Code Monkies

[lynt]

i just read the whole post and you would be surprised, but there is quite a lot of fucking round to get a ssl cert installed in IIS and resolve it to the correct domain/folders. it used to take me about an hour and that was only if the client had all the correct details. any host should be able to do it tho. lynt, you got admin access to a dedicated server...or just a standard account on a shared server?

aslo what OS is it running?

hey mate, its shared server, unix/apache. i havent touched that subject for a bit.. but will knock on your PM when i need assistance.

cheers bro

[DC]

I dont know how morally right it is to ask a question like this....but do any of you brainiacs know how to 'hotwire' a laptop?

[fooishbar]

I'd like to apologise for what follows.

[...]

It's all well and good for unix, but how is a person supposed multitask dnb, consoles and sleep with work concurrently?

Two words: ninja skills.

[saintberry]

I dont know how morally right it is to ask a question like this....but do any of you brainiacs know how to 'hotwire' a laptop?

trying to format a laptop with a password protected bios...that you errr lost the password for?

if its a dell go to support.dell.com and download a bios update for it...if you flash the bios from windoze it wont ask yo for a password and will overwrite the old settings. then format away.

all of them will have an override key, much like a PUK for mobile phone sims. search the net for the model/make, should be able to find something

or have i missed the point and your actually trying to jump start the thing? if the latter ive got no idea haha

[DC]

Its more a case of a locked HDD....

[lynt]

Quick Q: I don't have a Mac or easy access to one for development purposes (when I worked pro IT I was in offices flooded by Macs, but not anymore), I need to test some sites on hell spawn IE 4.0 for Mac. Anyone know of sites or software that can let me test multiple browsers on Mac from my PC, or is this just sillyness...

[system]

there used to be one. Zeldman/ALA had it linked AFAIK.

can always do it for you if you want mate.

edit:
BrowserCam can do it. they have a free trial account service too.

[lynt]

there used to be one. Zeldman/ALA had it linked AFAIK.

can always do it for you if you want mate.

Thanks mate, I'll keep digging around and let you know, though I'd rather have something "on site" so I can do my tests and fixes on demand.. so to speak

Did find this, though: http://www.emulators.com/softmac.htm

[system]

actually, scratch that - BrowserCam have dropped all pre-Mac OS X browsers.

[lynt]

Hello again, anyone had any success with running Flash locally and grabbing data from the internet?

To be more precise, loading XML across the net from your desktop Flash app?

Valuetime, I'm looking nervously at you.

[lucas]

Server/Computer names. Anyone got any naming schemes?

For our servers at work, I'm currently going with record labels.

• bedrock
• institution
• distinctive
• electrofly

[system]

:haha:

normally I've used whatever came to mind at the time. when I shared house with a bunch of geeks, we had 13 characters from the Simpsons in our cluster.

at the moment at work it's been all about semi-obscure musos:

• miles
• lonnie
• gilberto
• bird
• jimi

[downtime]

Server/Computer names. Anyone got any naming schemes?

For our servers at work, I'm currently going with record labels.

• bedrock
• institution
• distinctive
• electrofly

The IT guy where i work uses the names of the planets, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto etc...

We all thought it was a great idea until someone got stuck with Uranus...

[system]

Hello again, anyone had any success with running Flash locally and grabbing data from the internet?

To be more precise, loading XML across the net from your desktop Flash app?

sorry, must have missed this one. just use the connectors. from Flash MX, there's a native XML parser you can access via the XML class. (XML.load() and XML.parseXML() functions work well.).

[apophenian]

Any python programmers out there?

[system]

[fooishbar]

Server/Computer names. Anyone got any naming schemes?

For our servers at work, I'm currently going with record labels.

• bedrock
• institution
• distinctive
• electrofly

freedesktop.org servers are Penny Arcade characters:
* tycho (used to be LDAP server, now just disused)
* gabe (main project server, soon to be email only)
* fruit (main LDAP server)
* kemper (soon to be cvs/svn/git master)
* annarchy (soon dev shell machine, main web host, anoncvs, viewcvs, gitweb)

For my machines, DJ Shadow. The ThinkPad X40s are endtroducing (new), and ephemera (old; Excessive Ephemera is the title of CD2 on Endtroducing.....). The T43 is preemptive (Strike), my main desktop is brainfreeze, and I also have (One Night In) bangkok and (The Private) repress kicking around. I've used product (Placement) and intune (and On Time) before.

Former naming schemes include characters from MegaTokyo (I was younger and more stupid, and it was vastly funnier at the time). My last job had penguins (chinstrap, emperor, humboldt), and Antarctic research stations (mawson, mcmurdo, a bunch of Russian ones). Ironically, this meant that Ubuntu's main gateway at the data centre was called gentoo. Job before that, we used a mix of gods and whatever sprung to mind (velox, vesuvius, zaphod).

[fooishbar]

Any python programmers out there?

mmm?

[system]

Ironically, this meant that Ubuntu's main gateway at the data centre was called gentoo.

[apophenian]

As in the python programming language

[lucas]

Ironically, this meant that Ubuntu's main gateway at the data centre was called gentoo.

Haha. Nice.

[JAMESSSS]

freedesktop.org servers are Penny Arcade characters:
* tycho (used to be LDAP server, now just disused)
* gabe (main project server, soon to be email only)
* fruit (main LDAP server)
* kemper (soon to be cvs/svn/git master)
* annarchy (soon dev shell machine, main web host, anoncvs, viewcvs, gitweb)

No Mr Period?

[fooishbar]

As in the python programming language

mmm? in this case meant 'yeah, what's up?' rather than 'how the fuck do you program a dangerous snake?'

[lucas]

rather than 'how the fuck do you program a dangerous snake?'

Debugging that kind of python is a bitch.

[fooishbar]

freedesktop.org servers are Penny Arcade characters:
* tycho (used to be LDAP server, now just disused)
* gabe (main project server, soon to be email only)
* fruit (main LDAP server)
* kemper (soon to be cvs/svn/git master)
* annarchy (soon dev shell machine, main web host, anoncvs, viewcvs, gitweb)

No Mr Period?

We've got a long waiting list -- kara, brenna, frank, twisp, catsby, div, and merch. charles is there too, but that's reserved for the Xserve we're never going to get. I forgot about Mr. Period -- I'll add him now. Cheers.

[system]

the Xserve we're never going to get.

[fooishbar]

the Xserve we're never going to get.

hey, as long as we keep getting dual opterons in, in the form of hp proliant dl385s, I'm fairly damn content.

[system]

the Xserve we're never going to get.

hey, as long as we keep getting dual opterons in, in the form of hp proliant dl385s, I'm fairly damn content.

touché.

[apophenian]

As in the python programming language

mmm? in this case meant 'yeah, what's up?' rather than 'how the fuck do you program a dangerous snake?'

Doh!

Sorry, just curious! I did some back in NZ, but over here I am just doing java/struts/jsp stuff.

Do you find much work in Python over here?

[fooishbar]

As in the python programming language

mmm? in this case meant 'yeah, what's up?' rather than 'how the fuck do you program a dangerous snake?'

Doh!

Sorry, just curious! I did some back in NZ, but over here I am just doing java/struts/jsp stuff.

Do you find much work in Python over here?

i was at a job for about two years that was roughly half python, half debian. wasn't too difficult to find, but I wasn't looking at the time, it was pure chance.

[lynt]

Alright, who're the SQL junkies inside the ride, need to get some proper syntax sorted for some tricky DB action. Please.

[Rob M]

SELECT *
FROM MBEATS
WHERE Author eq 'ac23' and Text eq "w3rd "
DELETE ALL

[lucas]

SELECT *
FROM MBEATS
WHERE Author eq 'ac23' and Text eq "w3rd "
DELETE ALL

Syntax error.

[system]

Alright, who're the SQL junkies inside the ride, need to get some proper syntax sorted for some tricky DB action. Please.

what flavour of SQL, man? I'm good with MySQL and PostgreSQL, but a bit out of practice with MS SQL.

[Ag3nT[]0raNg3]

SELECT *
FROM MBEATS
WHERE Author eq 'ac23' and Text eq "w3rd "
DELETE ALL

Syntax error.

rofl

[Mellogs]

SELECT *
FROM MBEATS
WHERE Author eq 'ac23' and Text eq "w3rd "
DELETE ALL

Syntax error.

bahahahahaha, gold

[fooishbar]

Alright, who're the SQL junkies inside the ride, need to get some proper syntax sorted for some tricky DB action. Please.

what flavour of SQL, man? I'm good with MySQL and PostgreSQL, but a bit out of practice with MS SQL.

what he said. wassgoinon?

[lynt]

Alright, who're the SQL junkies inside the ride, need to get some proper syntax sorted for some tricky DB action. Please.

what flavour of SQL, man? I'm good with MySQL and PostgreSQL, but a bit out of practice with MS SQL.

Thanks man, I actually realised I didn't need to be as technical as I thought.. but I've struck a problem with PHP and knowing that PHP is quite clever with it's in built functions, I didn't want to write a huge function myself without asking if it's already around

ie:

I need to work out the most recent Monday, either if it's the current day or has just passed.

I've started something like this

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		// We start by getting the current DAY of the week in numerical form
		// 1 being Monday, 2 being Tuesday, 3 being Wednesday etc...
		// Once we find out our date, we need to minus the day of the week off the 
		// actual DATE which we are currently on to find out what date Monday was
		// For example. If today is the 29th, and we're on the 3rd day of the week
		// We take 29 minus 3 and get 26. We add 1 to bring it back to Monday.
		// Monday was the 27th in this instance.
		$mondaysDate = (date("j")-date("w"))+1;
		$mondaysDate = date("Y")."-".date("m")."-".$mondaysDate;

It's a little sloppy I know, but I'm still tweaking around, then I thought to ask the crew.

And I'm about to step it up to make sure that if that result means we have to go into the previous month, then handle it appropriately which is a lot of fucking around.

Anything like this already exist in PHP land? Help the newbie.

[lucas]

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$now = time();
// How many days since last Monday
$daysSince = date('w', $now) - 1;
$lastMondaysDate = $now - ($daysSince * 86400);
// Format date as you wish. e.g.
echo(date('d/m/Y', $lastMondaysDate));

I just whipped it up real quick. Didn't test. May have syntax errors, and perhaps even dud logic. Give it a test and see what you reckon.

[lucas]

Quick FYI with the above code. If today is Monday then $daysSince will evaluate to zero, so it should still give you expected result.

[lynt]

I love you Lucas Chan.

[system]

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$now = time();
// How many days since last Monday
$daysSince = date('w', $now) - 1;
$lastMondaysDate = $now - ($daysSince * 86400);
// Format date as you wish. e.g.
echo(date('d/m/Y', $lastMondaysDate));

I just whipped it up real quick. Didn't test. May have syntax errors, and perhaps even dud logic. Give it a test and see what you reckon.

couldn't put it better - might be worth extending into a function too, if you use it a lot within your code base.

[lynt]

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$now = time();
// How many days since last Monday
$daysSince = date('w', $now) - 1;
$lastMondaysDate = $now - ($daysSince * 86400);
// Format date as you wish. e.g.
echo(date('d/m/Y', $lastMondaysDate));

I just whipped it up real quick. Didn't test. May have syntax errors, and perhaps even dud logic. Give it a test and see what you reckon.

might be worth extending into a function too, if you use it a lot within your code base.

[lucas]

SitePoint is looking for a PHP developer.

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[system]

SitePoint is looking for a PHP developer.

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[kaleidoscope]

Proud coder here. Java, C#, Python (and Jython), XSL, SQL, HTML, Javascript, VBScript, VB, C++, Delphi, et cetera

Jython is my favourite language. Its python that runs under the java runtime, with access to all its functionality. Its the fucking bomb i tell you.

P/Jython is the best language, partly because of the way it handles lists and dictionaries as basic types. Its also way easy to read and sexy too.

[system]

Jython is my favourite language. Its python that runs under the java runtime, with access to all its functionality. Its the fucking bomb i tell you.

P/Jython is the best language, partly because of the way it handles lists and dictionaries as basic types. Its also way easy to read and sexy too.

I had never played with Jython, to be honest, until you mentioned it. my last encounter with a variant on this type was JPython, way back when.

looks interesting.

(I spend far too much time inside PHP/Ruby these days, let alone the CSS hand-tooling. bring on CSS-3 and the dynamic selectors.)

[fooishbar]

jython is kinda cool, but aside from pathological shell scripts (I once pointed a script that took a list of files, ran sed over those, multiple times, fed the result of those sed scripts into another enormous regexp, at the X tree, and committed the result. something like 13,000 lines of diff.) I haven't wandered into anything higher up than C for quite a while now.

it's really refreshing when you don't have to write your own linked list handling, etc, for the millionth time.

[system]

it's really refreshing when you don't have to write your own linked list handling, etc, for the millionth time.

oh my lord, yes.

(thank the lord for PHP::PEAR. )

[JAMESSSS]

Perl all the way.