything*. Were there any important things that I missed …  |
| | Hey everyone!! One of our partners, SpiceWorks, has recently put out a Career Tips eBook for people seeking IT job career growth. It's over at http://www.spiceworks.com/ebooks/2014-top-it-career-advice/ I want to direct your attention to page 6 (out of 56) ... Tip 4 on the list was written by yours truly. I … |
| | I've recently switched our login mechanism, and our API, over to SSL (https:// vs http://) I am using the following: RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} danipad [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} api [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} members/join [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} members/login [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} members/edit_profile [NC,OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} members/edit_membership [NC] RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} …  |
| | As you may know, I've been putting a lot of work into the DaniPad website @ http://www.daniweb.com/danipad over the past few days. Because DaniPad accepts credit cards, I had to go ahead and get an SSL certificate and optimize the site for https:// over http:// While doing so, I've gone … |
| | It's time yet again for a DaniWeb Developer Competition!! This time the goal is to utilize [our new API](http://www.daniweb.com/api/home) launched last month. There's a lot that you can do with our API. Essentially it allows your application (web, desktop, mobile, etc) to tap into DaniWeb's backend. Your own application can …  |
| | I'm about to buy a new application server for my office. It will manage the key card system and the security cameras. Uptime is critical and I'm going to be working straight off of it for the cameras so I want a good video card. The server I was originally … |
| | With social media being all the craze, and the growing popularity of Facebook groups and such, are forums dying? If so, what exactly is replacing them? Can social networking sites truly replace forums, and where is a happy medium? |
| | Been moving into the new office and the snowstorms keep putting a damper on things. I've finally got my SVN server set up again in our new office so I can start coding once again. Was there anything anyone wanted me to look at over the past few days? |
| | For a power workstation, which is better (I'm thinking of doing a RAID 5 configuration). 15K RPM serial-attached SCSI drives, or SATA solid state drives?  |
| | How can I increase the quality of content of people who post here, or in any forum, for that matter? It seems that so many people who post in these Internet Marketing forums are just doing so for the signature links, or to promote their own brand, or posting for … |
| | Random statistic: Newbie members visit more pages per visit and spend longer on the site per session than established community members do. |
| | Who thinks that vBulletin providing a cloud-based offering is going to restore any type of faith in their product? http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?p=2476015#post2476015 |
| | Every page of DaniWeb has a Javascript error that says: Uncaught SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "http://www.daniweb.com" from accessing a frame with origin "https://www.facebook.com". The frame requesting access has a protocol of "http", the frame being accessed has a protocol of "https". Protocols must match. I haven't changed anything …  |
| | My weekend project = CVs in member profiles!! Check it out and submit yours!!!! :) |
| | A few new OAuth-related API features. Firstly, there is now the concept of scope. So if you want to do things like spy on a member's private messages or chat on their behalf, you now need to pass in the required scope (details in API documentation) to ask for more … |
| | I had a debate with a friend the other day about whether it's better to create a very niche site or a site that tries to be a jack of all trades and master of none. I thought I'd open the discussion up here. Basically DaniWeb was founded out of … |
| | Hi, Just want to make sure I'm doing this correct in my crontab. 5 10 */4 * * Does this, indeed, run once at 10:05 am every four days? |
| | OK ... spent all last night squashing bugs ... now it's here for prime time!! Please go into your member profile and select the option to receive mailing list-style notifications. It will give you the ability to read and contribute posts via email ... a la listserv. Sorry newbies, though …  |
| | I was wondering if there's a site out there that gives statistics towards the percentage of sites that use jQuery UI? (Note I'm not looking for the actual number of sites nor jQuery itself ... just jQuery UI). I rolled a custom version of jQuery UI that only uses about …  |
| | I'm trying to create an ATOM activity stream ala http://activitystrea.ms/ However, I'm confused a bit by the proper format, and also wondering if the JSON version is replacing the ATOM version?? Here's what I have so far: http://www.daniweb.com/stats/activity_stream Is there a place I can validate it?? |
| | I'm not (hehe), but I was just wondering who in the DaniWeb community was going to CES this year? |
| | You may notice a change in your member statistics (post count, reputation, solved thread stat, etc). After server issues left the database out-of-sync, I've gone ahead and recalculated all of the counters based on the latest data. There has NOT been a change to the way anything gets calculated ... …  |
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