Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.

'Hell Bound'


Buffistas Building a Better Board  

Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

To-do list


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2003 8:56:29 pm PST #3548 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I (and John will bear me out, once he stops laughing or rolling his eyes) am Normalisation's bitch. And what John proposed is precisely normal -- relationships other than one-to-one should have their own table. Your suggestion is how I'd represent the data inside the PHP object, but when I have a little less of a pounding headache maybe I can explain to you why it's less good for the underlying structure.

Which isn't supposed to sound condescending or dismissive, but I fear it may.

I shoulda just typed "BECAUSE IT'S WRONG!!!", shouldn't I?


John H - Mar 20, 2003 8:57:30 pm PST #3549 of 10000

EDIT: in reply to Jon.

So that would be more like:

if($poster in( $marcied_posters_array) ){ next; }

right? I can't remember the exact look-things-up-in-an-array syntax.


John H - Mar 20, 2003 8:59:48 pm PST #3550 of 10000

But ita's right of course, even if she is in an abusive relationship with normalisation.

That's how the data would be stored.

Then it would be taken out, on a page-by-page basis, and stored in an array of $this_buffistas_marcied_people.


Jessica - Mar 20, 2003 9:00:44 pm PST #3551 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Forgive the ignorance, but is {next;} in your examples shorthand for "do whatever MARCIE does" or does it just mean "skip this post"?

Because I thought that MARCIE'd posts were going to look more like deleted ones, only with "this post made blinvisible by MARCIE" instead of "deleted by so and so."

That way, it's easier to see that there are posts other people are responding to, and the conversation looks less Dada-ish.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2003 9:04:06 pm PST #3552 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Jess, MARCIE display discussion starts about here: Noumenon "Buffistas Building a Better Board" Mar 3, 2003 12:30:02 pm EST


Jon B. - Mar 20, 2003 9:04:13 pm PST #3553 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Which isn't supposed to sound condescending or dismissive, but I fear it may.

Not at all. Like I said, relational databases/SQL are my weak point. One of the reasons I like coding this place is because the code is so pretty -- it's a good framework from which to learn.

I shoulda just typed "BECAUSE IT'S WRONG!!!", shouldn't I?

No, but you shoulda typed Normalization.


John H - Mar 20, 2003 9:08:46 pm PST #3554 of 10000

{next;}

Probably isn't even correct PHP code. Very much shorthand.


Jessica - Mar 20, 2003 9:08:59 pm PST #3555 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Jess, MARCIE display discussion starts about here:

ita, yes, that's the discussion I was referring to. I just wanted to know what {next;} means -- if it's real code, or shorthand.

[ah, question answered]


bitterchick - Mar 20, 2003 9:12:43 pm PST #3556 of 10000

Okay, I'm still confused on how this CVS thing works but if you guys need someone to host it, and it's possible to host on our server, Monique and I are willing to give you however much space you need.

Well, not however much. I think we only have, like, 1 GB of server space available but you won't need more than that, right?

We're over on [link] if anyone wants to take a look and see.

If I'm misunderstanding how it works and you need something other than web space...well, it wouldn't be the first time I was an idiot.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Mar 21, 2003 3:14:28 am PST #3557 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I can do the text some time this weekend if someone can proof me, as I am the world's worst typist. I also may need someone to make it funny!

I can proof read for spelling and grammar, although I can't make promises about being funny.

But we're kinda stalled right now, lacking a bit of organisation and a central code repository.

Do we need to do some 'who's working on what?' stuff? (I'm just grabbing at the part I can do: asking people what they can do and telling them what's next on the to-do list.)