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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on October 3rd, 2011, 01:51 PM »
The problem was that you picked up on a two-parter that relies on having seen multiple previous episodes (at a minimum, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords (eps 12-13) from series 3, plus oddments of series 4 but probably most importantly Journey's End (ep 13), plus at least Planet of the Dead and The Waters of Mars which were two more of the specials between series 4 and 5)
If you're interested in watching DW, you have three basic routes.
1. Start from the start of the reboot. Not really recommended unless you have a lot of spare time.
2. Watch Blink, from season 3. It's the single greatest episode to introduce you to the world of the Doctor without actually having the Doctor in it that much.
3. Alternatively, watch The Girl in the Fireplace from series 2. It's much more Doctor orientated, but it's also a lot more typical of DW episodes.
There are other jumping-in points,[1] but The End of Time was not one of them.
:edit: Hahaha, ninja'd.
@Nao: Yes, yes it was. I blame RTD! :P But we weren't watching for that, were we? We were watching for the knocking four times, and waiting for the inevitable.
If you're interested in watching DW, you have three basic routes.
1. Start from the start of the reboot. Not really recommended unless you have a lot of spare time.
2. Watch Blink, from season 3. It's the single greatest episode to introduce you to the world of the Doctor without actually having the Doctor in it that much.
3. Alternatively, watch The Girl in the Fireplace from series 2. It's much more Doctor orientated, but it's also a lot more typical of DW episodes.
There are other jumping-in points,[1] but The End of Time was not one of them.
:edit: Hahaha, ninja'd.
@Nao: Yes, yes it was. I blame RTD! :P But we weren't watching for that, were we? We were watching for the knocking four times, and waiting for the inevitable.
| 1. | e.g. the start of series 5 is very deliberately set up to be one. |
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 3rd, 2011, 12:59 PM »
(6 files, 12KB)
Revision: 1053
Author: arantor
Date: 11:58:38, 03 October 2011
Message:
! The filename attribute for plugin actions is not optional. (plugin-info.rng)
! New hook: info_center, designed for hooking into, well, the info centre. Since it's referenced by both Welcome and Boards... it's in both. (Boards.php, Welcome.php, ManagePlugins.php)
! Allow plugins to specify actions they want to add to the master action list. (ManagePlugins.php, Load.php, index.php)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/Boards.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/Load.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/ManagePlugins.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/Welcome.php
Modified : /trunk/index.php
Modified : /trunk/other/plugin-info.rng
Revision: 1053
Author: arantor
Date: 11:58:38, 03 October 2011
Message:
! The filename attribute for plugin actions is not optional. (plugin-info.rng)
! New hook: info_center, designed for hooking into, well, the info centre. Since it's referenced by both Welcome and Boards... it's in both. (Boards.php, Welcome.php, ManagePlugins.php)
! Allow plugins to specify actions they want to add to the master action list. (ManagePlugins.php, Load.php, index.php)
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Modified : /trunk/Sources/Boards.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/Load.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/ManagePlugins.php
Modified : /trunk/Sources/Welcome.php
Modified : /trunk/index.php
Modified : /trunk/other/plugin-info.rng
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Features / Re: Birthday greetings
« on October 3rd, 2011, 12:26 PM »Im gonna ruin it for you ~DS~, you have no reason to watch further; he bought some Viagra :niark:Quote from ~DS~ ...... what actually happen to his limp. :)
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Features / Re: New revs - Public comments
« on October 3rd, 2011, 12:08 PM »
I figured out the problem with the above, mostly it's because libxml2 is more strict than <oXygen/> XML editor is.
For those who've written a plugin thus far, you can crudely test it with:
Code: [Select]
Note that you set the schema after you load the document, as opposed to the more traditional approach of stating the schema actually in the file like you would through a DOCTYPE.
For those who've written a plugin thus far, you can crudely test it with:
<?php
$schema = '/path/to/other/plugin-info.rng';
$document = '/path/to/plugin-info.xml';
$xml_reader = new XMLReader();
$xml_reader->open($document);
$xml_reader->setRelaxNGSchema($schema);
$valid = true;
while ($xml_reader->read())
if (!$xml_reader->isValid())
$valid = false;
var_dump($valid);
?>Note that you set the schema after you load the document, as opposed to the more traditional approach of stating the schema actually in the file like you would through a DOCTYPE.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 3rd, 2011, 12:05 PM »
Revision: 1052
Author: arantor
Date: 11:05:19, 03 October 2011
Message:
! Add the definitions for file edits and the action extender to the RelaxNG schema. (plugin-info.rng)
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Modified : /trunk/other/plugin-info.rng
Author: arantor
Date: 11:05:19, 03 October 2011
Message:
! Add the definitions for file edits and the action extender to the RelaxNG schema. (plugin-info.rng)
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Modified : /trunk/other/plugin-info.rng
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Plugins / Re: Add-on Manager: Mechanics
« on October 3rd, 2011, 11:54 AM »
Also, this one's more for Dragooon and live to answer since I'm imagining they're the ones most likely to use it.
We have the required-functions construct. I'm wondering if I shouldn't extend that to classes and methods; all the really fun and useful extensions in PHP are not functional the way they were in PHP 4, but they're classes.
So I'm wondering if I should rewrite <required-functions> into:
<required>
<function>functionname</function>
<class>classname</class>
<method class="classname">method</method>
</required>
You can, sort of, do some of the method calls through the existing interface - provided that you want a static method, if you don't, you're screwed.
I'm not worried about details of implementation (I'm thinking, ultimately, it would be done through instancing the Reflection API) at this stage, merely curious to know if it would be that useful.
We have the required-functions construct. I'm wondering if I shouldn't extend that to classes and methods; all the really fun and useful extensions in PHP are not functional the way they were in PHP 4, but they're classes.
So I'm wondering if I should rewrite <required-functions> into:
<required>
<function>functionname</function>
<class>classname</class>
<method class="classname">method</method>
</required>
You can, sort of, do some of the method calls through the existing interface - provided that you want a static method, if you don't, you're screwed.
I'm not worried about details of implementation (I'm thinking, ultimately, it would be done through instancing the Reflection API) at this stage, merely curious to know if it would be that useful.
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Features / Re: Birthday greetings
« on October 3rd, 2011, 11:49 AM »
Thanks :)
I really need to catch up with House; I have seasons 4 & 5 on DVD to watch when I'm not busy coding, but in the Arantor household we have NCIS season 6 to watch first... but there's no chance of my watching it up to date even in terms of broadcast in the UK; I don't have satellite or cable TV, so the only way I can watch it downstairs on the TV is on DVD.
I really need to catch up with House; I have seasons 4 & 5 on DVD to watch when I'm not busy coding, but in the Arantor household we have NCIS season 6 to watch first... but there's no chance of my watching it up to date even in terms of broadcast in the UK; I don't have satellite or cable TV, so the only way I can watch it downstairs on the TV is on DVD.
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Features / Re: Birthday greetings
« on October 3rd, 2011, 11:37 AM »
Thanks again for the birthday wishes :)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 3rd, 2011, 11:37 AM »
Revision: 1051
Author: arantor
Date: 10:37:15, 03 October 2011
Message:
! XMLReader/libxml2 is a bit more fussy than other parsers. (plugin-info.rng)
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Modified : /trunk/other/plugin-info.rng
Author: arantor
Date: 10:37:15, 03 October 2011
Message:
! XMLReader/libxml2 is a bit more fussy than other parsers. (plugin-info.rng)
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Modified : /trunk/other/plugin-info.rng
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Features / Re: New revs - Public comments
« on October 3rd, 2011, 11:09 AM »
Although, I'm getting pretty fed up when one tool validates both my RNG schema and a big scary file against it but PHP's XMLReader won't because of 'Extra element database in interleave' when there really isn't - and, just for fun, if I comment out the <tables> construct inside <database>, it works as expected :/
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Features / Re: New revs - Public comments
« on October 3rd, 2011, 10:52 AM »
Jogging is harsh :/
Anything in particular you'd like me to look over in r1049 since you flagged it as wanting feedback?
Also, I've committed the RelaxNG spec I've been referring to. It should validate current plugin-info.xml files - that should cover everything currently supported in the plugin manager, as well as validating new columns and indexes for existing tables, which is currently not supported.
Anything in particular you'd like me to look over in r1049 since you flagged it as wanting feedback?
Also, I've committed the RelaxNG spec I've been referring to. It should validate current plugin-info.xml files - that should cover everything currently supported in the plugin manager, as well as validating new columns and indexes for existing tables, which is currently not supported.
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Features / Re: New revs
« on October 3rd, 2011, 10:48 AM »
Revision: 1050
Author: arantor
Date: 09:48:17, 03 October 2011
Message:
+ First version of RelaxNG schema for plugin-info.xml files. There's more to add yet, as I finalise the extra parts. Plus I need to author a couple more XML filetypes and their specifications yet, but this is a start. (plugin-info.rng)
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Added : /trunk/other/plugin-info.rng
Author: arantor
Date: 09:48:17, 03 October 2011
Message:
+ First version of RelaxNG schema for plugin-info.xml files. There's more to add yet, as I finalise the extra parts. Plus I need to author a couple more XML filetypes and their specifications yet, but this is a start. (plugin-info.rng)
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Added : /trunk/other/plugin-info.rng
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Features / Re: Birthday greetings
« on October 3rd, 2011, 10:38 AM »
I haven't actually seen any of Merlin, and I figured that jumping into it from series 4 probably wasn't the best starting place...
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Off-topic / Re: Doctor Who
« on October 3rd, 2011, 10:38 AM »Does anyone know in which series/season(I don't even know how this works) is the Doctor facing "Master" who takes over a machine and turns all of the population into himself?
A TV series is a set of seasons, which in turn are sets of individual episodes
For us, technically, a series is simply a group of 2+ episodes - behind me on the shelf I have quite a few TV boxsets, all the US shows are by 'season', almost all the UK shows say 'series' because they're not produced seasonally but 'whenever'.
DW is a great example - series 5 ran from spring 2010 to summer 2010, series 6 has run spring + autumn.
But that's me getting off-topic. For most practical purposes 'season' and 'series' are interchangeable, especially when you're talking about a UK produced show.
Yes, this is set just after the Time of Angels; she's still wearing the right outfit and she says that she's just come from the crash of the Byzantium - and there wasn't any time when she could have come from there 'during' it.
Yes, this is the oldest we've seen her, other than the Library.
I suspect we will see less of River now, or maybe not. Someone on Twitter said to Moffat about how it was becoming the River Song show, and he replied that she must be pretty pissed with not being in it that much.
Certainly, I think we have to see her one more time, when he meet her for the first time - from her point of view. Remember... "new suit, new haircut, and he just turned up on my doorstep and knew all about me". Plus, at the fall of the Eleventh, the question must be answered - because she knows the answer, and that's one time neither of them lied about it - "I told you my name. There's only one time I ever could."
That said, her arc is basically done
The whole marriage thing? Rewatch the end of The Big Bang. It's all right there in the continuity. That and, from the Time of Angels: "Are you his wife? Yeah you are, you're SO his wife." "Oh, Amy, this is the Doctor we're talking about, do you really think it could be that simple?" "...yep."
As for time resuming, yes it should from the show's own sense of continuity. She's the one that caused the time implosion by not killing him. He's the one who should be dead. Time is tricky and does funny things to you - and if the two halves of what caused the implosion touch, it's sort of like matter and anti-matter. It goes boom. I never found reason to question it, I guess.
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Features / Re: Birthday greetings
« on October 3rd, 2011, 09:06 AM »
Thanks :)
I got to watch the awesome DW finale which was the most important part of the day... :)
I got to watch the awesome DW finale which was the most important part of the day... :)