Freelancers Forum Messages on Thursday November 1st 2007
Re: FN-FORUM: Exchange Rates Web Service
date posted 1st November 2007 23:08
I use this widget [http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/
calculate_convert/easycurrency.html] for OSX, but just to get a rough
idea, I don't know how accurate it is, but it connects to the
in...
RE: FN-FORUM: Exchange Rates Web Service
date posted 1st November 2007 22:17
Hi Ciaron
I used http://www.webservicex.net/WCF/ServiceDetails.aspx?SID=18 when I
needed something on a site I built http://www.afex-uk.com/
I don't know about reliable, but the client has never com...
Re: FN-FORUM: out of interest
date posted 1st November 2007 21:23
I started with assembler, then basic, then coral 66, then pascal, then
C, then C++, and then stopped learning languages and starting changing
syntax.
Of course you can write OO code in C, (and asse...
Re: FN-FORUM: out of interest
date posted 1st November 2007 20:59
A good friend of mine once offered the sagely advice
"when buying a book on a subject, buy two, the thickest and the thinnest".
Surprisingly effective IMO
--Richard
>
> pam wrote:
>> Php is my ne...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 20:14
On Thursday 01 November 2007 21:34:57 Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> > Yeah yeah yeah. When people start paying me for the stuff I post here,
> > I'll start making sure that it's debugged and working.
>
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exchange Rates Web Service
date posted 1st November 2007 20:10
Hi,
I use these all the time and have been very happy with them.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
Darren
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ciaron Walton" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursd...
Re: FN-FORUM: Exchange Rates Web Service
date posted 1st November 2007 20:06
> Does anyone know of (or can recommend having used) a reliable exchange
> rates Web Service?
It might be a bit low tech but google does it:
try the search term: 1 USD in BRL
or it's url equivalent...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 19:45
> Yeah yeah yeah. When people start paying me for the stuff I post here,
> I'll start making sure that it's debugged and working.
I wasn't getting at you Dom, just adding to the debate :)
Cheers!...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 19:03
On Thursday 01 November 2007 19:10:57 Anthony Cartmell wrote:
> > header('Location: login.php?from=);
>
> $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] would be more accurate. This would leave off the
> ".php" if you don't...
FN-FORUM: Exchange Rates Web Service
date posted 1st November 2007 18:06
Hi all,
Does anyone know of (or can recommend having used) a reliable exchange
rates Web Service?
Cheers!
Ciaron Walton
Substudio Ltd
http://www.substudio.co.uk...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 17:39
Thanks, Alex. This is the approach I've taken, as the redirecting is
all done within a function, so I've just inserted the session variable
before the redirect. Brain is farting still from yesterday...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 17:21
> header('Location: login.php?from=3D);
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] would be more accurate. This would leave off the=
=
".php" if you don't use that in your URLs, and would include any query =
vars....
Re: FN-FORUM: Example Project proposal
date posted 1st November 2007 15:49
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have an example project proposal they'd be willing to share that
> - crucially - works?
>
> I'm trying to find an example of good practice, but am frankly failing to
> fin...
FN-FORUM: Example Project proposal
date posted 1st November 2007 15:28
Hi all,
Does anyone have an example project proposal they'd be willing to share that
- crucially - works?
I'm trying to find an example of good practice, but am frankly failing to
find anything rela...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 15:23
I would be very interested in receiving details off-list about this. From
first contact to fee paid to follow-up.
Mike A.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Banner - eLuminate Design" [EMA...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 15:20
On Thursday 01 November 2007 16:16:24 Alex Townsend wrote:
> Dom,
>
> With two full URLs in a link, won't that run the risk of pinging
> the anti-phishing filters on IE7 ?
Only if they've done a r...
Re: FN-FORUM: How much to charge for hosting
date posted 1st November 2007 14:47
I was thinking of at least double that amount when you consider that they
would be getting 30 times more server space and if you take the cost price
of a dedi server at about 1800 per annum which does...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 14:43
I'd agree with you normally but have been provided contact details etc. that
check out.
>
> $100. Not much in the scheme of things.
You've still been scammed then.
takes money, promises big income...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 14:37
On 1 Nov 2007, at 3:09 pm, Marty wrote:
>
> $100. Not much in the scheme of things.
You've still been scammed then.
takes money, promises big income, distracts you with something for =20
nothing (...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 14:26
Dom,
With two full URLs in a link, won't that run the risk of pinging =20
the anti-phishing filters on IE7 ?
I don't know for sure, and haven't tried it, but I thought that was =20
one of the...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 14:25
On 01/11/2007 15:04, Dom Latter wrote:
> On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:48:18 Ben Nolan wrote:
>> Hiya,
>>
>> Throughout the site which got smooshed yesterday are a load of
>> header('Location: blah'...
Re: FN-FORUM: How much to charge for hosting
date posted 1st November 2007 14:20
Ok, in that context, I'd probably look at charging somewhere around =20
=A31500 for the year, so that'll be around =A3125 per month.
That'd be what I did, anyway. Double the available webspace, but g...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 14:19
$100. Not much in the scheme of things.
Cheers
Marty
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From: "Dom Latter" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 12:51 AM
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Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 14:14
On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:48:18 Ben Nolan wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> Throughout the site which got smooshed yesterday are a load of
> header('Location: blah'); redirects which point at the login page.
>...
Re: FN-FORUM: How much to charge for hosting
date posted 1st November 2007 14:09
Hi Alex
> First of all, what are they paying now?
900 annually which is for 2 virtual servers. Current usage inc backups
approx 5Gb The servers are dual Xeon 3GHz with RAID 1 drives.
>
> Secondly,...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help! Apache server being hammered and site keeps falling over!
date posted 1st November 2007 14:09
On 1 Nov 2007 02:41:26 -0000, Dom Latter [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> On Thursday 01 November 2007 00:53:54 Ben Nolan wrote:
> > The server has 4GB of RAM and two reasonably meaty processors. This
> >...
Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 14:08
Personally, I'd recommend using a session variable called something =20
like "redirected_from" - that gets added in before the redirect, and =20
can be quizzed by the login page.
Alex
http://www.ozbo...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 14:01
On Thursday 01 November 2007 15:32:36 Martin Banner - eLuminate Design wrote:
> skeptical about such things but did believe this was genuine, although the
> training fee did throw me a little.
C'mon...
FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?
date posted 1st November 2007 13:59
Hiya,
Throughout the site which got smooshed yesterday are a load of
header('Location: blah'); redirects which point at the login page.
Does anyone know of a way to detect the URL of the page which c...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 13:43
Anthony,
Sounds like I am in the same boat. I have been of the opinion it isn't a
scam primarily because I was given contact details that checked out and did
think he had a good business model. I f...
Re: FN-FORUM: How much to charge for hosting
date posted 1st November 2007 13:38
First of all, what are they paying now?
Secondly, what kind of backups are you running that end up taking =20
something like 150% more space than the webspace itself? (If that =20
percentage is wron...
FN-FORUM: How much to charge for hosting
date posted 1st November 2007 13:31
Hi All
I have just had a request from a client to increase the amount of server
space considerably and I am unsure as to how much to charge them for
hosting. They require approx 10GB which with the b...
RE: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 12:59
The Glasshaus url (click logo on page) redirects to another url =
indicating
some tile company. =20
And that=92s without taking into account the fact that the url is for =
butler
new media yet the id...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 12:49
Martin Banner - eLuminate Design wrote:
> http://www.webaim.org/intro/
>
This is freely available, it's a good resource but you shouldn't have to
pay for a link to it.
> http://www.butlernewmedi...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help! Apache server being hammered and site keeps falling over!
date posted 1st November 2007 12:09
Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
>> This takes time and money, though; this is more about quick speed
>> fixes, something which the config posted previously seems to have
>> helped with.
>
> My guess is a...
Re: FN-FORUM: Gmail broken?
date posted 1st November 2007 10:49
Cheers.
I sent 5 emails this morning to clients using the browser, one of which
jut phoned chasing it up. Which prompted me to test, i have tried both
the browser and thunderbird.
I can confirm th...
Re: FN-FORUM: Gmail broken?
date posted 1st November 2007 10:31
Fiaz Khan wrote:
>
> Is anyone else having problems sending emails from Gmail?
> Tried several times to different accounts and none have made it.
>
Sorry not a help but I sent some earlier and all see...
Re: FN-FORUM: Gmail broken?
date posted 1st November 2007 10:31
On 1 Nov 2007 11:15:25 -0000, Fiaz Khan [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>
> Is anyone else having problems sending emails from Gmail?
> Tried several times to different accounts and none have made it.
All OK...
FN-FORUM: Gmail broken?
date posted 1st November 2007 10:26
Is anyone else having problems sending emails from Gmail?
Tried several times to different accounts and none have made it....
Re: FN-FORUM: Help! Apache server being hammered and site keeps falling over!
date posted 1st November 2007 10:20
I had a similar problem in the past. And, just so you are aware of few things.
1) Sudden increase in users - how many users are you seeing. Normally
apache is quite capable of scaling. Of course prov...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 10:14
Martin,
> I actually went ahead and paid the training fee after reading his reply
> to my concerns and have since been sent links to two websites which
> I have studied and made thorough notes.
Wa...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help! Apache server being hammered and site keeps falling over!
date posted 1st November 2007 10:12
> This takes time and money, though; this is more about quick speed
> fixes, something which the config posted previously seems to have
> helped with.
My guess is a slow MySQL query: when I get these...
Re: FN-FORUM: Help! Apache server being hammered and site keeps falling over!
date posted 1st November 2007 01:52
On Thursday 01 November 2007 00:53:54 Ben Nolan wrote:
> The server has 4GB of RAM and two reasonably meaty processors. This
> shouldn't really be happening at all.
This sort of spec should be able...
Re: FN-FORUM: Anyone else receive an e-mail like this? Butler New Media
date posted 1st November 2007 00:31
Hi. I recently noticed a forum topic on the Freelancers Network site
regarding an approach made by Cornelius Butler. I too have been approached
by Cornelius and had a similar experience in regard to h...
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