Freelancers Forum Messages on Tuesday December 12th 2006
Re: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 22:39
On 12 Dec 2006, at 11:54 am, Gary Short wrote:
> webmetric wrote:
>
> The platform is so cool and so popular at the moment that Rails hosts
> will be pretty much ubiquitous a year from now,
>
> No it...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fax machine recommendation
date posted 12th December 2006 19:29
On Tuesday 12 Dec 2006 7:22 pm, Leigh Jepson wrote:
> To me, that would be fine for incoming faxes, but what if you had to fa=
x
> your signature somewhere for an application form?
Scan it with a sc...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fax machine recommendation
date posted 12th December 2006 18:42
Dom Latter wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 Dec 2006 2:47 pm, Dynamic Developer wrote:
>
>
>> I'm only gonna be sending/receiving about 1 or 2 faxes a week, so I don't
>> want it to cost the earth or be too...
RE: FN-FORUM: Special characters in PHP regular expressions
date posted 12th December 2006 17:25
Oh sorry, I thought when you said "followed by end-of-line" you meant =
that
the /u was the end of line character, because the only alteration in my
regex that you made was to move the /u out of the s...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fax machine recommendation
date posted 12th December 2006 17:23
On Tuesday 12 Dec 2006 2:47 pm, Dynamic Developer wrote:
> I'm only gonna be sending/receiving about 1 or 2 faxes a week, so I don=
't
> want it to cost the earth or be too difficult to setup and mai...
Re: FN-FORUM: Creating full page image in Word
date posted 12th December 2006 16:47
Lists (Kathy) wrote:
> It's easy. Just put it in the header (it stays put much better that
> way). Remember to set different first page for the page layout.
>
> Format the image layout as tight, in fr...
Re: FN-FORUM: Creating full page image in Word
date posted 12th December 2006 16:06
It's easy. Just put it in the header (it stays put much better that
way). Remember to set different first page for the page layout.
Format the image layout as tight, in front of text, and start with...
Re: FN-FORUM: Special characters in PHP regular expressions
date posted 12th December 2006 15:43
> Right, as I said I wasn't sure on the escape chars, actually how can you
> have a string that ends with something followed by an end-of-line char?
> Surely the end-of-line char is the end of the str...
RE: FN-FORUM: tis the season...
date posted 12th December 2006 15:11
As I'm something of a wine fanatic, I've researched quite a lot on this
topic :) I'd recommend these people for low volume purchases (few bottles):
www.tanners-wines.co.uk
- they have suggestions a...
RE: FN-FORUM: Special characters in PHP regular expressions
date posted 12th December 2006 15:09
Right, as I said I wasn't sure on the escape chars, actually how can you
have a string that ends with something followed by an end-of-line char?
Surely the end-of-line char is the end of the string -...
Re: FN-FORUM: tis the season...
date posted 12th December 2006 14:30
I hadn't read it like that - it does doesn't it :-). Lord is his Surname as
I presume you will have guessed. It is now going to make me laugh every time
I see ;-)
Pam...
Re: FN-FORUM: Special characters in PHP regular expressions
date posted 12th December 2006 14:26
> preg_match("/^[\w\pL/u]+$",$_REQUEST['string'])
preg_match("/^[\w\pL]+$/u",$_REQUEST['string'])
Methinks. Match, in unicode mode, start-of-line, followed by more than
one word or unicode letter...
Re: FN-FORUM: tis the season...
date posted 12th December 2006 14:17
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> How about
>
> www.lordswines.co.uk
>
>
> We should be redoing their site next year
and then maybe they'll get a domain name that doesn't sound like a
knighted pig?
Lord...
Re: FN-FORUM: Fax machine recommendation
date posted 12th December 2006 14:16
Hi Jomo,
I got this for my mum for christmas - seems good value:
http://www.savastore.com/productinfo/product.aspx?catalog_name=Savastore&product_id=10292685&pid=0&rstrat=2696
Cal.
Dynamic Develop...
FN-FORUM: Fax machine recommendation
date posted 12th December 2006 14:06
I need a recommendation for a simple, cost effective fax machine.
I'm only gonna be sending/receiving about 1 or 2 faxes a week, so I don't
want it to cost the earth or be too difficult to setup and...
Re: FN-FORUM: tis the season...
date posted 12th December 2006 14:04
How about
www.lordswines.co.uk
We should be redoing their site next year
Pam...
RE: FN-FORUM: Special characters in PHP regular expressions
date posted 12th December 2006 13:53
I'm not sure about the escape chars, but the other syntax I think you should
use would be:
preg_match("/^[\w\pL/u]+$",$_REQUEST['string'])
so, that reads
"a string starting (^) and ending ($) with...
FN-FORUM: Site check
date posted 12th December 2006 13:50
Hi
I'd appreciate anyone checking these layouts:
http://www.intex-projects.com/lifo/members/surveys/test1.html
http://www.intex-projects.com/lifo/members/surveys/test2.html
I just want to check tha...
RE: FN-FORUM: looking for a hosting quote
date posted 12th December 2006 13:44
Many thanks all I have enough now to make an informed choice, I'll let
you know if you quoted as I hate people not having the courtesy to let
you know you weren't successful.
Thanks again,
John...
RE: FN-FORUM: looking for a hosting quote
date posted 12th December 2006 13:44
Leigh,
Nope didn't see it thanks for that.
John=20
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Jepson
Sent: 12 December 2006 12:18
To: Anslow, John
Subject...
FN-FORUM: tis the season...
date posted 12th December 2006 13:40
To butter up a few select clients to show my appreciation for all the lovely
money they send me. (in the hope that they send me some more)
I'm planning on sending out a couple of bottles of wine -...
FN-FORUM: Special characters in PHP regular expressions
date posted 12th December 2006 13:39
Hi,
I'm trying to get my head around some php regexp. I'm trying to allow
ALL valid word characters to be sent to a php script, however I'm stuck
with accented characters is there a simple way to i...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 13:15
Gary Short wrote:
>> On the contrary, I am earning a living with it. I'm pretty sure that
>> people like 37Signals and Penny Arcade are paying the rent with it too.
>>
>
> They don't count has...
RE: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 12:54
> On the contrary, I am earning a living with it. I'm pretty sure that
> people like 37Signals and Penny Arcade are paying the rent with it too.
They don't count has they pretty much run their own se...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 11:50
Gary Short wrote:
>> webmetric wrote:
>>
>>> They are quite lovely - but unless you have your own servers they can be
>>>
>> a
>>
>>> bugger to host.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Oh yes, +...
Re: FN-FORUM: looking for a hosting quote
date posted 12th December 2006 11:37
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> No takers so far other than Dominic's kind offer, are there really no
> ASP hosts out there wanting to quote ?
>
> Will have to resort to Google soon :(
>
> John
>
Although...
Re: FN-FORUM: looking for a hosting quote
date posted 12th December 2006 11:33
You could try http://www.interhost.co.uk/. Speak with Mark. I have found
them very good.
Though I don't have it on my sites, there is an ASP check box on Apache
hosted setups so I presume they do it....
Re: FN-FORUM: looking for a hosting quote
date posted 12th December 2006 11:23
I won't quote, but I can recommend www.exahost.co.uk - excellent,
excellent customer service, useful helm hosting control, webmail built
in, very cheap.
As a plus its actually run by people who do...
RE: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 11:14
> webmetric wrote:
> > They are quite lovely - but unless you have your own servers they can be
> a
> > bugger to host.
> >
> >
> Oh yes, +1 on the hosting.
>
> The platform is so cool and so popular...
RE: FN-FORUM: looking for a hosting quote
date posted 12th December 2006 11:06
No takers so far other than Dominic's kind offer, are there really no
ASP hosts out there wanting to quote ?
Will have to resort to Google soon :(
John
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From: [EMAIL REMOV...
Re: FN-FORUM: US Stationery Sizes
date posted 12th December 2006 11:00
Try here http://www.prepressure.com/library/papersizes.htm
Martyn...
RE: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 10:59
Lotsa Rails hosting companies here:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/pages/RailsWebHosts
HTH,
Andrew.
_____________________________
Andrew Bibby
I.T. Solutions Ltd
http://www.itsolutions.uk.com
w...
RE: FN-FORUM: US Stationery Sizes
date posted 12th December 2006 10:49
Dom
It's been a good thirty years since I learned this at college so you will
have to forgive me for not knowing off Hand but if you look at the back of a
decent dictionary you might find the sizes fo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 10:45
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Basically I'm just after some opinions - are they worth learning? has
> anyone ever been specifically asked for a site based on Ruby / Ruby
> on Rails? How difficult is it t...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 10:27
webmetric wrote:
> They are quite lovely - but unless you have your own servers they can be a
> bugger to host.
>
>
Oh yes, +1 on the hosting.
The platform is so cool and so popular at the momen...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 10:25
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> Morning all!
>
> Does anyone develop using Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails? I've heard a bit about them and the fact they're lovely to work with but as yet I've not looked in to l...
Re: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 10:21
[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> How difficult is it to pick up for a seasoned PHP/ASP/JS
> coder?
you might also like to look at TurboGears. A similar MVC framework, but
based on Python, which seems (to m...
RE: FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 10:14
They are quite lovely - but unless you have your own servers they can be a
bugger to host.
I found it easy enough to pick up - I gave myself two weeks, spent the first
3 days reading a ruby book - wi...
FN-FORUM: Ruby / Ruby on Rails
date posted 12th December 2006 10:05
Morning all!
Does anyone develop using Ruby and/or Ruby on Rails? I've heard a bit about them and the fact they're lovely to work with but as yet I've not looked in to learning either as they dont se...
RE: FN-FORUM: Creating full page image in Word
date posted 12th December 2006 09:38
...or indeed, choose 'Behind text' instead of 'in front of text'!
Can't remember if you can do this in previous versions of Word, but in Word
2003, if you already have an A4 image you can set it as t...
RE: FN-FORUM: Creating full page image in Word
date posted 12th December 2006 09:29
Hello Michelle,
I believe you can do this by inserting your picture, right-clicking on it,
hit 'Format Picture' then hit the 'Layout' tab. Click 'In front of text',
then close the dialog. Move the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Creating full page image in Word
date posted 12th December 2006 09:27
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> Try using OpenOffice.org Write, much better than Word for this sort of
> thing and free (as in beer and speech!). It'll also make you PDFs with
> a button-press.
>
> I thin...
Re: FN-FORUM: MySQL text
date posted 12th December 2006 09:19
> Is there a way to modify the data automatically in the db, maybe using=
=
> SQL?
If your SQL has a replace function you might be able to run a query like=
:
UPDATE table SET text =3D REPLACE("\...
Re: FN-FORUM: Creating full page image in Word
date posted 12th December 2006 09:15
> Is it possible to create an image that fills the whole of a Word =
> document page? I have a client who is designing an ebook in Word and =
> wants a front cover, however if I try to insert an A...
FN-FORUM: Creating full page image in Word
date posted 12th December 2006 09:03
Is it possible to create an image that fills the whole of a Word
document page? I have a client who is designing an ebook in Word and
wants a front cover, however if I try to insert an A4 image into...
RE: FN-FORUM: looking for a hosting quote
date posted 12th December 2006 08:12
Dominic,
Perhaps not but thanks for the offer.
John=20
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of
Dominic Raywod
Sent: 11 December 2006 21:44
To: Anslow, John
Sub...
RE: FN-FORUM: referal fee? worth the trouble?
date posted 12th December 2006 08:00
> How much: 10% seems about right.
> I pay him 20%, by mutual agreement, ..
We give a commission of between 5% and 15% to individuals/companies that
refer work to us, depending on the referrer's inv...
RE: FN-FORUM: MySQL text
date posted 12th December 2006 00:11
Thanks Anthony.
Is there a way to modify the data automatically in the db, maybe using SQL?
There's loads of data, which means doing it manually is a no no.
I'm using coldfusion, so I've had to use...
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