Posts by Dani

I link to your website if you link to my website.

What do you mean by submitting to them? You don't need to manually submit to search engines anymore, silly :)

OMG!:-O
There are new smilies!:)
I'm in love!:*
Any questions?:?:

Hi Jeff! Welcome to DaniWeb :)

I'm attaching this file as an attached .zip. From now on, do that instead of pointing users to off-site files, because what inevitably happens is a few months down the line you take them off of your server for whatever reason, and then this tutorial gets broken.

I think it's incredibly optimistic that, even offering a very substantial prize, to expect more than a few entries in a programming competition. Just look at the blog competition - there was only one blogger and he was an existing member. In general, competitions are a great tool to use to motivate existing members, and can even lure the occasional lurker, but they certainly don't have the potential to draw in any brand new people. That's just the nature of forum competitions.

That aside, however, assuming the overly-optimistic value of 5 or 10 contributions to a coding competition, the same problem would exist in the judging.

Even that aside, you have to appreciate the business aspects related to the competition. The purpose of a competition would be to better DaniWeb in some way - this means that the value received would need to at least break even with the amount spend on the prize in addition to the amount of time spent running the contest.

At this point, DaniWeb receives 100,000 visitors daily, give or take 20,000 depending upon what day of the week it is. A few thousand extra visitors (even if they all became regular members) aren't capable of generating more than ten bucks and certainly wouldn't be reason to hand out a prize worth thousands.

The blogging competition worked because it had nothing to do with the actual members who participated but instead was focused around getting our content syndicated. The advantages to …

Can you explain what cin.ignore actually does, and why we need to specify some randomly large number? Is there no command to just clear the input buffer of the newline character?

I asked this question once before about a year or two ago, but would like to open it up to discussion again. Am I doing a good job? Is Davey doing a good job? Do you feel that DaniWeb is headed in a positive direction?

Wow, what a relief! I was so afraid I would get lots of criticism about the missing forum descriptions and last thread info. Thank you for the positive comments and encouragement!

I used to use weekly. However, over the past two days I've tried instant and daily and both have worked fine for me. That said, I'm not subscribed to nearly as many threads as you. I alslo haven't changed anything with the mailer anytime recently to alter how much mail is delivered though.

After the whole newsletter drama, I made a typo in my code and threw the Apache server into an infinite loop. About 10 minutes of downtime. So sorry. I need more sleep it seems.

Ooooooh look who's all on a distinguished path now :)

http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/ ??

I'm very sorry to hear that, Justine. :( I hope you will visit us every so often! :)

Thank you everyone!!!!

I'm not entirely sure how this is gonna work though. For example, comments in c++ is preceded by a // whereas in vb.net comments are preceded by a '.

Anyway I'm sure you've already thought of this though, otherwise you wouldn't have suggested it.

That's already all figured out. It's just a matter of what colors to use where. What about php default syntax highlighting colors?

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.highlight-string.php

The other day, I was talking with a salesguy from The Tribune about a full page ad advertising my new bowling alley. There were a whole bunch of changes that needed to be made, and I was going over them all with the guy. Part of the ad was a bulleted list of all of the things we have ... sports bar, party rooms, billiard room, arcade, pro shop, and so forth. One of the specific things on the list read, "Birthday Parties for Kids." My grandma, who was looking over my shoulder, said, "The party rooms aren't just for kids, they're really for everybody. We shouldn't just limit ourselves to kids parties. Let's add another bullet that says 'Adult Parties'", and she got the salesguy who spoke in broken English to add it to the mock-up before I started going, "nonononono!." If I wasn't there it would have made for some risque bowling alley!

Kudos on your post, stymiee!

Hi Loren! Welcome to DaniWeb :)

In other words ... Here is regular text. Here is code

It's related to an IE bug where the drop down menu would go behind the search dropdown. The only way to fix it was to make it hide itself. (Yes, I know you guys are using FireFox)

I'm not the person to ask. :) I suggest you post your question in the IT Careers and Business forum.

Well, here's what happened. After the Sims 2 completely froze on me, and everything was unresponsive, I was forced to hard reboot. Upon reentering Windows, things started appearing very flaky. I then found I had bad RAM. It got worse from there. After an unbelievably bad experience with customer support, my one week Alienware machine was sent back.

Do you do freelance work as a web designer or web developer? If you do custom work for clients, you're welcome to advertise your service in our Custom Services For Hire forum within the Webmaster Marketplace.

Hey there. Long time no speak. It's still in the works ... yes, still. The latest news is that all of the bowling alley lanes got put in and all the flooring got put in. But it was done wrong (the wrong type of wood, where it wasn't going to pass inspection). So AMF had to fly a whole new crew out to rip up all of the lanes and put new lanes down. Which is what they're doing as we speak.

Since there is both positive and negative reputation power, I've chosen to disable you telling who so as to not stir negative feelings throughout the community.

However, members have the option of making a comment when they give rep points, and some choose to sign their comment.

Isn't this a paid program? Downloading it for free is illegal.

Thank you :)

Ok, I'm going to lock this thread before it gets even more out of hand. First thing's first, outside this mess, welcome to our community Snakehar. No, Snakehar shouldn't have bumped his thread 20 minutes after he first posted it, and that can be perceived as rude. But it's no reason to start a flame war over. Enough's enough.

What do you consider "ethical SEO"? What types of general techniques do you use? (No need to be specific or anything here.) The only reason I ask is because everyone has their own definitions of black hat, white hat, ethical, not-so-ethical, etc. :)

Here is some information about this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/table-locking.html

When is it appropriate to use InnoDB table types? What about for a forum such as this one with huge post and thread and memberlist tables? I was reading on dev.mysql.com that it is more efficient than MyISAM for large table types? Is this always the case? Would it make sense to mix and match MyISAM and InnoDB table types in my database based on the number of rows in the table?

Here's the deal. Google keeps track of IPs of sites in its engine. Sites with the same IP are typically on the same server. If this is a shared server, the sites might not have a lot in common other than using the same hosting company. But if this is a dedicated server, especially if the sites link to each other, Google assumes they are run by the same person and part of the same network. Therefore, a backlink doesn't count as much as it ordinarily might - it counts more like a backlink from one page of the same site to another.

The problem is that the search engines don't know whether an IP is to a shared or dedicated server. This can be a problem when another site that might be hosted on the same IP as you does some black hat SEO or something to get it banned. It's very possible that your site might also inadvertently get banned.

Hence why it's a good thing to have your own IP :)

Luckily, forums work well with viral marketing and word of mouth marketing (WOM). The reason for this is because they are already deep in the heart of online community building, which is what online viral marketing is all about. Sites get mentioned in other forums, in blogs, in newsgroups ... in other communities. Eventually word spreads pretty quickly among online cliques and networks. :) Most forum goers participate in multiple forums on a same topic, so much of the community remains the same between sites. Did that make any sense at all?

Nearly all of my latest reputation received is grey. It seems that only people with fewer than 5 posts like to give me kudos.

I noticed that if I visit the 'Web development' forum index, the background turns blue (and ugly).

That's all for today!

Fixed, thanks!! :)

Impossible! You've been here since the summer of '04 and you make about 1 useful post every couple of weeks. You said so yourself!

I have edited Jackoamerica's post because even if he, personally, feels it is not violating Google's TOS, it's posted on DaniWeb, and I don't want DaniWeb to be held responsible, liable, or anything else for that matter, for violating Google's TOS. After all, we, too, are AdSense members - and I for one am a paranoid one! ;) *darn invalid clicks!*

There should be a way to perform a repair on Internet Explorer via the IE Setup program.

Actually, it's been here a very long while. :-/

I split your thread off from the SEO thread since it wasn't exactly relevant. Don't hijack threads ;) In any case, it's because more people who read Tek's post have rated his threads I guess. Or maybe everyone just likes him better. :)

Which of the following is the proper syntax for the latest version of PHP?

echo "My name is $name. How are you?";

echo "My name is " . $name . ". How are you?";

I'm not quite sure if the goal is different eachj time you finish a work unit - I believe it is. I just leave it running 24/7 on my machines, in the system tray. So what are you doing still using Windows Me anyways? ;)

I've just started using Folding@Home, and I thought we might create a DaniWeb Folders team.

For those of you who would like to be a part of our fight to cure diseases, by using your unused CPU time, please check out http://folding.stanford.edu

When setting up your client, enter Team # 41335 to be a part of the DaniWeb Folders distributed computing group.

You can find information about our team here:
http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=41335

Web design is definitely art. It takes knowledge of which colors are easier on the eyes, aesthetics, defining a site's "atmosphere" based on the way it looks, and even a lot of graphic marketing! I.e. the design has to sell the product the website is trying to sell :)

Hey guys. As you may or may not know, we're currently running a donation drive. With the increasing traffic coming to DaniWeb, we're currently investigating the idea of actually purchasing a second dedicated server, so that we can have one server for Apache/PHP and another server for MySQL. Currently, a donation entitles you to numerous community benefits. However, I have been toying with the idea of an ad-free version of the site. I am just looking basically for a rough estimate of whether this would be worth it. Thanks!

OS X is built on top of BSD. As far as I know, the file system (journaled HFS+) coupled with OS X does not need to be defragmented - it is a process that happens automatically in the background. Perhaps others can clarify?

Unfortunately Apple decided that there is enough support out for OS X nowadays that OS9 is not needed. But that isn't necessarily so if you're one of those who runs a lot of old classic apps. If you have Jaguar installed with OS9, you can upgrade to Panther while keeping your OS9 intact.

Otherwise, if you did a fresh install of Panther, you should still be able to install OS9 off of your Jaguar cd.

Thank you for pointing this out. This was actually a bug I didn't pick up on, but it's fixed now. I've been making a bunch of backend changes to the forum system lately. Sorry about that!

It was announced today that DaniWeb was featured on The Admin Zone (www.theadminzone.com) as the September forum of the month :) Everyone can check out a whole article allllllllll about DaniWeb and me on the TAZ homepage! Thanks Kathy!! Ya'll are superb!