@rchern I'm no JA, but I've had good experience with Screenshot Captor - it has presets to dim/blur/grey the uninteresting parts, and allows you to add annotations: donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/screenshotcaptor
If it makes you feel better @rchern I'm sure whatever you did wasn't near as idiotic as me last week when I was wondering why 20 > 3 evaluated to true...
@TheUnhandledException, did that lock certain users out from being able to do pretty much any work today? and they're still not fixed at 2:40 in the afternoon?
@rchern Oh OK :-) Nah, I figured out that 20 is greater than three pretty quickly, LOL. Well, not nearly as quickly as the average third grader, but, quickly enough I didn't have to rewrite too much code ;-)
Since this room has no set "purpose", I'm not sure what pinned items mean here :-) in the XMPP room, for example, I pinned what the room is for and the latest major update
> Now, with ten years of PHP experience under my belt, I'm in the same position. I can knock out a good website in an hour in PHP, and an excellent one in a day or two. Its performance characteristics are well-known and understood, so I can make it scale pretty much indefinitely.
"It works great! Let's scrap it!!!"
WTF? :-)
@Chacha102 I have custom built an MVC PHP framework, I'm not sure I see the issue here?
> While PHP used to be the language where you could write a web page in twenty lines of code, nowadays it doesn't feel like you're doing it properly these days unless you've laid down at least a basic MVC framework of some kind. That boilerplate code is the tell: the language now requires modification by a framework to do what you need.
Then he has an argument that makes sense. But saying you shouldn't use PHP because Ruby On Rails has MVC built in is silly, because PHP is to Ruby what Zend Framework is to Ruby on Rails. PHP is NOT the same as Ruby on Rails.
> My chief gripe, it must be said, is performance. I've just finished saying this should not be considered a fatal flaw in a language, but rather a temporary problem in its implementation. So I cannot really take it as an argument, though I should note the performance is the primary reason I am porting my current app back to PHP. I can make Rails run just as fast as PHP, but I need between 2 and 4 times as much hardware to do so.
In languages like Java, overloading can be used in this way:
void test($foo, $bar){}
int test($foo){}
Then if you called test() with 2 arguments e.g test($x, $y);, the first function would be called. If you passed only 1 argument e.g test($x);, the 2nd function would be called.
From the manua...
well, good or bad, overloading is a no-brainer in Java: the methods have different signatures, therefore they're different methods - the compiler knows this, the user knows this, the runtime knows this
In PHP, the interpreter doesn't necessarily know how many arguments a function expects. So overloading - while possible - isn't as obvious a choice. There are problems that just couldn't exist in Java
@Shog9 Exactly. So, if you come from a C++ background (like me) or other background where you're used to overloading, you just learn to write different code
I just think in some cases overloading could make some of my code a lot cleaner
@TheUnhandledException sure. And PHP-style varargs could make life easier in some Java programs. That's why so many languages grow to support multiple different ways of doing the same thing. cough C# coughhackcough Objective-C
@TheUnhandledException ok, so I actually have to reply to you to make it go away...
@rchern LOL. In all seriousness I don't understand language hatred :-) I mean, I support individual choice. If you don't want to use PHP, then don't. Don't hate me for choosing to do so :-) I don't hate you for using .NET :-)
I'm (ab)using the document title as some kind of a notification area. If the tab/window in question doesn't have focus at the time I want to notify the user of something, I change the window title to include some notification.
When the window/tab comes back into focus, I want to remove the notif...
I wish I were lecturing at a programmer's barbecue while scantily-clad cheerleaders fed me tender pork ribs. I also wish my wishes are granted before yours.
Unless, of course, you use your wishes to grant mine. Or you invite me to the barbecue. I'm sure your talk would be fascinating and would capture my entire attention... um, sorry, were you saying something? That cheerleader was distracting me...
See, that's the point. Most of the programmers would be distracted by the women, the rest by the food. I could just sit there and rant about VB while gorging...
(...if a VB programmer spoke up, I could throw rib bones at him)
In languages like Java, overloading can be used in this way:
void test($foo, $bar){}
int test($foo){}
Then if you called test() with 2 arguments e.g test($x, $y);, the first function would be called. If you passed only 1 argument e.g test($x);, the 2nd function would be called.
From the manua...
for instance, when you're bored but also want to expand your mind as a programmer, how do you make the internet your bitch?
StackOverflow or programmers.stackexchange.com
Of course!
StackOverflow or programmers.stackexchange.com
Because when I'm bored as a programmer, nothing hits the spot like more programming!
Normally in descending order:
http://chat.meta.stackoverflow.com/rooms/89/the-tavern
http://stackoverflow.com
http://serverfault.com
http://superuser.com
http://programmers.stackexchange.com
http://gaming.stackexchange.com
etc...
:-)
How can we make famous a link like www.ustream.tv/recorded/7458858 a video about the idols of young by Lionel Delasse?
