Posts by Dani

Can you link me to a couple of threads you're talking about?

I'm confused by your question. We do allow threads to be responded to at any time in the future, because even if they don't necessarily help the original poster, they might help someone else down the line. However, do you mean that people are resurrecting old threads with their own unrelated questions?

Nope, it's always been a link at the bottom of your member profile, next to the link to the edit profile page.

Hi ... I don't know anything about Android dev, but if you're doing what I think you're doing, then that will work. There are lots of ways around it if you do a bunch of Googling. If you want to be really fancy, instead of redirecting your visitor to my auth page, you can fetch my auth page behind-the-scenes, scrape it, and show the form using your own design with the scraped data.

No the form is at http://www.daniweb.com/members/edit_membership

Workaround: I created a symlink on the server redirecting /trunk to /httpdocs and then I FTP'ed in one level above httpdocs. Would still like to know a better way to do it though :)

OK, I was able to right click on the project in Project Explorer and click Properties. Then under Automatic Upload I was able to select my remote connection. However, the problem is that I can't figure out how to map the local project to its place in the remote connection.

My local SVN project:
/branches/
/trunk/
/...

It's uploading it to httpdocs/trunk/foo.html instead of httpdocs/foo.html. How can I get it to map /trunk/ to the remote root?

I currently have SVN down pat in Zend Studio. However, I can't figure out how to upload the changed files?

What on earth is LSL?

We record the IP address you use when you register as well as the IP addressed used with each individual post you make. Maybe you interacted with DaniWeb from school or from a friend's house once?

whatismyip.com :)

DaniWeb's been replaced by second life?!

This has been suggested multiple times before but, unfortunately, is too resource intensive to compute on every page load for each individual member. As mentioned previously, however, individuals can choose to use our API to generate it should they so desire.

Test post ... <edit> <second edit: I cannot reproduce your issue>

Hi Echo, I understand what you mean and it's actually by design. Every hover past the text ad is designed to complete the full animation cycle.

Hi and thanks!! :) Much appreciated.

Yes, I am. It works fine on the homepage in Firefox but, both on my mac and pc, it is very temperamental on article pages. If you continuously quickly hover on and off the ads repeatedly, certain ads "break" the effect.

http://www.daniweb.com/members/479282/jkon/12

It looks like you never started a thread in the Linux and Unix forum?

Article pages on DaniWeb (for those of you who live in the US) have a hover effect (similar to that on our homepage for everybody). It works fine in all browsers except for Firefox. Firefox is just super temperamental: it works a few times and then just mysteriously stops working and I can't figure out why.

Here's my code:

$(document).on('mouseenter', '#div-gpt-ad-1321481451196-0, #div-gpt-ad-1321481451196-2, #div-gpt-ad-1321481451196-3', function(event) {
    if ($('#ad-overlay').length == 0)
    {
        jQuery('<div/>', {
            id: 'ad-overlay'
        }).appendTo('body');
    }
    $(this).css({'z-index': '6000', 'position': 'relative'}).closest('#postbit-ad').css('z-index', 6000);
    $('#ad-overlay').show();
});

$(document).on('mouseleave', '#div-gpt-ad-1321481451196-0', function(event) {
    $('#ad-overlay').hide();    
    $(this).css('z-index', '1005');
});

$(document).on('mouseleave', '#div-gpt-ad-1321481451196-2, #div-gpt-ad-1321481451196-3', function(event) {
    $('#ad-overlay').hide();
    $(this).css('z-index', 'auto').closest('#postbit-ad').css('z-index', 'auto');
});

The site was founded in February 2002 when I was in college, but I didn't really start actively working on it until a year or so later.

AdSense actually has a three ads per page maximum, which is strongly encouraged to be used only for long pages. One or two ads per page is ideal.

Out of curiosity, are you using Google Analytics in order to track how much traffic exactly you are getting? "Bandwidth warnings from my server" might just mean a really poor hosting company.

Start selling advertising :) The easiest way is to sign up with Google AdSense at www.google.com/adsense

You just copy and paste a little snippet of HTML code onto your blog and you can instantly start showing targeted, language-specific ads.

Breadcrumb rich snippets, for example, help the search engines get a really good grasp of your site's navigation structure, and they even include page breadcrumbs in the SERPS themselves!

Ugh, I'm kinda pissed about it. We got hit in the previous Panda algorithm update a few months ago, and I was really hoping for a recovery this time. I've been refeshing my analytics all day waiting for it to come. Then, just a few minutes ago, I was talking to someone on Skype who told me that they noticed it rolling out already. That completely burst my bubble!! I guess no recovery for us this time :(

That being said, I did hear that this would be the last manual Panda update. From now on, Panda will be integrated with the main Google algorithm and be continuous, rolling updates. Hopefully that means that we can fix whatever needs fixing and get ourselves back in Google's good graces sooner rather than later. Just not now I guess :(

Heh.

There is also a 'Flag Bad Private Message' link. Just sayin' :)

I'll take your responses as being in total agreement with me.

I had a long IRC conversation with Deceptikon earlier today and I'm now basically going to restate my position on the matter.

Going back years ago, there was no voting system, just a reputation system. The reputation system allowed you to vote a post up or down and optionally include a comment. Each time that you did so, your reputation affected the poster's reputation. Originally only the member whose post was voted on could see the comment and who voted (a la standard vBulletin), but it was ultimately opened up so that everyone could see who voted and the post's comments (a la Dani's modified version of vBulletin).

The system worked this way for a number of years, but there were a number of complaints with it:

• Members wanted a way to vote on posts without affecting reputation. Especially the regulars, who carried a lot of reputation power, often wanted to give a simple "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" without dramatically affecting the newbie poster's reputation.
• Members didn't like that you could affect someone's reputation without so much as leaving a comment.
• The reputation system was very cumbersome to use: It required at the minimum multiple clicks when not leaving a comment, and therefore was not used as often as it could have been.
• Members were constantly holding grudges against each other for voting on posts because every single vote carried the weight of affecting reputation. Any member with a decent amount of reputation power felt like they had to …

No, i mean it should not be in a way that you can just click upvote... it should have a way of blocking "spam" by making you type a reason.

If you just click upvote, it doesn't affect reputation. You have to type a reason if you want to affect someone's reputation.

i think that the rep system should have more of a spam free setting where the user MUST enter a comment in order to add a rep or subtract a rep.

That's the way the system currently works. I meant to post a long rant here earlier, but I got sidetracked. I'll do it in a bit.

Aside from breadcrumbs, what rich snippets can be used for forums? Can authorship work since there are multiple authors per page? or no?

My two cents:

• I would get an Intel. I haven't heard great things about AMD in quite a number of years.
• A touchscreen for Windows 8 is amazing for tablets, but unnecessary for a desktop gaming PC.

Try replacing

$(".square.one,#link_nest").mouseenter(function(){

with

$(document).on(".square.one,#link_nest", 'mouseenter', function(){

No, it's meant to be a surprise what your next level is.

You can create CSS gradients.

Perigee.

You will have to ask them yourselves:

http://www.daniweb.com/community-center/daniweb-community-feedback/threads/449420/mobile-app#post1943803

but I think if someone has a problem with a post, they should have the decency to attach a comment with explanation, and a name to go with it.

That is why only non-anonymous votes that include a comment affect reputation.

There is a team who is working on an iPhone app, although they have just begun, but as far as I am aware, no one is working on an Android app. Having one would be greatly appreciated I'm sure! :)

Absolute positioning is used when you need to position an element relative to another element. For example, in a dropdown menu you will want to position the dropdown relative to its parent.

Absolute positioning is essential for dropdowns, hover effects, scrolling effects, etc. It is also used when you want to position an element in a place different from where the HTML code for that item is. For example, you may wish to place all of the scripts that load advertising way down at the bottom of the page, so that they're the last thing to load, but have the ads appear near the top within the content.

EvolutionFallen, I think that you might be confusing absolute positioning with fixed positioning. Fixed positioning is used when you want to place an element at a certain location relative to the browser window. Absolute positioning is used when you want to place an element at a certain location relative to its parent or ancestor element.

GRR, apparently some webmail clients strip away the HTML head, and therefore don't respect the <base href> tag. :(

Welcome back :)

This is against the law and so we don't discuss illegal things like that on DaniWeb.

Then you should be able to just copy/paste the HTML on the badges website??

You used to be able to using FBML, but I'm not sure if you still can.

The only badges are:

Administrator
Moderator
Team Colleague
Featured Poster
Sponsor
Vendor

Problem is a lto of people had 3 of them :(

Not something on the current todo list but I'll think about it. Our system was purposefully designed against being able to accomidate multiple on/off email switches because I was turned off from Facebook's 100000 privacy settings.

Your email client must have done something funky to the links because they both work fine for me: www.daniweb.com/home/donate

There's .on(), and then there's also .one() when you only want it to execute once and then unbind itself after.

OK, email going out. xx crossing fingers xx

If nothing comes of sending out this mass email, then it's pretty much a done deal that this isn't going to be an avenue worth pursuing any further. On the other hand, if we get even a handful of bites, it means that it's worth building up our donation subscriptions feature, perhaps offering more features to subscribees, etc.