Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday May 9th 2006
Re: FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 17:49
Hi Lee,
I'm trying to put things in perspective here.
Its simple really don't use dodgy looking sites, and no-one will ever steal
your domain(s) - (unless you forget to re-register it)
As far as pe...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 17:47
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 6:21 pm, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I don't know enough about the PHP date functions to comment on that.
> But how often are leap seconds applied?=20
Every few years.
> I can't...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 17:23
Quoting Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> On Tuesday 09 May 2006 5:58 pm, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
>> $total_days = ($date2 - $date1) / 86400;
>
> [typo corrected]
D'oh. Sorry about that.
> If mkti...
Re: FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 17:22
I don't know of any grassy knowles, but I'd keep away from grassy knolls.
I'm sorry if you can't take other peoples concerns seriously, but
unfortunately the problem with domains being 'stolen' is v...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 17:14
Do I win £5?
Mark Bell wrote:
> Brilliant, thanks Lee, worked a treat.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Lee
> Fogarty
> Sent: 09 May 2006 17:39
> T...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 17:10
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 5:58 pm, [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> $total_days =3D ($date2 - $date1) / 86400;
[typo corrected]
If mktime() correctly applies leap seconds (I guess it doesn't) then this=
=2...
Re: FN-FORUM: Forum Digest Tuesday May 9th 2006
date posted 9th May 2006 17:08
On 9 May 2006, at 12:02, Julian Voelcker [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I would like to write an extension to capture the URL being viewed,
> pop up a
> dialog to gather a description and allow the user...
RE: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 17:07
From famine to feast, I'm now spoilt for choice!
Thanks eversamuch guys
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Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 17:05
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 5:32 pm, Mark Bell wrote:
> I've grabbed this: (from http://us3.php.net/date)
>
> $date1 =3D mktime(0,0,0,1,1,2006);
> $date2 =3D mktime(0,0,0,date('m'),date('d'),date('Y'));
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 17:00
Quoting Mark Bell [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
> Afternoon brain teaser:
>
> I'm storing dates in a MySQL table (of last client visits) and want a count
> of how many days since the last visit.
>
> I'm storing...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 16:51
> I'm storing the date in an 2006-01-01 format.
Presumably a MySQL date field, rather than a character field?
> or maybe there is another way of outputting it?
I'd do it in the SQL query, using the...
RE: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 16:49
Brilliant, thanks Lee, worked a treat.
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Fogarty
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RE: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 16:49
You have a few ways of doing this
First is to get the mysql date yyyy-mm-dd and do an explode() on it
$date_array = explode('-','2006-01-01')
Will give you an array of
$date_array = array(
0 =>...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 16:47
> Afternoon brain teaser:
>
> I'm storing dates in a MySQL table (of last client visits) and want a count
> of how many days since the last visit.
>
> I'm storing the date in an 2006-01-01 format....
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 16:46
whoops - pressed enter too soon!
You can also use mysql to do the calculation for you:-
**|SELECT DATEDIFF('1997-12-31 23:59:59','1997-12-30');|**
Mark Bell wrote:
> Afternoon brain teaser:
>
> I...
Re: FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 16:43
What a load of TOSH!!
Domain Registrars are not interested in who's buying a single domain, theyre
much to busy making money.
Jesus you guy's trying to patent an old piece of code and now frightene...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 16:42
$details = explode("-", $date);
then the month should be in $details[1]
tom
Mark Bell wrote:
> so how do I convert the 2006-01-01 record in my dB into the 3 required
> variables as above? ($lastinm...
Re: FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 16:40
list($year, $month, $day) = explode('-', $date1);
This gives you 3 variables called $year, $month, $day
Mark Bell wrote:
> Afternoon brain teaser:
>
> I'm storing dates in a MySQL table (of last cl...
FN-FORUM: php date function
date posted 9th May 2006 16:34
Afternoon brain teaser:
I'm storing dates in a MySQL table (of last client visits) and want a count
of how many days since the last visit.
I'm storing the date in an 2006-01-01 format.
I've grabbed...
RE: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 15:45
Sounds good. This is a joint partnership with someone I know, so it's not
with a cowboy!
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From: Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Re: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 15:25
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 2:05 pm, Ian Copeland wrote:
> It is *really* *really* good, but I'm getting it done for free. sorry
Well, best of luck with it then.
I was talking to my business / coding par...
Re: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 15:24
On Tuesday 09 May 2006 3:23 pm, PuntersPower wrote:
> dom the developoment side is nothing in reality that is why there is ne=
ver
> a spend for it. The real cash is spent on the advertising and mark...
Re: FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 14:44
On 9 May 2006 14:21:19 -0000, PuntersPower [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> can someone recommend a domain registration company that shows domains
> available immediately. Some UK registras don't show their...
RE: FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 14:39
I use 123-reg as rule their domain registeration is good (they are shite
for everything else) however if a domain expires it can be registered form
other registrars but not them for quite some time af...
Re: FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 14:35
All sorted, thanks Alain
Andrew
--
http://www.punterspower.co.uk
>
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:21:05PM -0000, PuntersPower wrote:
>>
>> can someone recommend a domain registration company that s...
RE: FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 14:35
For .com domains I always used www.mydomain.com and .co.uk used
http://www.ukreg.com/
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of PuntersPower
> Sent: 09 May...
Re: FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 14:33
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 02:21:05PM -0000, PuntersPower wrote:
>
> can someone recommend a domain registration company that shows domains
> available immediately. Some UK registras don't show their tr...
Re: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 14:25
dom the developoment side is nothing in reality that is why there is never
a spend for it. The real cash is spent on the advertising and marketing.
Disagree?
Andrew
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http://www.punterspower.co...
FN-FORUM: doman registration
date posted 9th May 2006 14:23
can someone recommend a domain registration company that shows domains
available immediately. Some UK registras don't show their tru status
Andrew
--
http://www.punterspower.co.uk...
RE: FN-FORUM: Voice recognition software
date posted 9th May 2006 14:12
Ah fair enough=2E My typing speed is around 90-100wpm so have no need for
voice recognition=2E Dragon Naturally Speaking is supposed to be the best,=
and apparantly the latest version can hit 99% acc...
RE: FN-FORUM: Voice recognition software
date posted 9th May 2006 13:57
Ah but what is your typing speed? I don't get much better than 40 wpm so
voice recognition would have to pretty dire to be slower even with a lot of
corrections. I would have thought that accuracy of...
Re: FN-FORUM: Firefox extension
date posted 9th May 2006 13:30
Hi Mark,
> http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/tutorial/
> http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xulqa/q_submit.html
> http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/
Thanks,...
Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 13:30
When I started the main choices were either Coldfusion or ASP and I
chose ASP on the basis that I didn't need to pay anything to get the
Coldfusion server side extensions.
Since then I have followe...
RE: FN-FORUM: Voice recognition software
date posted 9th May 2006 13:10
From personal experience I have never found any voice recognition software=
that has been reliable enough to be usable (and I've tried a lot)=2E Alway=
s
found it far quicker and easier just to type=...
RE: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 13:07
It is *really* *really* good, but I'm getting it done for free. sorry
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From: Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 09 May 2006 13:44
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Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 13:02
On 9 May 2006 12:14:40 -0000, "Anthony Cartmell" [EMAIL REMOVED]
said:
>
>
> Lisp is a real programmer's language, simple fundamentals but a whole
> complexity of possibilites. Talk of function c...
RE: FN-FORUM: MS SQL Developer Required (Was MS SQL Help)
date posted 9th May 2006 12:56
Hello Edward,
We are a web development company from India=2E I am Karan Bajoria, I am th=
e
CTO of this company, and I am myself a proficient ASP Developer with 4 yrs=
of experience=2E I saw your re...
FN-FORUM: IDE
date posted 9th May 2006 12:49
Anyone here using the http://www.eclipse.org/ PHP/MySQL IDE?
If so, what's the view?
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Re: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 12:46
On Monday 08 May 2006 9:20 am, Ian Copeland wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an idea for an online business. There is a gap in the market, bu=
t
> this type of business has been done before, so it is not a...
RE: FN-FORUM: Firefox extension
date posted 9th May 2006 12:41
Julian,
These are the links that got me started:
http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/tutorial/
http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xulqa/q_submit.html
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-cre...
FN-FORUM: Voice recognition software
date posted 9th May 2006 12:41
Hi every body,
I'm looking for voice recognition software that can be used to create word
docs from notes taken on a Dictaphone. I have heard that Dragon is good but
quite expensive. Has anyone an...
Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 12:35
> > Ah, LISP. I'm sure we're all learning LISP at some point - I know I
> > often am. Wouldn't it be cool if LISP was more accepted in modern
> > computing?
I used LISP as part of a Computational Lin...
Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 12:16
> Ah, LISP. I'm sure we're all learning LISP at some point - I know I
> often am. Wouldn't it be cool if LISP was more accepted in modern
> computing?
I used Lisp, well a 3D geometry-based macro-lang...
Re: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 12:10
Well stop posting it to yourself then.
Mike A wrote:
> I have a feeling this example's going to come back again.
>
> ...and again,
>
> and again...
>
> Mike A.
>
> ps... DUCK!
>
> Ian Copeland wrote:...
RE: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 12:08
> ps... DUCK!
Where?
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike A [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: 09 May 2006 13:02
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
I have a fee...
Re: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 12:04
I have a feeling this example's going to come back again.
...and again,
and again...
Mike A.
ps... DUCK!
Ian Copeland wrote:
> I've got it down on paper and posted it to myself :oP
>
> -----Orig...
Re: FN-FORUM: Forum Digest Tuesday May 9th 2006
date posted 9th May 2006 12:02
On Monday 8th May 2006 23:54:43 Michael Palmer wrote:
> I keep changing my mind about cms every time someone adds a new
> message!
> Shall I go homebrew or not? I don't know. Do you know of a few...
Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 11:42
Quoting Richard Lewis [EMAIL REMOVED]
>
>
> On 9 May 2006 10:47:57 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>>
>> PHP confuses me. It's based on Perl and its syntax is very similar to
>> Perl's. But it's not Per...
Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 11:32
Richard Lewis wrote:
> On 9 May 2006 11:11:19 -0000, "Ben Moxon" [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>
>> My future plans include having time to get accustomed to the .net 2.0
>> stuff, learning Lisp (because...
FN-FORUM: Small Action script Job
date posted 9th May 2006 11:31
Hi All
Anyone good with action script, can they email me off-list as I have a
Flash Game project I need to price ASAP which requires some action
scripting, all graphics are taken care of...
The game...
Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 11:25
On 9 May 2006 11:11:19 -0000, "Ben Moxon" [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>
> My future plans include having time to get accustomed to the .net 2.0
> stuff, learning Lisp (because I feel I should) and moving...
Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 11:22
On 9 May 2006 10:47:57 -0000, [EMAIL REMOVED] said:
>
> PHP confuses me. It's based on Perl and its syntax is very similar to
> Perl's. But it's not Perl and the differences make it hard for me to...
Re: FN-FORUM: Booking calendar
date posted 9th May 2006 11:18
> 1) The availability/booking calendar that you see on these sites.
>
An old mate of mine develops this type of thing. You could try him
out...
http://www.reynard.co.uk/
Best regards,
Ray
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Re: FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 11:13
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Would anyone else care to offer some thoughts?
I started doing web work a little while after finishing a Computer
Science course at uni using old-school ASP with vbscript whi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Booking calendar
date posted 9th May 2006 11:07
hehe - if you design the layouts, I'll do the code in return for two
weeks at the villa!
Matthew Jeanes wrote:
>
> Well, it would be rude not to really.
>
> On 8 May 2006 22:44:30 -0000, Dom Latter...
Re: FN-FORUM: Firefox extension
date posted 9th May 2006 10:58
Hi Mark,
> Contact me off list I'd be happy to give you the benefit of my afternoons
> research.
Just butting in here.
Are there any resources you would recommend?
I would like to write an extens...
Re: FN-FORUM: Booking calendar
date posted 9th May 2006 10:54
Well, it would be rude not to really.
On 8 May 2006 22:44:30 -0000, Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On Monday 08 May 2006 4:35 pm, Matthew Jeanes wrote:
> > Hmm, budget, I thnk she was hoping t...
FN-FORUM: Technology Choices
date posted 9th May 2006 10:49
I'm preparing a talk for a conference later this year about the =20
technologies that people choose to write software in and why they make =20
those choices.
It seems to me that the server side techn...
RE: FN-FORUM: Firefox extension
date posted 9th May 2006 09:52
Simon,
I went in cold, did a load of googling, trawled a stack of blogs and wrote
my first extension in a couple of hours - it's actually shockingly (or
should I say typically) straight forward.
Ver...
Re: FN-FORUM: good open source CMS framework
date posted 9th May 2006 09:16
> I keep changing my mind about cms every time someone adds a new messag=
e!
> Shall I go homebrew or not? I don't know. Do you know of a few good si=
tes
> where common php code/algorithms could be p...
FN-FORUM: [job] Contract - Technical Copywriter
date posted 9th May 2006 08:36
Hi all
Thought someone here might be interested in this contract. Feel free
to forward to colleagues who may be interested.
Technical Copywriter
Ref: TCTCW
Contract: This large mobile network needs...
Re: FN-FORUM: Firefox extension
date posted 9th May 2006 08:22
Mark Bell wrote:
> Anyone here got experience writing Firefox extensions?
>
> I have a little app I'd like to build an FF extension for as a little
> 'hobby' project :)
Would also be interested in a...
Re: FN-FORUM: good open source CMS framework
date posted 9th May 2006 08:18
Michael Palmer wrote:
> Do you know of a few good sites where common php code/algorithms
> could be picked up that I could slot into a basic cms? Eg text
> validation and clean up code?
PEAR (http:/...
RE: FN-FORUM: Copyrighting business ideas
date posted 9th May 2006 08:16
I've got it down on paper and posted it to myself :oP
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Re: FN-FORUM: MS SQL Help
date posted 9th May 2006 07:40
I didn't see the original post, but I have a very old ASP script that tells
you most of what you want to know (including the path - APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH
in Request.servervariables)- you need to know the...
Re: FN-FORUM: good open source CMS framework
date posted 9th May 2006 07:25
Michael Palmer wrote:
> I keep changing my mind about cms every time someone adds a new message!
> Shall I go homebrew or not? I don't know. Do you know of a few good sites
> where common php code/alg...
Re: FN-FORUM: good open source CMS framework
date posted 9th May 2006 00:23
Go with whatever you want! You mentioned that open-source has a huge
support network. It says something when the software isn't intuitive or
simple enough to not need the support network. Plus, i...
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