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jsteele

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    Comment #1000944

    Sounds a lot like the various AdSense horror stories. A recent one: http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss/browse_thread...

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    Comment #1000405

    Oh no, have they started to embed scribd on web-pages. I absolutely hate scribd. Worst thing to hit the internet since that guy crying about Brittney Spears on youtube.

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    Comment #1000099

    I must be missing something. Can't you just put your city's name in with your other search terms when using a normal app store? What does this add over that?

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    Comment #990395

    http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://codinghorror.com/ --PidGin128 via bmn

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    Comment #949099

    I have found the best non-PayPal solution to be iTransact ( http://www.itransact.com/marketing/referral/S33oOO ). They combine the gateway and the merchant account, and have lower …

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    Comment #948808

    As a veteran developer, I too was hit by RSI, and strongly urge you to first start using speech recognition for dictating all of your e-mail messages, code comments, documentation,…

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    Comment #948805

    Too low, or high enough to prompt you to join the profession?

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    Comment #942353

    I wonder if this book has any novel information that isn't available in the dozens of other books on the subject, or in the one I read fifteen years ago that covered all the exampl…

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    Comment #895948

    I tried ZF a while back, but don't recall how it would resolve this issue. Can you be specific?

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    Comment #895947

    All true. I've bounced back and forth. On a previous project, there was no need for stepping through the code, so header() trumped. My current project has benefitted greatly from t…

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    Comment #895944

    The privacy page is just an example. Your scenario replaces it with a confirmation page. So the problem still stands: How do you go to the ?page=contact-submit page? Do you use hea…

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    Comment #895938

    I agree with all that, but how do you solve the problem I posed initially?

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    Comment #895935

    It's not dictating the code architecture -- it's one of many factors to consider Naturally I'm using a session variable. But the URL mismatch remains.

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    Comment #895928

    Thanks for the reply. How does an exit() after header() help? It still causes a discontinuity in an IDE.

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    How best to navigate to a PHP page after a form submit?

    Experienced PHP programmers know that there are various ways of structuring pages within a website. Years ago, a common approach was to place every major page into a separate PHP f…

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    Comment #888618

    That example of coding an elfLikesMe attribute for 150 monster types, why to code it at all? My first hunch would be to use SQL table for monster attributes, then adding new attrib…

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    Comment #868874

    You should definitely try fasting (no food, water only). After a couple of days there should be visible results (You will feel Yourself different). Another possible advice is to li…

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    Comment #848143

    Anyone tried them, how is their service?

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    Comment #845678

    If I didn't think you were violating google and bing legal rights, I would say bullseye!

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    Comment #843706

    I've also seen too many blog posts trumpeting the amazing ability to do something-or-other in three lines of Ruby -- one or two of which are loading some library that does all the …

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    Comment #817282

    I believe the ebook option at http://apress.com/book/view/1430219483 is a PDF.

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    Comment #792157

    Definitely deserves props for persistence and constant iteration. Perhaps they have cracked the secret of getting TechCrunch coverage: Just keep changing your name! Feb 25, 2009: F…

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    Comment #792038

    "Media is not the key. In fact, we can't change the media/entertainment world, but change perception of things in our society." Where do you think "perception of things in our soci…