Re: [nyphp-talk] Relax your password rules

2014-06-10 Thread David Krings
On 6/10/2014 9:26 AM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: The notion of "I don't have FB, therefore nobody should force FB auth" is equivalent to saying "we must absolutely positively backwards support IE6". This is 2014, sorry, if you don't want any social media accounts, that's your prerogative, but the va

Re: [nyphp-talk] Relax your password rules

2014-06-09 Thread David Krings
On 6/9/2014 10:44 AM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: on 6/7/2014 10:38 AM Gary Mort said the following: A plea to anyone setting up a website where you will have users log on. Make your default password rule something simple, like any 4 charectors. A At that point why bother with a password at all?

Re: [nyphp-talk] Proper Form Processing Techniques

2014-05-23 Thread David Krings
On 5/22/2014 11:58 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: I'm still not convinced. Imagine you're making a calendaring application and use local storage like you describe to draft events. Then imagine a scenario where a user tries to schedule an appointment while they're on the train and the internet cuts o

Re: [nyphp-talk] Promote Secure Coding

2014-05-21 Thread David Krings
On 5/21/2014 11:09 AM, Gary Mort wrote: $name = $_GET['name']; $get = function($varName) { return filter_input(INPUT_GET, $varName, FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING); } These 2 lines create a function to remove any HTML tags from a query string variable and return it. First of all, thanks for the ex

Re: [nyphp-talk] Proper Form Processing Techniques

2014-05-20 Thread David Krings
On 5/20/2014 4:24 AM, Michael B Allen wrote: As for other's suggestions about storing state on the client by what is ultimately manipulating the DOM with JavaScript, I can see how that could be used to create sophisticated UI elements. But I don't think I would ever put any state on the client th

Re: [nyphp-talk] Proper Form Processing Techniques

2014-05-18 Thread David Krings
On 5/18/2014 1:43 AM, Michael B Allen wrote: Hi All, Occasionally I need to do a little web programming and I must admit after almost 2 decades I still find myself searching for a better way to handle HTML forms. I blame this mostly on the W3C's invalid assumption that HTML is for rendering docu

Re: [nyphp-talk] mercilessly trashing PHP over on slashdot

2014-03-08 Thread David Krings
On 3/8/2014 8:31 AM, Chris Snyder wrote: All frameworks suck... except for the one you use. My experience is that even the one you use sucks. It may just suck less then others for your project. "The new PHP is about interoperable components using their comparative advantage to provide the b

Re: [nyphp-talk] Which MySQL API?

2014-02-26 Thread David Krings
On 2/26/2014 4:48 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: Re mysql_* deprecation, at least you can switch to mysqli_*, which works the same way -- update the function names and you're basically good to go. Unlike with SQLite, where you're forced to switch to PDO as of PHP 5.4. I have never been so glad that I w

Re: [nyphp-talk] Which MySQL API?

2014-02-25 Thread David Krings
On 2/24/2014 10:41 PM, justin wrote: ᐧ On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:34 PM, David Krings mailto:ram...@gmx.net>> wrote: Regular MySQL depricated? Can anyone elaborate on this? Is that to be understood as that the drivers for MySQL in PHP will go away eventually? The "reg

Re: [nyphp-talk] Which MySQL API?

2014-02-24 Thread David Krings
On 2/24/2014 9:37 PM, Jeff Slutz wrote: My company decided not to go with PDOs (in some cases they can lead to unoptimizable queries) but definitely mysqli at this point-- regular MySQL is deprecated as of PHP 5.5.0, and will be removed in the future. JS Regular MySQL depricated? Can anyone e

Re: [nyphp-talk] making a branch of filesystem publicly accessible via http with write access for some

2013-11-23 Thread David Krings
On 11/23/2013 10:57 AM, David Mintz wrote: Anybody have any recommendations for a good web-based, free file manager? That's pretty much the bottom line, but here's the full story. Hi! I read the full story, but truncate for easier overview. The two things that come to mind is a Wiki or anyone

Re: [nyphp-talk] (no subject)

2013-11-08 Thread David Krings
On 11/8/2013 11:57 AM, John Randall wrote: I am fairly new to php and Javascript, as well as new to this list. I have a query to Solr using php, which works fine. I use a form page, with Hi! Welcome to the list! One other option you can try is writing the value into a session cookie. IIRC if

Re: [nyphp-talk] MODXpo: Cologne, Germany - November 2013

2013-09-17 Thread David Krings
On 9/17/2013 1:24 AM, Hans C. Kaspersetz wrote: Good evening everyone, As some of you know, I am a MODX Ambassador thus it is my responsibility to evangelize occasionally and spread the word. MODX is holding conference in Germany this year and some of you might want to attend. Join as many a

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: Web browser automated regression testing?

2013-09-14 Thread David Krings
On 9/14/2013 2:58 PM, David Roth wrote: What packages are people having good experiences with to do web browser automated regression testing? I'm interested in this for being able to test a website mostly to make sure all it's functions are working for the user experience. Thanks! David Roth H

Re: [nyphp-talk] Semi-OT: Is there a scale for language competency?

2013-08-20 Thread David Krings
On 8/20/2013 6:31 PM, Gary Mort wrote: The only scale I know of is "beginner/expert"... Studies show that for beginners, productivity and code quality increase dramatically when they adhere to a set of code quality rules, version control guidelines, etc as agreed upon by the expert coders in the

Re: [nyphp-talk] Recycle Out Dated PHP Books

2013-06-10 Thread David Krings
On 6/10/2013 6:46 AM, Peter Sawczynec wrote: I have a stack of outdated PHP, Flash and other computer books (before Kindle). I once tried to sell old computer books to a used book store and they said no thanks would not take them even for free as they cannot sell them. Is there a way to recycle o

Re: [nyphp-talk] Using greater than zero or multiplication?

2012-06-27 Thread David Krings
On 6/27/2012 4:45 AM, Leam Hall wrote: Morning all! I'm working on my Tech Dive Planner and wanted to get a best practice idea from you. There are some calculations that need 3-5 variables set or the calculation isn't done. Since all the inputs are numeric and set to a default of zero, is it bet

Re: [nyphp-talk] Could use some PHP critique on my project

2012-06-16 Thread David Krings
On 6/16/2012 10:57 AM, Leam Hall wrote: If you're bored, that is. Not if you're depressed though, you'd probably go "Oh my goodness I can't stand it anymore!" and do something drastic like eating an entire Whitman's Sampler. I eat an entire Whitman's sampler even when I am not depressed. But ar

Re: [nyphp-talk] What PHP tools are you using?

2012-05-29 Thread David Krings
On 5/29/2012 6:02 PM, Federico Ulfo wrote: Hey guys, what tools do you use to develop in PHP? Are you using Jenkins with all the fancy plugins? And what about the IDE? I'm installing Jenkins PHP (finally) and as editor I'm using Netbeans 7.2.1 on OSX with PHPUnit plugin, I've also tried to insta

Re: [nyphp-talk] OT: Microsoft Outlook folders being written to in the background?

2012-05-29 Thread David Krings
On 5/26/2012 8:30 PM, David Roth wrote: I'm not an Outlook user and don't use Windows much. If Outlook isn't being launched on this PC, what could be causing this legacy Outlook files to be written too? Does Outlook or part of a Microsoft Office do any sort of background housing cleaning/re-index

[nyphp-talk] How to make PHP apps scale

2012-05-26 Thread David Krings
Hi! In case you haven't seen this, ComputerWorld published an article about how to make PHP apps scale: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227483/How_to_make_PHP_apps_scale I'm only passing this on, I don't know enough to determine if this is true or not. David _

Re: [nyphp-talk] Web browser quality

2012-05-13 Thread David Krings
On 5/12/2012 1:18 PM, Bruce Martin wrote: Thought I would chime in here. I heard that Microsoft currently has plans not to allow third party browsers in Windows 8. Meaning IE 9 only for Windows 8. This to me is yet another bone head move as IE 9 still lacks the standards that Chrome, Safari an

Re: [nyphp-talk] Web browser quality

2012-05-11 Thread David Krings
On 5/11/2012 3:36 PM, Hans Zaunere wrote: Hi all, So, in a mix of rant-and-feedback-gathering - is it just me, or have browsers largely gone downhill in the last few months? Hi! During the past few months? It is like that for quite longer. FF 4 and higher just sucks, the UI is horrible and

Re: [nyphp-talk] Web and Mobile Video Codecs

2012-05-03 Thread David Krings
On 5/3/2012 5:29 AM, Petros Ziogas wrote: What companies like Mozilla fail to consider is that by dancing around video formats and standards all they do is kill the little guys. Hi! The reason for Mozilla's dance was that they wanted a video codec to be added to HTML5 that is royalty free so

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP on IIS on Win 2008 talking to a SQLServer?

2012-04-13 Thread David Krings
On 4/13/2012 7:48 AM, leam hall wrote: Hey all, I've been asked to look at PHP on IIS on WIN 2008 talking to a SQLServer. Having been in FOSS for so long I have no idea on this. Is it reasonably doable? Would PHP on Apache on WIn 2008 be a better solution in terms of ease of use and setting up?

Re: [nyphp-talk] Next Meeting Poll and PHP Usage Statistics

2012-04-03 Thread David Krings
On 4/3/2012 7:42 PM, Rolan Yang wrote: Logo is in the top 20??? Yea, but I wonder how it got there. But then I also wonder what the point of 234234234234 different C dialects is. David ___ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http:/

Re: [nyphp-talk] Learning to program the right way

2012-01-27 Thread David Krings
On 1/27/2012 10:14 AM, David Mintz wrote: I could not possibly imagine living without Firebug and FirePHP. I am thinking more along the lines of XDebug. Never used Firebug and FirePHP, but I will take it for a spin...when I ever get around to do some PHP coding again. Years back I looked aroun

Re: [nyphp-talk] Learning to program the right way

2012-01-24 Thread David Krings
On 1/24/2012 12:23 PM, Christopher R. Merlo wrote: Justin is, as usual, correct about all of this. But as someone who's been involved in CS curriculum design at the associates level for going on 12 years now, the problem -- at least for us at the community college level -- is that we can only ma

Re: [nyphp-talk] Learning to program the right way

2012-01-24 Thread David Krings
On 1/23/2012 1:17 PM, Gary Mort wrote: One thing that has annoyed me more and more over time is the way books and classes go about teaching /how/ to program in a language. They all start off with "Hello World" and then progress slowly form there to more and more complicated things. I've noticed

Re: [nyphp-talk] Unit Testing with PHP: PHPUnit and Selenium

2011-12-28 Thread David Krings
On 12/27/2011 1:38 PM, Nelly Yusupova wrote: Hello Everyone, We are setting up an environment for running unit tests for our PHP application. We installed PHPUnit testing framework and were thinking of using it with Selenium. Hi! While I have no experience with these two test frameworks, I d

Re: [nyphp-talk] Creating a URL

2011-11-30 Thread David Krings
On 11/30/2011 7:49 AM, Kristina Anderson wrote: I've seen guys with Computer Science degrees, btw, have problems setting up WAMP. :) There is also the XAMPP/WAMPP from apachefriends.org. There you really only need to click buttonsand then at least delete the incredibly buggy phpMyAdmin. O

Re: [nyphp-talk]

2011-11-07 Thread David Krings
On 11/6/2011 10:34 PM, tu...@netzero.net wrote: echo " rows=10 cols=50>"; ?> The textarea tag does not have a value argument. You just include the default text within the tags. David ___ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http:/

Re: [nyphp-talk] somewhat OT Re: validating proper name capitalization

2011-09-29 Thread David Krings
On 9/29/2011 6:10 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: Now what Apple does is really up to Apple. I'm guessing they won't follow the heard. And why should they? They made their fortune by leading not following. In which area does Apple lead? Design maybe, but as far as innovation and product ideas are conc

Re: [nyphp-talk] somewhat OT Re: validating proper name capitalization

2011-09-29 Thread David Krings
On 9/29/2011 4:44 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: David: In addition to all that was said about other Languages/Customs having access to the Internet in their own native Languages, let me add there ARE symbols in the English Language. We commonly use math symbols, dingbat characters, grammar, and ot

Re: [nyphp-talk] somewhat OT Re: validating proper name capitalization

2011-09-29 Thread David Krings
On 9/29/2011 2:06 PM, John Campbell wrote: Then again, who wants such a URL for a business anyway? Nobody can type that letter on their keyboard and the punycode equivalent isn't really easy to remember or meaningful. Yes, it makes the geek in me smile, but I hardly see any practical purpose for

Re: [nyphp-talk] somewhat OT Re: validating proper name capitalization

2011-09-29 Thread David Krings
On 9/29/2011 11:49 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote: jerry: How do I deal with the PUNYCODE problem? I live with it hoping that someday M$ (and others) will find a solution to the homographic problem that they envision by showing PUNYCODE instead of showing what the IDNS WG wanted. Cheers, tedd Tri

Re: [nyphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

2011-09-02 Thread David Krings
On 9/2/2011 1:23 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: I've been using VMware Server (free as in beer) to run Ubuntu VMs on my laptops for 1+ years. Works great for me. I have one VM for dev work, and another for staging, which is set up like production. Easy to create a fresh one to test restoration of

Re: [nyphp-talk] db design/ app logic: making certain rows immutable

2011-07-15 Thread David Krings
On 7/15/2011 9:55 AM, David Mintz wrote: Pondering how to approach a situation where the application needs to count on a certain string to be in certain database rows in order to know what to do. Without going into excruciating detail, let me ask if you think there are cases where it's good pract

Re: [nyphp-talk] How much is a site redesign worth?

2011-04-03 Thread David Krings
On 4/3/2011 10:01 AM, Donald J. Organ IV wrote: So what your saying is after your QS person finds issues, they go into the code/design and fix it themselves?? Been there, done that and was important, because shortly after the developers got laid off and knowing how to fix things was very helpf

Re: [nyphp-talk] How much is a site redesign worth?

2011-04-02 Thread David Krings
On 4/2/2011 8:22 PM, Frank Cefalu wrote: You are wrong. The work of a qa analyst is alot simpler. You don't need to do any architecture based on traffic retention, judge framework usage etc. Not in my QA world David ___ New York PHP Users Group C

Re: [nyphp-talk] How much is a site redesign worth?

2011-04-02 Thread David Krings
On 4/2/2011 3:32 PM, Michele Waldman wrote: In '99, I was making $70-85/hr as an Oracle/C Programmer. Interesting discussion, but what baffles me beyond repair is how much more developers are paid compared to QA or support staff. The difficulty of work is about the same, although for a suppor

Re: [nyphp-talk] The user table

2011-03-06 Thread David Krings
On 3/6/2011 3:46 PM, tedd wrote: You won't have any "redundant" info if you use email as unique -- after all, email *IS* unique. Unique yes, but it can change. You'd need to change the primary key of a record if a user wants to use a different email address. Not sure if that is a smart thing

Re: [nyphp-talk] The user table

2011-03-05 Thread David Krings
On 3/4/2011 3:07 PM, D. J. Waletzky wrote: The problem with eliminating "redundant" info in a user table is that it may not scale terribly well. I always take care to give any user table an auto_incremented row number/uid, because the user's handle and e-mail, though unique, may change. Without a

Re: [nyphp-talk] Could anyone recommend one or more popular php community, please?

2011-02-27 Thread David Krings
On 2/27/2011 8:57 AM, 张吉 wrote: I'm a php developer (beginning level) and I really want to join a community or a group to discuss php or do trouble-shooting. Any recommendation? Yea, the NYPHP talk list. Welcome! David ___ New York PHP Users Group

Re: [nyphp-talk] SPROCs in the MySQL/PostgreSQL + PHP crowd

2010-11-10 Thread David Krings
On 11/10/2010 16:37, Rob Marscher wrote: On Nov 10, 2010, at 3:31 PM, Jerry B. Altzman wrote: I know that in the commercial database world use of stored procedures is The Way Things Are Pretty Much Done, but I've not seen it in my brief forays through the bulk of PHP code I've examined (and ne

Re: [nyphp-talk] blogging softward

2010-11-10 Thread David Krings
On 11/10/2010 5:37, Michele Waldman wrote: I must have been half asleep when I typed the subject line. I know blogging software. I need forum software. Despite my post being autoplagiarism, use phpBB. And since it is written in PHP you can tweak it the way you want. David ___

Re: [nyphp-talk] blogging softward

2010-11-07 Thread David Krings
On 11/7/2010 9:40, Michele Waldman wrote: Hey, I want to start a forum website. Which package should I use? Thanks. Michele Hi! Blog (subject) or web forum (body)? For a forum use phpBB, can't think of anything else that is so comfortable, current, and easy to use. For a blog, never bothere

Re: [nyphp-talk] Squashing accented characters

2010-10-22 Thread David Krings
On 10/22/2010 14:50, Paul A Houle wrote: I'm running into the problem that people are searching for "Dusseldorf" but the name of the place is "Düsseldorf", so they don't find it. That is very unfortunate, because that is the city I was born in. As for your problem, I got nothing. David _

Re: [nyphp-talk] Array-cersize

2010-10-22 Thread David Krings
On 10/21/2010 22:26, Peter Sawczynec wrote: What is the proper best way for me to count how many (if any) b_arrays are in $arr_countable_items. What is the best way to count how many value1s (if any) are in $arr_countable_items_2. Hi! Doesn't count() do what you need to do? Without para

Re: [nyphp-talk] design question: user self-registration

2010-09-01 Thread David Krings
On 8/31/2010 16:03, David Mintz wrote: The form I am gonna display is bound -- so to speak -- to two tables. Actually I'm using Zend Framework and MySQL and Zend_Form_SubForm. I don't know until I see their email whether this is someone whose information has already been put in the people table.

Re: [nyphp-talk] design question: user self-registration

2010-08-31 Thread David Krings
On 8/31/2010 12:43, David Mintz wrote: In some cases, though, there may already be a row in people corresponding to the new user. If I attempt the insert and the email already exists I will get a duplicate email error. But if I instead run an update on the already-existing row, I will have done t

Re: [nyphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

2010-08-07 Thread David Krings
On 8/7/2010 9:06, Daniel Convissor wrote: Hola: the most secure way of solving this problem is to output the text to Flash. And what do you do for users that don't have a flash player installed? --Dan Hmmm, and what about those people who do not want or are not allowed to install Flash f

Re: [nyphp-talk] Making text hard to copy

2010-08-06 Thread David Krings
On 8/6/2010 21:50, Anthony Papillion wrote: I'm starting to work on a system that will require a bit of extra security. One of the security protocols the customer's decided on is that the outputted page should be fairly hard to copy. Yes, I know making an HTML page uncopyable is impossible but I

Re: [nyphp-talk] phpMyAdmin and MySQL DB Backup

2010-07-24 Thread David Krings
On 7/24/2010 10:47, Peter Sawczynec wrote: Okay, here is an issue that is not straight PHP related, but close and I really could use some good feedback. ___ Recently, I have had a DB dump/backup (created using the phpMyAdmin interface) fail because there is a single table in this db tha

Re: [nyphp-talk] Getting Closure - on PHP Closures and 5.3

2010-07-17 Thread David Krings
On 7/16/2010 22:57, John Campbell wrote: On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:21 PM, David Krings wrote: Uhm, for the ones like me who have no clue what this means, any pointers available that explain closures? You can read about closures until you are blue in the face. The first thing you have to

Re: [nyphp-talk] Getting Closure - on PHP Closures and 5.3

2010-07-16 Thread David Krings
On 7/16/2010 14:48, Hans Zaunere wrote: Closures - great for Javascript, but for PHP? In a non-callback-centric synchronous language such as PHP, what else can we use this "syntactic sugar" for? How are people using them and what can we gain from them? And, the hell with code reuse? Late s

Re: [nyphp-talk] Good project management tool?

2010-04-19 Thread David Krings
On 4/19/2010 0:41, Matt Juszczak wrote: What are you guys doing now-n-days to track things like lists of new ideas (with abilities to rank them/prioritize them), project documentation, ticket assigning, etc.? I was confronted once with that issue and being on a 0$ budget I decided to write my

Re: [nyphp-talk] What's the best PHP obfuscator?

2010-04-15 Thread David Krings
On 4/14/2010 15:36, Lester Leong wrote: Hey all, The use case here is something similar to what Chris mentioned above, in that my organization develops and maintains a piece of software and we host this software on the client's premises, not ours. The obfuscation is just meant to be another hurdl

Re: [nyphp-talk] What's the best PHP obfuscator?

2010-04-14 Thread David Krings
On 4/13/2010 15:33, Lester Leong wrote: Hey all, What's the best PHP obfuscator out there? I've heard Zend Guard mentioned a few times, but it's a bit too pricey at $600/month. I'm not against paying, but if anyone has any experiences or recommendations I'm open to them. Lester Leong Why obf

Re: [nyphp-talk] Flow Chart "open source" favorites?

2010-03-26 Thread David Krings
On 3/26/2010 1:31, David Roth wrote: I'm looking for recommendations of Flow Charting software that's "Open Source". Thanks! David Roth How specialized do you need to get? I put some nice charts together using OOo's Draw and Impress. Looking for something to repl

Re: [nyphp-talk] talk Digest, Vol 41, Issue 5

2010-03-09 Thread David Krings
On 3/9/2010 8:19 AM, Mitch Pirtle wrote: For the record, the conversation was at ClassMates.Com waay back around 1997. I thought the guy was a total loon. However the more I think about it, the more I realize he was just ahead of his time. Back then we still needed those integers for all the

Re: [nyphp-talk] Non technical question

2010-03-08 Thread David Krings
On 3/8/2010 6:38 PM, Beau Gould (OSS) wrote: I just filled a couple of PHP roles for one of my best clients and I wanted to send the CEO a thank you for your business gift. I was thinking about a giant basket of candy he could share with the dev team. Something like this: http://snipurl.com/gian

Re: [nyphp-talk] Free vs Pay

2010-02-26 Thread David Krings
On 2/26/2010 5:44 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Konstantin K wrote: +1 on UltraEdit (which does code folding correctly!) I think the folding problem is probably in the PHP plugin for Eclipse rather than Eclipse itself. I think the point is that Eclipse was designed for Java a

Re: [nyphp-talk] MSSQL2008 Express and XAMPP

2010-02-15 Thread David Krings
On 2/15/2010 2:58 PM, Justin Dearing wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:06 PM, David Krings mailto:ram...@gmx.net>> wrote: Do you have TCP/IP enabled? That is turned off by default in MSSQL. Why? Because everyone needs it I'm actually kinda glad that Microsoft turns that o

Re: [nyphp-talk] MSSQL2008 Express and XAMPP

2010-02-15 Thread David Krings
On 2/15/2010 12:36 PM, CED wrote: Has anyone ever configured this? I have followed several online suggestions and still no luck, a fail authentication error is all i receive from this: CODE: Do you have TCP/IP enabled? That is turned off by default in MSSQL. Why? Because everyone needs it..

Re: [nyphp-talk] tabs disappearing after mail function

2010-02-14 Thread David Krings
On 2/14/2010 4:43 PM, selyah wrote: i have display_errors off...i will try it with that on and see what happens. do you or any one know of any issues with firefox version 3.5 and php? No, and the browser doesn't matter. You know, PHP is a server side scripting language And yea, turn displ

Re: [nyphp-talk] tabs disappearing after mail function

2010-02-14 Thread David Krings
On 2/14/2010 3:43 PM, selyah wrote: Hello: I have an issue. first let me layout my site which is testing mode. I am having problem with the php page that handles the form information. the pages blocks are controlled by statements, no tables. there is a block on the top for the logo, below that i

Re: [nyphp-talk] PHP IDE, Hudson, Netbeans

2010-02-08 Thread David Krings
On 2/8/2010 11:24 AM, Chris Snyder wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Gary Mort wrote: 1) Anyone else using netbeans and if so, what do you think? Especially if your also using hudson and integrating the whole thing. I share the Eclipse loathing. I'm creaking along with Zend Studio 5.5

Re: [nyphp-talk] Internet by Numbers 2009

2010-01-26 Thread David Krings
On 1/26/2010 8:34 AM, Fernando Gabrieli wrote: a question that i ask myself each time i find something that's not working in IE is: how is it possible that a company like Microsoft can't make a browser like Firefox? is it just a problem of the development itself or is it something else? and if it

Re: [nyphp-talk] Internet by Numbers 2009

2010-01-23 Thread David Krings
On 1/23/2010 8:20 PM, Mutaz Musa wrote: Far more depressing is the fact that IE users are 60+ % of the market. Even worse, the same amount of web developers code broken pages that only work in IE. The 60% IE varies drastically depending on where you go in the world. In Europe IE has no longe

Re: [nyphp-talk] Inspiration for projects.

2010-01-20 Thread David Krings
On 1/20/2010 3:08 PM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: I have a large amount of free time on my hand and was sitting around the house trying to come up with an idea for a piece of software that people would actually use. Unfortunately the blank canvas that is my mind is still blank. I guess it would be

Re: [nyphp-talk] IIS a dysfunctional kludge?

2010-01-14 Thread David Krings
On 1/14/2010 9:30 AM, tedd wrote: At 6:34 PM -0500 1/3/10, David Krings wrote: On 1/3/2010 5:41 PM, Hans Zaunere wrote: Oh my :) That applies to IIS, right? I just have to ask the question: can't you just use a real web server that actually works, like, let's say, Apache? I '

Re: [nyphp-talk] IIS 7, trigger_error, and Large File Uploads

2010-01-04 Thread David Krings
On 1/4/2010 10:02 AM, Justin Dearing wrote: For talking to MS SQL server, as Hans is, (which IMHO is superior to MySQL and Postgres for performance, but not postgres for features) it makes sense to use windows. While apache runs on windows easy enough, IIS "just works" on windows. Well, my exp

Re: [nyphp-talk] IIS 7, trigger_error, and Large File Uploads

2010-01-04 Thread David Krings
On 1/3/2010 7:03 PM, Hans Zaunere wrote: Oh my :) That applies to IIS, right? I just have to ask the question: can't you just use a real web server that actually works, like, let's say, Apache? I 'work' with IIS at work and it is a totally dysfunctional kludge. We're actually porting away

Re: [nyphp-talk] IIS 7, trigger_error, and Large File Uploads

2010-01-03 Thread David Krings
On 1/3/2010 5:41 PM, Hans Zaunere wrote: Oh my :) That applies to IIS, right? I just have to ask the question: can't you just use a real web server that actually works, like, let's say, Apache? I 'work' with IIS at work and it is a totally dysfunctional kludge. 2. I need to handle 200mb+

Re: [nyphp-talk] Code Reviews

2009-12-30 Thread David Krings
On 12/29/2009 5:30 PM, Peter Becker wrote: Looking to get some views (and best practices) on code reviews. At my current work the devs do code reviews once a mod, project, or milestone is completed. The code review takes place before the peer review (show and tell to QA and TW) and other devs

[nyphp-talk] OT: Anyone interested in a server?

2009-12-26 Thread David Krings
Hi! Just a short note, is anyone interested in buying an IBM eServer 325 (2x AMD Opteron 250, 2GB RAM, 120GB IDE)? I'd pass it on for 150$ or best offer, location is Schenectady. Contact me off-list with questions - and sorry for the very off-topic, self-interested post. David __

Re: [nyphp-talk] Firefox 3.5.5 not rendering PHP

2009-12-07 Thread David Krings
Nasir Zubair wrote: Just a thought, are your extensions (mysql.dll, etc) working properly? On windows, they can be a pain to configure. Which is why I can only second what someone else mentioned before: download the package from ApacheFriends and install it. Then make sure that everything w

Re: [nyphp-talk] Database vs. Code

2009-11-30 Thread David Krings
m...@atopia.net wrote: So that has made me want to use stored procedures, but that will limit us to this specific database software (mysql). The question is if this is a problem. In my experience, stored procedures can add performance and allow for code to run on a different server than the we

Re: [nyphp-talk] front end design

2009-11-21 Thread David Krings
selyah wrote: I have never done front end programming before that was not related to a database so I am a bit at a lost as to how or where to begin. Thanks in advance Ian If you want to get really technical about it, UI design processes are standardized in ISO 13407 "Human-centered design pr

Re: [nyphp-talk] front end design

2009-11-20 Thread David Krings
selyah wrote: thanks for the input. it has to be independent of the browser. Why? I don't understand why that restriction is in place. Sure, you need a web server then as well because PHP is server side scripting, but there are plenty of very simple web servers that could be used. If it has

Re: [nyphp-talk] front end design

2009-11-20 Thread David Krings
selyah wrote: Hello Guys: I am hoping that I can get a direction to take on this issue. I have designed a back-end program using Java. The purpose of this program is to be used as an inventory of items in the home or small office. I could use PHP embeded into HTML, but then I would have to

Re: [nyphp-talk] Valudating common field types

2009-10-26 Thread David Krings
Yogesh Agashe wrote: Hello, This is my first post to this NYPHP mailing list. So hello to everyone and thanks for the thorough discussions which help a beginner developer like me. Welcome, was the same with me, except that I never really left beginner stage. > Is there any other way to va

Re: [nyphp-talk] Arrays out of a file and back in?

2009-10-20 Thread David Krings
Leam Hall wrote: Down the road I'll get this going in a database, but at the moment I'm stuck using flat files to store multi-dimensional array data. So I have a file that gets imported, is used and potentially changed, and then needs to be written back to a file if any data changed. Is there

Re: [nyphp-talk] developer's machine specs -- recomendations?

2009-10-20 Thread David Krings
Ajai Khattri wrote: On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, John Campbell wrote: My new computer has a glossy display, and the reflection is terrible with a black background in the terminal. Did you not expect that? Its the major complaint with the glossy Apple laptops... Im not sure but at some point Apple de

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-19 Thread David Krings
Michael B Allen wrote: That is not my experience. I have 4-5 Windows and Linux guests running at the same time in VMWare Server on cheap desktop grade boxes running Linux. As long as you have a lot of memory (4 GB is good) and you install VMWare Tools on the Windows guests, VMWare Server perform

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread David Krings
Hans Zaunere wrote: And then the Download VMware ESXi free link in the right column. Basically, anything they offer for free will do what you need for basic stuff. ESXi as well as ESX are bare metal hypervisors, so you cannot run them on top of Windope. If you look for bare metal, use Citrix.

Re: [nyphp-talk] virtualization options...

2009-10-18 Thread David Krings
Konstantin K wrote: Hi guys, I'd like a free tool that allows me to run a linux virtual machine on my windows laptop so I can do development on it, ftp and ssh to it, and run various services on it like apache and procmail... I know these tools (apache and procmail) are available for wind

Re: [nyphp-talk] PhpMyAdmin 3.2.0.1 - 3.2.2.1

2009-10-14 Thread David Krings
Corey Fogarty wrote: Maybe I am missing something. Any help would be great! I used to use phpmyadmin and found it to be, well, horrible. I switched to the GUI tools that MySQL offers and found those to be OK, not great, but most of the time they work fine. The MySQL client from Enginsite by

Re: [nyphp-talk] Drupal Framework / CMS Question

2009-10-09 Thread David Krings
Kristina Anderson wrote: I noticed a few days ago that someone did a Twitter post and said that DRUPAL is what you use when you are a "failed" programmer. From what I Then you haven't talked to those who are fluent in assembler, I mean, really fluent. Many of them think that higher programmin

Re: [nyphp-talk] Database, table, and column naming schemes

2009-10-06 Thread David Krings
Matt Juszczak wrote: And how about one more thing... What would you call a table that joins two other tables on a many to many: [...] What would you call that many:many table? Surely, not account_user, and not user_account, as that's deceiving. Would you do something like: x_account_user

Re: [nyphp-talk] Is this XML valid?

2009-09-19 Thread David Krings
Matt Williams wrote: So if the above is valid XML, is there a specific name for this approach? Is there a benefit for doing it this way instead of nested nodes? Might this be considered older method? No, it's not an older method. There is no absolute definition of when to use elements ve

Re: [nyphp-talk] Is this XML valid?

2009-09-19 Thread David Krings
David Roth wrote: I've been using simplexml to parse XML and so far the XML I've had to deal with has been pretty straight forward. Then I run across this XML which I don't know what to call it or how it should be handled properly. Here is a fragment of what I'm talking about: I was ex

Re: [nyphp-talk] Database, table, and column naming schemes

2009-09-13 Thread David Krings
Tim Lieberman wrote: In my experience, the most important thing is consistency. Almost everything else is a matter of taste. Exactly! However, it can create a lot of typing, which can be annoying. While that is a good warning, it shouldn't be a reason to shy away from clearly named tables

Re: [nyphp-talk] Need help understanding NULL

2009-09-04 Thread David Krings
David Mintz wrote: Ah, not just in North America. Baseball is popular in Japan, Central America, the Carribean, etc etc because people like it, because it's /good/. One of those exports the US can feel proud of, unlike, e.g., McDonald's. Well, maybe the overpaid, pillpopping, spitting playe

Re: [nyphp-talk] website loading speed issue

2009-09-04 Thread David Krings
Mangesh Sathe wrote: As it has large amount of data it takes so much time to load. i have optimised sql queries as well as php code. Any suggestion or Anyone knows ,how can i solve this problem? Get a faster web server with a bigger pipe? Do you self-host or have it hosted? Which system ar

Re: [nyphp-talk] naming identifiers

2009-09-01 Thread David Krings
tedd wrote: At 9:41 AM -0400 9/1/09, Andy Dirnberger wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:58 AM, tedd wrote: I need to understand joins much better than I do now because the first query I fully understand while the second I don't. Think of the WHERE clause as the filter. Use it to place res

Re: [nyphp-talk] naming identifiers

2009-08-30 Thread David Krings
Andy Dirnberger wrote: > And I use phpMyAdmin to create my tables all the time. If you are I use the XAMPP from Apachefriends and the first thing I ditch is phpMyAdmin. I probably should give it a shot again, but it used to be very limited and buggy. I find the MySQL GUI tools do a good job.

Re: [nyphp-talk] naming identifiers

2009-08-30 Thread David Krings
Kristina D. H. Anderson wrote: Also you can try to avoid your own confusion by giving longer, more detailed names to fields. Some people hate this idea but to me a little extra typing is worth the clarity. Not only for yourself, but everyone else dealing with your database and code. Also, I

Re: [nyphp-talk] Need help understanding NULL

2009-08-29 Thread David Krings
li...@nopersonal.info wrote: Okay, wait--but what about what Dan said re NULL values not being added to averages, making them useful statistically? In that case wouldn't you want NULL to stay NULL? IOW, in his case the query would would only retrieve values WHERE foo != NULL? But then the manual

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