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BrandonThe New GUI Blog
The GUI "Blog" right now is not much of a blog, it's a forum, and although it makes social interaction simple, it's not so great when it comes to actually working with GUIs and content. But no CMS has what the blog needs, a system where GUI Authors can post screenshots, downloads, and news posts and have them all on individual project pages as well on front page. I really need to learn more PHP so today I sat down and spent quite a few hours starting on a new CMS, hopefully by the end of the week we can have it running side by side with the current side and with-in a few weeks it can be the new blog. Wish me luck :P		2010-02-1711:26 PM
pharoahRe:The New GUI Blog
Take a hint from somebody who knows. Learn SQL and then use a database to store stuff. SQL is easy to learn, and then you can search and index everything with ease, store and retrieve using simple commands like SELECT FROM News WHERE DATE > 2010-02-20;, and not have to worry about how you'll maintain stuff or what you'll do when you need to add more data. I'd also suggest using either SQLite or MySQL with innodb as the database engine.		2010-02-191:11 AM
BrandonRe:The New GUI Blog
My dad is a database programmer, and I have been using phpMyAdmin (it can generate SQLs). I installed Apache+MySQL+PHP on my desktop and have been developing for the last 2 days straight, I hope to be able to get a beta on-line relatively soon.		2010-02-1910:11 AM
ToddRe:The New GUI Blog
Pharoah, isn't MyISAM better for huge volumes of data? Or is InnoDB?		2010-02-191:00 PM
BrandonReady for Testers
I'm ready for BETA testers on the new blog! PS: In a couple weeks we'll be holding an 8kb GUI contest, so if you want to start now, feel free.		2010-02-192:29 PM
BrandonNew Blog is Public
I was hoping that Todd could get me his fancy checkbox grid anti-spam system before I posted this, but I suppose that we won't get spam in the time it takes to get the system. I wrote this site my myself in PHP with the use of MySQL minus the forum which is a hacked up version of FlatForum by PhatCode. This means that the site is highly customized for the GUI Blog and customized for our specific site. Having hand written the code I can modify anything that we want to make the Blog a perfect place. Please note that this, the Joomla!, version of the site will reside at the theguiblog.com domain until approximately 4PM EST Friday, when the new blog will take over. The goal is to have the new blog stable and working by then. Enough ranting, please take the time now to register at http://wwww.theguiblog.com and sign-up any GUI you've made or any GUI that you like. Please contact me with any comments/bug reports.		2010-02-2012:46 PM
ysftRe:New Blog is Public
Yes! The new site is great. It's better then a forum I think. Now I must go and write a big GUI so that I can sign up and post and be a part of the gui blog.		2010-02-2212:25 AM
BrandonThis Blog will be going down.
I am hoping to have the grand opening of the new Blog on Saturday, this site will be unavailable (at least initially). Please make sure to back-up any important data, and get some GUIs,Reviews, and forum posts on the new site to make it look good for the grand opening.		2010-02-2311:02 AM
ToddRe:This Blog will be going down.
Why not convert the forum data into the new blog?		2010-02-2312:26 PM
BrandonRe:This Blog will be going down.
The forums are vastly different, ones in a SQL and other is test file based. At some point I'll make this site available as archive.		2010-02-235:17 PM
SonicBritRe:This Blog will be going down.
one thing thats always helpful is asking questions for how to do something in basic, maybe you could do a question/answer type thing on the new site? (kind of like what yahoo does)		2010-02-242:05 PM
BrandonRe:This Blog will be going down.
It's called a forum :P		2010-02-244:15 PM
bongomenoRe:Ready for Testers
8kb GUI? but Qbasic is not capable of creating anything under 10k/ :unsure:		2010-02-269:49 AM
BrandonRe:Ready for Testers
8KB Source!!!		2010-02-2610:41 AM
agumaRe:Ready for Testers
try compiling PRINT "hi" without any libraries. it's 4k. (i think)		2010-02-266:37 PM
ksrRe:Ready for Testers
Actually sonicbrit has an idea. Do you remember the 'knowledge base' one old QB site had? (could have been Dav's)		2010-02-266:37 PM
agumaRe:Ready for Testers
woah we posted within 20 seconds of each other!!!		2010-02-266:38 PM
ysftRe:Ready for Testers
[b]aguma wrote:[/b] [quote]try compiling PRINT "hi" without any libraries. it's 4k. (i think)[/quote] No way in Quickbasic. Even most C compilers won't achieve that.		2010-02-279:41 PM
agumaRe:Ready for Testers
in qb4.5 it's 3.2kb, but in 7.1 it's 16kb...		2010-02-281:55 PM
ysfthaha
I think your making an exe that requires brun45. That one keeps all qbasic functions in the brun45. And brun45 is something like 77kb. The exe will not run without it. Try making a stand alone exe.		2010-02-282:39 PM
ToddRe:Ready for Testers
[b]ysft wrote:[/b] [quote][b]aguma wrote:[/b] [quote]try compiling PRINT "hi" without any libraries. it's 4k. (i think)[/quote] No way in Quickbasic. Even most C compilers won't achieve that.[/quote] You can in Assembler. :P		2010-02-288:36 PM
agumaRe:Ready for Testers
no its standalone		2010-02-2810:08 PM
pharoahRe:Ready for Testers
[quote] Pharoah, isn't MyISAM better for huge volumes of data? Or is InnoDB? [/quote] Bit late of a response, but I believe that you're correct in that MyISAM offers a slight performance advantage over InnoDB. But, afaik, it doesn't enforce foreign keys, which are a Good Thing, and IMHO should be used when you're designing a database. I'd imagine that proper normalization can help with performance, and foreign keys encourage normalization. I knew that the default DB engine was a bit faster, but I figured that, since this blog isn't likely to even several thousand hits each day, it's better to go with the more full-featured engine over the faster one. EDIT: Here's a link: http://tag1consulting.com/MySQL_Engines_MyISAM_vs_InnoDB		2010-02-2810:50 PM

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