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Off-topic / Form repopulation
« on October 26th, 2011, 10:23 AM »
Bit of a technical question for the proper devs out there (I get by, but I'm not a dev by any stretch)...

At work we use MantisBT, and we have a number of users who either because of stupidity or sheer bloody mindedness don't remember that if they use the browser "Back" and "Forward" button(s) whilst filling in the new issue form, the form loses any information they typed. So, I'm wondering how feasible it would be to dury-rig MantisBT into keeping the form contents for these people?

Now, actual question is, since these are the browser controls at work, is there a way of doing the saving client-side/in-browser, rather than server-side?
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Plugins / Re: Using permissions in plugins
« on October 24th, 2011, 12:37 PM »
Coming at this in reverse (Devil's advocate...) could the permissions page (as an over-arching concept) be removed entirely, and permissions spread to where they would otherwise make most sense (Board permissions live with Boards, etc...)?

Get rid of the "permissions page" mentality... Does that fix/break anything else?
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Features / Re: The calendar
« on October 10th, 2011, 02:21 PM »
Quote from spoogs on October 10th, 2011, 01:45 PM
Quote from Arantor on October 10th, 2011, 10:47 AM
* Make birthdays its own plugin.
That^
And following your further explanation, have a +1 from me also; both (all three?) items as plugins. I still think it could hook the calendar if enabled, but all as plugins is where it's at.
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Features / Re: The calendar
« on October 10th, 2011, 11:07 AM »
Well, yes, but... I also consider the birthdays code to be a must have (saves me having to post in our birthdays thread :))
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Features / Re: The calendar
« on October 10th, 2011, 10:58 AM »
re: Birthdays. If your going modular with calendar, I say make birthdays core, but have it send birthdays to the calendar if you've got calendar installed and enabled.
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The Pub / [Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« on October 10th, 2011, 10:47 AM »
claw3 for the image, claw5 for the font (it's the most "immediate" of those on offer, and the gradient works)

claw6 looks a little too parroty for my liking... :eheh:
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The Pub / Re: Spell checker
« on October 10th, 2011, 10:42 AM »
Re: plugins and the admin area, WP handles this question quite well (IMO). Your plugins appear in the plugins page (where you add new ones, disable/delete old ones, etc), then to modify settings they add their own submenu to the admin menu structure, or they add a single link inside an existing common submenu item (in WP-Admin>Tools, usually), or at a minimum they have a settings link in the plugins page.

Something akin would be good; either the plugin makes a "submenu" in the admin page (big plugins would benefit from this, WD for instance) or they add a single settings link to a common submenu.

Re: spelling, don't think we have it enabled. TBH I'd rather spelling was offloaded to a plugin; more opportunity for better solutions that way.
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Off-topic / Re: Repurposing WP, or not.
« on October 6th, 2011, 10:47 AM »
Quote from Arantor on October 6th, 2011, 10:39 AM
Eh, it's not for me, if I were doing this, I'd just set up something locally and write it there - but my friend wants something he can use while on at break at work, and he's quite keen on the fact that WP supports post by email, apparently.[1]

(This is the curse of being a technically minded friend!)
 1. Never tried it, no idea if it works or not.
Hence the quotes on "you".

I've heard that to be the case [post from email], though I've never used it myself. I'm happy enough using the webness and the Android app to do my WP blogging; I post so infrequently. There's an iPhone app too, if that's your friends bag, baby...[2]
 2. So *that's* how you do footnotes... :eheh:
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Plugins / Re: Plugin development
« on October 6th, 2011, 10:40 AM »
Quote from 0x on October 6th, 2011, 03:10 AM
I use BitBucket, unlimited private repos for free account. Recently it added Git support.
As already mentioned, not 5 posts up :eheh:

Like Nao responded, however, that's only for 5 committing users per repos. If your dev team is/are bigger than that, you need to give them cash money. For me, though, that's just perfect, none of the projects I'm working on have teams that big (one or two person(s) at most on our projects).
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Off-topic / Re: Repurposing WP, or not.
« on October 6th, 2011, 10:38 AM »
Yup, all true of WP (I suspect there already is a permissions plugin for doing just what "you" want Arantor, that seems to be the WP way)

You can pre-write posts easily enough though, just set a publishing date in the future and save the posts/pages as Drafts until you are finished writing.
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Plugins / Re: File permissions
« on October 6th, 2011, 10:32 AM »
A "Remember FTP details (not password)" flag would be more than acceptable :)
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Off-topic / Re: Support policy
« on October 5th, 2011, 06:33 PM »
@Arantor, heck, make it a sticky OP in the support section of the site, call it troubleshooting, see who doesn't gr0k it...

 :eheh:
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Plugins / Re: File permissions
« on October 5th, 2011, 06:30 PM »
Personally, I don't mind having to type in a password every time I want to install a plugin if I gain a fist full of security for doing so. Wouldn't want to have to re-type all the FTP/SFTP details every time though.
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Features / Re: The calendar
« on October 5th, 2011, 12:54 PM »
We use the calendar, but I see the benefits of it shifting out of core, so consider that a +1 for becoming a plugin.
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Features / Re: New revs - Public comments
« on October 4th, 2011, 10:25 AM »
Quote from Nao on October 3rd, 2011, 02:52 PM
can breathe and everything, even though I'm a smoker, but the first things to fail me in my body are always the collateral ligaments in my left knee (followed by the right knee a few minutes later.)
I've always had weak knees but my girlfriend won't listen to me... She insisted we run for an hour, even when it was the first time we'd been jogging in years. Yeah sure...
Wildly OT, but have you considered having an ibuprofen or aspirin tablet (with food or milk) an hour *before* you go out jogging? It'll help with pain during and recovery after... Former Olympian told me that one. Oh, and make her make you run less until you're comfortable running for half an hour (you fool).

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