Posts by Dani

Do you have the Zoom set to 100%?

I have FF4 installed on my work computer (Windows 7) and my home computer (iMac) and no issues either way.

It is in the Python forum. You can find it here:

http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/python/code/355735

> Just out of curiosity, was it always available, sort of hidden away somewhere or did this just make a reappearance?
This just made a reappearance, believe it or not. Eyal can attest to how crazy I was coding.

Vernon caught that screenshot while I was in the middle of updating the page. You can now use radio buttons to select which one you want to go with.

It's called retargeting and this is done through cookies on your website. Retargeting essentially is a service that advertisers use to drive you back to their website. They assume since you actively searched for something, that you are still interested if you left the website and you probably left because you were distracted.

Creepy, right?

The Google AdWords system allows you do this, and it's called Remarketing. In fact, DaniWeb does it, by advertising to website visitors who found us through Google search results in the hopes that they will return and join the community. The DaniWeb ads don't necessarily have to be on an IT-based website, since cookies are used to know that they were recently on DaniWeb.

Huh??

It's odd that "web development" would be a word for them to block. What does your company do?

I'm confused by what you mean that you can't browse Web Development. What happens when you click on Web Development in the top navigation menu? What do you mean by 'hanged by firewall'??

Profile pictures only show when you click the avatar from your member profile. It's your avatar that you need to set (which will replace the question mark).

We already have a Mobile Development forum and it is not very active at all. I'd like to see some more activity revolving around mobile dev before we would consider adding additional forums to cater to it.

It works for me?

Are you absolutely positively sure you cleared your browser's cache?

I'm not seeing what you're seeing? It looks correct to me?

Other tech support websites do this. However, it was my decision awhile ago not to specifically point out an individual post as being the "best answer" because, often times, it is the help of multiple people, engaged in a back-and-forth discussion, that brings the solution. Therefore, when a thread is marked as solved, everyone except the original poster whom contributed up to that point gets credit to their Solved Thread statistic. You can rate individual posts with the voting system or reputation system.

Many years ago, keyword density was very important to SEO. Keyword density was having the exact perfect ratio of keywords to the content as a whole. The problem with this was that, over time, spammers employed techniques of keyword stuffing ... essentially, repeating the keywords more times than one would naturally do, for the sake of seo, at the expense of real website visitors.

More recently, Google has been putting extreme emphasis on frowning upon everything that isn't natural language. i.e. When content is written for readability, and is the best for the website visitor, then it's best for Google too. Google is getting smarter and smarter about understanding when content is written for usability's sake.

Because Google search results aren't based off of realtime. Google's spider crawls the web and indexes the content of web pages into its database. Then, when you do a search, you are searching Google's database. (Google recrawls the same webpage either daily, weekly, monthly, etc. depending on how often it feels the content will be updated.)

Therefore, the cached copy (the copy in the database that search results are based off of) is going to be a snapshot of the menu contents just at that one moment in time. Google will assume the webpage always has that content (aka that one menu).

From an SEO perspective, you would want different pages for the varying content. This way, each individual menu would rank in Google when searching for the particular food that it offers.

He is probably using an automated retweet service such as twitterfeed.com, which tweets off of an RSS feed. I suppose he feels that DaniWeb relates to web development, as a whole, so he decided to set up twitterfeed to retweet all of our new threads with the #webdevelopment hash tag.

If you ask me, hash tag or not, I support anyone who wants to retweet our content for us. Especially with the plummet in Google traffic, traffic like this from Twitter is more than essential to keeping us afloat right now.

It's not tagged as #webdevelopment when I retweet that page. It's just a particular twitter user who is retweeting all articles on DaniWeb and adding that hash tag to them.

Sorry, not quite sure what you mean?

Hi,

Check out PayPal's API. It should have instructions on how to do this, depending on the language you are using (PHP, etc).

Do a Google search for cache:www.domain.com/page.html

Edit: Oops, didn't realize this was page two of the thread, and the answer was already given.

It's okay, we all have those days.

Anyone have any insight on this?

... the weird thing is I got an email saying someone replied to this and I dont see anything.

This happened because a spammer replied to your thread, but then a moderator deleted their post.

Try the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule		^([a-z0-9]+).html$		index.php?p=$1	[L]

Then, blah.html will redirect to index.php?p=blah

Hi CodeWord,

Thanks SOOOO MUCH for those kind words! It is very much appreciated. I assume you are the person who is irritated no longer? ;) Sorry for the bad first taste.

Hmm strange. Looks ok to me. I'll keep an eye out to see if other people are experiencing the same problem with marking threads as solved.

Hi,

It is actually not our current, official policy to close threads for this reason. We do REQUEST that members do not resurrect (bump) old threads, but it is not an official rule.

Last night, towards the end of my work day, I added some additional information to the New Thread page to hopefully guide people in the right direction towards the best way to post on DaniWeb.

AndreRet:
> I tend to go back to a thread when I need to confirm some code etc.
He was referring to the list of people currently viewing a thread being displayed while in advanced editor mode. Currently, the advanced editor already includes a quick view of all of the posts in the thread, so you shouldn't have to go back to a thread while advanced replying.

I actually have some very minor but real things on my wish list:

Group one wishlist: Who's reading this thread:

• Easily see who is watching a thread while I'm in 'advanced editor' mode.
• That same information available on any page of a multi-page thread
• That information dynamically updated on the page I'm viewing when it changes on the server. (!)

Group two wishlist: Composition tools

• Put an [I[B][/B]CODE] button on the quick reply form
• A [THREAD] button that would parse the full permalink URL in another post (from my other browser window) and do the right thing to make an internal link.
• As above, but a [POST] button.
• A link easily visible near the reply box that opens a new window showing the available BB codes. And, another thought, maybe an option to open another menu bar with widgits, that like the [CODE] button, insert the tags for you.

That is surely enough of that...

Who's Reading a thread IS currently available on any page of a multi-page thread. As far as it being AJAX (dynamically changing in realtime), unfortunately this just isn't feasable from a server resources perspective. It NEEDS to be cached, and pushing it out every X seconds while people read long threads just isn't doable, I'm afraid.

Regarding who's reading a thread while in 'Advanced Editor' mode ... I will consider adding this if I could see any additional show of hands as to who might want this and find it …

> I think that it would be pretty cool if there was a section for code snippets one for each of the languages. building up a library would be pretty cool
But there is??

Naa, not your fault. It used to not work. I posted a month or two ago saying I corrected the behaviour :)

> Enable the reading of the "go to last post" in a new browser window. At the moment you can only open it in the current window, a bit frustrating when you need to only read the last post and then have to use the back button to go back to the forum you were in.
Just right click and select "Open in new window / new tab / etc".

Some of those are really cool ideas. Going to delve into it more tomorrow.

Gah, you people are really disappointing. I was getting all excited when I first saw this thread and it was all about what people wanted for DaniWeb in 2011. I was all pumped to get some great feedback and ... you disappoint.

Their reputation comment has been deleted, although the reputation itself still exists.

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/subscription.php?do=viewsubscription

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/subscription.php?do=editfolders

The feature is purposely hidden because the search algorithm doesn't work very well, to be honest. I want to fix a bunch of bugs first.

You can, by subscribing to threads. You can create Subscription Folders where you can categorize the threads you subscribe to. Also, you can subscribe to some threads with email notification and some without.

The option to search within a specific thread currently isn't available. However, you can do a search and return individual POSTS instead of threads. www.daniweb.com/forums/search.php

I will consider re-adding the multiple reply button.

I just went to the FusionCharts contact page to report this to them as a bug, and discovered this:

FusionCharts Technologies LLP.
Infinity Think Tank #1, 11th Floor
Plot A3, Block GP, Sector V,
Salt Lake City,
Kolkata - 700091, India

Apparently it is an Indian-based company. People from India tend to write broken English with the phrase 'the same' a lot. I will let Sanjay (our super moderator) explain why since he's from India and does it too :)

Here is what is going on ...

We use a Flash-based charting software to put pretty activity graphs in member profiles, charting posts and reputation. The charting software we use is detecting that you don't have Flash installed, and therefore is prompting you to install it.

"Please click on Ok to install the same." <= I have learned from my time here at DaniWeb that is how people from India speak English. I am assuming that the charting software we are using (www.fusioncharts.com) has outsourced some of their development to India.

Tracking the number of hits that a logo or such gets is the only way I know of to track email opens. However, with images disabled by default with so many email clients these days, the numbers are FAR from accurate.

You can't do this through Google Analytics, as far as I know, because GA has no way of tracking hits to your own image. You would have to use your own server logs, or a tracker that tracks image hits.

Does it really need to rotate like that or can you just send 33% of visitors to site one, 33% to site two, and 33% to site three.

Because then you can just use php's RAND() function to randomly pick a number between 1 and 3, and depending upon which it chooses, it sends the user to the appropriate site. Super quick way of doing it without making it keep track of 'state'.

The random number generator, between 1 and 3, will average out to about 33% each. Of course, it's random, so not exact ;)

We use an out-of-the-box version of the jQuery UI (jqueryui.com) toolkit to do the popup. It is a very popular toolkit and I'd be surprised if there were any bugs as large as no Chrome support.

Try playing around with the dialog box demos at http://jqueryui.com/demos/dialog/ to see if you can reproduce the error. If so, it would be very much appreciated if you could submit a bug report to The jQuery Project, since it is a very actively deveolped project that a lot of people, including myself, use.

The only other thing I could think of is that a particular ad on DaniWeb loaded for you and broke the popup. You might only be experiencing it in Chrome because ads sometimes display based on cookies, which are browser independant.

We have not had a members list for about two years already. The reason being is that it is simply too resource-intensive to pull a list of all 850,000 members from a database table that is very heavily used.

Google does not have the quarterly PR updates like they had years ago. Instead, there are now constant fluctuations in their algorithm.

> Do snippets still show up as a normal forum-thread with the "snippet" prefix as before
Yes, they should be

Huh? What happened?!

Huh??