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Where did Alpha Go? (read this)
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Still up in the air. I like the ability to remove a users BBCode / linking abilities. So we will see. Something comperable will be there.
me
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so are there any plans for an additional forum?
If they had a round Table one would assume that certain ideas would be at the Top of their lists. Possibly not since the thread was locked and given a hearty deathknell.
I was just mostly wondering if the similar features would be present in the Opinion software. I really don't want to deal with phpBB anymore than I have to. If I can have those features in a free software, it'll let me stall time until I can get a vB license (or, if Opinion has just the right amount of features I need, I'll just forgo licensing vB)
Yeah, that thread getting locked? That was probably a hint.
Much much more importantly, will my join date carry over?
rails still does sql, I don't see why they would not just keep that infromation in the old format and just use the same Db. I doubt much of the load is coming from storing the user info.
err... right?
Can we please bring back Social Devastation for the week prior to the shutting down of the current forums.
It would be so good.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
now I just have to get this installation running on this computer again.
I heartily endorse this.
Ayliana Moonwhisper Ecksus Cerazal
Neat, I was unaware of that. Well, it looks pretty non-standard, but I didn't realize that it was just about completely re-vamped.
I actually forgot about those being removed. They slip into some kind of magical Internet blindspot for me automatically.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
I guess our priorities are at odds. I couldn't really care less if the main page was slow or even frequently down. I care much more about the forums.
I actually forgot about those being removed. They slip into some kind of magical Internet blindspot for me automatically.[/quote]
I've never really understood why we got rid of them. They never bothered me at all, and I imagine they must have helped to manage at least some of the costs of maintaining the forums. Any chance they'll return? It would make me feel less guilty about being a constant burden on the PA coffers.
I've been wanting to learn RoR ever since the first time Alpha told me about it. Problem is, I can't seem to find any decent online tutorials and I don't want to drop $50 on a book for something I might not ever use.
Anyone know of any good tutorials for someone who knows absolutely nothing about Ruby?
Rolling with Ruby on Rails
kinda simple, but it seems like a good enough place to start.
Programming Ruby
The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
I'll starting on that in a bit.
so, um... What sort of Licenes does RoR have? I am consdiering this "research" for my job.
If you start programming bounties when the new system goes up I'll definitely try my hand :^:
I've been using my iMac to learn, so I just went right to the ADC. I am pretty sure that there are other tutorials out there. Not exactly sure what is best. I did buy the book, but it won't be here for a few more days.
If this is already possible and I just haven't found it, feel free to ridicule me.
Which is another idea (shamelessly stolen from Librarium-Online, no idea what system they use). It would be nice to have a "posts per page" option in our profiles for those of use who are really lazy and don't like clicking next page.
The "posts per page" option won't happen for scaling reasons.
Here is the order I did things in (electronically) :
http://www.rubyonrails.org/screencasts
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/03/rails.html
http://www.slash7.com/articles/2005/01/24/really-getting-started-in-rails
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html
http://www.rails4days.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Rails4Days.pdf
http://poignantguide.net/ruby/
Personally I've been using the two books for a long time now and they really have made a world of difference. I was lucky as I had a mentor I could harass with questions.
mabey once he gets the beta site thing up? Like, kinda a happy medium between bothering him when he is busy and before stuff is all locked down.
Like, seems like he might be kinda busy just doing bug fixes. Like, Opinion, probably does not have a post timer and some other features the a forum would need.
A check mark next to threads that we have posted in or are following. G&T moves hella fast and there's only a few threads that I'm interested in posting/viewing.
I realize we have the "Watch this topic for replies" option, but does that even work?
There are some forum softwares that let you do that via a CP, and that is something I would like too.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
ok, well I'm just going to throw this out there. Lots of people like random sigage and avatars, right?
If you are regiggering the user info database anyway, couldn't you just do something like userdata.sig.1.sigdata instead of userdata.sig.sigdata and that way, if somewhere down the line, out of the kindness of your heart you felt like adding it, you could. (edit:seems like you would also want to add one of them niffty cashe_counter jobbies, to keep track of how many there are. Ruby seems nicely equiped to add things later to a database, and you could just increment it with the script you might eventual add, but... err... for some reason that does not seem like the bestest way to do it. )
Like, you could just let people access sig.2 and sig.3, and randomly pick one.
meh, or not.
I honestly know fuck all about this stuff, but it seems like a good idea in my head.