http://www.sdnshare.com

Of course, good code gets a thums up:

[url #" style="display: block; background-image: url('http://editorandpunisher.typepad.com/suburban_tasteland/images/dsc00368.JPG'); width: 179px; height: 415px] [/url]

or would one rather have the dukes?

[url #" style="display: block; background-image: url('http://editorandpunisher.typepad.com/suburban_tasteland/images/dsc00380_1.JPG'); width: 194px; height: 383px] [/url]

(Duke's Masala Soda, that is)

Hippolytea at 2007-7-12 17:54:38 >

This SDN Share site is going to fail fast if they continue to make

people wait a whole day to post messages. The messages

should be managed by the community and we could flag spam

and advertisements.

and by the way, that fresh rabbit page made me throw up in my mouth a little, lol.

TuringPesta at 2007-7-21 21:56:54 >

> how long is too long?

> I know that the limit for the Description field is

> pretty short, but the content field allowed me some

> 500 lines of code and some text around it.

I don't know. They probably had problems at that time. I have now been able to post that shows how to use asm to find dependencies between classes.

It's about 500 lines of code, but fairly simple. I hope it will be accepted :)

kajbja at 2007-7-21 21:56:59 >

Seriously, while this of course had to lead to another geekinterview.com incarnation, I do appreciate the ability to post an article or tech tip somewhere. The problem is, whatever gem I could theoretically produce will probably get lost in lots of clutter.

I'm not nerdy enough to run yet another Java blog and posting anything here is pointless, so maybe that's a better way. One just has to care enough about it to use it.

CeciNEstPasUnProgrammeura at 2007-7-21 21:56:59 >

> Seriously, while this of course had to lead to

> another geekinterview.com incarnation, I do

> appreciate the ability to post an article or tech tip

> somewhere. The problem is, whatever gem I could

> theoretically produce will probably get lost in lots

> of clutter.

...unless you game the system, which appears relatively simple. Your 'goodness' score appears to be four * (vote total) + 2 * (number of comments). So even the crappiest code is considered 'good' if enough people talk about it. The default post ordering is by 'freshness,' which appears to be 'goodness' minus some penalty for age. Filestream's JTable will probably stay on the front page for quite some time.

MartinMa at 2007-7-21 21:56:59 >

> I think it needs more options than "cool" or "needs

> work".

>

> Like "please delete the pile of stinking trash".

> Maybe we can use tags for that, assuming user tags

> are public.

Exactly what I wanted to do with this one:

http://sdnshare.com/view.jsp?id=241

kajbja at 2007-7-21 21:57:00 >

Thanks for the tip TuringPest. I never realized that calling some private initializer methods could lead to breaking the encapsulation! Although I couldn't read your comment on the Article because the link is now broken when I try to view it... Stupid thing! Sent another mail this morning so that they fix this up...

Dalzhima at 2007-7-21 21:57:05 >

> The submission counter at sdnshare is not very good.

> A user's counter should be updated iff a code

> sample/tech tip/article is accepted for posting.

>Not when the submission is made.

Yes, but judging by the history of these forums, that site's going to get worse before it gets better.

bsampieria at 2007-7-21 21:57:05 >

> > > The submission counter at sdnshare is not very

> > good.

> > > A user's counter should be updated iff a code

> > > sample/tech tip/article is accepted for posting.

> > >Not when the submission is made.

> >

> > Yes, but judging by the history of these forums,

> that

> > site's going to get worse before it gets better.

>

> I am hoping that sdn is littered with less

> **** than the fora.

"i can make in more color"

for example?

cotton.ma at 2007-7-21 21:57:10 >

> Are we supposed to use html line breaks when

> submitting?

> Both my submission and my comment to dalzhim are just

> one

> long garbled line (whats new huh, lol?).

Yeah there definitely is an admin going through this site a lot. When I emailed them yesterday, I was told I could use basic html tags so I used some of them such as <pre> and it was replaced by <code> during the approval process.

Anyhow, my post is now fixed and I could read and reply to your comment TuringPest! ;)

Dalzhima at 2007-7-21 21:57:10 >

>> The approval process takes somewhere between 1 h and 36 h, I think. ;-)

Really, lol?

In that case I will post my submission here.

ENJOY!

THE OMNISCIENT UNIVERSAL ANSWER MACHINE

Before visiting http://forum.java.sun.com/index.jspa for the answers to

your panoply of questions pause and consult this Universal Answer

Machine. Im not exactly sure how it works. Somehow the underlying

bytecode that is created when this is compiled is able to tap into some

esoteric universal consciousness. Try it out. I am sure it will live up to

my claims. (Note: for non-windows users, edit the browserLoc value)

import java.util.Scanner;

public class UniversalAnswerMachine{

public static void main(String[] args){

System.out.print("Ask the Genie Your Question: ");

Scanner inputer = new Scanner(System.in);

String question = inputer.nextLine();

question = question.replaceAll("[^a-zA-Z0-9\\s]+", "");

question = question.replaceAll("\\s+", "+");

String browserLoc = "\"C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/iexplore.exe\"";

String googleURL = "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=" + question;

try{

Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();

Process process = runtime.exec(browserLoc + " " + googleURL);

} catch(Exception e){}

}

}

On second look, I should have added a cool filtering method to weed

out words like "the", "a" etc. Also "." should be kept as a character.

TuringPesta at 2007-7-21 21:57:10 >

> >> The approval process takes somewhere between 1 h

> and 36 h, I think. ;-)

>

> Really, lol?

> In that case I will post my submission here.

>

> ENJOY!

Needs more work :)

You can use java 6 to launch the default browser, and it will work on all platforms.

kajbja at 2007-7-21 21:57:10 >

> Not all platforms have a concept of "default

> browser". In fact, not all platforms have a

> browser.

YAT, if you dont upgrade your Commodore to comply with [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawinski's_law_of_software_envelopment]zawinski's law[/url] we will have to take it away from you.

TuringPesta at 2007-7-21 21:57:15 >