Posts by happygeek

It's a real shame that more people didn't take part in the competition though, because without greater participation it is hard to envisage offering such prizes again.

Not that competitions and prizes are dead in the water, but I doubt they will take quite the same form again.

Talking of which, what would you guys like to see by way of competitions here that would encourage you enough to take part?

She's busy tweaking DaniWeb code, has just pulled another all-nighter by the look of it (well, was replying to my PMs at 5.30am her time anyway.)

Smartly-tweaked NOSES are calculating through inverted fractions, hastily.

cattle -> kettle

fine, upstanding community?

Hi Sean, I'm guessing you are a drummer, right? :)

What kind of music do you play?

Welcome aboard the DaniWeb express :)

Not much older than some of us (I am 43) and a lot younger than some others.

Anyway, age isn't important, we welcome everyone to DaniWeb.

:idea: just an intro

Only just :)

Welcome, to DaniWeb my friend.

AND THE WINNER IS:

Congratulations to joeprogrammer and his Right On - What IT really is blog which I can announce is the winner of our end of year blogging competition.

Not only did joeprogrammer scoop the most views for his blog postings in December and January, with a total of 31,154 but he also wins the prize for the most trackbacks with 1614.

Well done that man, well deserved.

Dani will be in touch to arrange your prizes in due course!

When you expose yourself by writing a blog, you have to allow for the idiots that will pick an argument no matter what you have said. The main thing is that you have made your point, it is out there and is as valid as any other.

I have developed a fairly thick skin when it comes to criticism, you have to as a writer. If I worried about what a few people with big mouths and loud voices said about me and my output I would have packed it in a long time ago. I prefer to think that the silent majority are the ones I write for...

So keep writing, and keep digging!

Hello and welcome to DaniWeb. At least you can say you have had an interesting life so far!

Don't knock yourself, your writing is actually very good. I have enjoyed reading your blog postings of late and hope that they continue.

The whole getting Dugg/Slashdotted thing is a huge can of worms and something of a lottery to be honest. There are certain stories that stand out as being likely to succeed, and the TomTom virus one is a good example - breaking a story like that is always going to be good news if you'll excuse the pun. But everyday news items are a different matter, whether well written or not. In nearly 200 blog posts here at DaniWeb I have hit the Slashdot front page twice and the Digg one once, for example.

Hi Mladen, and your three friends, welcome to DaniWeb one and all.

Hi Malcolm, welcome to DaniWeb. I' ve copied your technical question over to the relevant forum, being hardware/storage where you should get all the help you need.

I've left this copy here as it's alaso a great introduction to yourself :)

As for being 50+, I will be joining you soon enough methinks. Or at least it feels that way sometimes...

Although most of those trackbacks (and pretty well anybody's) are simply from Digg, as there's multiple ways of viewing an article (such as searching Digg, in which case each search that someone clicks on the article will yield a unique trackback from Digg).

Try this one instead, 432 trackbacks and more than 19,000 views. The trackbacks, although showing a lot of Slashdot activity as you would expect, are pretty well spread across some surprising sites. The AV vendors for example, a news site in the Netherlands and my own happygeeknewmedia blogspot mirror (where I place extracts that link to both my DaniWeb and IT Pro blogs to aid with publicity) as some of the news sites referencing the story pointed people there originally.

Just goes to show what can happen when a blog post breaks a fairly big story. Of course, many of the people reporting it don't mention the original source, and quickly the quoted source becomes one that quotes another that quotes us so we get lost in the mists of time. But overall, most people were doing the decent thing and at least crediting myself/DaniWeb with breaking the story even if not linking directly back to the posting.

Yes the blog needs to be hosted at DaniWeb, and the content unique to it rather than simply copying something over from another blog elsewhere.

Although if you were asking with regard to the current competition, it's a little late in the day :)

Welcome to the most concentrated collection of common sense on the Web!

Hi Jeff, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Shayla, welcome to DaniWeb.

:)

To give reputation points simply click on the 'add to <user> reputation' link at the top of the relevant posting, and fill in the pop-up dialogue.

It's against the AdSense T&C's to disclose earnings, and would be bad business practice anyway so that isn't going to happen :)

As for getting users to click on the ads, well you can't force them - just doesn't work like that.

I'm not sure why anyone would want to rush to buy Vista at launch, I'd much rather wait for SP1 to hit the streets at which time there should be less application software compatibility issues as well.

Techno dreaming sounds good to me. Welcome to DaniWeb friend.

Hi Mel, welcome to DaniWeb. My sister qualified as a Microbiologist, in fact she over-qualified with a Masters and then couldn't get a job. Ended up becoming a nurse, specialising in mental health and now runs a large mental health NHS authority in London.

Hi Antonis, welcome to DaniWeb.

Hi Ryan, welcome to DaniWeb...

Hi Nikki, welcome to DaniWeb.

Welcome to the weirdest conversation on DaniWeb :)

Welcome to the DaniWeb community where your problems are fixed as soon as possible :)

Hi subtonic, well you have certainly come to the right place to get the help you need to crack it this time!

Hi Teodora, welcome to DaniWeb. Bug away all you like, that's what the community is here for :)

Welcome to DaniWeb, great username you have there - any story behind it?

Thanks for the kind words, they are appreciated...

I used to know a couple who used IRC to chat to each other while in the same room! Needless to say, they are a couple no longer...

Hi Troy, we are a still young and growing community and I am happy to be welcoming you as part of it.

Welcome to DaniWeb.

A couple of points though:

You need to ask questions in the appropriate forum, this is just a place to say hello and intrioduce yourself to the community.

You need to be a lot more detailed in asking your question when you do find the right forum, nobody can help you with the kind of question you have posed - it could relate to anything!

See also: Wife Swapping Geeks

Cute, sneaky, male rats are loving over DEPARTED wombats, voraciously.

parade -> fiesta

No I was just asking a polite question out of curiousity. :cry:

Mine was a polite, and honest, reply. Didn't mean it to sound otherwise.

I have no idea what Dani might do with DaniWeb in the future, I doubt if Dani knows what she will do in the future - it's an impossible question to answer with any real value.

gherkins -> soldiers

tiny, aluminum, munchkin mice are salivating over BLUE cheese easily

Or 'what other software are you using?' then later 'oh, it must be something to do with one of those then'

Welcome to DaniWeb and thanks for the detailed and interesting intro.

TINY, aluminum, munchkin mice are salivating over ethereal marshmallows, easily.

I try to avoid smart people eating salad, especially at parties.

almost alive again

and said "ark