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Hello,
I'm posting this for the following reasons:
If this sounds like a problem your having, maybe my experience will help solve your problem
This is why coder profile has not had an update for a while, and why v2 has gone way past it's due date of early january 2009
Also why i have not really be around the forums much or posted anything new on my profile
Why this site has not really grown much since christmas (though saying that, it's not declined either in regards to traffic so a thanks need to go to our loyal members)
Introduction
I'll just introduce myself and give you an all round view of my lifestyle for those who do not know me.
I'm 21 years old and live a bit of a mixed lifestyle. In the summer time i tend to be out and about running, lifting weights, tennis, etc but when it comes to the winter i don't like the cold. So i tend to sit at my computer, read books and watch tv. My work involves sitting at a computer for 8 hours a day and in the summer we tend to play tennis on our breaks. I work tuesday to friday, and see my g/f twice a week (so no computers).
Early January 09
The first symptom appeared in my right elbow when i couldn't straighten it as it felt like it was locked and if i went any further something would crack in my elbow. If i had my palm facing upwards it would be hard to straighten it especially with any weight on my hands. So i rested it and didn't lift anything heavy and haven't done weight training since (except for typing). I just thought it was something like tennis/golfers elbow but it didn't seam to go.
The second symptom shortly after was when i started typing my knuckles started to swell up and my forearms started to hurt. This was worse on my right hand, but was also happening on my left hand a little. The swelling and pain seemed to clear up over night when i stopped typing but my elbow continued to hurt. Over the weekends i didn't touch a computer and my hands would feel better. When i... view in full
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Hi ya guys,
Over the past couple of weeks i have taken a break from coder profile... mainly because i sprained my elbow and forearm or something. My forearms still not 100% as it still hurts while i type. But at least i can now properly straighten my arm and stuff. Instead... i have not just sat back at watched tv or played games. I've finished reading about 4 programming/business books including a huge Ubuntu book (almost 1000 pages). very good book. I've also been able to get a better view on Coder Profile ( i think i really needed that break to widen my dev vision of CP).
So... what's next for CP.... basically... 2 major updates this year... and then i'm going to promote it.
v2 will be released a week or two after my forearms better and i can get back to my usual typing habits. 75% of the v2 update is completed. Then the first major release will be include a few things like:
Forum tweaks (ability to quote multiple posts, notifications to multiple quote authors, etc)
Some updates on the WYSIWYG editor (such as the ability to use tabs, and not have them converted to spaces)
A new back end for the notification system allowing more informative notifications, sub filters (for example filter by the discussion forum, then if you want, just replies)
A new back end for the way you add applications to your profiles. In the future i could easily add the ability for you to rename the applications when they are shown on your profiles for example... if you don't like the app name of "blog" on your profile... you could change it to "journals" etc... i will only be utilising the basics of the new back end code... but the potential is much more than what you will initially see.
New components that are added all over the site including a new review system where you can type in your review of something and rate it by selecting stars (1 to 5), a new commenting system that allows for branched replies, branch notifications, AJAX display of branches,... view in full
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Whats New In v2?
Here is a short list of 10 new features that are part of version 2.
Notification System
More information in notifications and in titles
Sub filtering (source codes >> comments)
Available filtering options based on enabled applications
Personal Messaging
Stripped down, no more attachments, flagging, etc
Larger BBCode message pad
Larger and more informative inbox (message snippets)
Cleaner looking and easier to use interface
Auto quote a message when clicking reply
Display Code
All code will be shown in monospace
Line numbering will be done using javascript
Direct copy (textareas) will no longer appear when clicking on the code since are able to directly copy text and keep all tabs and other formatting
Auto compact the code into an area (container). Double click and the horizontal scroll bar is removed or resize it manually using a drag and drop bar
Discussion Forum & BBCode
Removing direct quotes
When replying the quote is entered automatically in to the bbcode message pad with the correct quote tags and author set
Authors quoted in a reply are notified (only if they have recently contributed to the topic)
Comments
New thread based commenting
AJAX powered
"Reply" functionality
Languages & Skills
Select all the languages you know (no longer restricted to 10 languages)
Add skills to each language such as PHP = gd2, session handling, etc
Recommended Coders
Based on your profile, we find and recommend coders similar to yourself
Followers and Following
Follow your favourite coders and have interesting content your interested in come straight to you
Gain your own followers who get notified of new content on your profile
Profile Activity Feeds
Easily see what has recently happened on each coders profile
Profile Ranks
The more follows you have and the higher the rank quality of your co... view in full
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Hi ya guys, here are the updates applied in this version of coder profile.
Official Blog
I've made a nice update today for the site by replacing the old rubbish blog with this new one your reading now. This new blog uses the BBCode system, is divided in to 3 topics (development, news, announcements), contains RSS feeds, version tracking, and so on... overall, a large improvement.
Rich Footer
Now you can keep track of the latest blog posts via the sites footer which is the same on all pages of coder profile making it easy to quickly check it, and carry on with what you were doing last.
Polls
Just a bit of fun really. The polls randomly change on each page hit, you can vote once per poll and they use AJAX so that you can vote without worrying about the page reloading.
There have been some other minor updates but nothing that is of much use you guys knowing (updates to the internal workings of cp).
More updates to come soon as per usual.
Kind regards,
Scott
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I posted a topic on phpfreaks.com today to see what other coders would think about this site... coders that have not spoken to me first and the results were great. I'll quote a few things that were said.
The site looks good, my version of Ubuntu + FF3 usually breaks sites, but yours is holding up pretty well.
Looks very nice! I love the look of websites like that. Can't see a single problem with design.
I'd say your site has the potential to take off.
It's a shame it's made with tables - close to perfect!
Great work!
The design is beautiful.
I think the website really has potential.
Overal i would say that is some pretty good feedback. A few suggestions were made as well of course which was very helpful. I would just like to say thanks to the members who replied to the topic.
Kind regards,
Scott
Source: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,227422.0.html
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Hi ya guys,
The main part of this update was the new profile panels. Take a look at your profile and see for yourself :-) You even have nice rounded corners :-)
Darkened the colour of the boards on the forum index page and fixed some of the re-written URL's as well as stop the search box and it's button from being on different lines.
I also shifted the discussion forum to the networks instead of the site. Hardly worth mentioning but if you experience some broken URL's please let me know. Any old notifications will contain URL's to the previous forum location. New notifications from now on will have the new location of the forum.
The about me application now has a new link, "Quick Questions". It's got the same questions as the interview plus it has the 8 questions from your general details page merged. I suggest you all backup your interviews and port them across to the new "quick questions" page since all interviews will be erased soon when they are replaced with a new application called "My Skills" and the interviews have become obsolete with the addition of the "Quick Questions" page.
Quick shout out to gunni for coding a function to remove obsolete bbcode tags.
Kind regards,
Scott
P.S. korol_andrew, people can now view your profile again :-)
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Hi ya guys,
I have fixed the escaping problems with ampersands and when typing in encoded characters. They are now shown correctly.
Due to some members mentioning the paste as plain text dialog was annoying i removed that. You can now paste code directly, however, pasting tables etc will NOT keep their formatting when converting to BBCode or when posting it to Coder Profile.
Indenting of code now exactly represents what is shown on the rich text editor. Previously 7 spaces where equal to 1 tab in the editor, however, the code line numbering function used 10 spaces as a tab which meant that there were slight differences with the editor compared to what actually rendered on coder profile. Everything now uses 7 spaces as a tab.
If you guys use notepad++ just go to settings -> preferences -> edit components -> tab setting -> tab size: 7
Then what ever you paste from notepad++ will have the exact same indenting on coder profile.
Keep checking back here for more updates, and thanks for all the feedback you guys have given for v1.45
Kind regards,
Scott
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Just letting you guys know, i have done the following.
Fixed Bugs
The toolbar in the rich text editor can no longer be collapsed which previously caused a few toolbar buttons to remain even when collapsed
Fix the paypal button so it's no longer in sandbox mode
When someone registers they get "SESSION EXPIRED" straight after (so it logs them in, then expires the session lol). Then they have to login and are sent to account activation as it should.
BBCode - maximum level of nested quotes is 3... however... it was totally messing up and it's fixed now.
When viewing a profiles overview page fix the comments so they are posted to the correct page and fix the source code links.
Improvements
On someone's profile, when your on their about page, and if they have a Website URL entered, need to add target='_blank'
Improve the forums home page by removing that recent posts thing and instead put 3 useful links: Recent Posts, Unreplied Topics, Browse All Topics
Session about to expire, don't let the countdown go in to minus figures. Instead stop it at 0... showing it has run out.
On the RTE, the preview and custom emoticon buttons don't look "disabled" anymore. Instead they now actually look like buttons with a couple of nice icons :-)
The blue arrow next to the breadcrumbs now shows related links instantly (no longer using a blind down effect)
Breadcrumbs blue down arrow, on mouse out, if mouse over is not triggered for 2 seconds, close the menu automatically
When previewing parsed BBCode via the rich text editor if the maximum tag limit is reached it now tells you instead of producing nothing.
A few of these improvements were suggested by people on the forums (same with some of the bug reports) so thanks to those members.
Kind regards,
Scott
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Hi ya guys,
Here's what this long awaited update contains
Rich Text Editor
A new rich text editor has replaced the old BBCode Message Pad
View custom emoticons and click to add them to your messages
Loads more core (animated) emoticons have been added
Ability to preview a message before you send it
Multiple instances of the rich text editor can now be added to a single page
Shift Around
If the friends application is disabled, people simply can not send you a friend invite (since you can't manage them anyway without activating it).
The private user groups stuff has been removed from the user groups application leaving only the public groups. Put the Private Coder Groups where "Contacts" is. This is so you can utilize the private groups and not necessarily the public groups too.
Contact lists have been removed (because private groups can do this)
Referrals and custom emoticons are no longer an "application". They will be available to everyone and will not be disabled
Deleted the to do lists application (sorry but it's just not coder specific enough and it will be resurrected in the project management application)
Remove the following from CP: Profile Traffic Statistics, Announcements, Promotional Material and moved referrals to the misc section on the account home page
Home Page Revamp
Donations can still be made, but at the moment they are not shown on the home page anymore. Also, you no longer get a donations badge (you will get an award when i add the awards application instead)
Associates have been removed (they may come back at some point)
Breadcrumbs & Search Engine Optimization
All url's have been re-written to nice user and search engine friendly versions
All urls can be traversed properly
Breadcrumbs exist all over the site now and the page titles match the breadcrumbs
Different sections of the site have different colour coded breadcrumbs
Profiles... view in full
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Hey up again,
To Do Lists
Added a new application called "To Do Lists". The application uses a lot of AJAX and other JS magic such as drag and drop to re-order lists, etc. Using it is more like the way you would use an application that a normal website! It's quite fun!
To activate it on your account, go to your "Account Home Page". Click "Add New Application" under the "Content Management" heading, and then click "Activate" on the to do list application. The page will reload and you will see a new "To Do List" application ready for you to use ;-)
Auto Resizing Textareas
This is a strange one. If you have JavaScript enabled all textareas around coder profile will auto adjust there height to fit their initial contents (removing the scroll bar in the process) and adding enough space for 1 extra blank line to just make it look nicer.
Resizable Textareas
Again if JavaScript is enabled most (currently 100%, but may be less in the future) textareas have a bar along the bottom of them. This allows you to resize the textarea by just holding your mouse down on the bar, and dragging it to the new height that you want the textarea to be!
I think the next cool JS trick i will be adding at some point is a rich text editor replacement to the BBCode message pad. So keep your eyes open for that update ;-)
I was developing coder cards for about 6 hours to then decide they looked rubbish and removed them! I then added custom user colours such as administrators get their username in green, VIPs in orange, regular users in the default link colour, etc. Again that was rubbish (once i had finished it) so i deleted that feature as well! Not going very well!
Profile Traffic Reports
I converted the old affiliates tracking code that i used in my admin panel for this site, to a new system that you coders can use! So you are now able to track all unique hits, and all impressions made on your profile on a daily or monthly basis! This also excludes search engines... view in full
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