Posts by Dani

Don't we all :)

It works fine for me from IE and FF. I asked blud to try it as well and it works fine for him too.

Yup, it's a good idea to constantly seed the forums with posts that can get conversations flowing.

I agree with bolder. Content is king. Unique, quality content is all the search engines are looking for nowadays.

All I can suggest is not to give up. A month is nothing. It took daily posting on DaniWeb nearly a year before the site took off, but look where we are today, after hard work and persistance.

Use CAPTCHA images during the registration process, require users to activate their emails by clicking a link, permanently ban members when their email addresses bounce back (don't delete them because then they can recreate their accounts), and block email domains if you see they're being used primarily by spammers (@yahoo.com emails, for example).

I would assume it would be like those eBay middle people who list your auctions for you? Remember, there are a couple of Craigslist sections that are pay-to-post so I'm not sure how that would work out.

This is what happens when a Geek's Lounger ventures into the Site Management category.

Hi Rick. Welcome to DaniWeb. I'm a tad confused what you're talking about but welcome and good luck with login problems.

The Java web client no longer exists.

Hi,

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If you remember, the option to disable the various JavaScript style elements was temporarily added to help debug all of the extremely slow page rendering and JavaScript timeouts that were being spit out when I updated the look of DaniWeb a couple of months ago.

Narue and others were experiencing timeouts where their web browsers would seemingly hang, but I didn't know what was causing them. So to help figure it out, I added the option to turn off each of the JS elements one at a time:
Turn off rounded corners
Turn off dropdown menu
Turn off hover tooltips

It turns out that, for all members who were complaining, it was the rounded corners that were the culpreit. The hover tooltips and dropdown menu don't cause any browser slowness.

In doing a quick run through the database, I noticed that the vast majority of members had disabled "rounded corners". Very, very few (fewer than 10) disabled one, or both, of the other two options.

Therefore, I went ahead and permanently turned off the rounded corners option yesterday, and so there was no reason to have this option in the control panel anymore. I don't feel there is a need to clutter up the control panel for just 10 out of 200,000 members.

However, in its place, I did add an option to disable ALL JavaScript, DHTML, and AJAX on the site in one massive swoop. This is …

An AIM conversation with my IntelliTXT rep:

"intelliTXT" (1:07:49 PM): Yeah that campaign went live yesterday morning and unfortunately there was a bug in the script which caused to pop up without interaction
"intelliTXT" (1:08:10 PM): The problem was fixed yesterday afternoon and is now working

According to another forum, it seems vibrantmedia intellitext has something to do with it.

Since I have them well and truly nobbled, and have never seen this popup, there might be something to it.

I have to call my Vibrant rep today about something else anyways, so I'll ask while I have him on the phone.

One of the networks or ad agencies delivering ad campaigns on DaniWeb is running it. I need to figure out which one.

Gah! I'll look into it this week (either Wed or Thurs).

Then there's no reason why the irc chat shouldn't work?

Oops ... Adobe Flash :)

Macromedia Flash.

Please make sure you have the Flash plugin enabled for your web browser.

DaniWeb uses UTF-8 and it's usually rather forgiving with foreign characters.

You're welcome. I wasn't a fan at all of vBulletin's standard "view next thread" and "view previous thread" links because I didn't understand why anyone would click on these completely random links. I came up with the idea of actually providing the thread titles of these pages which at least makes it a bit more user-friendly.

Is it possible to get knocked up twice in 6 months?

Don't just take my word for it. When I log into Webmaster Tools it specifically says:

Home page crawl: Googlebot last successfully accessed your home page on Aug 18, 2007.

Note the words 'home page' :)

Can Any Body Offer Me A Job? It Is Very Urgent. Any Salary

What are your skills?

If I heard that from someone who was going to pay me, I would run as fast as possible in the other direction. The only reason they wouldn't want a contract is because they think that they might not want to pay you for some reason.

If their business is very important to you, draw up something simple yourself ... even just a paragraph or two summarizing the main points of the project along with the amount you'll be paid. Ask them to sign it and fax it back to you, explaining that it won't take more than 5 minutes.

If you're going to spend weeks or months working on a project for a company, why not take the extra five minutes to draw up something simple? What would be the reason not to?

Hi Alan! Welcome to DaniWeb. I wish your wife a speedy recovery.

IRC stands for 'Internet Relay Chat'. It's a very old live chat protocol, relatively speaking of course, having been around since the 1980s. However, you don't need to know all of that to enjoy it. Just visit our chat page at www.daniweb.com/chat/ and click on the web-based chat client link to instantly chat live with a bunch of us :)

> Dani, if you plan things before you do stuff then these things wouldn't happen

There was a weeklong discussion going on in Area 51 including three successful days where the bot was confined to its own forum in the IT Water Cooler.

> But I dunno, some of your kooky ideas have kinda grown on me.

Oh yeah? Like what? :)

It looks like this was a failed experiment. The hundreds of posts made all at once really tainted things. It wasn't supposed to happen, but ... eh :)

If we have another go at it, I need to rethink using Digg as the source, as well.

Here's the thing. The whole flooding thing was completely accidental. The Digg Bot is not going to be making more than 10ish posts per day across all 7 forums it posts in.

For those of you not aware, the Digg Bot is an actual legal DaniWeb bot. The idea is to syndicate the latest related front-page articles on Digg and encourage DaniWeb's community to comment on them.

I've noticed that the lounge forums tend to engage in very interesting discussions but often need that single person to start a thread and give that push to get conversation flowing. I thought that populating the lounges with a synopsys of the latest Digg articles might just be that push.

Completely ignore the flood of articles that all shot in at once initially. From now on, there should only be a handful (about 5) of new threads per forum per day, so they won't seem to overrun the forum at all.

Another reason for throwing them into the lounge forums is that because many users have been confused as to the purpose of those forums. They're not support forums ... and to hang out people post in the Geek's Lounge, so what's the purpose of these lounges? There's been a somewhat erratic mix of off-topic banter and support questions for people too lazy to choose a more appropriate forum. So the goal was this might help push the lounges towards a set purpose of being a place to discuss various issues.

I think this idea was semi-abandoned.

New members don't use code tags because they just want a quick answer to their one-off homework question and so they post without taking the time to read our rules. You're kidding yourself if you think that they ARE going to take the time to do a couple of practice posts in a test forum before asking their question.

But what's the point of it? Right now we have new members learning about our system and introducing themselves to our community all at the same time. What would be the point of giving them a place to post complete junk?

With a dynamic site such as DaniWeb, there are a lot of pages that can succumb to just being constantly hit over and over again: viewing very large threads, the today's posts link, searches, member profiles, forums, etc. All of these pages take up server resources by having to sort through the giant posts and threads tables in the database. Unfortunately, it's just not feasable to add a CAPTCHA everytime you click any link throughout the site. However, a couple of precautions have been taken to ensure searches don't overwhelm the server. Firstly, there is a regulation in place that lets a single user do a search only once every 5 seconds. Something else that helps is, by default, we outsource our searches to Google. Therefore, we only have to be concerned with today's posts, posts since last visit, list of unanswered threads, etc.

Nope. It's just pretending to be a forum. It really isn't one. :)

I am not debugging anything like that this week because we've been experiencing a DoS attack all week long in addition to having to reboot the MySQL server a couple of times for various reasons. If the problem still exists after all of this is taken care of, I'll look into it at that time.

Hi Kassem and welcome to DaniWeb. I'll go with that motto!

Hi there! Welcome to DaniWeb :) You're in my family?

Hi and welcome to DaniWeb!!

It looks like a forum filled with complete jibberish. (IMO almost embarassing for Opera) I'm confused by the point of it. Why entice new members to get accustomed to our system by submitting complete jibberish when they're already learning how to use DaniWeb by formulating interesting threads in the Community Introductions forum which simultaneously helps build the community?

Sorry :$

Just had the following occur: A 'Server is taking too long' error on attempting to refresh the Perl forum page, a database error on trying to refresh the Geek's Lounge page, and a repitition of the incident; all of the links and control panel stuff just showed up again.

We were having server troubles.

Unfortunately we have a great many members who visit DaniWeb from both home at work machines, or their laptops, or all sorts of multiple machines. (The vast demographic, actually) Therefore, cookie-based tracking isn't ideal because it doesn't carry over between machines. Additionally, a couple of the moderators and regulars within the Tech Talk forums frequently clear out their cookies (a few times a day) when helping to debug browser issues. (This was brought to my attention at a previous time when I introduced cookie-based tracking for something.)

The table in the database which stores which of the latest threads have been read has recently been changed to a HEAP memory structure, which means that it's now completely stored in RAM. This was done because, as you can imagine, the table gets written to every time a member views a thread, so there is a speed improvement there, as the old MyISAM table format succumbs to table locking (meaning the entire table locks up when it's being changed, so multiple writes must wait in line).

However, I believe that the database server was restarted once or twice over the past couple of days, and when that happens, all of its HEAP tables get wiped out.

Let's gie it a couple more days as I'm not sure if the problem is the HEAP structure to begin with, or if it's restarting the db that caused the problems.

I don't know what MyIE2 is.

> I don't think I have been closeminded or prejudice :-/.

> I mostly agree with what you say except I believe I too am very diplomatic as well as impartial .

With the exception of the line I quoted, I chose not to direct any of the statements within my post to individual people. Certainly not everything said applied to everyone just as there was no one person who exemplified everything I said. In my last paragraph, where I stated, "However, I stronly urge everyone who has participated in this thread to at least consider the fact that ...," I simply meant that everyone should reflect upon what I've said and evaluate for yourselves whether any of the comments I've made apply to you.

> A nice way for us all to become a bit more tolerant.
I don't think tolerance is the current theme of this thread.

I think any form of discrimination is flat out disgusting. Not approving of the gay lifestyle is one thing, but it's abhorring to think that you would go so far as to hate someone that you've never even met.

I particularly took offense to Nichito's statement:
i have no problem in using something inventd or discovered by someone gay... but you will never ever see me sharing anything more than a professional relationship or none at all...
I don't understand why you would go so far as to refuse to even be on friendly terms with anyone who is gay. What does someone's sexual orientation have to do with sharing an interest in computer programming or Linux or any of 100,000 other topics two people can enjoy many a friendly conversation about??

I also see this statement as being rather selfish. You would never dare to ever be friends with someone who is gay, but if they've invented or discovered something (in other words, have something you need or want) then you'd be more than happy to use it. To me, that's no different than saying, "I don't like Michael at all. He's not a very nice person and I don't want to be friends with him. But if he offers me $100 bucks (something I want), sure I'll take it!" The only difference is in this case the narrator doesn't like Michael because he's not a nice person. You're saying you don't like a whole group …

The stylesheet in the affected categories might not have downloaded properly, and then they were cached on your system, so the broken stylesheets kept being used over and over again.