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Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

Van Kraken posted:

Oh cool, this is just what I was looking for. I still need the display size of each image, though, and I can't seem to find a reliable way of finding it without actually loading each image, then acting on it once it loaded.

Find the computed width/height of the image tag? This also has the advantage that the image won't be stretched.

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Van Kraken: Feb 13, 2012

Suspicious Dish posted:

Find the computed width/height of the image tag? This also has the advantage that the image won't be stretched.

I think the browser still needs to load the image into memory to compute the size of the img tag, though, doesn't it? I was planning on reading height/width, manually setting them for the tag, setting the src to a 1x1 transparent image, and then using css sprites to resize and crop the cat pics.

# ? May 15, 2012 02:27

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

Van Kraken posted:

I think the browser still needs to load the image into memory to compute the size of the img tag, though, doesn't it? I was planning on reading height/width, manually setting them for the tag, setting the src to a 1x1 transparent image, and then using css sprites to resize and crop the cat pics.

Oh, I see what you mean (I was assuming that the width/height would be explicitly specified). Hide the thing using CSS visibility, once loaded, swap it out for a placekitten image. I don't see the benefit of the CSS sprites technique - placekitten will always give you a correctly sized image, won't it?

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Van Kraken: Feb 13, 2012

Suspicious Dish posted:

Oh, I see what you mean (I was assuming that the width/height would be explicitly specified). Hide the thing using CSS visibility, once loaded, swap it out for a placekitten image. I don't see the benefit of the CSS sprites technique - placekitten will always give you a correctly sized image, won't it?

It's mostly a learning experience, anyways. The custom resizing will probably be the last thing to be added, but I was hoping to get the whole extension self-contained, without driving up placekitten's bandwidth. It would also give me some more flexibility about which images I can use.

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Wheelchair Stunts: Dec 17, 2005

A CSS sprite map has the added benefit of only needing 1 request to retrieve which can be nice.

# ? May 15, 2012 05:07

Deus Rex: Mar 5, 2005

a website I've been working on has had some serious issues with user-submitted text overflowing container elements when it's unexpectedly long or has extremely long 'words' (like URLs), so I wrote a little script to swap out non-empty text nodes with an excerpt from Finnegan's Wake.

before:

after running on <p> elements:

http://crystae.net/jquery.joyce.js

still a lot of room for improvement

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mustermark: Apr 26, 2009; "Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can't see your own back (without mirrors).

Deus Rex posted:

I wrote a little script to swap out non-empty text nodes with an excerpt from Finnegan's Wake.

A man after my own heart :swoon:

# ? May 16, 2012 01:06

OneEightHundred: Feb 28, 2008; Soon, we will be unstoppable!

I hate myself for starting this project.

Fortunately, with switch statements working, there's only one language feature I care about left (foreach) and then I'm done with this dumb compiler! And switch was the last one that required adding an opcode. :toot:

OneEightHundred fucked around with this message at 03:30 on May 16, 2012

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Carthag Tuek: Oct 15, 2005; Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
sl�gt skal f�lge sl�gters gang

Picked up my old Gedcom project a while ago and have been rewriting parts of it. It's coming along nicely:

https://github.com/mikkelee/Gedcom-Framework

Not really useful at the moment unless you want to write Gedcom by hand (also I haven't implemented save yet, but that's literally just two lines of code that I've left out to avoid trashing my test files).

# ? May 16, 2012 09:43

mortarr: Apr 28, 2005; frozen meat at high speed

Last month we managed to go over our data cap and got throttled back into the stone age for about ten days, which was a major pain. My ISP sends an email at 80% usage, and then again at 100%, but that's not much use and I wanted something that was easier to monitor.

I run a Rainmeter weather skin which parses html for a forecast on my desktop, so I thought I'd have a go writing my own skin to do the same.

I couldn't work out how to get Rainmeter to authenticate and navigate through several pages & redirects, so in the end I wrote a little C# console app to handle logging into my ISP's site and pulling just the data of interest out into an xml file. From there I wrote a Rainmeter script to refresh the xml and show its contents onscreen:

code:

Data usage @ 2012-05-17: 14.27 / 20GB

On the way I learned a bit more about the .Net WebRequest class, and also tried out log4net so I could get a decent fault trace on a 2nd PC without visual studio.

Not sure if I'll enhance it further, but features that I'd thought about were to keep a running history and use it to build up a graph, like a sparkline or something, that I could show onscreen next to the text. I could also do something so my password isn't sitting in a config file in plain text.

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Jo: Jan 24, 2005; Soiled Meat

mortarr posted:

code:

Data usage @ 2012-05-17: 14.27 / 20GB

As neat as this is, do you seriously have a 20GB bandwidth cap? :stare:

On a more related note, I've been working on a 4Chan/Reddit hybrid. Last night I got image search working. There are two algorithms in there right now, but it's a cakewalk to add more.

# ? May 17, 2012 18:15

mortarr: Apr 28, 2005; frozen meat at high speed

Yep, 20GB limit then throttled to 64k/s or so. NZ ISP's suck balls if you're combining data/phone/tv, but to be fair I had a 40GB cap a while back and didn't use much more than half - I decided I'd rather have the money than the extra data, but it does mean watching my usage fairly closely.

# ? May 18, 2012 10:11

Chopper: Feb 13, 2006

mortarr posted:

Yep, 20GB limit then throttled to 64k/s or so. NZ ISP's suck balls if you're combining data/phone/tv, but to be fair I had a 40GB cap a while back and didn't use much more than half - I decided I'd rather have the money than the extra data, but it does mean watching my usage fairly closely.

My parents have a 2Gb cap on their (free) connection and I max it out within 6 hours of being home, it's impressive you can cope with 20Gb for a whole month :gonk:

I have heard crazy things about NZ internet prices though so I can understand. UK I have 40mbit/2mbit with no caps or traffic shaping for �20/month!

</derail>

# ? May 18, 2012 18:39

TerraGoetia: Feb 21, 2011; A cup of spiders.

I've been inspired by this thread to do a little practice programming between classes. My current idea is a program that searches a given URL for images, and extracts them. All of this is still somewhat new to me, so I'm building in steps. Right now it just text-dumps the <img /> tags it finds--I copy/paste them into an HTML editor and view the results. In the future, it will either create an HTML page on its own, or just start downloading all of the pictures to a directory on my computer. The screenshot shows some of the images it was able to find on this page.

Edit
I'm stopping with it tonight. I made an "HTMLWriter" class that can build a page out of all of the image tags I collect. That, combined with looping the image finder, has been very entertaining. For instance, I was able to collect all of the images in the one of the League of Legends threads in the gaming subforum. Instead of combing 170 pages to find entertaining/interesting pictures, I was able to do it in 20 seconds.

TerraGoetia fucked around with this message at 06:08 on May 20, 2012

# ? May 20, 2012 03:51

Maluco Marinero: Jan 18, 2001; Damn that's a
fine elephant.

This is the web app I'm working on, Spanner, it's a planned maintenance system. I'm trying to break into a market that sells Excel spreadsheets masquerading as systems for $80,000, so hopefully I can make a dent.

This is a checklist made from the items the system tracks, when printed the browser culls out everything except the 'page'.

Maluco Marinero fucked around with this message at 15:17 on May 22, 2012

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etcetera08: Sep 11, 2008

Looks useful and nice but that font is not what I would've picked

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Doh004: Apr 22, 2007; Mmmmm Donuts...

Whatcha making in/with?

# ? May 22, 2012 20:17

Maluco Marinero: Jan 18, 2001; Damn that's a
fine elephant.

etcetera08 posted:

Looks useful and nice but that font is not what I would've picked

I've grown kind of partial to it but that's fair. There's a version of Calluna Sans (thats he font) that has a more standard numeral set, no dropping below the baseline or anything. I'll probably change to that before release. What don't you like about it specifically? I ask because I'm not Particularly good at any one thing, I'm just good at keeping working, so feedback is always good.

It's written in Python with Django.

\/ \/ duly noted: Thanks.

Maluco Marinero fucked around with this message at 01:32 on May 23, 2012

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Lumpy: Apr 26, 2002; La! La! La! Laaaa!; College Slice

Maluco Marinero posted:

I've grown kind of partial to it but that's fair. There's a version of Calluna Sans (thats he font) that has a more standard numeral set, no dropping below the baseline or anything. I'll probably change to that before release. What don't you like about it specifically? I ask because I'm not Particularly good at any one thing, I'm just good at keeping working, so feedback is always good.

It's written in Python with Django.

It's hard to read, as that typeface has a very ragged flow because of the numerals having a dropped baseline, the character shape / design not lending itself to body type, and it's kerning being really goofy on the web. You are inviting eye-strain, and that is not conducive to a great (or even good) user experience.

# ? May 23, 2012 01:27

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

It might work as a header only font? Use something a little less stylized (i.e. more readable) for the content.

# ? May 23, 2012 01:36

Maluco Marinero: Jan 18, 2001; Damn that's a
fine elephant.

akadajet posted:

It might work as a header only font? Use something a little less stylized (i.e. more readable) for the content.

Yeah thats what I'm thinking. I really like how it works with my headers and brand idea, but yeah, the body really does need to change to something more standard.

# ? May 23, 2012 01:59

G-Dub: Dec 28, 2004; The Gonz

Maluco Marinero posted:

It's written in Python with Django.

Are you concerned about companies preferring the overblown Excel solutions because it's MS Office and everyone without a clue prefers Office?

# ? May 23, 2012 07:21

Maluco Marinero: Jan 18, 2001; Damn that's a
fine elephant.

G-Dub posted:

Are you concerned about companies preferring the overblown Excel solutions because it's MS Office and everyone without a clue prefers Office?

Yes and no. It is an issue, but from my experience working in the domain as a ships officer, and learning the experiences of others working with that sort of thing, it just isn't a reliable way to track literally thousands of items in a non information overload manner. The excel solutions have information overload, versioning issues, and there is the issue of collaboration between ship and shore.

The database solutions out there are in varying stages of maturity, and while they are set up on the ship, if anything breaks they are just poo poo out of luck until they fly support in, often.

Additionally, an excel solution on its own is not easily audited. Usually every 4-5 years you'll get your paperwork combed over by a national authority. It's not enough to say you use the system effectively, you have to be able to prove it.

A web app eases support problems, browser + Internet = go time as long as I'm doing my job, and also removes versioning issues. I'm going to do offline access if it picks up, but will work around that with a weekly email digest that sends them all their upcoming checklists and jobs so it's available offline.

Younger crew are starting to come in that see the value of this stuff; it saves mountains of time with our paperwork, believe me - and I've had some good contacts and promising feedback thus far from boat managers and crew.

I can also likely do much better on price, which will be suitable for a much less cashed up part of the market, eg. non profit sail training ships, small 1-5 ship operators, service ships that do contract work for the bigger companies.

It's not quite a long shot, and considering the amount of time I've already committed, I'll be damned if I'm not gonna give a launch a red hot go. I'll probably start posting progress regularly. I'm too invested to be a realistic critic of my work, so it's good to bounce ideas off people who have no reason to be anything less than honest.

# ? May 23, 2012 08:23

Comrade Gritty: Sep 19, 2011; This Machine Kills Fascists

Got bored and started working on a Chrome extension that uses Twitter's bootstrap to style the forums. So far I have the index page mostly there. http://imgur.com/a/Bo8OI

Course since it's a chrome extension the responsiveness doesn't actually help anybody, but hey boredom.

# ? May 23, 2012 08:43

Lumpy: Apr 26, 2002; La! La! La! Laaaa!; College Slice

Steampunk Hitler posted:

Got bored and started working on a Chrome extension that uses Twitter's bootstrap to style the forums. So far I have the index page mostly there. http://imgur.com/a/Bo8OI

Course since it's a chrome extension the responsiveness doesn't actually help anybody, but hey boredom.

Very nice. I'll be installing this when you release it.

# ? May 23, 2012 13:45

Doh004: Apr 22, 2007; Mmmmm Donuts...

Maluco Marinero posted:

Yes and no. It is an issue, but from my experience working in the domain as a ships officer, and learning the experiences of others working with that sort of thing, it just isn't a reliable way to track literally thousands of items in a non information overload manner. The excel solutions have information overload, versioning issues, and there is the issue of collaboration between ship and shore.

The database solutions out there are in varying stages of maturity, and while they are set up on the ship, if anything breaks they are just poo poo out of luck until they fly support in, often.

Additionally, an excel solution on its own is not easily audited. Usually every 4-5 years you'll get your paperwork combed over by a national authority. It's not enough to say you use the system effectively, you have to be able to prove it.

A web app eases support problems, browser + Internet = go time as long as I'm doing my job, and also removes versioning issues. I'm going to do offline access if it picks up, but will work around that with a weekly email digest that sends them all their upcoming checklists and jobs so it's available offline.

Younger crew are starting to come in that see the value of this stuff; it saves mountains of time with our paperwork, believe me - and I've had some good contacts and promising feedback thus far from boat managers and crew.

I can also likely do much better on price, which will be suitable for a much less cashed up part of the market, eg. non profit sail training ships, small 1-5 ship operators, service ships that do contract work for the bigger companies.

It's not quite a long shot, and considering the amount of time I've already committed, I'll be damned if I'm not gonna give a launch a red hot go. I'll probably start posting progress regularly. I'm too invested to be a realistic critic of my work, so it's good to bounce ideas off people who have no reason to be anything less than honest.

It would definitely help if you can find a way for companies to import their existing excel documents into your system. Aside from having to retrain employees, having to maintain two sources of documentation is a big no-no.

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akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

Steampunk Hitler posted:

Got bored and started working on a Chrome extension that uses Twitter's bootstrap to style the forums. So far I have the index page mostly there. http://imgur.com/a/Bo8OI

Course since it's a chrome extension the responsiveness doesn't actually help anybody, but hey boredom.

I love bootstrap, despite the side-effect that every page it touches ends up looking exactly the same.

# ? May 23, 2012 14:19

Maluco Marinero: Jan 18, 2001; Damn that's a
fine elephant.

Doh004 posted:

It would definitely help if you can find a way for companies to import their existing excel documents into your system. Aside from having to retrain employees, having to maintain two sources of documentation is a big no-no.

Already have a very straightforward excel import system. It's much easier to handle mass data entry in Excel anyway. Most people on manual systems usually have their checklists on an excel spreadsheet or word document anyway, so they just need to arrange their information and it's good to go in. Getting data in easily is definitely a high priority as once I have a customer, once they've invested in the system as long as I do my job it's money in the bank.

# ? May 23, 2012 14:23

TJChap2840: Sep 24, 2009

Lumpy posted:

Very nice. I'll be installing this when you release it.

In the mean time, you can check out the chrome extension that has already been released. I am currently using it but I will probably switch to this one for some change.

# ? May 23, 2012 14:49

Comrade Gritty: Sep 19, 2011; This Machine Kills Fascists

akadajet posted:

I love bootstrap, despite the side-effect that every page it touches ends up looking exactly the same.

They do tend to look a lot a like :/ (Although they don't have to, i've seen some really nice bootstrap sites that don't look like bootstrap).

# ? May 23, 2012 18:40

Scaramouche: Mar 26, 2001; SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

TJChap2840 posted:

In the mean time, you can check out the chrome extension that has already been released. I am currently using it but I will probably switch to this one for some change.

Sounds like you've got it all figured out. I used to do similar work in the past, but around warehouse shipping logistics/inventory automation and have faced the nightmare of 'b-b-b-ut the spreadsheet!!' too. It's criminal what some of those guys charge for what is basically a .xls with some VBA (if you're lucky, in cell formulas if you're not). It sounds like you've identified niche, have made a good, simple web-based solution for it, and now just need to convince people to get out of the 80s. Good luck!

# ? May 23, 2012 20:33

TJChap2840: Sep 24, 2009

Scaramouche posted:

Sounds like you've got it all figured out. I used to do similar work in the past, but around warehouse shipping logistics/inventory automation and have faced the nightmare of 'b-b-b-ut the spreadsheet!!' too. It's criminal what some of those guys charge for what is basically a .xls with some VBA (if you're lucky, in cell formulas if you're not). It sounds like you've identified niche, have made a good, simple web-based solution for it, and now just need to convince people to get out of the 80s. Good luck!

That's a misquote right?

# ? May 23, 2012 22:43

Scaramouche: Mar 26, 2001; SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

TJChap2840 posted:

That's a misquote right?

waaaagh new forum code causing weird things to happen. That was meant for Maluco Marinero.

# ? May 24, 2012 02:41

Red Mike: Jul 11, 2011

Posted some pictures of my roguelike engine before. Well, today I finally got tired of the library I was using for the output (libtcod), and rolled my own with pygame, so I can have a combination of text and tile-based graphics, with no limit as to the number of tiles.

The tiles are every programmer's dev tiles, of course. It's also scaled up 2x, because otherwise it's tiny as hell.

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Polio Vax Scene: Apr 5, 2009

Started messing around with the recursive lightning generator I made before, now it makes cracks.

source

# ? May 24, 2012 22:51

The Wizard of Oz: Feb 7, 2004

I was about to use Dart for a project because I hate EcmaScript, then instantly banged into a language limitation (no reflection). I was then looking to add onto the project when it struck me that all it's doing is .NET, so why not just use .NET?

Well, you can't. Silverlight can interact a bit with the DOM but it's incredibly crippled, and I can't use Silverlight's components themselves because I need an HTML editor and the WebBrowser component in Silverlight cannot do it (WPF can, but there's no good editors), and the way I'd be using it I needed it lightweight and responsive, when I suspect WebBrowser is enormous. So I'd be spending most of my development time adding functions on the HTML side for the Silverlight side to process. Pretty dumb.

So instead of that - instead of actually doing the project I initially intended to do, that is - I'm writing a converter from .NET to EcmaScript. Here's it doing its first non-trivial task:

Here's the C# code generating it:

code:

using System;
using DotWeb.Html;

namespace Test {
	class Program {
		static void Main(string[] args) {
			HtmlDocument document = Window.Current.Document;

			document.Body.InnerXml += "<input id=dongs type=text/> and <input id=bongs type=text/> become <input id=roopas /> through <button id=brumper>brumption</button>";
			var dongs = (HtmlInputElement)document.GetElementById("dongs");
			var bongs = (HtmlInputElement)document.GetElementById("bongs");
			var roopas = (HtmlInputElement)document.GetElementById("roopas");
			var brumper = (HtmlButtonElement)document.GetElementById("brumper");

			brumper.Click += () => roopas.InputValue = (double.Parse(dongs.InputValue) + double.Parse(bongs.InputValue)) + "";
		}
	}
}

Here's some of the horrible EcmaScript it's currently making:

code:

_s0 = new a4Testn4Testn31Program_a_l_gc____DisplayClass1m6_pctor();
_l2 = _s0;
_s0 = window;
_s0 = _s0.document;
_l0 = _s0;
_s0 = _l0;
_s0 = _s0.body;
_s1 = _s0;
_s1 = _s1.innerHTML;
_s2 = "<input id=dongs type=text/> and <input id=bongs type=text/> become <input id=roopas /> through <button id=brumper>brumption</button>";
_s1 = (_s1) + (_s2);

And here's an example of the type of attributes I'm applying to provide conversion without wrapping, keeping things as fast and lean as possible:

code:

[WebRewrite("(({0}) + ({1}))")]
public static string Concat(string a, string b) { return string.Concat(a, b); }

...
[WebName(DomName)]
public abstract class HtmlInputElement : HtmlElement {
	const string DomName = "HTMLInputElement";
	...

# ? May 28, 2012 03:44

steckles: Jan 14, 2006

Bashed out an old school voxel landscape engine last night. I remember being blown away by a couple voxel demos back when I was a teenager. Never did get around to trying to write one until now.

Exe and source are here, if you're interested. Good luck figuring it out though, even I don't know how it works any more.

# ? May 29, 2012 08:13

Red Mike: Jul 11, 2011

I've been working on my map generation algorithm a bit, making better pre-made blocks for it to generate more interesting maps. This is the kind of thing it's coming up with now, but huge (it normally generates 200x200 tile maps, this is 800x800):

# ? May 29, 2012 21:52

PresidentCamacho: Sep 9, 2009

I wrote a few Google Chrome extensions.

Kitten Rush

I think the idea for this came from somewhere in this thread.

Favicons!

Favicons next to external links.

Word Filter

You can censor words or swap them around.

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# ? May 18, 2024 11:22

wlievens: Nov 26, 2006

poemdexter posted:

Give a decent solution for the following:

I have a text file with:
code:
123123
456456
789789
123123
When I translate that to drawing, I get tiles in this form:
code:
1 2 3 1 2 3
 4 5 6 4 5 6
7 8 9 7 8 9
 1 2 3 1 2 3
So for the first 5, to move "up" would be to hit the 2 which when drawn looks like it's northwest. If I was at the 8 looking to move "up", I would hit the 5 which is northeast! So now when I'm trying to decide while sprite I need due to the black bold lines being necessary and having around 20 different sprites, I have to know which row I'm on so I know how to look in the 2d array to get the correct surrounding pieces.

Your coordinate transformation is completely wrong. Your world model remains a "square grid", you just render isometrically.

code:

         0,0
      1,0   0,1
   2,0   2,1   2,2

etc

# ? May 30, 2012 15:32

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