Posts by tiger86

I started at age 9 in QBASIC writing .bat files and making small programs with them. I know about 7 different languages, including but not limited to C++, Ruby On Rails, PHP, and ActionScript 2 and 3. I am still perfecting my C++ by taking a college course, so I will be at my best.

While you can make games with dragonfiresdk, it hasn't been kept up to date... I hope to see some major updates soon. The only IOS 4.0 function is retina graphics. There is no support for game center.
There are some buggy functions or functions people avoid, because they cause issues in the long run. If you use DFSDK you need to use the WTF template on top of it. It is free. Try out AlICE. You can do some cool 3d game design with that!

What are you supposed to do with this input? That is the biggest question. Just read it and then shut down the program or output it to the screen?

Vernon thank you for answering my question. Sky Diploma, I am thinking about using CGI and XSL for the front end.

I am an app developer for Apple. My apps can easily be ported to android. So I think it would be good to make my site as an app in C++, release it for mobile phones and then if that is succesful make the website.
Most Website usage is via mobile phones nowadays.

What's the need to reinvent the wheel? Do you have some special project that doesn't fits in any web oriented base language?

For example PHP is open source and based on C, so why not building the web site on that language?

That is just it fantasma, PHP is BASED on C. Layered languages are usually like onions in my mind. I've used PHP, I've used rails. I believe it is better to write a project from scratch, not use something pre-packaged like PHP. That is purely my own belief and I am not going to force it on anyone else.

Ancient, Wordpress is written in C.

Hey Vernon,
Yes, I will have to mess with CGI. I will do it as Fast CGI with C++ for now and possibly convert it to pure C++ later.

I was hoping there were some tutorials or some really good documentation on this. I've been reading the documentation for fastcgi++, but the more you learn the better.

I've decided to write a Website in C++. I am sick of dealing with languages that layer on top of other languages, so I just want to write it in C++. I know about CGI++, but I was wondering if there were any other tools or methods used for writing a site in C++.

Ancient Dragon: Visual Express studio 2008. Windows Vista. I am using a SDK called Dragonfire SDK. We can write iPhone apps in C++ that way.

I am making a game where I need to take one image and make it into multiple images. then when I click on the image, I want one to dissapear at a time. I believe this can be accomplished via arrays. I am still pretty new to C++, so I am not sure exactly how to feed an image to an array and work like mentioned above.

Any help is appreciated.

Okay, first off I've never played Medal of Honor. I have played Halo online. I was quite tired last night when I made my second post. I know that games like Halo and GTA depict violence, but what seperates them from this new level of medal of honor is that
(1 the versions of Halo online that I played weren't set in any era. I also would like to state that while I have played Halo Online I didn't like it and quit after a few days. My cousin wanted me to play it.
(2 we are currently in the middle of a war on terrorisim & Medal Of Honor allows people to be the enemy that we are currently fighting.
(3
There is a rating above M, it just isn't sold at retail stores or at least I've never seen it.

I will admit that GTA case does indeed have to do with the players mental stability, but There is a big difference between books and Movies.

I've never watched the movies you listed, because those aren't my type of movies. Games that have shooting like guild wars are fine IMO, because you kill monsters & ghosts. I am not a fan of PVP in games like that, but even then you are a fictional character with powers. What I find wrong with this new Medal Of Honor is the fact that you can play as the enemy and fictitiously kill are own …

I'll say it again: this game is wrong on so many levels.
The human mind, especially the teenager mind is very impressionable. This game should be banned or at the bare minimum have everyone be over 18 & carded & sign sometype of legal agreement. I am sure some stores will refuse to carry it while others see the dissatisfaction of their customers and stop selling it. Seriously, what were the game designers thinking? I design games & I leave anything to do with politics out of my games. Yes, this has to do with politics and so much more like morals and ethics.
Ding my rating all you want on here. I still won't change my comments.

Google announced about Google Instant Search and there has been some concern on the twittersphere that this will eliminate SEO. I am not one who believes that SEO will be eliminated, but it does sound like we may have to make some adaptions to our techniques. Feedback welcome!!!

I am so glad Ancient Dragon was here to defend those who serve and have served in the military.
My dad,my uncle, my grandfather, my great-grandfather, my great-great grandfather all served in the military. I am so glad that the government banned the game from being sold on the base. I think that this level should be banned altogether, but it is freedom of speech so it is allowed even though it is sickly warped, morbid, vile and Anti-Earth. Letting people play as the Taliban might give them the wrong impression. I keep seeing references to grand theft auto and how it didn't cause any problems. I know that a major fact has been ignored by gamers that GTA was the cause of at least one Real Life issue that I remember reading about off the top of my head. Three cops died because of an 18 year old who killed real cops after playing the Grand Theft Auto game. A long time ago when GTA was new a friend said this is a cool game. I put it in my system turned it on and as fast as I turned the game on I turned it off. I highly discourage the company from releasing this anti-american, anti-british, anti-earth level and if they do I highly question their judgment. You can give me negative ratings all you want. I know what is right and what isn't and this is not right!!
When I say anti-earth, I am NOT …

GrimJack: I say 'Kiai' a lot. Than again that might be, because I am taking Tae Kwon Do.
Things you hear the most in Tae Kwon Do are Challiat, Chunbi, kunia, and hamasakeda.

To the person who started this thread, I highly reccomend that you use the Databases that RoR works best with, which are My SQL, SQL Lite, and PostgreSQL. I've never heard of anyone using any other database besides these three. Anything is possible, but it would probably be a nightmare to get it to work. Check out the official guides for Ruby on Rails that explain how to configure the three main databases that are used in testing and as far as I know launch. I prefer MY SQL over any of the others.

I am not familiar with Tmail, but I am familiar with the issue of those who try to program Ruby on Rails in Windows. You will have great pains and woes trying to program in Windows(trust me, I already made that mistake.) What you need to do is make a partition or designate an entire drive for Ubuntu which is an amazing free Operating System which is great for RoR developing purposes and personal use. I use it mainly for developing, but I may start to use it more and more for personal stuff. Please read the forums sticky on RoR. You can always submit an issue over at github about tmail. I am assuming that's where that gem is hosted, since basically almost every gem is hosted at Github.

Hey Ron,
You know I am a big fan of your articles. What you said is correct on the most part. I have experiemented with Apple claiming that if youHold a RIM phone to tight it will make you drop a bar or two. I was amazed that this is indeed correct. I can youtube this, if you would like. I hold a RIM Blackberry Curve 8310 on the sides tight and it drops, I hold it via the top and the bottom and I am at full signal. I would like to point out that in my tests you have to grip your phone very firmly with your left hand for this issue to occur, than again ones firmness could be anothers softness. I wrote an article about the iPhone 4, because I didn't see yours.

Here is some info I left out on Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is basically like Microsofts .net, except rails is an extension of the Ruby language. Some say that you should learn Ruby before learning Ruby on Rails, I say do whatever works for you.
If you want to develop Ruby on Rail Apps you can do it in windows but it is a pain and really, really annoying. I would suggest installing Ubuntu on a seperate hard drive and downloading the newest stable version of RoR from www.rubyonrails.org. They have step by step instructions for installing RoR. If you decide to use Windows, despite my warning you will have to use a much older version of rails.

Simple do and Don't rules for Ubuntu and Ruby on rails
Do not use apt-get that is not the right way to install RoR.
All you need to do is install the latest RubyGems file then go into the terminal and type gem install rails. Walla, you now have RoR.

Simple tutorial: Building a simple app.
I have copied this small section of text from the official Ruby on Rails Guide on getting started
Note you only have to use the $ sign in the following example if you are using windows. Ignore it if you are using Linux.
"Open a terminal, navigate to a folder where you have rights to create files, …

If you don't want your iPad may I have it? You pay the $800 of course :P I'll just use it for you. LOL. JK. :P :D

Than I am guessing that my help solved the issue? Could you please mark the thread "solved" if and when your issue is solved?

I don’t write articles much anymore, but today I felt that this really deserved to be written about. A Website software called Clicktale is quite creepy.
What Is Clicktale?
Clicktale, is a product designed to record everything you do on a Webpage to the website owner who has paid for the service. Only Websites that use clicktale's JavaScript are recorded. However Clicktale does make it very clear that your use of the site will be revoked if you do not exclude information that is deemed sensitive by Clicktale such as Social Security Numbers, Credit card numbers, etc. If you do type text into a box and submit it, the user will be able to see what you typed, excluding passwords. If you don’t hit submit the video does not record your text.
Clicktale has a free option, but from what I’ve read you get better results by using their paid version. The Clicktale site says the software is to figure out exactly why users leave your site, etc. They also say in the terms of service that they do not record any Identifiable information that isn't submitted voluntarily, my interpetation of their use of the word voluntarily is that you supply it to the website.

Isn’t This An Invasion Of Privacy?
In my honest opinion, yes this is an invasion of privacy and shouldn’t be used unless the site has something similar to monitored phone calls in the United States, like a mandatory pop up …

This is not an advertisement, this is purely a thread telling people about resources that I've found, well resourceful.

For those who are stuck with Ruby on Rails or need to learn the basics you should check out the free videos by Ryan Bates at www.railscasts.com, they've helped me a few times and I've heard that they help a lot of other people. Also if you ever need help right away you can always go to the #ruby irc on freenode or if you are a ruby on rails programmer go to #rubyonrails also hosted on freenode. I know for a fact that #rubyonrails is the official help irc for anything related to RoR. Everyone on the #rubyonrails chatroom are usually very helpful and can help you when your stuck.

Well I hope that this post helped!

Welcome to the wonderful, simple world of RoR. I've never heard of Tracks and that's saying a lot since I've used a lot of gems and plugins. Tracks isn't marketing itself as a gem or a plugin, which is very,very odd. The way you can get Tracks onto your server is by downloading the .zip file from the tracks website, unzipping it, than upload the unzipped version to the server and it should work.

The possible problems are listed below along with the solution
(A a gem that is required is no longer on your server
(B your server provider upgraded their Ruby and one of your gems isn't compatible with the new version
All you have to do is check to make sure you have all of the required gems, and if you do make sure you haven't updated one of them lately, sometimes you have to change your code a smidgen when you update a gem. If that's all fine there, then contact your server provider and see if they've updated the Ruby version, if they have find out what version they upgraded to and what you need to do to your script to make it work.

If this is a third party script that is updated, their may be a newer version that is already compliant with an updated Ruby version. If this solved your problem, please click problem solved.

I got help from the SDK guys. I used sprintf. Also I was putting my code above other images so it wasn't appearing. Anyways, if you want to output code using Dragonfire SDK it is real simple, you just have to ask or read the topics.

I am getting the most interesting... error or glitch now that I've removed my background. I see a red square, but that's it. I am using the DragonFire SDK to develop apps for the iPhone if that helps at all. I was struggling with some of the things not offered in DFSDK, so I am trying to learn what c++ has to offer that isn't in the DFSDK manual. I've discovered that C++ has a world of stuff to offer, I am just really struggling. I really want to get this done by Wednesday. If I don't get it completely done by Wednesday, oh well.

Anyways any tutorials that can help me learn c++ basics like getting print output to work properly and even the post your points on a website part would be really helpful, actually any help would be helpful. Thanks!

>If that isn't possible than I'll just forget it.
Well certainly thats possible .

well i dont know how your game is designed , but i faced an analogus problem in the past , where in the data was actually being printed , but i was also coming out of program immediate which made me unable to see the output.
so , i guess if you could ask the user to hit enter ( or any other character ) to exit the game or something similar , ur last output will still stay on the screen.

Thank you for bearing with me Rahul8590. Yes, all I want to do is print the words score points and then have the counter increment by one each time a certain task is completed. Thankfully I got that code finished. My issue is that I am still not seeing the printout on my screen. Please note that I haven't been programming C++ for even a week and that I have a concussion, so if my question doesn't make sense just ask me to rephrase it.

As stated above I just want my counter to increment by one and print that. I was hoping that I could get the final score of the game and be able to have people optionally post it onto a website. Like an ending screen that says "You won with 500 points! Want to see if your friends can beat it? Than post it at http://enterlinkhere.com."

If that isn't possible than I'll just forget it.

well ... i am kida baffled .
i guess u want to print the counter which increments by one .

all u gotto check is the variable assg shouldnt exceed the max points you set .
and while thats true , keep incrementing the counter .

Hi,
I am simply trying to output text to my project screen that has a counter which increments by one, than prints it. Here is my attempt.

int abovemaxpoints = 1001;
// this works for any scoring for the game.
    while(std::cin >> abovemaxpoints)
{

std::cout << "star points" << counter++;
}

All I need is the screen to output the counter increments and then later be able to retrieve the value of the increment so the points can be showed at the end of game and then posted on a website if you wish to click a link. How would I do this??
Actually I would be happy if you told me how to make my above code to just output to my screen properly without posting it to a website, since I haven't been able to get it to appear on my screen.

Help, please and thank you.

I think Dani and her designer are doing a really good job with the site. I don't fully understand trending topics yet, but I'll get the hang of a thread with one post being the number one trending topic.

Anyways we should really be thanking Dani and her designer for spending so much time working on improving the site. We have to realize that this is a new layout and that there will be some things will just have to get used to.

Besides the trending topic section I like the site design, it is really clean. Kudos to Dani and her designer.

You know you are old when you remember when CD stores existed.

O16 - DPF: {62789780-B744-11D0-986B-00609731A21D} (Autodesk MapGuide ActiveX Control) - http://mapa.urbel.com/beoinfo/ActiveX/mgaxctrl.cab
O21 - SSODL: UpdateCheck - {E411934E-1FE0-485B-91CB-B4A974067577} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\ymasf.dll (file missing)

These entries look very suspicious. I would not click on that link, it most likely is the cause of your troubles. Also you have acrobat 8.0 on your computer, that is really outdated therefore open to a lot of attacks. ESET is for Creative Technology.

I am not one who messes with the registry, so I am not going to tell you too. I will leave that up to spyware geeks. I am a programmer geek who dabbles in helping out, well basically everywhere on DaniWeb.

No, what I meant was pastie your logs onto www.pastie.org. Well, I will look over them now and re-post.

If your computer is infected as bad as it sounds I am a little weary of opening text files that came from your PC. A good place to post hijack logs and anything else that deals with tech stuff is http://www.pastie.org. It's main purpose is for pasting code, but I don't see why you couldn't pastie hijack logs.

Liamfriel, You do have a lot of good points about who owns the rights to IP, however isn't Facebook infringing on that right by automatically saying they own anything that's posted? The creator of Batman still has the right of the IP of batman, but since facebook says anything you post becomes their IP, aren't they infringing on the creators rights? I've been weary of using sharethis for my site even though I have some cool stuff to show off, because of facebooks IP terms.

I have read a lot of EULAS, Terms and services, yet I have never seen one as intrusive like facebook is. All the other sites that "claim" ownership of anything you post will delete pictures that are owned by someone else and not by the person who uploaded them. Facebook seems to encourage people to upload stuff that does not belong to them, well that's how I see it anyways.

Also I never spent a lot of time on there, I just hated their rules and what they can do with your information.

Apparantly people haven't read the terms of facebook. It is a major threat to your privacy and already outweighs Google as a threat. Anything you post, including personal pictures they may use however they well please, because they own the IP rights. Also anything anyone posts, like for instance let's say you were on a movie site and "liked" the movie Batman. Well it is posted to your facebook profile, but now facebook owns the IP of the name Batman. I read the terms very literally. If you don't read terms of agreements literally, well than your foolish because those terms are written by lawyers and are meant the way they are written.

I received an email from one of my friends in reply to my Facebook mail telling them that I am deleting my account. What was so interesting was that, they too want to delete their facebook account, but the site has become so complex that they have no clue how.

I am sure my friend isn't the only one who may feel this way, so I have decided to write a very easy to understand news story so you too can get rid of your Facebook page.

Log-in to your Facebook profile, and then look at the upper right top corner of the screen where it says Account. Click the words account and now you have a long drop down list. click the words account settings. Great, you are almost rid of your Facebook account! You will see a long list of tabs, settings,networks, notifications,etc. By default you should automatically be in the settings tab, if you are the words settings will have a blue highlighted background. That is where you need to be, so if you are already there, good! Don't let all of the choices on this page bewilder you just look to the very bottom where it says deactivate account and click those words. Now it will try to guilt trip you into staying with Facebook by saying your friends will miss you, don't fall for it. Most people don't even know most of their Facebook friends. Now Facebook wants you to tell them why …

Some people are starting to tip 20 percent, while I just tip what I think they're work was worth tipping. If I get a $15 dollar haircut I may tip two or three dollars, depending on how they did. I think you're correct that you should only tip higher than %15, if they did better than a mediocre job, but if their manager had to salvage everything than they didn't do a good job. their manager did.

You remember what happened when the lady on the radio yelled
"Don't open that closet, McGee!"

Huh???

Is it not true that the queen isn't the one who has the most power? I live in the USA, but I believe the Prime Minister has more power than the Queen now a days. I'm posting this, because I don't understand the importance of who is queen, if the position isn't very powerful any more.

When you reformatted Windows 3.1 when you were 5.

A kaspersky rescue disk found a trojan and I know a virus is on my computer as it is has disabled the antivirus. I will run the disc again but I thought i had deleted the virus. Any other suggestions?

yes, download hijack this and paste your hijack log onto the forum so we can examine it and tell you what virus or viruses are infecting your system. Some viruses are like the flu, it is very hard to get rid of them. What I'm trying to say is that you can delete a virus (or at least think you did) but when you reboot it is alive and well because it's tricky. You can get rid of these types of viruses but it's not as easy as the regular cold viruses that you can just quarantine and delete.

I'd like to thank the monitors for snipping out that sms link since it is more of an ad than free source. Your company charges for the use of "free sms".... how can you call it free if you charge for it?? anyways thanks mods!

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 rails buy agile web development with rails. I'd recommend looking up the pragmatic programmers and see if they have a book on ruby. I'm sure they do since they are the publisher for the book on rails. Oh one last thing, you can always get free help on the IRC if you go to freenode and join #ruby or if you are interested in ruby on rails join us at #rubyonrails . I hope this helps.

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 all. A global in ruby is

$

an instance in ruby is i.e

@cool

. I hope that helps.

hey digital nice to see you (well, I can't actually see you, but you get my drift).
Can I view sites that I have nothing to do with and am not affiliated with via Google Analytics?

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 apache control panel of your own website you can see hour by hour site popularity, but I don't know if there is a way to see that for other sites without being an admin.

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.

Some anti-viruses send you an email confirming that you just used your license key so you may have to check your inbox if your anti-virus still isn't updating.

I've criticized Google's waste of power in several of my blogs, and on my twitter account. Well, thanks to someone who posted a comment and a link on one of my pro ecosia articles I found out about Google's green movement.

Google began their green movement in 2007 when they co-founded the Climate Savers Computing Initiative to help make computers more energy effecient. Ecosia's video used to be hosted on youtube and said that one Google search was similar to turning on a regular light bulb. Well, now Ecosia has mysteriously changed their entire video and their video host as well. Why did they probably do this? Because Google owns youtube and they probably deleted their video and corrected their mistake.
Google claims that a single search using their search engine is one Killajoule or if I use this nifty converter that converts killajoules to watts*hours it is 0.277777778 WH per search.

This may surprise you but Google tries to roughly measure how much Co2 their search engine uses and than compare it to things that the everyday Joe uses. They claim that one morning newspaper is equivalent to 150 Google searches, and that the average American family uses the same amount of electricity per month that it takes to power 3,100,000 Google searches!

What really amazed me is that Google reuses everything, especially water. They are currently running two facilities that use 100 percent recycled …

Okay, you may not know it but you just said the problem in your last post. Your anti-virus was asking for your license key because you need the license key for updates to work. Your license key comes in the box that you purchased the anti-virus with. It usually will be on the cd case or somewhere inside the box. If you purchased it legally from Kapersky they will have sent you an email with your license key. You need to find your license key and enter it into your anti-virus. If you downloaded Kapersky illegally, delete it and download the free legal antivirus avg. AVG is free and they have a version you can pay for but that is optional. In my opinion AVG isn't as good as some anti-viruses but it should do the job.