Posts by Dani

Mackone is right as far as getting search engine optimization to work for you. Word of mouth is the best form of marketing that exists on the web ... It gets buzz going about your business while building backlinks (links to your website from other sites on the 'net) all at one time. (And backlinks are a critical component of how your site ranks in the search engines.)

How do you do this? Post on forums in your niche. Comment on blogs in your niche. Post good, valuable content that makes you sound like a leader in your industry and earns you a reputation among your peers and the type of people who would be your future/prospective clients. Don't shamelessly plug your site, but use forum signatures where they're available, and let others know that you have this site.

Do this a little every day. Be consistent. After a couple of months, you'll have a positive reputation (and so will your company) for knowing your stuff and being friendly and helpful, you'll have links from other sites in the industry pointing to your website (which helps your search engine ranking), and you might even end up with a few clients outta it.

Leopard added to the list. Thanks for the catch.

We would need to see your code / mysql queries where the rows are being added to the table.

1) Yay, our new welcome guide is useful :)

2) You can only edit your post for up to 30 minutes.

Please clear your browser cache to force a redownload of the JavaScript that powers the dropdown menu. A bunch of changes were made.

It is like that by design. The only way to guarantee that no one could show anyone else's certificate is if you were to explicitely list the URLs of all web pages you want it on.

Also ... I like the way that you can link to other profiles other than your own. You may wish to put on your blog something like, "here are the best three members in the C++ forum" or something like that.

Lefties.

I don't get it?

http://www.myheritagefiles.com/I/storage/site1/files/21/51/22/215122_7276908f763184op6b4148.JPG

Frustrating doesn't even start to describe the experience that wanting to post a well formated snip of code is at times.
e.g
Example
Spent quite sometime aligning expressions and clicking the darn "preview bottom". When everything seems to look more or less what I wanted, I pressed "Submit" and what did I get?
Garbage!
Tabs from code are over-exaggerated, expressions are wrapped to the next line; defeating the purpose of clear formated code in first place. And what is it that the preview doesn't look like the final result?

Code now appears the same way when being previewed as in the actual post. Also, code blocks now support 80 characters per line.

Narue

Narue is awesome because she comes up with threads such as these. When she first started here a couple of years ago, she was known for knowing her stuff but having a bit of an attitude, especially with the newbies. However, she's since toned down A LOT. (If you asked me, motherhood turned her into a softy.) She also likes to play with different online personalities amonst different communities.

When it comes to her administrative capability, I trust her implicitely. We are always on the same page and tend to have very similar views with most situations, including sharing the same vision for DaniWeb, which I think is the most important. She makes an awesome super moderator :) She's been an invaluable advisor for me when it comes to dealing with community issues.

However, I don't hang out much in the C and C++ forums, where she frequents, so while I hear excellent things, I don't have any firsthand experience.

Before I start getting complaints about this, I'm just going to throw it out there ...

The functionality to manually disable Javascript on DaniWeb has been removed. This feature was added as a debugging tool when we were having problems with some of our JavaScript features. All of these problems have since been rectified, and we've been left with a good number of members who have been disabling this feature because they don't realize what it does, only to receive constant complaints by these members that things aren't working the way they're supposed to, or they don't understand why they can't access a particular feature, only to get frustrated with DaniWeb. Additionally, over the past year, some of our JavaScript features have no longer just been cosmetic or offered an easier way to do something but instead are offering the only way to access a feature. In an effort to offer a more standardized experience for everyone, where everyone is able to enjoy all of the features that DaniWeb has to offer, I've decided to no longer allow members to manually turn off JavaScript. Javascript features will automatically be unavailable on unsupported browsers.

The following are the reasons why this ability was created in the first place:
The javascript that was rounding the corners of some of the boxes (purely cosmetic) was causing browser hanging problems => FIXED
The tooltips were following the mouse => CHANGED
The tooltips weren't displaying correctly in IE6 => FIXED

I was able to eventually find the scanpst.exe file in the Program Files x86 directory, as opposed to the regular Program Files directory. (Who woulda thunk that MS didn't make Outlook 2007 native to Vista 64 bit?) Strange that doing a computer-wide search didn't turn up the file. It all works now.

Invisible users no longer show up. It also now tests to see if the user is on your buddy list and puts an icon next to the user if they are.

On second thought ... I have an idea that might satisfy both of you. Give me until the end of today.

It ended up taking a lot longer than I planned but I think it was well worth it. Click on SUBSCRIPTION SPY in the top member menu (next to the link to your control panel).

Most DaniWeb members are not kids or teenagers. The average age of a DaniWeb user is 32 and the median age is in the 30s, as well, although I don't remember the exact number offhand.

You can also choose to view the latest posts from your own selection of Subscribed Forums, which I find extraordinarily handy.

There was a reason I didn't do that when the menu was initially designed 2-3 years ago and even though I don't remember what it was, I'm sure I had a good reason.

However, so many people have a high resolution these days that for such a small bug that only affects a very minority of people aesthetically (no functionality is lost), it really isn't worth starting to change it up and make it work differently than all of the other dropdowns in the same menu.

I got my first car as a birthday gift / HS graduation gift when I turned 17 and very soon after started a B.S. in Computer Science. At my university, all majors had three letter abbreviations, so Comp Sci was abbreviated CSC. Since I was one of only three CSC girls in my freshman class, I decided to get the vanity plate CSCGAL for my new car.

About a year later I started TechTalkForums.com and went by the internet name TechTalkGal. A year after that, I rebranded TechTalkForums as DaniWeb, and TechTalkGal no longer made sense. Therefore, due to lack of creativity, I just decided to use the alias that I had previously named my car two years earlier.

So I'm not happy right now ... just woke up to an IM on my screen that Sun is buying MySQL. Look what Sun did to Java. Good or bad move for the developers out there?

Cheers

No, the install is pretty straight forward and you should be able to successfully run a forum with no coding experience. You will need HTML/XHTML experience to customize the templates. You'll also need light PHP experience to make small modifications to the code or apply hacks made by other members of the phpBB hacking community.

> Oops, I misspelt the thread title.
Fixed.

The bad words filter now works on the reputation system.

Val, if you want to type out bbcode without adding spaces, you can wrap it in the tag. :)[noparse] tag. :)

I am just going to step in and make sure that this thread does not turn into a flame war. If kept at an intelligent level, it can be an interesting discussion of sorts.

I don't agree at all with the statement that because black people typically do worse than white people in education then psychologically they tell themselves education isn't important. Completely ignoring the first half of that statement, where is your proof of what other people are thinking?

Secondly ... to respond to AD's latest post, women are more successful in college than men simply because women mature faster. In our late teens/early twenties, we have our heads on straighter and care more about our studies and schoolwork than 19 year old guys, who typically want to party and aren't spending all their time thinking ahead about the future and how their school grade affects future careers. Our male counterparts simply settle themselves down a few years later when grad school comes around, at which time the roles get reversed and it's the guys who go on to grad school to obtain professional degrees (or at least, it's my opinion that there are more male professionals than there are women professionals). All just my own hypothesis, mind you.

I am officially a quarter of a century old!

Nope, you made sense :)

Can't you do UPDATE table SET col_value = col_value + 1 ?

Visit my member profile and look at the rep section to clarify what I've said.

Question: When you say the light gray on the forum index looks excellent, do you mean that you like it better than having just all white with no background color?

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.

I just find the whole thing incredibly disrespectful because it's done despite deliberately knowing that you're crapping on everything I've built over the past couple of years just for the sake of some cheap laughs.

As I said, in the greater scheme of things, these types of actions should only be done by those who have already exhausted all conventional channels to get their point across and still aren't being heard - and most likely not even then. It's just all very disrespectful and distasteful and very offensive at a personal level.

Nice idea, but a question, will our present rep recieved from the coffee house be eliminated?

Reputation you received from the Coffee House will no longer be factored into your overall Reputation Power. However, as you can see here (via your post in this thread), all posts still have their own individual rep bars and reputation does still exist in the Coffee House.

Hi,

Due to conversations that have been going on in the Area 51 forum for quite some time, as well as in our IRC channel, I have decided to make reputation no longer count within the Coffee House category.

To quote Davey in Area 51, "reputation is meant to be a metric of the members value to the support side of the community, so a newbie can quickly see if the person answering their question is more or less likely to know what they are talking about. It was never intended to be a slap on the back thing for boosting the ego of ones friends or destroying the fragile ego of others."

As a result, I feel that disabling one's reputation power in the Coffee House is the only viable alternative towards reestablishing any type of significance to reputation.

It should be noted that the only change being made is that positive or negative reputation you receive for a Coffee House forum will not affect your reputation. As a result, it will not taint the overall rep # sitewide.

It is still possible to give reputation to Coffee House posts, comments will still show up in member profiles, and you will still be able to see all of the reputation comments handed out inline within posts. Additionally, posts within the Coffee House that receive reputation will still display a little icon indicating so and everyone will still be able to see at a glance …

Hi. We run one Apache box and one MySQL box right now. Both machines are 1.8 ghz dual core dual opterons with a couple of gigs of ram.

Sorry, I disagree. Picture this scene = You're having a horrible tech issue you've been trying to fix all day and you're completely frustrated. You find this forum from a google search that seems to cover the topic and you decide to give it a chance because you have nothing to lose. You take the minute to register. You take the minute to wait for your confirmation email in your inbox. You take the minute to check your email and activate your account. You take a couple of minutes to find your way around the site and navigate to posting a new thread. You FINALLY get to ask your darn question, knowing you will only have to wait you don't know how long for a reply. At this point, are you really going to make the time investment into reading allll of the forum rules before you even post without even knowing if this site is worth investing even more time in? First you'd see if the site worked for you. If you get a reply which impresses you, then it will make you want to learn more about the site. But for all you know, this site could just be not for you. You're not going to spend an extra 10 minutes before you even get to post reading a long list of rules, only to find out the site doesn't have anyone on it who can answer your question.

Besides, I point you back to Stymiee (our …

I hate to be so blunt ... however, I've found that Opera consistantly does not follow XHTML/CSS standards and a very small percentage of the DaniWeb audience uses that browser. Additionally, I am not a fan of Opera at all, having used it a few years back, and therefore don't have it installed on my own machine to test. Therefore, I will be very blunt in saying that there are no plans to make DaniWeb Opera-compatible right now as it would be impossible to do without a working Opera installation myself.

Just when posting or doing other activities on the site as well?

The Rash repbot reputation was reversed yesterday. :)

Hi ... welcome to DaniWeb. You should have received a private message with a link to our introductory how to guide, but you can also find it by clicking the FAQ link at the top of the page (above the banner ad).

So ... what brings you to DaniWeb?

You could store a cookie with one language and recover the cookie details in another language. Browser cookies (which are used to store state data such as sessions) can be read/written across multiple web dev languages.

No, he's talking about this ... www.google.com :)

I think it's disgusting.

Basically all of this is just another reason why allowing users to use color causes nothing but problems. :)

Err, maybe "respect" is the wrong word. Change that to "appreciate".

Just for Dave (and for those of you who live around the world) there is now the option to customize your date and time formats from your member profile.

You can customize the date by selecting from our current format, our previous format (ie Yesterday / Today) or any format of your choosing by using the PHP date function.

For those of you who are overseas, you can customize the time by selecting between a 12-hour and a 24-hour clock.

I've darkened the color of the IT Water Cooler. Does it look shit-colored now though?

Note taken regarding the IT water cooler. Looking for many more comments - it's important to me that the colors don't burn your eyes or hinder someone from staring at them for a long time as they browse many pages.

Resolving issues with file system performance include numerous solutions, primarily hardware related, from use of faster disks, a greater number of disks, distributed storage, SANs, and on the bleeding edge extreme, petabyte-worthy technologies such as cluster file systems. It can also lead to “workaround” handlings such as reinstalling software, re-imaging of hard drives, replacement of hardware, all of which incur overwork on the administrative end. It forces IT to work reactively on problems, increasing IT costs and adversely affects user productivity due to unacceptable levels of downtime.

The thing with reputation is that you could use it if you want, but you don't have to use it if you don't want to. There is no functionality lost because you choose not to give others rep, and you won't get banned because your rep is too low or be promoted to a moderator because you have excellent rep.

We have it because it's a default vBulletin forum feature, and many people enjoy it and find it useful here and on other forums. If you don't fall into that category, you can safely ignore it. Otherwise, you can make of it what you want and factor it into your own personal equation of how you rate the accuracy and helpfulness of community members.

Thread closed on account of it doesn't do justice to the thirty two people murdered to bicker about the psychological profile of their killer to the point of tearing our own community apart. For goodness sake, it's these types of atrocities that are supposed to bring people closer together (think 9/11).