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  • C Christopher Duncan

    David Stone wrote:

    I was honestly thinking of writing my own forum software this summer.

    Hey, it's summer, at least here in the states. So, like, are you done yet? :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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    David Stone
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    Christopher Duncan wrote:

    Hey, it's summer, at least here in the states. So, like, are you done yet

    No. I said I was thinking about it. You don't realize how integral a part of my life procrastination is. ;P

    225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
    Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
    -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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      Paul Watson wrote:

      Haven't used an RTE that felt natural and didn't get in the way of my uber, leet, superior Web-Bling 2.0 HTML skillz.

      Yeah, speaking of that - what's the word on allowing HTML in your blog comments? You just don't realize how limiting it is to have to harass you in plain text...

      ---- Scripts i’ve known... CPhog 1.0.0.0 - make CP better. Forum Bookmark 0.2.5 - bookmark forum posts on Pensieve Print forum 0.1.2 - printer-friendly forums Expand all 1.0 - Expand all messages In-place Delete 1.0 - AJAX-style post delete Syntax 0.1 - Syntax highlighting for code blocks in the forums

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      Paul Watson
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      I turned off HTML just for you, everybody else can use harass me in glorious technicolour HTML :P Actually. How do you allow HTML in comments in a WP installation? I can't see the option. regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

      Shog9 wrote:

      eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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        Christopher Duncan wrote:

        Hey, it's summer, at least here in the states. So, like, are you done yet

        No. I said I was thinking about it. You don't realize how integral a part of my life procrastination is. ;P

        225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
        Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
        -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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        Christopher Duncan
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        David Stone wrote:

        You don't realize how integral a part of my life procrastination is.

        Well, you replied quickly enough, so maybe there's hope for kicking the habit yet! :laugh: Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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        • J Jeremy Falcon

          Christopher Duncan wrote:

          I could've sworn that was a regional sandwich.

          That would be a poboy[^]. :-D Well, they started down here at least. Jeremy Falcon

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          Christopher Duncan
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          Had my fair share of those when I was living in Morgan City, for sure! :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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          • C Christopher Duncan

            David Stone wrote:

            You don't realize how integral a part of my life procrastination is.

            Well, you replied quickly enough, so maybe there's hope for kicking the habit yet! :laugh: Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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            David Stone
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            Well, I was bored. I just got off the phone with a girl, so clearly I had nothing better to do than answer your question. ;P

            225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
            Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
            -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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            • C Christopher Duncan

              Had my fair share of those when I was living in Morgan City, for sure! :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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              Jeremy Falcon
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              Christopher Duncan wrote:

              Morgan City

              Hey I didn't know you spent time down in the bayou. Hell, that's even further south the Thibodaux. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon

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                Well, I was bored. I just got off the phone with a girl, so clearly I had nothing better to do than answer your question. ;P

                225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                Christopher Duncan
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                :laugh: Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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                • C Christopher Duncan

                  :laugh: Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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                  David Stone
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                  Are you laughing because my story about being on the phone with a girl seems completely implausible? Or are you laughing because boredom is the only thing that can defeat my procrastination abilities? ;P

                  225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                  Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                  -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                    Obviously, we need some sort of combined David Wulff / David Stone to produce a slick forum system written in C# w/ LINQ and an AJAX-heavy UI w/ plenty of keyboard shortcuts and RTE.

                    ---- Scripts i’ve known... CPhog 1.0.0.0 - make CP better. Forum Bookmark 0.2.5 - bookmark forum posts on Pensieve Print forum 0.1.2 - printer-friendly forums Expand all 1.0 - Expand all messages In-place Delete 1.0 - AJAX-style post delete Syntax 0.1 - Syntax highlighting for code blocks in the forums

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                    Jeremy Falcon
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                    Shog9 wrote:

                    David Wulff / David Stone

                    Care to the wind... Since D++ is already taken, they could call it D². Of if you join the loop it could be JD2. Jeremy Falcon

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                    • D David Stone

                      Are you laughing because my story about being on the phone with a girl seems completely implausible? Or are you laughing because boredom is the only thing that can defeat my procrastination abilities? ;P

                      225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                      Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                      -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                      Christopher Duncan
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                      I'm just laughing 'cause it feels good. :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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                      • P Paul Watson

                        Ugh. Do you ever use those RTEs? I always turn it off in WordPress installations and in GMail. Haven't used an RTE that felt natural and didn't get in the way of my uber, leet, superior Web-Bling 2.0 HTML skillz. Then again, I'd edit Word documents at the markup level if I could... :~ regards, Paul Watson Ireland FeedHenry needs you

                        Shog9 wrote:

                        eh, stop bugging me about it, give it a couple of days, see what happens.

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                        Jon Sagara
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                        Paul Watson wrote:

                        Ugh. Do you ever use those RTEs?

                        I have a small site with a blog-like feature on the front page. It is unique in that each post contains the exact same table structure, the only difference being the number of rows. So, I am able to use a template to insert the table for me, and then I just add contents to the table like I would in a Word doc. It (the editor) has an image picker that allows me to upload pictures straight to the server. It saves me a bunch of time vs hand editing and uploading pics via FTP. For any situation other than that, though, I'd have to go with a plain text box and HTML or BBCode. Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles

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                        • C Christopher Duncan

                          I'm just laughing 'cause it feels good. :-D Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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                          David Stone
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                          Good answer. ;P

                          225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                          Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                          -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                          • J Jon Sagara

                            Paul Watson wrote:

                            Ugh. Do you ever use those RTEs?

                            I have a small site with a blog-like feature on the front page. It is unique in that each post contains the exact same table structure, the only difference being the number of rows. So, I am able to use a template to insert the table for me, and then I just add contents to the table like I would in a Word doc. It (the editor) has an image picker that allows me to upload pictures straight to the server. It saves me a bunch of time vs hand editing and uploading pics via FTP. For any situation other than that, though, I'd have to go with a plain text box and HTML or BBCode. Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles

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                            David Stone
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                            Jon Sagara wrote:

                            BBCode.

                            BBCode sucks.

                            Jon Sagara wrote:

                            For any situation other than that, though, I'd have to go with a plain text box and HTML

                            Have you used CPhog? :)

                            225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                            Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                            -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                              Jon Sagara wrote:

                              BBCode.

                              BBCode sucks.

                              Jon Sagara wrote:

                              For any situation other than that, though, I'd have to go with a plain text box and HTML

                              Have you used CPhog? :)

                              225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                              Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                              -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                              Jon Sagara
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                              David Stone wrote:

                              BBCode sucks.

                              Yes, but a lot of times that is the only option.

                              David Stone wrote:

                              Have you used CPhog?

                              It's a'ight. ;) Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles

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                              • J Jon Sagara

                                David Stone wrote:

                                BBCode sucks.

                                Yes, but a lot of times that is the only option.

                                David Stone wrote:

                                Have you used CPhog?

                                It's a'ight. ;) Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles

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                                David Stone
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                                Jon Sagara wrote:

                                It's a'ight.

                                Have you used the new version? ;P

                                225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                                Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                                -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                                • J Jeremy Falcon

                                  Christopher Duncan wrote:

                                  Morgan City

                                  Hey I didn't know you spent time down in the bayou. Hell, that's even further south the Thibodaux. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon

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                                  Christopher Duncan
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                                  I went there to play in a rock & roll band after I quit my first semester of college in '76. We gigged in Morgan City, Thibodaux, Houma, all those big nationally known hot spots. We drove up to New Orleans to party in the Quarter, but didn't play there. My memory of the girls there is that they were amazingly binary. Either they were drop dead ugly or there was something almost magical about them (I naturally gravitated towards the latter). There was no in between. And yeah, Morgan City is about as far south as you can go without being eaten alive by dragons. Or shot by drunk off shore oil workers, but that's a story for another time... ;) Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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                                  • D David Stone

                                    Jon Sagara wrote:

                                    It's a'ight.

                                    Have you used the new version? ;P

                                    225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                                    Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                                    -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                                    Jon Sagara
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                                    May 25, 2006 is the version in my script.  Is that the latest? (Yes, I have used it, and it's a nice piece of work.)

                                    Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles

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                                      May 25, 2006 is the version in my script.  Is that the latest? (Yes, I have used it, and it's a nice piece of work.)

                                      Jon Sagara When I grow up, I'm changing my name to Joe Kickass! My Site | My Blog | My Articles

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                                      David Stone
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                                      Yeah. That's the newest. :)

                                      Jon Sagara wrote:

                                      (Yes, I have used it, and it's a nice piece of work.)

                                      Thanks. :) Anything you'd like to see done to it?

                                      225 years ago, we set an example for the rest of the world by creating a country where everyone could vote...
                                      Well, except for women and black people, but we fixed that!
                                      -Adam Duritz, of Counting Crows

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                                      • C Christopher Duncan

                                        The first indication of trouble is usually when my sentences begin with, "All I wanted to do was..." I like the CP threaded forum approach. I find it much more intuitive to follow the train of thought than in the more common monolithic style of discussion board. For years now I've used David Wulff's excellent forum software. However, as I live in a C# / .NET world with my sites these days, I'd really like to find something similar to CP / Battle Axe Forums in a .NET / C# (and free) model. There seems to be a ton of stuff out there. Much of it is ambitiously priced. Those that are free are rarely C# / .NET. And the few that are use the monolithic format rather than the threaded method favored by CP. How freakin' hard can this be? Is there truly no forum code out there that meets this criteria? It's far too tempting to just sit down and code something myself. Fortunately, I don't have that kind of time. Any ideas, or am I just looking for a holy grail that doesn't exist? Where's the Knights Templar when you need them? :rolleyes: Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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                                        realJSOP
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                                        Christopher Duncan wrote:

                                        Where's the Knights Templar when you need them?

                                        They're still busy guarding that stupid cup. However, I don't think they would sully their otherwise checkered reputations by working for Microsoft (or for the benefit of a Microsoft product).

                                        "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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                                        "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001

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                                        • C Christopher Duncan

                                          I went there to play in a rock & roll band after I quit my first semester of college in '76. We gigged in Morgan City, Thibodaux, Houma, all those big nationally known hot spots. We drove up to New Orleans to party in the Quarter, but didn't play there. My memory of the girls there is that they were amazingly binary. Either they were drop dead ugly or there was something almost magical about them (I naturally gravitated towards the latter). There was no in between. And yeah, Morgan City is about as far south as you can go without being eaten alive by dragons. Or shot by drunk off shore oil workers, but that's a story for another time... ;) Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes

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                                          Jeremy Falcon
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                                          Christopher Duncan wrote:

                                          Either they were drop dead ugly or there was something almost magical about them (I naturally gravitated towards the latter). There was no in between.

                                          Yup, that pretty much sums up south Louisiana. :-D Jeremy Falcon

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