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bs0d |
Subject: "Still Around"
Posted: @ 4:33 pm on May 28 2014 |
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 Member #: 1 Rank: Admin. - (1,510) Since: 02/06/05 Posts: 604 From: USA
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Just posting to
post. I'm still
around and
someday may get
back to doing
some things
here. I use VBA
quite a bit in
Excel and could
write an
article or
upload some
code samples
for common
problems if
anyone might
find it useful.
So if you're
passing
through, feel
free to post in
the forums just
to say hey.
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misterhaan |
Subject: "re: StillAround"
Posted: @ 4:34 pm on May 31 2014
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 Member #: 5 Rank: Contributor - (214) Since: 02/11/05 Posts: 149 From: chair
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hey
(i am still
subscribed to
the rss feed)
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misterhaan |
Subject: "re: Still
Around"
Posted: @ 4:38 pm on May 31 2014
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 Member #: 5 Rank: Contributor - (214) Since: 02/11/05 Posts: 149 From: chair
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hmm, when i
edited my post
the disable
smilies
checkbox
didn't work :/
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bs0d |
Subject: "re: Still
Around"
Posted: @ 3:13 pm on Jun 02 2014
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 Member #: 1 Rank: Admin. - (1,510) Since: 02/06/05 Posts: 604 From: USA
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(testing) :|
A while back, I
moved hosts and
needed to
update several
things. I think
the database
wasn't a
complete copy.
Your article on
AJAX seems
incomplete, so
I've got to
look into that.
I also noticed
the emoticons
in posts are
broken, so it
seems that may
needs some work
as well!
Good hear from
ya, how's
track7?
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misterhaan |
Subject: "re: StillAround"
Posted: @ 9:24 pm on Jun 14 2014
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 Member #: 5 Rank: Contributor - (214) Since: 02/11/05 Posts: 149 From: chair
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weird, it's
like each page
just ends early
-- maybe i did
fancy quotes /
apostrophes and
the database
move didn't
like that?
track7 is still
there (and
still on the
same host), but
i don't do
much with it
anymore. i am
sort of working
on a
gaming-related
website, but
with being a
dad now and
doing enough
programming at
work, i don't
have as much
time for php
anymore.
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bs0d |
Subject: "re: StillAround"
Posted: @ 1:04 pm on Jun 16 2014
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 Member #: 1 Rank: Admin. - (1,510) Since: 02/06/05 Posts: 604 From: USA
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I need to see
if it's all
even in the
database still.
I did an export
and import with
phpMyAdmin. I
bet you're
right though,
some characters
probably
tripped it up.
I may have a
backup copy. I
do some
programming at
work with VBA,
but not much
else. You enjoy
being a dad?
I'm about to
go on year 2
and it's been
one of the most
rewarding
things in life.
It makes you
look at the
world in a new
way.
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misterhaan |
Subject: "re: Still
Around"
Posted: @ 4:13 pm on Jan 23 2015
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 Member #: 5 Rank: Contributor - (214) Since: 02/11/05 Posts: 149 From: chair
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i started
working on my
site again and
figured i’d
check if
allsyntax was
still around
and noticed i
never replied
to this thread!
(oops /
sorry!)
so first off
yes being a dad
is great! i
have a very
active and
talkative
little girl at
home and
watching her
learn is
basically my
favorite thing.
i recently
took a week off
work to watch
her at home
while my wife
went on an
international
trip and it was
awesome
spending that
time with
her.
i had a double
hard drive
failure and
hadn’t backed
up that
gaming-related
site i
mentioned in my
last post so
lost it. i
think all i had
was login, but
still
frustrating. i
had a raid1
setup
(mirrored) to
protect me from
hard drive
failure, but
the second one
died while i
was on a work
trip. don’t
think i’ll buy
seagate again!
also, i set up
some better
backups that
won’t overwrite
themselves with
nothing if i
end up losing
the raid disks
again.
instead of
starting over
on the site i
lost, i figured
it was time to
modernize my
site because
then maybe i’d
be more
interested in
posting stuff
again. here’s
my list of
things i’m
changing. i’m
going to do one
section of the
site at a time
and make sure
it works
everywhere.
1. modernize my
layout. i’m
getting rid of
borders and
adapting to
varying browser
widths (such as
phones)
automatically
instead of
through a
separate
subdomain for
mobile which
has been
bothering me
for almost as
long as i’ve
had it set up.
we had a guest
speaker come in
to work and
suggest it’s
better to
design for the
small screen
first and then
make changes to
adapt to larger
screens rather
than the other
way around, so
i'm trying
that. i also
have a color
scheme i came
up with for
that other site
i’m adapting
here.
2. modernize
the way my site
behaves. for
the first time
ever i’m
including a
couple
javascript
libraries i
didn’t write
myself. knockout lets me
bind html
elements to a
javascript data
model, which is
highly
compatible with
serving a
mostly-empty
page and then
pulling up the
content using
ajax. i’ve
seen how jquery
can help people
write less
javascript but
it also
provides a
bunch of stuff
i wont use, so
i’m using a
scaled-down
version called
minified. mostly
i wanted to run
a function when
the dom loads
rather than
waiting for
images etc to
load as well,
but the
dollar-sign
function for
getting
references to
elements is
also very
handy.
3. use mysql in
ways that are
better for
performance. i
learned a bit
more about
performance in
mysql which
means
refactoring
some of my
tables and
changing how i
do some
queries.
4. secure
login.
currently,
logging in
sends the
password
unencrypted to
my server. i
can store it
securely but
would need to
spend more
money to get a
certificate and
set up ssl to
secure the
transmission.
i plan to drop
direct login to
my site in
favor of openid
from other
sites that do
have
encryption,
like google /
twitter /
facebook / etc.
i’ve seen
generic openid
logins that let
you enter the
openid url
yourself, so
people can use
anything that
supports
openid.
i started with
my blog and so
far on my test
server it’s
impossible to
log in because
i haven’t
started that
part, but it
loads a tag
list and the
latest entries
over ajax.
when there are
more entries
than what’s
displayed, i
load up more
over ajax and
just add them
to the page.
i’m considering
making it load
the next chunk
once the page
scrolls to the
bottom, without
needing to
click. i’m
happy with it
so far, and
hopefully after
another month
or so i’ll have
it far enough
that i can push
the new blog to
my live site!
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Subject: "re: Still
Around"
Posted: @ 3:48 pm on Jan 26 2015
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 Member #: 1 Rank: Admin. - (1,510) Since: 02/06/05 Posts: 604 From: USA
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misterhaan
said...
<
i>
i started
working on my
site again and
figured i’d
check if
allsyntax was
still around
and noticed i
never replied
to this thread!
(oops /
sorry!)
It's still
here, but wow-
I really
haven't been
in a position
to do anything
with it since
college! I have
more ideas than
I have time to
actually do
anything with.
I do a bit of
automation with
VBA in Excel at
work and have
built
dashboards that
interact with a
database and
such. I've
thought about
adding a lot of
that type of
stuff on here,
or even
commercializing
one of my
tools. But I'm
not sure you
can really
protect your
code in VBA.
As far as
changing things
around here, I
need to
emphasize more
of the
community
aspect and just
let people post
links to good
content. Maybe
allow votes up
and down to
filter out the
crud.
misterhaan
said...
<
i>
so first off
yes being a dad
is great! i
have a very
active and
talkative
little girl at
home and
watching her
learn is
basically my
favorite thing.
i recently
took a week off
work to watch
her at home
while my wife
went on an
international
trip and it was
awesome
spending that
time with her.
Very cool! I
agree, being a
dad is the best
a guy could ask
for.
misterhaan
said...
<
i>
i had a double
hard drive
failure and
hadn’t backed
up that
gaming-related
site i
mentioned in my
last post so
lost it. i
think all i had
was login, but
still
frustrating. i
had a raid1
setup
(mirrored) to
protect me from
hard drive
failure, but
the second one
died while i
was on a work
trip. don’t
think i’ll buy
seagate again!
also, i set up
some better
backups that
won’t overwrite
themselves with
nothing if i
end up losing
the raid disks
again.
This is
something that
always concerns
me and that I
believe you're
never fully
prepared for. I
may just buy a
redundant
backup! I've
had good luck
with WD, and
they have some
nice external
drives, 2 TB
that can fit in
your pocket.
Some even have
WIFI.
misterhaan
said...
<
i>
instead of
starting over
on the site i
lost, i figured
it was time to
modernize my
site because
then maybe i’d
be more
interested in
posting stuff
again. here’s
my list of
things i’m
changing. i’m
going to do one
section of the
site at a time
and make sure
it works
everywhere.
1. modernize my
layout. i’m
getting rid of
borders and
adapting to
varying browser
widths (such as
phones)
automatically
instead of
through a
separate
subdomain for
mobile which
has been
bothering me
for almost as
long as i’ve
had it set up.
we had a guest
speaker come in
to work and
suggest it’s
better to
design for the
small screen
first and then
make changes to
adapt to larger
screens rather
than the other
way around, so
i'm trying
that. i also
have a color
scheme i came
up with for
that other site
i’m adapting
here.
2. modernize
the way my site
behaves. for
the first time
ever i’m
including a
couple
javascript
libraries i
didn’t write
myself. knockout lets me
bind html
elements to a
javascript data
model, which is
highly
compatible with
serving a
mostly-empty
page and then
pulling up the
content using
ajax. i’ve
seen how jquery
can help people
write less
javascript but
it also
provides a
bunch of stuff
i wont use, so
i’m using a
scaled-down
version called
minified. mostly
i wanted to run
a function when
the dom loads
rather than
waiting for
images etc to
load as well,
but the
dollar-sign
function for
getting
references to
elements is
also very
handy.
3. use mysql in
ways that are
better for
performance. i
learned a bit
more about
performance in
mysql which
means
refactoring
some of my
tables and
changing how i
do some
queries.
4. secure
login.
currently,
logging in
sends the
password
unencrypted to
my server. i
can store it
securely but
would need to
spend more
money to get a
certificate and
set up ssl to
secure the
transmission.
i plan to drop
direct login to
my site in
favor of openid
from other
sites that do
have
encryption,
like google /
twitter /
facebook / etc.
i’ve seen
generic openid
logins that let
you enter the
openid url
yourself, so
people can use
anything that
supports
openid.
i started with
my blog and so
far on my test
server it’s
impossible to
log in because
i haven’t
started that
part, but it
loads a tag
list and the
latest entries
over ajax.
when there are
more entries
than what’s
displayed, i
load up more
over ajax and
just add them
to the page.
i’m considering
making it load
the next chunk
once the page
scrolls to the
bottom, without
needing to
click. i’m
happy with it
so far, and
hopefully after
another month
or so i’ll have
it far enough
that i can push
the new blog to
my live site!
I'm pretty
sure I'm
falling behind
on what's the
modern way to
code webpages
and such. I
feel like you,
instead of
doing
everything from
scratch, I
should consider
some of the
pre-built
libraries, CMS
and so on.
Integrating
secure login's
with google /
facebook and
such is
probably a
better idea all
around. It also
saves the user
from having to
remember
another user
/pass.
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misterhaan |
Subject: "re: Still
Around"
Posted: @ 4:01 pm on Jan 28 2015
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 Member #: 5 Rank: Contributor - (214) Since: 02/11/05 Posts: 149 From: chair
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it’s been a
long time since
i’ve dealt with
vb or vba, but
i did a lot
with it 10-15
years ago. now
i’m mostly
using c# at
work (and
sometimes at
home), and of
course still
php at home. i
also use mssql
at work and get
frustrated with
little things
it won't let
me do like add
a new column
anywhere but to
the end of an
existing
table.
i hadn’t
considered
using a cms —
i’ve always
felt like that
would take more
time to learn
than what it’d
save me. it
does seem like
a good idea for
a site that has
administrators
/ major
contributors
who aren’t web
developers
though. so far
i’m only using
javascript
libraries, but
am considering
markdown or a
similar library
for comments
and the forum
(if i even keep
the forum).
did you write
the bbcode
implementation
here? i’m
still glad i
wrote what i
did but
replacing it
now with
something
people have
seen other
places and thus
know how to use
sounds like a
good idea.
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bs0d |
Subject: "re: StillAround"
Posted: @ 7:52 pm on Jan 28 2015
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 Member #: 1 Rank: Admin. - (1,510) Since: 02/06/05 Posts: 604 From: USA
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Do you have a
programming
job? What
exactly do you
do? I don't
work as
anything IT
related, I've
been in the oil
& gas
industry for
about 10 years.
There's a lot
of spreadsheet
use, and most
older industry
professionals
are comfortable
with that and
less eager to
use much else.
So that sort of
explains the
use of VBA so
much. I've
read Excel
could abandon
VBA for .NET I
believe,
something more
modern, but
it's yet to
happen. I think
you can develop
add-in's for
Excel using
.NET where you
code would then
be protected?
That's
probably
something I
should learn a
bit more
about...
I did write the
bbcode here. I
built the
entire forums
from scratch.
I'm sure you
can tell by the
nested quotes
issue above!
*edit*
It looks like
the bbcode no
longer works
right... I
switched hosts
a while back
and the
relative path
changed. That
may be the
culprit. I
guess as PHP
versions change
and browsers
change, stuff
breaks that use
to work fine.
I'll need to
dig around and
fix that
sometime.
Edited at 08:03:20 pm on 01/28/15
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misterhaan |
Subject: "re: Still
Around"
Posted: @ 8:08 pm on Mar 24 2015
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 Member #: 5 Rank: Contributor - (214) Since: 02/11/05 Posts: 149 From: chair
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i'm a software
developer
working on an
internally-depl
oyable website
that monitors
and alerts on
metrics that we
care about on
the various
servers that
the rest of the
software runs
on. it figures
out stuff like
"we're
on track to run
out of disk
space next
week" or
"it's
taking a long
time for users
to log
in."
each customer
sets up their
own instance of
it and can
tweak the
thresholds that
trigger alerts.
i've been at
the company
almost 13 years
and have been
in this area
for the last
2.5.
progress on
track7
continues
slowly, with
nothing
actually
changed on
track7.org so
far. i've
dropped
minified for
jquery 2 since
it's difficult
to search for
how to do
something in
minified but
easy to find
the same thing
in jquery.
maybe the
minified guy
should have
chosen a less
common word for
its name. i
have login with
google account
working, but
haven't yet
done the part
where you
actually add
google login to
your track7
account or
create a new
track7 account
with google
login. ended
up writing it
myself and
it's actually
not very
complicated --
definitely
simpler than
learning how to
use some
library that
supports
multiple login
providers (i
tried).
after that i
spent some time
researching the
most secure
method for
remember-me
cookies and
have that
working though.
i may write up
a blog post or
guide on that
someday. now
i'm working on
letting
existing users
log in with
their username
and password,
add a google
account for
login, and then
delete their
password. then
i'll either
add other login
providers or
work on
creating a new
track7 account
from a google
login. it
feels good to
be updating,
but i still
have a lot i
need to build
before i can
actually change
anything on the
live site
without
temporarily
losing
capabilities.
i'll probably
drop some
capabilities on
purpose though,
like making my
forums
read-only since
i basically
initiate
everything and
others can post
comments on my
guides / blog
posts / etc.
also i can use
the forums here
:)
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