Getting things up snd running on a XAMPP server is very different than a live site where you don't have unmitigated control. The second issue is that while the modules may work one way on one host, depending on the folder layouts, etc, you have to do it a different way on a different host.

The issue is that while I can get WSIWYG to work, for it to work properly, I have to also install some other editor (like CKEditor) on top of it. Of course, that editor will reject WYSIWYG unless you install another module on top of it.

Ah yes, the scary back-end. As I was (still am) one of those drones, my exposure to back-end editors is far more than I feel like explaining, but it's a forum, so why not?

IME, the ONLY editor that worked properly was: Title <textarea> Article <textarea> <submit> and then the PHP guys or whoever did the site maintenance put the stuff up on their own time. Not great for instant gratification, but when you get paid, you don't care.

There was one that was beyond awful to work on. In order to become more Web 3.0, so they said, they got some hackers to put together a 'new and improved' text editor, you know because the one that they were using before worked really well, so of course they had to change it.

This new one was some awful editing system that 'only worked on Chrome,' but that was a lie. I mean, yeah, it worked if you didn't mind uploading your work 5 times and see part or all of your work crash, basically dropping the hourly to something like 2.75/hr.

The most egregious feature was the menu bar. This thing was a static menu bar that was a stack of icons (with no mouse-overs to pop up an explanation box, obv) that, for all I know, was 80000000000px high, since most of the icons were hidden so far deep, they were worthless anyways. Of course, none of my articles were done correctly because of not even having access to the complete menu sort of obscures some things you may want to use.

I just emailed all my work to them and told them that I couldn't work for them anymore, and despite the fact they got screw-balled by a bad development team (I think it was RoR), I expected to get paid.

jfc audio is such a minefield, did you guys know there's a $2,500 license fee for using MP3 in an HTML5 game that has over 5,000 distributions? Distributions = a unique user who downloads the game.

It also counts as a distribution if the MP3 is accessible in the game but not used, for example if you are playing an HTML5 game on Chrome and it downloads the Ogg files and ignores the MP3 that still counts as a distribution.

MP3 is definitely NOT suitable for HTML5 games by any stretch of the imagination! Ogg/AAC ftw.

Drupal + Wysiwyg + TinyMCE is super easy.

Your problem is not with Drupal or Wysiwyg - it's CKEditor. That thing is a giant POS.

And in 99% of cases, Drupal is easy to use. I've done probably a dozen sites in Drupal, and as many custom modules. It's the best open source CMS available, afaic. Wordpress is awesome, but is not a full CMS. It's a blogging platform.

I find that most people use Drupal when they should just use WordPress. It's a lot more powerful than people think, and it's way easier to use for beginners/intermediates.

I like Drupal, don't get me wrong, but WordPress covers 90% of needs.

i use drupal for stackandtile.com but i just randomly picked it over wordpress and have no idea about the differences. drupal took a day or two to get the hang of how things work but i find it ok now

Does anyone know how to alter the properties of a field in SQL?

I need to change the Indexed Property to allow duplicates.

Currently connecting to the database using mfc recordsets using the jet engine if its relevant

Drop the index and create a new one that suits your purpose. The field doesn't need changing, per se.

So I basically did that and it looks like that may be exactly what I need to do. I haven't worked too extensively with SQL and was not familiar with indexes but its a learning experience.
Thanks

Random question, is there a way to find out what exceptions that can possibly throw?

For anyone who has domains registered with GoDaddy, they have come out publicly in support of SOPA so people are transferring their domains away from them en masse. Seems like a great idea to me. Lots of discussion about this on Hacker News & Reddit.

Here's a step by step guide on how to transfer your domains to another registar http://blog.jeffepstein.me/post/1462...out-of-godaddy

sigh, time to do the inevitable

lol yup. final straw for me too.

Namecheap is taking advantage and has a couple of new coupon codes available. They generally get favourable reviews, so I'm moving mine there.

Yeah. I've been planning on moving my **** there, but the prevailing attitude that I've had is "Meeehhhhh, sounds like so much work." Now there's no excuse.

ETA: First SlickDeals coupon I found here

http://slickdeals.net/f/2798977-4-99...it-10-per-user

ETA2: Hm, seems like it's dead. Gotta find other ones.

SOPAsucks is one of the codes: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comment...eap_sopasucks/

edit: confirmed works. Took me five minutes and $50 to transfer 6 domains to name cheap.

Transferring now. Paid NameCheap for 10 domains with SOPAsucks, ended up being $70ish bucks. Well worth it. Just waiting on GoDaddy's transfer domains feature - Step 15.

I used his affiliate link too. Seems only fair since he wrote a nice step-by-step.

Yeah I used his link too. Very easy to follow steps.

http://www.bobparsons.me/index.php

this godaddy guy seems like a real douche

If he also yelled at the camera, this would be on par with a used car dealership commercial.

Also, looks like the boycott worked. Didn't take long.

Yeah, I'm sure you can really trust them now

Reversing their position now makes them look even more sleazy IMO.

I haven't followed SOPA very much but I hear about it a lot.

My basic understanding is that a website would in essence be held responsible if they directed traffic to a pirated material.

Wouldn't google be 'black listed' before they could ever plead their case?

I am not sure how to explain my perception but on the surface it feels like a negotiation where someone offers $1 in hopes that the other party meets them half way.

A company wouldn't be blacklisted - they'd be shut down. If anybody posted anything on their servers, or using their wires (for ISPs) anything that was copyrighted. Essentially, making all internet providers and websites responsible for verifying the content of everything posted by users on their sites.

This isn't at all a negotiation - you can't negotiate with somebody who has absolute power.

From what I've read about this all, isn't the current DNS system really poopy, and maybe it's time for a distributed DNS system?

DNS is old and could be improved, but i don't think it's fair for a system that handles billions and billions of transactions a day with an extremely low error rate to be labelled "really poopy". DNS is awfully ****ing impressive.

trying to work out how to do the following in oocalc:

in a sports league, i have a ton of results for various players in different events. each row relates to a player, each column to a different event.

now at the top i also have a row which contains a formula that gives me a multiplier using date functions, giving me a number in [0,1] which is nearer to 1 the newer the result is.

i want to sum up all the points for a given player while applying the multiplier to them, but if i try something like =sum($b$1*b10;$ay$1*ay10) it gives me errors. i'll probably be able to work it out but if someone can point out a quick way to do it that'd be great