test please delete

[voodooflux]

Evening denizens

Evening Nick How's things?

[ControlG]

Another 20 minutes before home. 45 minute drive then straight off swimming.

[NickFitz]

Just TPD, and the copy is months out of date

Are there any plans to get it up to date?

I'm just about to start work on version 2 of the spider - it'll be a proper cron job this time, running on an EC2 server, rather than that rather neat hack using my browser with a meta refresh

There's a bit of work to do on the algorithm for detecting and adjusting for new users suddenly appearing pages earlier, and (heaven forfend) post deletion.

[NickFitz]

Let's see, assuming 150,000 posts:

10 posts/page = 15,000 pages.

At one page per minute, that's 15,000 / 60 / 24 = 10.5 days

As I can start from 110,345...

39,655 = 3,966 pages = 2.75 days to get back up to having a full backup; then I can occasionally go back to earlier pages and gradually get everything up to date in the new schema - the original version didn't take note of icons on posts (like that smile up there), nor did it parse out "Last edited" bits. Also, I need to do a deeper breakdown of posts so as to be able to properly track quotes and count smilies

[zeitghost]

Hello

Just posted some news specifically in General...

Byeee

[NickFitz]

Over on Mahalo Answers, some bozo was asking a question about implementing a naughty words filter using regular expressions.

As well as pointing him to Jeff Atwood's post about the doomed nature of such an endeavour, I reminded him that his tests should include the name "Scunthorpe".

Lo and behold... Mahalo Answers renders it as "Sc--thorpe"

Kind of proves my point

Anyway, I've submitted a bug report

[zara_backdog]

All

DD is playing the violin - HELP!
Why o why did I agree to violin lessons as school?

[voodooflux]

Just had a little kip

Lady VF off out in a bit to see a friend, so I'd better wake up and get the kids to bed.

[NickFitz]

All

DD is playing the violin - HELP!
Why o why did I agree to violin lessons as school?

Hi Zara

My sister used to torment a violin. Mind you, I think I probably got my revenge when I took up the trombone

[voodooflux]

All

DD is playing the violin - HELP!
Why o why did I agree to violin lessons as school?

Hey Zara

Ouch! No.1 son is doing drum lessons at the moment - fortunately we gave the old drum kit to the school, but I think we may need to pick up a new one sometime soon so he can practice at home.