thomseddon

It seems to make more sense to post the TC article and let them "battle it out" with votes. With no justification what's been done here certainly does seem odd and, frankly, smacks of some kind of ulterior motive...

It's not really important, just curious if this is some kind of mod preference for TC? :)

Also, similarly to OP, we are regularly (fortnightly) automatically put in "I'm Under Attack" mode without any prior warning or consent which is quite annoying as it tends to happen overnight so I am not alerted until someone checks the live site in the morning (it still returns a 200 so current checks don't pick it up)

Frankly with the amount of plugins I usually use (0-2) this isn't really problem...

The point is, there are some great features and fixes tucked away in there and sometimes I only want say <5-10% of the library, I could write it myself but then I loose all the collective knowledge embroiled throughout.

Despite this, every time I start a new project that requires some DOM manipulation etc I lament at having to include the entire library just to harness a tiny aspect of it's power.

A delightful solution to this would be a similar degree of modularity as there is in, for example, jQueyr UI. I know there is a degree of modularity (https://github.com/jquery/jquery#modules-new-in-18) but this is reasonably high level and at this level the argument of using google's CDN and so encouraging a cache hit is still very strong. If you could strip both jQuery core and shizzle (I rarely/never use attribute selectors for example) right down to a hundred lines of so of what you really needed, this would be very very compelling.

I had a relatively brief investigation into the codebase a while ago with a view to how hard this would be to implement but didn't really have the time to follow it through. My conclusion was that it wouldn't be easy, anyone have any ideas/thoughts on this?

Does this include time to implement + time to write blog post about why you did it? :)

I jest, but as screen size variation isn't resticted to mobile devices I tend to go at least "semi responsive" from 1140 to perhaps 800 (http://cssgrid.net/)

Also, would be very interested to know if you have plans as to how (or if) you will overcome the issues you would have if you wanted to scale such a bespoke service?

If you like the concept of "extending html" as used here then you should probably checkout AngularJS: http://angularjs.org

Two things kind of leave me undecided:

1) Narrow brief: Here they are very narrow and specific about what areas would be suitable and it is clearly very closely aligned with their own interests. (However a blog post from one of the companies on the judging panel gives a more open ended brief: http://import.io/barclays-social-enterprise-hackathon-2013/)

2) Outcome: There aren't any "prizes". I suppose this is social enterprise, so you could consider a monetary (or similar) prize as slightly against "the spirit", but really I was kind of expecting more of an incentive from a huge multinational bank?

Anyone else seen this or otherwise have any thoughts on this event?

Brilliant, made me smile :)

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With the actual text "Your password", Phew!! Not quite sure it's necessary to include this line, for the sake of your users cardiovascular health you may wish to consider removing it!

(Oh, do really like this site, started using it already as you can see!)

It also acts as a fallback version control :)

Would be good if you could "lock" the screen size as it's annoying when you try and start/resize boxes to full width as your cursor changes to an arrow to resize the screen..

And the TL;DR: http://www.dnb.co.uk/myduns

So you can tag stuff (granted, quite useful) and search tags? Is this more useful that googling what you want/need?

Edit: This only happens if you resize the window, it never overflows when setting device width

After a couple of days of trial and error (kept failing due to too many open file handles) we now have it running smoothly but have noticed little to no speed improvement both vs what it was before and vs other sites on the same environment.

Would be interesting to know if anyone else has had a similar/dissimilar experience...?

I like how easy it is so get started with wordpress (PHP environment + famous simple "installer") and I find it's popularity staggering (very high proportion of ALL new websites)

However, after making custom themes and modules, and trying to hack others, and doing a fairly lengthy performance review I must say I intensely dislike it from a development perspective, particularly the architecture (or comparatively lack of).

I have a vision of a clean, well written and architected MVC blogging platform that is a joy to use for both users and developers.

It would have to be PHP/MySQL (simvla is Rails and unfortunately this just cuts off most of the market), I would use an established framework (CakePHP would be my preference).

I have been debating for about 12 months just writing it (possibly forking wordpress to help the core developers follow my decisions) but I know adoption would be governed by users, and do they want to change? No!

I've almost resigned myself to the fact that no matter how good my intentions, it would just end up another "snail after a storm"

This.

Why on earth is every decent phone so bloody big? Now, I've never had a "large screen" phone before so my concerns may be unfounded but I feel that as I don't carry a handbag/manbag and my phone resides in my jeans pocket 99% of the time i'm on the move, anything over say 80/90mm long is just going to become an utter liability with respect to falling out and/or breakage? That aside from the fact that anything larger than that must be a pain to lug around?

Is this something anyone else has struggled with? Are my impressions unfounded?

For now I'm sticking with my old flip style Motorola Razor (beside it has the totally brilliant "Hello Moto" ring tone :)

To bring this back to the parent discussion: Few would argue that Mr O'Dwyer has been unfairly treated with respect to the current law. Some do, however, argue that it is the extradition statute itself that is unfair, with Mr O'Dwyers case being an example. As a matter of interest, Theresa May has recently announced some changes to the extradition process following the results of the Baker Review. (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/media-centre/news/gary-mckinnon...)