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Comment on The Rocket Widget

Last time I checked, the bubbles don’t go DOWN. The bubbles are what create the head at the top of the beer. If the bubbles went DOWN, there would be a large pocket of nitrogen at the bottom of your beer.

jt | May 16, 2008 5:46 PM
Comment on My Answer To $4 Gasoline

my 230lb arse

That should have been a dead giveaway that I wasn’t the author.

But, seriously, I don’t know why I’m showing as the author. The “dc:creator” tag clearly lists “Dave” as the author.

It must be some quirk of Feedburner.

Deane | May 16, 2008 5:18 PM
Comment on My Planned Comment Spam Solution
| May 16, 2008 5:04 PM
Comment on Carrier Instant Messenger (was Funpidgin)

Actually, if you’ve ever had a commercial product add some horrible, hateful feature that you didn’t discover until you had irretrievably upgraded, then I think you’re actually for forking.

Also — find someone with a mac — your adverts are ironing over the right fourth of the content on this type page. Thanks!

yachris | May 16, 2008 3:38 PM
Comment on Carrier Instant Messenger (was Funpidgin)

I am Justin Hayes, AKA WildTangent, the co-founder of the project, now known as Carrier Instant Messenger, not Funpidgin. I have been a long-time reader of your blog, and this is the first post where I feel I must correct you on a few points.

The reason we forked the code was not, as many seem to think, over the text entry window. This was the event that finally made it clear to Connor and I that the attitude of the Pidgin developers wasn’t going to change anytime soon, and there were many people who felt that this fork was a long time coming, so we did. And our mission is to accommodate our users as best we can.

Forking is just a cycle of life for an open-source application. Forks lead to new developments in the code, it fosters creativity and even competition, but in the end whether both survive or one or the other dies, the software has progressed and become better. This benefits everyone.

We actually have been in long discussion with the Pidgin developers in our IRC channel, and you could say we’re even collaborating on some issues, discussing new ideas, etc. Forks aren’t a bad thing at all.

Justin Hayes | May 16, 2008 1:42 PM
Comment on My Answer To $4 Gasoline

Wow. I hadn’t looked at anything from Gadgetopia in a feed reader for a while, but you’re right; the feed doesn’t carry forward the post’s author at all. Not that it matters much to me if people think that Deane wrote something I put together, especially if it’s a dog of a post!

I may put in a more thorough update a little later, but after riding the thing to work & back a few times and just goofing around with it a bit, there are a few things that need to be changed/fixed, but all in all it’s working great. Stop by sometime if you’d like a ride!

Dave | May 16, 2008 12:54 PM
Comment on She Wants It That Way

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Best wisher Congratulations!

Monica Christina Littrell | May 16, 2008 11:51 AM
Comment on Coming Soon: Guided Content Maps

Great idea! :) So where can I find that outline on this page?

SSaq | May 16, 2008 10:46 AM
Comment on My Planned Comment Spam Solution
| May 16, 2008 10:21 AM
Comment on My Answer To $4 Gasoline

No less than 3 of my co-workers who are Gadgetopia readers thought that Deane had authored this post. Reading this post through Google Reader I thought the same because beneath the title it says “by editors@gadgetopia.com (Deane Barker)”.

I didn’t think the post seemed like Deane’s writing style so I clicked through to Gadgetopia and saw the author was not Deane, but Dave. I am not saying anything needs to change, just an observation.

Dave, I would be interested in hear how things are going after you have used this setup for awhile.

Noel | May 16, 2008 9:39 AM
Comment on Do You Really Need a Degree?

I was wondering are there any computer jobs that are available. Jobs that you don’t have to have a degree in yet, but you are will to go back and finish school if they will help you pay for school? Just wondering!

Kim | May 16, 2008 9:25 AM
Comment on Right-Click Command Prompt Hack

ok ok, i hate it when people send links saying can you hack my myspace, or this game, no! we wont fucking hack it for you…. we do this stuff to show others there dumb ass hell like ADIS… hes right use google.. helps and the term “hacking” now means a clever, quick fix to a computer program problem, not to find out if you bitch is cheating on you or if that noob is gold grinding,… i wish people could see the real side of it and sto[p treating it like its shit..!

the link is my web site for hackers on games :P lol..

lawls | May 16, 2008 8:42 AM
Comment on The ADDRESS Tag Comment on Theoretical vs. Actual Functionality

And here comes plugins :-> Make a small but extensible core and support all extra features as plugins. Then everyone would get what he/she want, no more no less.

SasQ | May 16, 2008 12:57 AM
Comment on Making Your Fields Do Their Own Dirty Work

Great article :) Only two things sccaried me:

However it might have a Value Type of “year,” meaning it’s comprised of exactly four numerals.

Looks like another millenium bug, which will reveal itself at year 9999 :D

One table in this system has grown to 108 fields

Man! 108 fields?! :o Why? Wasn’t it possible to break it for some smaller [read: easier to maintain and comprehend] tables? :|

| May 15, 2008 11:54 PM
Comment on Is the Relational Model the Best Model?

As comments on this topic has been closed, I reply here…

Fabian, you’re telling us everywhere that all the world is wrong about RM. OK, I can agree with that, RDBMS are not ideal implementations of the RM. But you never really told us why the existing solutions are bad, what exactly do they do wrong, and the most important: what we could benefit in practice from knowing the “One True and Real” Relational Model? Would our apps performing better? Taking less space? Being more stable? What’s the real benefit besides the “pride” of being more educated than others? If there’s nothing to benefit in practice, then the knowledge is also worth nothing, only a brain-stuffer.

And one more thing: When I see that someone is less educated in some area, or doesn’t know something that I know, I’m trying to give him some of my knowledge to change that inequality. But for you it looks like a level of education is only another reason for discriminating and insulting people, because it’s the only thing you’re doing in that matter. So let me tell you something: That way you won’t change anything except your reputation.

SasQ | May 15, 2008 10:14 PM
Comment on Is the Relational Model the Best Model?

To Fabian: The “true” relational model may be good. But in practice web-app developers seek for solutions which are good enough, according to their needs.

SasQ | May 15, 2008 8:11 PM
Comment on Menuing in Content Management: Implicit vs. Explicit

So what about connecting these two ideas? Menu item is a content piece too. So together with a content tree it could be possible to have “menu” folder and put menu items there as a subcontent. That way you can create explicit menus, even with external URLs set to those subitems. But if you place e.g. an article or book review as a subitem in “menu” folder, it would be treated as a menu item too, linking to the proper content piece. It could be even implemented as a “menu item” named view :-) What do you think?

SasQ | May 15, 2008 5:14 PM
Comment on My Answer To $4 Gasoline

Seems like a great concept. The best thing I’ve seen is the eGo… It’s a bit more costly, but 25 miles per charge is fantastic. I’m seriously considering a purchase.

Damion | May 15, 2008 12:58 PM
Comment on Jet-Powered Birdman

The BBC website refers to me as having always had a fascination with space and technology. Just visit bbc.com and put MARS PLEASE in its search engine to access it all. Please also read my articles at jeremykeller.blogspot.com.

I have just read about a birdman flying with a jet-powered wing attached to himself. How about the birdmen of the future taking off and landing like the birds? As R Kelly demonstrated with his song about flight, the desire to emulate the birds still hasn’t been entirely fulfilled.

Jeremy Keller | May 15, 2008 8:48 AM
Comment on Cancel Google

please take google off my computer, it cuts my computer off every few minutes, i did not put it on there an do not want it.

willadean | May 15, 2008 7:23 AM
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Coentytox | May 15, 2008 5:16 AM
Comment on CMS's Should Manage Content, Not Display It
Some people may claim that templating languages are made for non-programmers to use, but they often end up being just as complex as a real programming language. As the language develops, you find that you need to add this function and that control struture until, in the end, you’ve essentially re-written an existing language.

Yes, so PHP could be used as a template engine [it was originated for that purpose]. But on the other hand, PHP templates are kinda “risky” from the point that users can put “ivul code” into it ;P Is there any way to make “safe” PHP templates?

SasQ | May 14, 2008 11:46 PM
Comment on My Answer To $4 Gasoline

Bravo, Dave. Great work. Good to see someone actual put this stuff into practice.

Deane | May 14, 2008 11:02 PM
Comment on The Necessity of Subcontent

I’m impressed! :> Again you wrote about all the traps I’ve nearly fallen into :)

But I have a few questions… You wrote:

Since you can’t delete a parent without deleting all of its children, you ensure there are no orphan records floating around.

But what if the child item is also linked under other parent items? E.g. an illustration image linked under two articles. When you delete one of the articles with subitems, you’ll delete the image which is a subitem of that other article and it’s not good. How to solve that problem? Referrence counting? Or maybe there is a better way?

You need to be able to specify what type of content can go “under” what type of other content. Referring back to my magazine example, it wouldn’t do us much good to have a publication appear under an issue.

I’m thinking over the same problem now. Can you write something more about this one? [or maybe you’ve done it already? :D]

You need to consider the ordering of subcontent. Specifically, you need to provide arbitrary ordering.

I’ve went to the same thing and I saw that some CMSes uses “weights” for that - e.g. if you want to differ an order of appearance of some items, you have to apply more weight to the proper items to lower it down, or take off some weight to raise it upper. But the hell why they have done it so complicated? Couldn’t they use numbering from the first place?! :P It takes one integer field whatsoever, but it’s way more easier to implement and for the user! :-J It should be another “common practice” or “design pattern”.

SasQ | May 14, 2008 9:48 PM
Comment on The Truth About Working in IT

Number 6 is dead on. Well, so are the rest for that matter.

-thegrumpyadmin.com

thegrumpyadmin | May 14, 2008 8:47 PM
Comment on Intelius

RESPONSE TO DEB’s post…….FUCK YOU, BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!

Intelius is consistently recognized nationwide for its technology and product innovation. Recently it was named Best New Company in 2006 by Ernst & Young. Intelius also won the WSA Industry Achievement Award and has been recognized as one of Seattle’s largest corporate philanthropists by Puget Sound Business Journal. Intelius is a legitimate company, and from personal experience an excellent company to work for.

southillguy | May 14, 2008 6:40 PM
Comment on Intelius

I fucking HATE this piece of shit company!!!!!!! They should all be in jail, and if they ever fuck with me, they will wish they were born on another planet, trust me! Are they stupid enough, naive enough, to think the company employees are exempt from this shit? Or the founders/executives? What goes around, comes around, trust me! FUCK YOU !!!!!!!!

South Hill Guy | May 14, 2008 6:39 PM
Comment on Zebra Striping: Pointless?

Yaron,

I work for Network Solutions. Just want to clarify that there is no redirect of sub-domains. The domain alistapart.com expired for a period of time. and thats why you saw the Network Solutions page. I just tried anything.alistapart.com just to test again.

Thanks,

Shashi

Shashi Bellamkonda | May 14, 2008 4:22 PM
Comment on Is the Relational Model the Best Model?

Fabian, I am in a workplace where lack of knowledge seems king […]

TR, I write on a blog where people think the subject of a post is actually the author, and that they can write him back here…

Deane | May 14, 2008 3:21 PM