Posts by Dani

We haven't allowed rep in the Community Center for a very long time, as AD pointed out. While some people don't get too caught up on rep points, other people choose to take them more seriously, and I think it wouldn't be fair to those long time members to suddenly see their reputation counters seemingly arbitrary sliced. At this point, the "damage" has been done, and I feel it's best to leave well enough alone.

Press Ctrl+0 and see if it fixes the problem.

18 ... wow, I get all the big age milestones. 21 and now 18!

21

I already pointed out the benefit to them and the benefit to us, but the additional benefit to the actual poster is that their questions gain additional publicity and hopefully they'll get an answer quicker by having their questions posted on DaniWeb automatically syndicated to other forums and help sites.

after all there isn't any mention of Daniweb on their website?

I see this simply as rude, plain and simple, to not give credit, but I don't think it makes them "evil". After all, we proactively provide a way for other sites to syndicate our content, and IMHO, in doing so, we give up the right to complain when sites do so.

I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing because it's just one of the things that is "encouraged" with the promotion of our API. Funnily enough, it actually both makes their site more established and also establishes us as a content provider in Google's eyes, so it's a win-win for both websites.

Firstly, no one knows what pagerank their site is: it's an internal factor in Google's algorithm and it's not made public. Google used to have their toolbar that showcased "toolbar PR" on a scale of 0-10 (10 being best) but they stopped updating that years ago.

Regardless, pagerank is just a number representation of the quantity and quality of the sites that link to you. It's only one factor in Google's algorithm to determine how you will rank in the search results.

So sorry about that!! That's what happens when I directly upload the file my designer gives me without double-checking it first.

C# can be used for both web development and non web development applications. To that end, while PHP is primarily used for web development, it can be executed from the command line as well. Basically we've adopted the tagging system as the new primary means of navigation here at DaniWeb, realizing that the category/subcategory structure is really not perfect at all.

You say you want to take an existing platform and modify it, but you haven't really given any details as to what language you want the existing platform coded in. For example, I'm a PHP developer, and so I can take an existing PHP script and tweak it to my needs. But I wouldn't know the first thing to do with a Java or .NET application.

On the other hand, if you don't have the development skills, you're going to need something straight out of the box with all the functionality you need, and just the ability to customize it. Is this what you mean?? If so, it's still important what language because it's not so easy to run .NET on a Linux server, etc. Do you have a language preference?

Oh, nevermind. My code isn't very elegant at all. I used brute force:

    foreach ($objectinfo AS $key => $value)
    {
        // PHP has a nasty habit of storing numerical AND string keys for associative arrays
        if (is_numeric($key))
        {
            unset($objectinfo["$key"]);
        }
    }       

Oh I had this problem with associative arrays in PHP myself recently. Let me see if I can find my remedy. Hold on.

So you mean like what we do on this page?: http://www.daniweb.com/web-development/web-design-html-and-css/15

You need to use jQuery, yes. Here's our code. You will need to modify it for your own needs:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
$(function() {
    var header = $('#static-header');
    var body = $('#body');
    var offset = header.offset().top;
    $(window).scroll(function() {
        var new_position = $(this).scrollTop(); 
        if (new_position > offset) {
            if (!(header.hasClass('fixed'))) { header.addClass('fixed'); }
            body.css('margin-top', header.height() + 'px');
        }
        else if (new_position <= header.height() + 30 && header.hasClass('fixed')) {
            if (header.hasClass('fixed')) { header.removeClass('fixed'); }
            body.css('margin-top', 'auto');
        }
    });
});
//-->
</script>

And then the CSS

div#static-header.fixed
{
    position: fixed;
    top: 0px;
    width: 100%;
    opacity: 0.90;
    ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=90)";
    filter: alpha(opacity=90);
    z-index: 2;
}

Basically he pointed me to the IPN log thingy when you're logged into Facebook which shows all of your past transactions, and it is true that a decent percentage of them from the past few weeks have an empty 'message' area where it's supposed to have the details of the transaction account sent to the merchant. I'll investigate in a bit and see if the donations that aren't in my database happen to correspond to the ones that are blank on the PayPal log page.

I just got off the phone with PayPal developer / api tech support. This is apparently a high priority issue on their end that has been ongoing for about 2 weeks (the problem being that their servers are being hit-or-miss transmitting the relevant data back to the merchants). That smells like bullshit to me, because a PayPal high priority issue like this should not be going on for 2+ weeks. But who am I to say.

IPN showing wrong time, http response and no IPN data

Product Level 1:    Merchant Services
Product Level 2:    Order Management
Product Level 3:    Instant Payment Notification (IPN)
Date Created:   04/18/2013 11:30 AM
Last Updated:   04/18/2013 11:30 AM
Status:     Pending Fix
Integration Phase:  Live
Severity:   General Info
Environment:    PayPal Live Site

Hello Dani Horowitz,
My name is Messan with PayPal Merchant Services. We spoke on the phone earlier.
We are aware of this issue and we are working to resolve it. I will further update you with more information as it becomes available.
If you have any additional information or updates to your issue, please use the instructions in this email to update your ticket.
Thank you for your patience.

I'm still unsuccessfully working on it. In the meantime, I manually promoted your account to Sponsored.

I believe that DaniWeb take "ownership" of posts so that they can legally store and manipulate them, however, someone from DaniWeb would have to officially confirm/deny this.

Yes, that's true. However, and please don't quote me on this, but in the future this might be modified to change from taking ownership to being granted an exclusive, irrevocable license. From what I understand, this would allow us everything we need while not being the one liable for defamation, illegal content, etc.

Pretty sure I've read in the past ownership is taken to help fight against scraping sites

While this is somewhat true, we pick and choose who we pursue very carefully. We only go after sites that copy all of our content and then show us in a bad light, or sites that are harming us by being there in some way. Between our RSS feed and our new API, sites have been syndicating our content for years and years, and it actually, believe it or not, helps us in Google when other sites do that, ever since the duplicate content penalty came into existance.

There's Microsoft Silverlight.

But I would say it would be HTML5/CSS3 with a Flash fallback, yes.

Fixed. Now code snippets do.

Yes, it is. I'm still trying to figure out why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

The payment actually went through. Much appreciated. It is a bug with the system not promoting your account. I'll get this resolved shortly.

Thanks!! :)

It's a live process once the payment has been validated. It looks as if the system never promoted your account to a sponsor, either. Hmm ... I'll have to take a look into it, thanks :)

It's kinda late tonight so I'll get right on this in the morning.

OK code fixed. Will be fixed for existing members as the cache repopulates.

Actually, I take that back. Eating something, then going to fix it.

Yup, working on fixing this now :)

Speak for yourself. I love web programming. And I don't know Flash. In fact, I think web designers need flash more than developers do.

While you can't rate entire threads, you can rate individual posts of a thread. The rating of the first post of a thread is synonymous with whether or not you think it's a good question.

Too bad there's no list of approved applications ;)

That will be implemented in the future if the API feature takes off. Right now there are so few applications to warrant it.

Hi,

You can visit http://www.daniweb.com/members/edit_membership

Not sure if that's what you mean though.

Heh.

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

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

You can create CSS gradients.

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.

Does IE 10 screw up all of our code snippets on the site??

I just tested it and it seems to work fine in IE 9 standards mode :(

Sounds good. Looking forward to any improvements and suggestions you may have as you work with it.

Sounds great :)

On a related note, how has your experience beeen working with the API up until now?

Wasn't sure yet whether to post this publicly.

Why not? Feel free to share. Thanks for the improvement!!

Honestly, I don't have much experience with cURL, so providing alternate ways of doing things for people can only help. Thanks for the tip!

Well it's important because lots of other people could be experiencing the issue :)

I cannot replicate this in Windows 7 / IE 9 and I won't have access to a Windows 8 box until later tonight. In the meantime, please make sure you're not in silly IE compatibility mode.

Maybe on page 2?? I'm not sure how it got out of sync :(

This has been pushed to production (with a slight tweak to actually reduce server load because we no longer need to fetch forum titles of those subforums).

It was a bug. Fixing it now :)

Thanks so much!! :) Really appreciate it.

No, we lock you in for life. And when you die, your children are required to donate. :-P

Of course you can cancel it at any time.

A banned member was repeatedly trying to 'Log In with Facebook' to the point of where they made the top list by activity points! However, it wouldn't show their name because they were banned and weren't supposed to be in the list, so the layout got a little funky. All fixed now. And no more giving activity points to banned people.

Will look into it in a few minutes, thanks!

Looks fun!! :)

Unfortunately I can't duplicate this. :(

I think you're in IE compatibility mode.