Archive for September, 2008

Bookmarking threads on an SMF board

This is one of those features I’ve been wanting to add to my photography forum for a while now, but I just got around to it this weekend.
With the addition of a database table, a new template file, a few source files, and changes to several others, my Simple Machines Forum now gives my users [...]

Forum dispute escalated to murder

From the Guardian
A German computer gamer is being held in connection with the murder of a British university student after an apparent cyberspace dispute escalated into a killing.
Read the entire article at the Guardian.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fforumsblogswikis.com%2F2008%2F09%2F27%2Fforum-dispute-escalated-to-murder%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Forum+dispute+escalated+to+murder’;
addthis_pub = ‘RyanNutt’;

Why blocking right-clicks is a waste of time

There’s another forum I’m on where the discussion of blocking right-clicks comes up every few days it seems.  People put up their first website and are terrified when they find out how easy it is to right-click on an image and save it.
The problem is that it’s trivial for anyone with a moderate amount of [...]

How to embed a Google Video in SMF

About a year ago I wrote a post on how to embed a YouTube video in a Simple Machines Forum post. Well, as it works out today I needed to embed a Google Video in a post so I went through and did almost the same process to get it to work.

addthis_url [...]

Debug function for FireBug

If you do much JavaScript coding and have FireBug odds are good you know that you can call console.info() to output to the FireBug console. But what happens if you leave your console.info() call in your code and a visitor looks with IE? It’ll throw an error. So here’s a quick, little [...]