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 | Before you start trying to write such complex code, I would recommend buying a book on ruby. I don't have a ruby book that I would recommend off the top of my head because I'm a Ruby on Rails developer. If you decide you want to go with ruby on … |
| | Thats some scary code you have there. You've written it in basically all globals, which is very dangerous if you plan to deploy this application onto the internet. You need to use instances, methods, classes, and try to keep the use of globals to a bare minimum or not at … |
| | I'm very curious if there is a certain time in the day when people are on social networks more, or any site for that matter and I was hoping someone could point me to a site that shows you hour by hour traffic for websites. I know that in the … |
| | As I write this Social Networking is quite the rage, so of course businesses are trying to use Social Networking as a marketing leverage. I have done a lot of research on Social Networking and Search Engine Optimization and my conclusion will hopefully help anyone who works with SEO. Social … |
 | Those exams are supposed to be hard?? I just took a look at them and I'm baffled that they think most people don't know the answers to those tests. |
| | Lately everyone on the Web has been wanting to know about one thing Google Buzz, well I'm tired of that subject. I would probably write about a different company but when I found out that [URL="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/pictures-worth-thousand-translated.html"]Google is getting into the food industry[/URL], I felt that I had to write about … |
| | I wish I had gotten this story before the [URL="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=57438&o=3>a=commentslistpos#commentslistpos"]San Fransisco Chronicle[/URL] or [URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10455573-71.html?tag=rtcol;pop"]Cnet,[/URL] but the truth is they got it before me. A lady in Florida got a team of lawyers to sue Google, the Search Engine firm in San Fransisco, CA for breaching her privacy with Google Buzz. … |
| | [QUOTE=xylude;1115594]I need to replicate the encryption shown below: [code] def self.encrypt(password, salt) Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("--#{salt}--#{password}--") end [/code] I am trying something like this to no avail: [code] $salt = 'edc93eaf81aa1d64368c35213f192bb4ea81d20d'; $password = $_POST['input']; $password = sha1($salt.$password); echo "password sha1 value: " . $password; [/code][/QUOTE] Ruby on rails has a built in method … |
| | Google, the almighty, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story245746.html"]non-eco-friendly search engine[/URL] released [URL="http://www.google.com/buzz"]Google Buzz[/URL], a new type of social network this Tuesday. When I read an article on [URL="ttp://mashable.com/2010/02/11/google-buzz-9-million/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+(Mashable)"]mashable.com [/URL]saying that Google claims that there has been 9 million posts and comments since Tuesdays launch, I found it impossible to believe, so I went and …  |
| | [QUOTE=jimmythechip;1083743]Ok, So rdoc avoids over-documentation by deciding that some modules & functions (e.g. private methods) are best left ignored and undocumented. Kindly rdoc lets you override some of this helpfulness by passing the '--all' and/or '--promiscuous' at run-time. Great. However, there are still some modules that are left undocumented for … |
| | [QUOTE=Phaelax;1082115]Find compassionate hobbyists willing to help, or start researching what to do yourself. Depending on the type of website, I'm guessing you have in mind a rather large dynamic site, you'll probably need help if you have no technical background at all. The time it would take for you to … |
| | I started writing about [URL="http://www.ecosia.org"]Ecosia[/URL], the new, "green powered" search engine, the very first week it launched. I can't help but admit that I'm a bit envious that [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story244378.html"]Davey Winder wrote the very first article about Ecosia[/URL] the very first day it launched. But, hey, if he hadn't written about … |
| | Earlier this week [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story244378.html"]I read a very interesting article [/URL]written by my colleague Davey Winder about the new search engine[URL="http://www.ecosia.org"] Ecosia[/URL]. After reading Davies article, I decided to do some research comparing Ecosia vs. the monster search engine [URL="http://www.google.com"]Google[/URL]. Ecosia claims that one search via Google uses around the same … |
| | good blog but you gave the definition of white hat a bad rep. A white hat protects sites and servers. what this "uno" fellow did was grey hat neither protecting or attacking just exposing the sites vulnerability. In my opinion Uno is more black hat than grey he had no … |
 | [QUOTE=canadafred;946782]I agree with her highness on this one. It's really her call anyway. There's already too much discussion of unrelated matters already (especially the recent surge of social networking marketing ideas) that don't really belong in the Search Engine Optimization sub-forum of the Internet Marketing forum. It's my opinion that … |
 | Yes most young people and ignorant older people are window-holics. I'm on Windows right now but I spend most of my time on my Ubuntu with WINE installed so I can run some of those programs. A good OS for those who want to be free from windows but want … |
| | Have you put any other CDs in your CD drive? It may be your CD drive that is bad. |
 | [QUOTE=persianprez;1067125]I need to install these 3 tools in order to run Agriya Volume, but how do I? I'm running on a basic plan (linux) on securesignup. I don't have root access. Is there anyway? Or do I have to buy a VPS?? The three tools are: Mplayer + Mencoder Flvtool2 … |
| | Re: New to Ruby I'm not sure if your referring to ruby or ruby on rails. Anyways great tutorials for Ruby on rails are [URL="http://www.guides.rubyonrails.org"]guides.rubyonrails.org [/URL]and awesome videos with explanations would be [URL="http://railscasts.com"]http://railscasts.com[/URL] |
| | Hey; How do you figure out how much you should be able to charge advertisers to advertise on your site? I am not going to use adsense or any of the other "pre-made ad systems" so any feedback would really be appreciated. |
| | Hey; I have 6 months of work done in PHP and I really don't want to re-invent the wheel but I want to use some Ruby in my site. Is it possible to "mix languages" like PHP and ruby or will I run into some major problems? I would really …  |
| | Is it possible to overwrite internal javascript? I am working for a non profit as an internship and they want to escape a template that almost all of the non profits in that organization have to use, the catch is the template is written in Javascript if it is possible … |
| | I think that working with Diggs ad system may be a good idea. Digg is the 122nd top site on the internet according to [URL="http://www.alexa.com"]http://www.alexa.com[/URL] advertizing on a popular website is usually good for business. I only see one con in the alexa information. Most users stay on the site … |
 | I am a Web developer, I know HTML 4.0 and I am learning 5.0, I know XHTML 1.0 and plan on learning 2.0 very soon! I know CSS, Aural CSS, Photoshop,Flash, and Actionscript |
| | Re: R on R on Vista I'm on Vista and haven't ran into that error. I am not using instant rails I downloaded a different version of ROR and than integrated it into my xampps INI file. |
 | I found this very interesting since I just installed ROR into my XAMPP using the guide I found in this article. [URL="http://www.grapethinking.com/getting-rails-to-work-on-a-windows-machine-running-xampp"]http://www.grapethinking.com/getting-rails-to-work-on-a-windows-machine-running-xampp[/URL] I couldn't get the gem update to work in MS-DOS so I skipped that and ran gem install rails --include-dependencies. |
| | have you tried lowering your firewall or customizing it? Oh I also just remembered something about Vista! if you have it as a secure network and you have selected wep you have to use wep-2 or wap for Vista.  |
| | [QUOTE=MktgRob;982176]As I said in a previous thread, thiefs are monitoring Facebook and Twitter for people who post that they are away on vacation and targeting their property for robbery. It's like chumming the water for sharks.[/QUOTE] Yes people do need to realize this, especially tweeters! You may think it is … |
| | [QUOTE=newo2020;983688]Google Ad Sense is when a web site owner opens an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily … |
| | Hey I started this thread hoping that others may add in helpful free resources of websites that help websites. I got the idea from the free directory thread and thought that we could expand on that. I would also encourage people to post SEO tips since that is part of … |
| | All hail the queen of DaniWeb! LOL just playing around Dani. Welcome zac :) |
| | I was watching the show and the response by Taylor Swift was not staged nor was Beyonces as far as I can tell. I could see that they were both upset... and the crowd was even more upset even when kanye's name was mentioned as a nomination Radio City was … |
| | I personally don't think adsense is the way to go. I would rather run a private ad system and have my own algorithims and ways of deciding what ads show up where than using Google Adsense. I've seen regular users go crazy with sites that use adsense... and understandably so... …  |
| | I have always used Alexa's free compare site feature on there front page. [URL="http://www.alexa.com"]http://www.alexa.com[/URL] you can put in three URLS including yours and compare against each other. It will show you all the analytics of your competitor and of your site and how they rank against each other on search … |
| | Hey welcome to DaniWeb. You accidently posted in the wrong forum but thats cool-- i've been on here for a long time and I still make that mistake. A moderator will move your posting to the introductions area :). I don't have that power I'm just a regular user. |
| | What very few people fail to realize when they use Skype is that it is using a small portion of your bandwidth to make Skype well Skype. Each user contributes a small portion of their bandwidth while they're online which can be disastrous if you don't have that much bandwidth … |
| | Okay... let's make sure this is conficker... a few ways to test if you have the conficker virus is to try to go to legitimate websites like microsoft updates or an anti-virus site. If you can't get in you've been confickered. I have to agree with the above poster no … |
| | [QUOTE=InsightsDigital;983013]Many online ads nowadays have a social media component to them. It can either be the voting of hands up or hands down on Facebook ads. Or it can be tweeting about a rich media ad. So how do you take this into consideration when you are strategizing for your … |
| | I can see both sides of the fence. Links are very good but if you were to rely only on links you probably would get more spiders than humans. SEO should be looser than most people use it. Search Engine Optimization in my opinion is anything that helps out your … |
| | [QUOTE=icu222much;982070]Backlinks? Do you mean going onto other websites and advertising about my site through threads?[/QUOTE] Welcome to Daniweb and the wonderous world of SEO and the world of search engines. Some sites have been said to be "sandboxed" by Google for up to 6 months meaning they don't really show … |
| | [QUOTE=InsightsDigital;983006]We know that there is no standards in measuring web analytics and ad analytics among the various web measuring tools. Despite that, the terminology is almost standard in this industry though. Thus, which metrics and benchmarks do you use to measure? I would start with: 1. unique visitors 2. repeat … |
| | You may find this surprising, but people probably get responses quicker via social networks than 911 in towns like Sacramento where they take about an hour to answer a call. |
| | Facebook LLC has received a lot of publicity lately, understandably so. I unfortunately, have to say the publicity isn’t positive; in fact it is very negative. Rumors have been spreading throughout the internet about a virus called fan check supposedly infecting Facebook user’s computers with a virus. According to all … |
| | Hey; I'm hoping some database wizards could help me out with this question. I have been trying to decide between MYSQL or MYSQLI. I would appreciate as much info from experienced database developers/deployers on which database offers the most security. |
| | [QUOTE=dahagaku;951356]Hello frds, am not so good in english but i want to become a seo now am doing link building ,please give me your views can i become a good seo without good communication skills ?[/QUOTE] hey Dahagaku! Welcome to DaniWeb; Yes I'm sure you can become good at SEO … |
| | Hey, I was surfing the internet last night and stumbled upon [URL="http://www.addictinggames.com"]http://www.addictinggames.com [/URL] I noticed that you can submit your own flash games to the site for people to play. What I found very interesting is that the game I played had a link to the site who created it. … |
 | I, personally have found this to be true. If I see an ad that has to do with tires when I'm looking up PHP commands I ignore the ad but I may remember it later. What I've noticed is if you see an ad enough within context you finally click … |
| | President Barack Obama is Americas' first African American President. I was happy to hear that my country was open to something else besides old white dudes when he was elected. I am very sad that not everyone feels the same way about the United States new president as I do. … |
| | I wrote on this a while back and did my research. I read an interview with mckinnon and he said that there was no password. I am a bit surprised that the military wouldn't add a password but then again Mckinnon most likely is telling the truth. Obama is right … |
 | Re: Blogging part 2 Thinka is right; people think they are under a "cover" when they are on the Internet. What they fail to realize is that we (admins of sites they go on) know more about them than they think and that they should blog responsibly or face the punishment. Blogging is relatively … |
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