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kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:18 pm

For now I am on 12 level, but still moving forward

By the way,
just made new webpage for one of my customers (he is photographer):
http://hosting0271693.az.pl/customers/pswic/portfolio/

All effects and animations are made using jQuery, no Flash used.
What do you think?

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:33 pm

Topic seem dying a little...

So i'll start new topic, what was your day today?
Today I spent whole day on designing logo for one of my customers.
It's band plays on weddings, dances etc, also providing photographing, video recording and sound hardware.
They company is named "FOCUS" (in full name: Music Agency Focus).
Everything is ok, but completely dunno why they name their company "FOCUS".
Also, I am not sure that they even know what FOCUS mean

Had some troubles with designing logo (also, I was was designing logo for a first time, before only webpages) because name of their company have completely no connection to things which their company do.
But finally, after 9 work-hours I made some propositions and sent them to give opinion.

And how your day passed?

Luben · Post by **Luben** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:34 pm

School, finally started an introductory course in opengl (after having attended a few that listed this course as prerequisites; the system is a little screwed up regarding that), more school, then when i went jogging/running in the forrest with two of my friends they suddenly dissapeared and i haven't seen them since.

Adler1337 · Post by **Adler1337** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 9:53 pm

then when i went jogging/running in the forrest with two of my friends they suddenly dissapeared and i haven't seen them since.

Today was the first day back in college for me. That's pretty much all i did today.

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:34 pm

Luben wrote:then when i went jogging/running in the forrest with two of my friends they suddenly dissapeared and i haven't seen them since..

Sounds like scene from horror movie

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Wed Jan 19, 2011 9:30 pm

http://www.phpro.org/articles/How-To-Be ... -Guru.html

Wtf is this?

I hope this is only a joke.
This guy is writing about how to become a "guru programmer".
I am opening that link and what see?
Not showing code, using "buzzwords", ...
It's more tutorial how to become a "lame 12 years old coder who think is experienced software enginner" than "guru programmer"

edit: typo

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:57 am

This reminds me of the "anti-coding-guidelines" I once got by eMail (don't have them anymore

). These have shown a way to make you essential for a project you're working on. I just remember some of those:

1. make huge methods
2. always give speaking names for your local variables (i.e. numberOfBytesRead)
3. reuse you variables from point 2 in your methods from point 1 once their original use has been done because of memory/performance reasons
4. make functions/methods with names similar to each other that do different things. For the differences in the name prefer the letters "l" (lower case of "L") and "I" (upper case of "i") or "1")
...

In other words: this article is complete nonsense. Even if you could be able to convince some not that experienced programmers from being a Guru sooner or later someone will notice that you are just an idiot

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:57 am

Brainsaw wrote: In other words: this article is complete nonsense. Even if you could be able to convince some not that experienced programmers from being a Guru sooner or later someone will notice that you are just an idiot

Exactly.

Btw, it remembers me one, really good text about how to become good programmer.
It's "How to become a Hacker", by Eric Raymond:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

esr did really great job writing this

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:42 am

98% certain that article is a joke...

...

Is that entire website a joke!? I go to the main page, and the first new article is this:
http://www.phpro.org/articles/Swede-Fro ... -Code.html

> After the failure of the Hello World project

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:57 am

xDan wrote:> After the failure of the Hello World project

I dunno what is with that site.
Found it by searching "MVC php tutorial", and found this article:
http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/Model-Vi ... r-MVC.html
which is really good, can say one of best tutorials of MVC for PHP on Net.
But why articles is written in this way... dunno

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:22 pm

And again thread is dying

Try to start new topics interesting topics here, ask people for something, or maybe show your recent projects which you are proud of... anything!
We will make more new friends and make closer to community.
We know each other here, in our community, only as programmers.
Let's know each other more personally

So, Ill start new topic.
Do you play any instruments, maybe sing?
I am playing acoustic/classic guitar, also singing for a bit before sold hardware (needed money).
My fav songs on guitar are:
Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin,
The Unforgiven by Metallica,
Mama Said by Metallica,
Something in the Way by Nirvana.
And more, but forgot

I can show you one of my recording...
on one alcohol-libation my friend asked me to record something...
he know that I sing mostly old rock ballads... so I made him joke and singed Madonna

Heres link to recording:
http://w246.wrzuta.pl/audio/1cvfnKhHdzD/d

So, do you play any instrument, or sing?

Eigen · Post by **Eigen** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:06 pm

I sing and play guitar in band, though things are moving slowly atm. Anyway, songs and a couple of live videos can be found HERE

Some time ago I made a quick recording of a song I wanted to play with my new band and to give them some ideas. It's in Estonian, so it probably sounds a little weird to you. Also it's incomplete .. link .. music is done in Guitar Pro. I hope my high pitched singing voice doesn't scare you

Most people find it to be quite unique. I don't speak in that tone obviously.

kazymjir, nice song

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Thu Jan 20, 2011 8:52 pm

Nice Eigen!
I like music your band play. Downloaded some songs

You can sing really high, what is your scale?

I have some materials from my friends band, here is video of lead guitarist mad solo:
http://vimeo.com/17782380

and song that their lead guitarist composed:
http://w613.wrzuta.pl/audio/8DdbsXr9vkQ/for_eigen
(ps: this is not full song, just mix of his ideas)

They play really good, but still have no vocalist.
Also, last time they lost their second guitarist (because of drugs - I said him acid is better, but he went to opioids

).

I am sad that I cannot show you any of my "normal" recordings, don't have anything on HDD, and after I sold my interface and microphone I don't have hardware to record

But I think guys from band that I sent you link can have some recording when we was recording some stuff together, I'll ask them.

Brainsaw · Post by **Brainsaw** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:00 am

OK, this seems to be a topic for me. I play Bass, and I did already play in a couple of bands, from most of which you can download some songs (all pages except for one are in German, sorry for that):

- my first band: "The wranglers": http://wranglers.bulletbyte.de/
- number two: "clochard": http://clochard.bulletbyte.de/
- the current band: "killing cockroaches: http://killing-cockroaches.de/
- and a little side project I did some years ago: A.D.O.N.I.S. hates me: http://adonishatesme.bulletbyte.de/ (just two mp3s for a musical forum I am member of) or http://www.myspace.com/adonishatesme/music for some more songs

I did a lot of the recording on these pages (just the Wranglers stuff and all but the "last breath" "album" by clochard were recorded in studios).

This is one really great hobby, lot of fun. But it seems that we (killing cockroaches) are just unable to make singers stick with us, so we're currently trying to go instrumental

kazymjir · Post by **kazymjir** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:14 pm

Nice Brainsaw!

I also wanted to play guitar some time ago (even when i was buying interface for microphone, specially choosed one with guitar input: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrack.html).
Unfortunately, every time I find some nice guitar on internet auctions, someone overbids me in last moments

At first I wanted Epiphone EB-0 (Gibson clone) for start, later collected some money and I lost 2 auctions of Epiphone Thunderbird (this black one)

Now, I sold my interface, microphone and other music stuff (i left only classical and acoustic guitar, i love those instruments too much

).
I had little depression (no motivation to code), and I said to myself that I am programmer and that is what I'll do to end of my life, no other things