StackOverflow

2013-03-06 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders I'd like to encourage people to ask and answer questions on StackOverflow. If you work out something and you don't think it's common knowledge in the community then you can even answer your own post so there's a record of the question and answer. Stac

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Marek Niesiobedzki
Hi Monte, Maybe I don't understand something, so sorry in that case. Please explain in which is StackOverflow better than our forums or use-livecode list? Why should we make next place to ask and look for answers? I tried to visit StackOverflow links you posted and only experience is

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Andrew Kluthe
90 percent of the issues I am trying to search and fix in other programming languages end up being found on StackOverflow. I am not a big user there, but it seems that it is quickly becoming the most popular help forum directed at developers of all kinds. I think the attempt is to get the

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Hatch
open is "opening" :-) the flood gates to many new users - who - will need help from experienced mentors, tutorials and examples. Experienced users should be active answering in the forum, and it is a great place to find answers. StackOverflow isn't a replacement for the official forum but

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Monte Goulding
Use what you prefer. I hope some others will see the benefits of stackoverflow and join me in developing the LiveCode presence there. -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 09/03/2013, at 2:49 AM, Marek Niesiobedzki wrote: > I pr

Fwd: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Pierre Sahores
Yep ! Thanks you Colin, Monte, RunRev and to our sweet dev community. Unfortunately, my froggy's english would't help in about the StackOverflow enterprise... Début du message réexpédié : > I for one applaud Montes efforts in increasing the web presence of > Livecode. :-) >

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Monte Goulding
Agreed... Imagine your coming from JavaScript to LC and you are used to resolving all your problems on stackoverflow. If there is only a very minor LiveCode presence there and no tag then you would feel like there's no help available. You might not be used to the difficulty of finding the

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > ill do what I feel is good for the platform and if folks agree > with me you are more than welcome to join me. I appreciate your efforts to add Stack Overflow to the ever-growing range of options available for people to learn LiveCode. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Sites like StackOverflow can be extremely useful in promoting LiveCode among developers: On 07/03/2013, at 3:15 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > I'd like to encourage people to ask and answer questions on StackOverflow. I would also suggest that people consider using popular snippet-shari

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> (supposedly XML-RPC based). So, I guess, it would be possible to create a > 'snippet library' stack that would allow LiveCoders to store their snippets > in Snipplr, as well as search and download LiveCode snippets from others... Sounds like a fun project. Many people on stac

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Michael Hatch
to > create a 'snippet library' stack that would allow LiveCoders to store their > snippets in Snipplr, as well as search and download LiveCode snippets from > others... > > Sounds like a fun project. Many people on stackoverflow post to gist if a > significant amo

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 09/03/2013, at 1:12 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Sounds like a fun project. Many people on stackoverflow post to gist if a > significant amount of code is required for the question or answer. Indeed, Gist would provide even more features than Snipplr - ie., forks and versioning - a

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I know this is becoming a bit [OT], but another worthwhile project for a LiveCode guru: add LiveCode syntax to the ACE editor project: http://ace.ajax.org/ ACE is an in-browser text editor made for programming. It is widely used in many programming and coding sites, like GitHub, and supports do

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Monte Goulding
On 09/03/2013, at 1:32 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > The structure of ACE syntax files is quite well documented on their website, > and there is even a way to translate a TextMate Language file (TMLanguage) > into ACE. There's a TextMate bundle here http://revigniter.com/accessory for

top 2% on StackOverflow

2013-03-11 Thread Monte Goulding
Hey this is cool... everyone around here keeps up voting my stuff on StackOverflow so I'm currently in the top 2% for rep this month http://stackexchange.com/leagues/1/month/stackoverflow/2013-03-01/1239143#1239143 Cheers -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development ser

Fwd: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-10 Thread John Craig
The cron job can be modified to run every minute, every hour, etc. , but only sends a report when new data is available. Original Message Subject:Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:38:21 -0500 From: ro...@splash21.on-rev.com To: j..

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-10 Thread Monte Goulding
> > > Original Message > Subject: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions > Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:38:21 -0500 > From: ro...@splash21.on-rev.com > To: j...@splash21.com > > > > Can I use iphoneSetDoNotBackupFile on a

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-10 Thread Colin Holgate
Or instead, instructions to click the link of any question you can help on. On Mar 10, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >Hmm.. might be a good idea if there's a statement at the top not to reply to > >the list... ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-10 Thread Monte Goulding
On 11/03/2013, at 10:00 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Or instead, instructions to click the link of any question you can help on. Yep, that's fine too... I wonder if we could have a forum bot too? -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-10 Thread Monte Goulding
On 11/03/2013, at 10:10 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/10/13 5:48 PM, John Craig wrote: >> I've got a cron job running on on-rev that checks for new LiveCode >> questions on stack overflow. If there are new questions it hasn't seen >> before, it emails me the details as a digest (see output b

Fwd: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-11 Thread John Craig
The on-rev server job seems to be working OK as Roger's post was waiting in my inbox. I'll ask Heather what she thinks. Original Message Subject:Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:50:02 -0500 From: ro...@splash21.on-rev.com

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-11 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Hi John, Now that we have a LiveCode tag you can subscribe to the email digest from the StackOverflow site itself. I hope that helps, Ben On 10 March 2013 22:48, John Craig wrote: > I've got a cron job running on on-rev that checks for new LiveCode > questions on stack overflow

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-11 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Ok, John had emailed to say the emails are a little temperamental that come from StackOverflow. A premature email! Warm regards, Ben On 11 March 2013 13:38, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > Hi John, > > Now that we have a LiveCode tag you can subscribe to the email digest from > the S

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-11 Thread Peter Haworth
lcsql.com> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > Ok, John had emailed to say the emails are a little temperamental that come > from StackOverflow. A premature email! > > Warm regards, > > Ben > > On 11 March 2013 13:38, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: &g

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-11 Thread Monte Goulding
On 12/03/2013, at 3:27 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > yet another online site, Expert Answers I hope someone follows up on that. I'll probably focus on StackOverflow but if someone wants to take on http://www.experts-exchange.com it would be great. The more the merrier ;-) Cheers

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-11 Thread dunbarx
Monte. This site costs $13 per month. Much as I love to kibitz about LC, I don't know if I am willing to pay for the privilege. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Monte Goulding To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 3:40 pm Subject: Re: Stackoverflow : new Liv

Re: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-11 Thread Monte Goulding
On 12/03/2013, at 6:59 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > This site costs $13 per month. Much as I love to kibitz about LC, I don't > know if I am willing to pay for the privilege. Ah... missed that. I suspect I'd give it a miss too... perhaps RunRev should have a rep there though incase someone as

Re: Fwd: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-10 Thread Roger Eller
to this > list. The cron job can be modified to run every minute, every hour, etc. , > but only sends a report when new data is available. > > > ---- Original Message > Subject:Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions > Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:3

Re: Fwd: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/10/13 5:59 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I never received anything from the built in subscription on SO. Me either. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: Fwd: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/10/13 5:48 PM, John Craig wrote: I've got a cron job running on on-rev that checks for new LiveCode questions on stack overflow. If there are new questions it hasn't seen before, it emails me the details as a digest (see output below). I can set up an email list if anyone is interested - or

Re: Fwd: Stackoverflow : new LiveCode questions

2013-03-12 Thread Mark Smith
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[OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, on the 6th i posted a comment to the following question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21612867/when-i-try-to-export-my-app-in-live-code-it-comes-up-with-an-error-message My answer was: Runrev offers many tutorials. There are also some about mobile development. I would suggest you try

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Matthias, Your answer wasn't a direct answer to the question. Questions on SO should ask for a direct solution and answers should contain a direct solution. Answers like "you should read this" have a very high probability of being deleted. Posting links, for a purpose other than mentionin

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Matthias, Am 12.02.2014 um 13:06 schrieb Matthias Rebbe : > Hi, > > on the 6th i posted a comment to the following question > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21612867/when-i-try-to-export-my-app-in-live-code-it-comes-up-with-an-error-message > > My answer was: > Runrev offers many tu

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Mark, thanks for explaining. Then i think i will not waste anymore time with posting to SO. Regards, Matthias Am 12.02.2014 um 13:22 schrieb Mark Schonewille : > Hi Matthias, > > Your answer wasn't a direct answer to the question. Questions on SO should > ask for a direct solution and an

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Yes, that were my same thoughts when i read Mark´s explanations. ;) I saw Ben´s post this morning and was wondering why my post was deleted. Let´s hope that at least the original poster has either read mine or Ben´s post. Matthias Am 12.02.2014 um 13:26 schrieb Klaus major-k : > Hi Matthias,

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Klaus and Matthias, It is gone ;-) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spa

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Mark, Am 12.02.2014 um 14:17 schrieb Mark Schonewille : > Klaus and Matthias, > > It is gone ;-) yep, no further comment... ;-) >>> ... >>> on the 6th i posted a comment to the following question >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21612867/when-i-try-to-export-my-app-in-live-code-it-c

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Matthias Rebbe wrote: Then i think i will not waste anymore time with posting to SO. SO has its place, but it's a unique place, with unique expectations of the contributions there. That's why I feel it's a great compliment to the other venues we have for sharing LiveCode knowledge, but not

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I think it adds greatly to SO as a resource. I love the fact that the responses are required to be detailed. How fun would the dictionary be if it just had links to a website that came up instead of a readily available resource? I don't always want to follow another link to then sort out from ther

Re: [OT] question about stackoverflow - why was my posting deleted

2014-02-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- I did bump your comment as useful. I think that in conjunction with Dave Kilroy's comment is the correct response. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscr