You seem to have a funny definition of "open-source"… Code you have to pay to see is not open-source code; maybe their license will let you modify it, but I bet it won't let you share the modifications, much less the original code. When I said "open-source PHP-based e-commerce scripts," the word "free" was implied to everyone except you, apparently.
Posts made by Albright
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RE: Making a (non-WTF) commercial website
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RE: Making a (non-WTF) commercial website
@sootzoo said:
@Albright said:
Unfortunately, until recently, there haven't really been any other capable open-source PHP-based e-commerce scripts out there
You haven't looked hard enough.
Hmm? you yourself said…
There are about a dozen better alternatives, but none of them are free
but there's a new one called Magento which seems to be maturing nicely (it's still in beta)
Red flag.
as are some e-commerce modules for Drupal -- though using Drupal for an online store is a bit of a sledgehammer/fly-swatting thing.
Bigger red flag. I'm thinking you should leave the e-commerce consulting to the non-marketroids for a while.Okey-doke. Instead of coming in here and trying to slag me, why not tell me what you would use to set up an online store on the cheap?
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RE: Traveler's Online Security WTF
Besides the student loan, I also had to do the same recently to pay my AT&T bill online; they had an option to call you on your phone instead of mailing the code, but since I just get internet service from them (I don't have POTS in my apartment), I had to go the snail-mail route.
Is it inconvenient? I suppose, if you have to pay your bill right now lest you get nicked a late fee or something. But really, I didn't mind too much having that money sit in my bank account for a couple more days.
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RE: Can you look my ChronoJournal/weblog software?
If a person fills out all the fields and then decides they want to change their input, they can change their input just by typing over what they want to change. If they decide they want to not submit their input, then they can simply navigate to another page.
There really is no reason for the Reset button's existence. Think about it this way: is there a spreadsheet button out there which has a button that, when clicked, immediately and possibly not-undoably deletes the contents of all the cells on the sheet? Google Mail, Yahoo! Mail, Blogspot, LiveJournal… Hell, even this shitty forum software doesn't have a Reset button, regardless of how many fields are on the page. The button should never be used; no exceptions.
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RE: Please remove error message. Thanks.
@Arenzael said:
It is my experience that users have developed an uncanny ability to totally ignore error messages. Even if they go to the trouble of taking a screen capture or quoting the message to you verbatim, they don't even realize what they are reading. I put instructions in some of my custom HTTP error headers and 9 times out of 10 when someone hits one they tell me about it, I ask them if they actually followed the instructions, and they say "what instructions?".
I'm sorry, are you expecting users to dig through HTTP headers whenever they see an error message? I'm surprised even one out of ten is finding the instructions, then -- maybe one in ten will know what an HTTP header is, much less be reading them whenever anything goes wrong that they themselves didn't develop for!
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RE: Review WTF
Fuck that edit limit bullshit. Here's a quick screenshot I'd be adding to my post above if this forum didn't suck an entire mountain's worth of goats. The question is how he found the option to make the time separators flash, but missed the option to not show the weekday next to the time.
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RE: Review WTF
@The Vicar said:
@Jonathan Holland said:
So, why can't you just open a terminal under OS X and type:
sudo apt-get install gcc
I thought that both sudo and the apt-get package manager were also on OS X.
Sudo is, apt-get is not part of the default install (and isn't supported by Apple -- Mac Software Update works by other means). Nevertheless, apt-get is available -- it comes with Fink, for example.
My preferred package manager is MacPorts, but by all means use Fink if you're already familiar with the workings of apt-get.
As for the OP… after thirteen years of being a happy Mac user, it's all water off a duck's back. Idiots and trolls will never go extinct, so there's no use wasting the energy getting worked up over them. This one seems to be a bit more dumb than most, though (saying iTunes is the only media player available -- apparently he never checked to see if the VNC he mentions using under Windows is available for Mac -- and saying he can't change the formatting of the clock -- did he even try clicking on it?).
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RE: CMS System WTF
Drupal is my CMS of choice… it's free, of course. We've been making a lot of sites with it at work recently, and once you learn how to write for it, it really is a joy to use. Seriously, who would pay for a half-assed CMS when you could use the entirely non-assed Drupal for free?
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RE: No bathroom for you!
Whoops, someone posted before reading past the first couple of posts in this thread.
(Or maybe they're just recycling the joke intentionally and hoping nobody notices…?)
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RE: Making a (non-WTF) commercial website
@Daniel15 said:
I work for a smallish marketing firm. We use OSCommerce at work whenever a client wants an online storefront.
It's garbage. Absolute garbage.
What about scripts based off OSCommerce, like CRE Loaded?
I've never really looked at CRELoaded, but I can't imagine it'd be much better than OSC itself… garbage in, garbage out.
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RE: TDWTF forum WTFs
@dhromed said:
In addition, are Home/End different on a Mac or is it just Safari? I notice that Home and End scroll to the top/bottom of a page, rather than the much saner Windows behaviour of jumping to start/end of line. I can Apple+Left/Right to get normal Home/End functionality, so it's ok, I guess, even though now there's no way of jumping word-by-word, which I use extensively when travelling long lines with my cursor boots on.
This is proper Mac behavior. And you're being platform-centric, of course; whenever circumstances are unfortunate enough that I'm using Windows, I can't figure out how the hell I'm supposed to quickly go to the HOME or END position of a document without mashing the PgUp/PgDn buttons -- so Windows behavior is "insane" to me.
Moving the cursor one word at a time can be accomplished with Option-Left and Option-Right. Option-Up and Option-Down goes to the beginning or end of a paragraph. Entire words can be deleted one at a time with Option-Delete.
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RE: Change your password
@Aaron said:
The standard solution to this non-problem is to send an e-mail notification after the password has been changed, along with instructions on what to do if the change wasn't authorized.
That's the standard solution?! Good gravy, are you thinking this through? What would that email say? "O HAI, someone just changed the password on your account. If it wasn't you, good luck logging on to your account next time. We could have done some trivial email verification to avoid that, but we didn't."
I'm surprised there's so many divergent (in other words, wrong) opinions on what to do in this situation. I understand that sometimes one will sacrifice security for convenience on something trivial like a web forum script or something, but it's not like setting up a system to verify password changes via email is all that difficult. You don't goof around with passwords!
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RE: Change your password
@PJH said:
Of course Bob would simply ask for a password reset...
True — after some initial confusion as to why the password that worked for him yesterday isn't working for him today. At least with the change-password-by-email method, he would be alerted that something is amiss with his account.
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RE: Is it IrfanView, or is it me?
@derula said:
IrfanView is the only one (afaik?) to have a PNG optimizer (that takes like forever but in the end has a perfectly small PNG)
OptiPNG is a great free PNG optimizer. Running optipng -o7 img.png will take quite a while but will result in a very tiny PNG.
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RE: Change your password
Unless this system also lets people change their email address without validation at the old one, there's no WTF here. Let's say Alice has gained access to Bob's account at this site, but has not gained access to his email account. If she were able to change the password without email verification, Bob would completely lose access to his account since he wouldn't know the new password. If Alice cannot change the password, then she may be able to wreak havoc with Bob's account, but at least Bob would still be able to log back in to it later and correct the damage -- and change the password to something he knows and Alice doesn't.
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RE: Redneck company
"Allot" means something like "assign" or "set aside." For example, you might be fired form work if you do not finish your alloted work on time. If you keep your job, however, you should remember to allot at least half of your paycheck to pay bills -- don't spend it all on partying.
"A lot" is the proper spelling of the term. If you are recalling your English teacher ranting against it, they were probably lecturing you to use a word like "many" or "several" instead -- "a lot" is too informal for some academics.
Many people write it as "alot" nowadays -- which will correctly trip a spell checker -- but, like "afew" and "incase," it's simply a case of an incorrect (or at least widely unaccepted) contraction. However, "always" and "sometimes" are proper English nowadays, so in a hundred years' time, who knows?
I graduated with a BA in English. Consequently, I'm now a programmer.
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RE: Redneck company
@Zemm said:
I use it as a Photoshop supplement! I've found even "Save for Web" in Photoshop still produces images bigger than a normal Save in the GIMP. And Photoshop often tries to be smart with colour correction so images don't match properly with HTML colours, whereas in the GIMP they do.
When working with web photos in Photoshop, you should make sure your images have the correct color profile for monitor display. Select "Color Settings" from the Edit menu, and in the "Working Spaces" section, select "sRGB [a bunch of seemingly random numbers]" from the "RGB" menu. Now, when you Save for Web, the colors should match the HTML colors perfectly.
@Lingerance said:@El_Heffe said:
They're nice in two situations: one you view allot movies in wide-screen format; two you rotate the monitor 90 degrees and read allot of documents that happen to have very long lengths, like forum topics, documentation, terminal output, e-books and whatever else you can think of that is presented in long list format.WTF is the deal with widescreen monitors? I see them all over the place and generally they are cheaper that a "normal" monitor of the same size. A 19 inch wide screen and a 19 inch regular monitor are both 19 inches diagonally. So WTF is the deal with making one shorter and calling it "Wide Screen"? Is this just some sort of weird marketing?
TRWTF is "allot." Oh my God.
Photoshop is great, but yes, I too still find myself pining for GIMP for certain things. Just today I was at work working in Photoshop and wanted to add a bunch of horizontal lines to an image. In GIMP, there's a grid line plug-in which does this very quickly and precisely, but in Photoshop, I had to draw one line, duplicate the layer, move it into place, duplicate the layer, move it into place, duplicate the layer, move it into place… Merge those layers, then duplicate that merged layer, move it into place, duplicate, move…
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RE: Criticize my website
DailyKos is a blog written by angry lefties. Your site… I just looked at it again, and still have no idea what it's supposed to do, but it sure doesn't look like a blog. Moar liek dysfunctionalforums.com amirite?
What would help is having some text that's different colors, or maybe some images, or something that stands out and says "something happens if you click here." (But don't make us guess what that something is.)
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RE: Race conditions with recursion
I'd probably do something like…
// Take the referrer element (if any) out of the perspective link to follow var linkUrlWithoutReferrer = linkUrl.pregReplace("(?|&)referrer=[^&]*", ""); // Take the referrer element (if any) out of the current page var currentUrlWithoutReferrer = currentUrl.pregReplace("(?|&)referrer=[^&]*", "");
// Are they the same?
if (linkUrlWithoutReferrrer != currentUrlWithoutReferrer) {
linkUrl.followLink();
}
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RE: Making a (non-WTF) commercial website
I just signed up to these forums moments before I posed that… I hadn't turned anything on, or or off for that matter.
But I dug through my profile until I found the "Content Editor" setting and switched it from Standard to Enhanced. I was then told "Your profile has been updated. It may take up to 10 minutes for changes to take effect." What the mother fuck? I guess it hasn't kicked in yet because I'm still typing HTML.
So, having such a crappy forum script running on a site like this… I get it. Irony. Oh, very funny.
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RE: Making a (non-WTF) commercial website
I work for a smallish marketing firm. We use OSCommerce at work whenever a client wants an online storefront.
It's garbage. Absolute garbage. PHP, HTML and SQL are mixed together throughout the code files like a tossed salad. The user interface of the back-end is terrible. Want to have a product or product category without an image? You could just not upload one, but then in the product or category listing, it will try to display a 404'd image anyway.
It has a large user base and a good selection of modifications, but to install them, you have to hack the code manually, copying and pasting code into place from a text file -- diff files wouldn't work because the line numbering gets out of sync after installing the first modification. And you pretty much have to install several modifications just to get a usable store.
Fortunately, one of those modifications is a very simplistic templating system, so with a bit of work, we're able to create an OSCommerce store for our clients which almost kind of doesn't look like an OSCommerce store if you aren't paying too much attention.
Unfortunately, until recently, there haven't really been any other capable open-source PHP-based e-commerce scripts out there, but there's a new one called Magento which seems to be maturing nicely (it's still in beta), as are some e-commerce modules for Drupal -- though using Drupal for an online store is a bit of a sledgehammer/fly-swatting thing.
EDIT: What the hell? I have to actually write the HTML myself if I want line breaks to appear in my post? I'm beginning to think this forum script is garbage as well.