I think it got reversed. What I thought it was when you had something like
if x == 5 && y=x+6

y=x+6 gets evaluated every time regardless of the value of x. I thought short circuiting was y=x+6 only getting evaluated if x was 5. I like that idea more than y=x+6 always getting evaluated, although there probably isn't a good reason to like one over the other.

Someone found my resume online, and I stupidly put "Postgresql" on my resume. Looked them up and they seem pretty legit. It's rather shocking to me that they have to ask someone 3,000 miles away if they "know of" a full-out Postgresql DBA. Yeah, I can install it and load it from a csv if they want. Maybe I can run a few triggers with views and you know, toss in a loop construct because it looks pretty?

It is entirely normal and for what it's worth I like it.

Not only is it normal, it's completely logical

This, however:

Terrible. If one of my developers did that, they'd get to rewrite it

Just curious, does anyone else think this looks like a bug on first glance? It looks like the classic "== instead of =" bug to me but maybe that's because students do this all the time

And I'm not sure what a better alternative to this would look like:

did you know that there is a $30/month t-mobile prepaid plan that includes unlimited sms, 5gb data, but only 100 minutes. but if you are using google voice you dont even need minutes. lot of talk of using this setup over at howardforums. better than carrying two gadgets

i guess if you have an att iphone then youre stuck because of your device. i bought a samsung galaxy s2 so im good

WTF is this lol.

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I've never seen anything like `if x == 5 && y=x+6`, I just tried it in c# and you just can't do this.

I would expect it to work in some langs though but it's damn ugly and make it a lot harder to read for hardly any benefit at all.

In a lot of languages ' if(y=x+6) ' will always be true (assuming x is the correct type).

It works in C/C++ since 0 converts to false and any other number to true while(12) becomes while(true) . And its legal to assign values in if-statements.

In C# they made a point of not allowing either of that since it obv. can cause alot of hard to find bugs

I couldn't think of an example where you would have multiple statements in an and statement where one of them would change the value in a variable and would depend on the outcome of the and statement to determine if it was evaluated....

Our site is being absolutely blasted with spam at the moment, soaking up a lot of our time. Am looking at signing up to http://www.akismet.com, anyone used them before? Any good? Most spam we get is comment spam on our blog/releases, forum seems fine. They are not new users either, they seem to be silent for 15-40 days, visit the site every day quietly then hit the site hard.

We don't want to introduce CAPTCHAS or anything that will affect usability like that (I'm pretty sure these are human sign-ups tbh, they circumvented our honeypots no problem). Thinking Akismet might be good, if their first comment is spam then we just ban them automatically.

my forum was loaded with spam, and one simple change fixed everything, removing permission to post links or images for everyone. maybe you can do that in your blog permissions?

i have heard good things about akismet tho

suppose i wanted to be alerted via sms txt message each time some event happened on my website, say a certain user logged in, a certain number of hits, whatever

how would i do that?

i remember seeing some startup a while ago that you could send out txt messages from for like 1c per message. basically i want a way to send myself txt alerts, either from my home machine or via web service

edit/
nevermind: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...hrough-website

Be careful of excessive chattiness, no one wants 600 texts in an hour...

In the age of unlimited traffic flatrates and whatnot I'd just send an email to my smartphone and not bother with texts.

duh didnt even think of that lol

i like clowntable's idea, but you are thinking of twilio.com if you want to ge texting route

Any drupal gurus in here? Why is it such a cluster **** to add meta tags to a views page? I don't get how drupal has modules for everything but to inject a single line of html into a page seems to have stumped the entire community.

edit: nm figured it out

Just got a new server in the end, find a USA company that seems good and decided against 1&1:
http://www.reliablesite.net

They seem to get good reviews and have been around ~5 years. $125 p/m we get:

10tb bandwidth
Xeon 4 core @ 3.2ghz
8gb ram
2x500gb HDD on raid 1
100mbs port speed (can upgrade to 1gbit for $20/m)

Rolling 1 month contract as well (setup only $10) so gonna see if this works out, seems ~ same price as 1&1 but the support seems very fast and great, and competitive pricing. We saved a lot of money though as we have valid Win 2008 r2 server licenses and SQL licenses.

I haven't check this with them, but I'm assuming it would be super easy to get more stuff as well, as it's a 1 mon contract we can just move to a better server whenever.

Not heard of them before, but looks like a solid company.... just make sure you have offsite backups.

Yeah just getting dropbox all set up and get it done automatically. The network speed is very good, I'm just testing it at the moment. 100 megabytes per second up and down, current server we have can do about 10.

So far super impressed with this host, they answered all my emails within about 15 minutes as well (usually <5)

Oh man does anyone have any good guides on setting DNS up for complete noobs, I can't find much. I'm on Win server 2008, hosted with a US company and my domains are with a UK company.

I believe I've set my forward lookup zones correctly and my site bindings in IIS, but for the life of my I don't know what I'm meant to do about nameservers, should my new host provide me with some?

Edit: Ugh, my domain registrar says I need nameservers from new host, my new host is saying I need to get my domain registrar to register my IP's or something, don't understand this stuff

I don't know DNS enough to know offhand what a forward lookup zone is

but yeah normally your host gives you configured nameservers, and you just point the entries at your domain registrar to those. but it needn't necessarily be like this, you can have your registrar, nameservers and hosting all in different places. as your new host if they provide nameservers, i guess.

gull,

one day your company will care about managing its own DNS, but by that time you'll have an IT guy who will take care of everything for you. until then, pay the nominal fee to your registrar or hosting provider and let them manage it.