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Messages - PantsManUK
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Off-topic / Re: Introduction
« on March 14th, 2012, 11:06 AM »
Quote from Nao on March 14th, 2012, 10:33 AM
You talkin' to me? I'm... not... Pete.
I'm the French one. Y'know, the b'stard.
No R-G, wasn't for you...
Quote from Arantor on March 12th, 2012, 11:28 PM
On the one hand, there's asking how much is done, how much we think we have to do. This I don't mind, I'll be honest about these things and it doesn't annoy me, because it's a question that has no loading to it. The reason I don't mind is because it's respectful.
:D

Easiest thing is always "Ne nourrissez pas les trolls". If you set yourselves deadlines (realistic or otherwise) and don't meet them (for whatever reason), the trolls will get shouty and that just makes things worse, because they have to be dealt with. If the demo is out today/tomorrow/next week, so be it.
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Off-topic / Re: Introduction
« on March 14th, 2012, 10:23 AM »
So, you don't mind probing questions, eh, Pete? On a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is "not a chance" and 10 is "give me a few seconds to make the zip", how far along do you consider the project to be? :niark:[1]
 1. DO NOT ANSWER THIS! It'll only feed the trolls...
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Archived fixes / Re: Linktree
« on March 12th, 2012, 06:35 PM »
I can think of conditions where they wouldn't (me, f'rinstance...) but in some cases they would go to the same place.
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Off-topic / Re: Introduction
« on March 12th, 2012, 05:55 PM »
Quote from Arantor on March 12th, 2012, 05:15 PM
Comments like "I can see how people lose hope" are passive-aggressive insults. They're not helpful comments.
Here, here. Give them their dues, they're the only SMF fork that's still active (correct me if I'm wrong, anyone?) and they always had the biggest goal in mind; going *far* beyond the code they started with, not just some little incremental change. That's why they started earliest, and why they're still working towards the goal of a public demo/release.

Time be time... like an Exchange DB Defrag[1], they'll be done when they're done and not an attosecond sooner.
 1. Dear Microsoft, next time go with a linear, "completion time"-centric progress gauge, rather than a non-linear percentage progress gauge. Number of managers I've had to tell "it'll be done when it's done" over the years...
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Off-topic / Re: Let me hold a dollar?
« on March 12th, 2012, 03:14 PM »
Thanks Pete. It's a far better start than I had managed myself. I'll pop that into my test code and fight with it until it submits to my will.

Update: It was real close and I only needed to fight with it a little bit:-

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$str = preg_replace('/<body(.*?)>/is', '<body$1>' . $new_stuff, $str);

The (very minor) change came straight outta the first comment on the PCRE Pattern Syntax page on php.net [ http://uk3.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php#87197 ]. Kinda wish I'd spotted it before as it would have obviated me having to ask here.
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Off-topic / Let me hold a dollar?
« on March 12th, 2012, 02:51 PM »
Oh great and all powerful deities of PHP...  :eheh:

I need a way to inject a little HTML text into an HTML "page" (it's an email actually, but not important) just after the opening body tag (so "<body><p>" becomes "<body>Insert text here.<p>"), but I want it to work whether the opening body tag is "<body>" or "<body class='irregardless' id='a-whole-nuther' style='all-of-a-sudden'>" or anything else in that general area. The HTML is all in a single variable, so I just need something that does a needle/haystack replace (case insensitive) in all cases.

I've successfully used str_ireplace against just "<body>" without any problems, but my preg-fu doesn't extend to catching all cases. Help?
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on March 8th, 2012, 10:51 AM »
I like the with smaller lettering.
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Archived fixes / Re: SMF bug (untracked?) Flood time limits are enforced for admins
« on March 1st, 2012, 11:38 AM »
F**k it then; I'd leave it as is and say it's by design.  :niark:
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Archived fixes / Re: SMF bug (untracked?) Flood time limits are enforced for admins
« on March 1st, 2012, 11:14 AM »
Personally, close it as "By design".

Alternatively (if possible in a reasonable timeframe) make it an ACP option so admins can be exempt from flood protection, but have it on per default.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness
« on February 15th, 2012, 06:01 PM »
Prefer bom1 and bom2 to bom3: something about 3 rubs me up the wrong way, think it's the lack of background on the graphic.

Close run thing between bom1 and bom2, but for me bom1 edges it.

Also, I much prefer the "logo above font" images to the "logo alongside font" images. Really like nwl4 for instance (big fan of darker things against lighter things...)
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Plugins / Re: Readability
« on February 13th, 2012, 04:16 PM »
Excellent as always. My only disappointment, their ugly font choice (given NS's original screeny, I have to blame them for the font).
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Features / Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« on February 13th, 2012, 04:13 PM »
It does look a little bit like

(click to show/hide)
cPanel

in a passing sort of way, but that particular package is a hell on Earth.
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Features / Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« on February 13th, 2012, 03:59 PM »
Quote from Arantor on February 13th, 2012, 03:44 PM
Oddly enough, no, there's a specific reason why plugins is at the bottom - it's the one most likely to be extended in all kinds of hideous ways meaning it can make things disproportionately large.
Ah, bien. A good point, well made.

And no, I've not yet spotted the design inspiration.
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Features / Re: Don't know if I shared it publicly or not
« on February 13th, 2012, 03:41 PM »
Very nice. Can I request alphabetical ordering for the major headings?  :eheh:
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Plugins / Re: Plugin Manager: Mechanics
« on February 9th, 2012, 11:03 AM »
I'll take security over convenience every time (in the past our site has been compromised many times, and cleaning up just takes too much time), but I understand the difference; there will be folks for whom the opposite applies. To massage an apposite saying, you can't please all the people all the time...  :whistle: