Blogoforum - automatthias's blog

RE: Water Cart Down

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:36:32 GMT

OOpsie, perhaps somebody wanted to post in cyrylic? - 1 reply

sarah

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:04:55 GMT

Sarah - 1 reply

Forum Future Discussion

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:06:49 GMT

Take a look at this insightful discussion on what improvements to add to online forum software. Good idea is - to let member to "bookmark" messages and use this info to show popular pages. Something similar is brewing inside Blogoforum's HQ. [typo fixed] - 2 replies

Why People Love Ukrainian Food

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:19:55 GMT

Browsing what people are saying about Ukraine I found them to be big fans of tasty food here. Why the food is so good here? Because it's natural! We use a lot of shmetana and other fresh, natural and tasty things. Ever tried hot Borsch with Shmetana, cold Kvas or smoked fish with beer??? - 1 reply

RE: Ignorance in science

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 16:26:48 GMT

I also want to add that I refuse to use the imaginary numbers -- because they simply don't exist! They are imaginary, aren't they? So all the differential equations, complex functions and all others are just bunch of crap! - 1 reply

RE: RE: Code Generation?

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:10:59 GMT

hmm my explanation is not very clear so I posted more info with some example on Artima: http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=152273#197859 See it rephrazed. You have DataMapper code which does the job. Now some data (sql scheme) has changed and you rewrite DataMapper code to do the job according to the new scheme. You start to think about writing a generator which will take sql scheme and generate DataMapper according to sql scheme changes. Now instead of writing generator you can think about writing code which will take sql scheme, handle its changes and do the job! Should be easier alot. I will not touch ROR since I know little about it. Denis Krukovsky. - 1 reply

RE: Zopa

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:01:09 GMT

I guess it's something like Polish http://www.arse.pl. But what you actually think of is not зопа, it's жопа, isn't it? :-P By the way, I don't really know Russian. I was taught Russian in the elementary school, but I've never got to actually understanding it. Unless it sounds really similar to Polish, which Russian actually quite rarely does. - 2 replies

Long Thread or Short Message

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:21:56 GMT

This point is interesting. I may change presentation algorithm in a future. But what I'm thinking about more is - discussion groups (tag groups) and message bookmarking. Actually Blogoforum can change presentation algo based on what messages are bookmarked. This is interesting. - 1 reply

Which design you would like?

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 07:21:06 GMT

Thanks Automatthias for talking about this. Please point on some designs you liked. But anyway, there is still a lot of work for art designer and smart HTML composer. - 1 reply

RE: Optimize Gamer PC Performance

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:19:07 GMT

For AMD 64 you may wish to get a 64-bit Linux distribution! And if you're crazy, you can try Gentoo and compile everything optimized right for your processor. - 1 reply

RE: Edit and Long Thread Problem

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:16:31 GMT

I'll be the devil's advocate here, OK? :-) You can look at it as a matter of grouping messages. You can group messages into large groups -- long threads. Or you can make only short groups of 3-5 messages, just like now in Blogoforum. So you can have a relatively small number of large groups, or a large number of small groups. The benefit of having large groups is that a user once she has written a post in a thread, she can easily navigate back to the place of interest. Navigating means picking the right group of messages. It's easier to navigate in smaller amount of objects than in large amount. So getting back to a long thread is easier than getting back to a short thread. - 1 reply

RE: Blogoforum is looking for UI / Web Designer

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:00:32 GMT

Why don't you take an open-source, readily available design from OSWD? I've recently browsed the gallery and some of them are breathtaking. - 1 reply

RE: To JSF Or Not To JSF

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:11:03 GMT

I find it interesting that you don't use any framework here, as the frameworks can save a LOT of time. And if you write your own software from scratch, if you do it properly, you end up with something similar to a framework anyway. - 1 reply

RE: John

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:12:37 GMT

I wonder how spammers do get in here. Do they do it by hand? - 1 reply

Google Search is here

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:31:34 GMT

I've quickly integrated Google search for Blogoforum. Tell me how do you find it? - 1 reply

RE: Tag Cloud Makeup Continued

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 03:14:39 GMT

I have to write it for you, because I haven't read it anywhere, I just constructed the equation myself. Here you go: Let's say you want your your tags in sizes from 1 to 10, according to their counts. I'll use pseudocode here. You define boundaries: pmin <- 1 pmax <- 10 Then you calculate the min and max values from your tags: vmin <- min(values) vmax <- max(values) Now, let's say you have a tag with 'x' occurences. The log-size of your tag is: int((pmax - pmin) * (log(x)) / (log(vmax)) + pmin) - 1 reply

RE: Code Generation?

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:36:16 GMT

I think you might be missing the point of code generation. You don't write a code generator to get a job done... you write it to get a job done MANY TIMES. If you are able to write code that does something and does it well, why not write a generator that can reproduce that code (and even with customizable situation specific variations) again for you the next time you encounter a similar problem? Rail's generators are there to save you from having to reinvent the wheel every time you want to work on a project. Web projects have fundamentally simliar basic frameworks. Why spend time and effort rebuilding that framework every time you need to pop out a website? Spend your time and effort on the stuff that makes the website unique or innovative instead. - 2 replies

RE: Tag Cloud Makeup

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:27:13 GMT

What I dislike about current tagclouds is that there is ONE HUGE TAG, and 90% of the remainig tags are very small. It looks like the cloud is 90% trash. I suggest: - Filtering out the least frequent tags - Applying a logarightm function to the tag sizes. It will reduce the graphical domination of the most frequent tags. I did it with my project: http://automatthias.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/size-and-color/ and it works fine. - 2 replies