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[edit] Offline copy of Rosetta Code?

Rosetta Code is interesting, and it would be more interesting if there was an offline or SVN version. Is such thing exist?

—Anta40

No such thing exists. I've looked into creating a PDF and paper form a few times, but it hasn't gotten off the ground. --Short Circuit 09:50, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rosetta theme

Is there still something wrong with the theme? Is it ready to be default yet? --Mwn3d 19:08, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

It's got ugly issues with IE. Aside from that, I think it's fine. I've been using it as my personal default for so long, I've forgotten that RC still looks like Wikipedia to most other users. --Short Circuit 00:12, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Page error

I see this message at the top of your page: 

Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/17652913.rss (HTTP Error: connection failed () in /var/www/rosettacode.org/public/w/includes/magpierss/rss_fetch.inc on line 238

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/rosettacode.org/public/w/extensions/XFeeds.php on line 42

Heh. Yeah, xfeeds isn't a very gentle RSS reader. Probably got blocked by Twitter. --Short Circuit 18:19, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

Looks like there was some sort of server glitch going on. I don't know if it was Slicehost-related, or if it was a problem with my version/configuration combination for Apache and PHP. I upgraded all the distro software, reloaded apache a few times, and it appears to work. --Short Circuit 19:41, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] TeX/LaTeX

I am not sure about what you are asking for. I've seen incredible things done with TeX beyond its common use (like Mandelbrot fractals!), but here I suppose you mean more tasks for TeX/LaTeX as document typesetting system? Isn't there the risk to write a sort of "manual" (scattered in tasks) for LaTeX/plainTeX rather than a comparable "stuff"? I mean, TeX apart, which are other languages it can compare to in its "document preparation" category? TeX could be used, with effort, to do some computation like other languages, while other languages hardly can prepare documents; I know I am always full of annoying doubts, but if you could explain deeply what you mean... (Once upon a time I was sort of almost-TeXspert, but nowadays I lazily use LaTeX and its packages...). If I stumble upon a non computational task suitable for TeX/LaTeX, I will try to add these. --ShinTakezou 21:19, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Infinity complex

No I don't know "Infinity complex"; indeed I've never played RPGs with a computer... but your (strange to me) use of the sledge to break walls inspired me the sentence; I imagined me launching the sledge as a bowling ball through the opened wall and seeing it disappear in the darkness of the next room (but still the "sliding-noise" could be heard for a while)... I would have thought that the sledge slided well, and so I wrote it :D --ShinTakezou 10:58, 6 April 2009 (UTC)


[edit] Semi-protected and blocking

I WAS User:200.101.254.76‎. I was just trying to protect MY OWN USER TALK.

Please see: Pp-semi-usertalk.

Semi-protecting my own user talk it's just for random anonymous don't leave comments at my talk page.

My IP just got banned because a random anonymous self-called "expert" keeped deleting C# examples and putting stupid comments in C# my examples?

I was not intimidating anyone. I was just trying to stop comments from User:99.136.216.62‎ in my Talk Page.

But, just forgot this.

I will stopping contribute in C# examples, because "people" just keep deleting them and replacing them with deprecated code because they don't like newer versions of the language.

And, 99.136.216.62 just spammed in my User Talk, added intimidating comments at my examples and not even get "warned".

And, whatever, ban me for 3 days if you want too.

--User:Guga360

In my defense, I was cleaning up some of the C# examples. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to talk to you except by posting on your talk page. I did not mean to harass, but I did want to make it clear that I didn't appreciate you undoing my edits, since I put a lot of time/effort into them to try to enhance the site. I know C# pretty darn well, and I thought I would help the site's examples for that language.

Maybe we should work together on the C# examples instead of wasting time with this childish bickering.

--Special:Contributions/99.136.216.62

Replied to on Guga360's talk page. --Short Circuit 06:15, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Error in Unimplemented Task Counts?

I was looking at “Tasks not implemented in Tcl” and I noticed that when I manually counted the number of tasks left in the list I got 14 despite the bot-generated count being 20. What gives? —Dkf 13:10, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

There are a few tasks where there used to be logic errors regarding their being included in the task list. It's possible they're being double-counted. The tasks which would likely have issues would be Category:RCRPG, Category:RCSNUSP and Category:RCBF. --Short Circuit 14:33, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
Well, we've got those all implemented and we're still 1 short somewhere. We can't easily tell where it is either, since Find unimplemented tasks#Tcl gets it right as far as we know. —Dkf 15:23, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
ImplSearchBot needs to be fixed, then. I've got the SourceForge project accepted, I just need to load ISB's code into a git repo there. Don't have time at the moment, but it's at the top of my priority list; The sooner I get the code into a standard code repo, the sooner people with more time than I've been having of late will be able to improve it. --Short Circuit 15:36, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

[edit] GeSHi highlighter for PowerBASIC

I finally have a preliminary version of a PowerBASIC highlighter for GeSHi. Do you want it? If so, where should I put it? -- Eriksiers 19:09, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Run the language check script on it, fix any issues that crop up. Email the file to me when ready. Alternately, put it in a wiki page, but note the second license to be compatible with that of GeSHi. --Michael Mol 19:12, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Tomorrow, then. I only brought the highlighter itself from home, and I don't even remember seeing a check script. Sigh. (I don't expect any issues, since I used the QBasic highlighter as a template, but better safe than sorry I guess.) -- Eriksiers 19:23, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
No worries. I probably won't be able to get to it until later in the week, or even this coming weekend. --Michael Mol 19:28, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Sorry that I haven't sent this yet. Multiple (unrelated) problems on my end, plus I can't get GeSHi to work on my home machine to test with. (I'm not terribly surprised, though. I don't know the first thing about PHP, and very, very little about running a web server, not to mention my extremely limited off hours.) If I can pull some free time outta some inconvenient orifice in the next few days, I'll get it tested. In the meantime, if you'd like, I can upload it somewhere... or something... -- Eriksiers 00:19, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Send it to my email address, and I'll test it when I get around to testing the three or four other language files that have been sitting around waiting. If you manage to test it before I write a blog post saying GeSHi has been updated, let me know. :)
If Underscore's web forms app works, and can be made to only generate code that passes the test, then that may be a quick and effective approach as well. --Michael Mol 00:23, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Actually... I got copies of the current PB versions last night. (PB/Win 9 & PB/CC 5.) Lots of new keywords. I need to redo the highlighter... whaddya know. [shrug] I'll send it to you whenever I get it done, tested or otherwise. Probably a few days at the very least. -- Eriksiers 15:20, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Rosetta Code:Add a Language

That's a well written page. Thanks for adding it.

[edit] Dec. 6 Trove of New Users

I've noticed a plethora of new registrations today (this weekend in general). Have you any indications of an event that perpetrated this occurance?--Rldrenth 02:04, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes. --Michael Mol 02:22, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Common.css

91.168.179.243 has taken issue with examples with long lines, and (if I recall correctly) other people have complained about the same thing in the recent past. Would you consider making the CSS change I suggested, which would hopefully make long lines less of a problem? —Underscore (Talk) 15:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Great, it seems to work nicely. You may want to use pre as the selector instead of just .highlighted_source so that it also applies to program output that isn't in lang tags. —Underscore (Talk) 18:34, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

Is this supposed to be working now? If it is and it does what I think it does, it's not working (unless it takes time to propagate through). See this example: Amb#E. I don't see any scrollbars there. Are they supposed to come up automatically? Even when I changed the lang tags to pre tags and previewed it didn't do anything. --Mwn3d 20:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
It doesn't seem to work for me for FF3.6, either, even after cache clearing. I don't have time to mess with this today. :( --Michael Mol 21:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
You mistyped the selector: you wrote .pre, which means "elements belonging to the class named pre", when you meant pre, which means "<pre> elements". —Underscore (Talk) 23:37, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
That did it. Cool. --Michael Mol 23:43, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Spammer?

I suspect (on the basis of what you removed earlier from Category talk:Programming Tasks) that User:Rkcy81 is a spammer. Fits the pattern. You might want to take action sooner rather than later. –Donal Fellows 13:16, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

The username and edit fit the patterns I've seen before, but creating an account requires human intervention, due to the CAPTCHA. It's easy enough to revert all of a user's edits, if necessary. I'm going to hold off for a bit. I've got an idea for how to allow someone with privilege adjustment permissions to force a suspect account to service CAPTCHA requests for each edit, and that might be a better solution in the long run. --Michael Mol 13:57, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Automating infrastructure

Concerning what we talked about before: I haven't been keeping up with recent changes very well lately, so when you write that village-pump post, please leave me a message on my talk page or send me an email. —Underscore (Talk) 12:46, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] My First Contribution

Hi,

thank you for greeting me, the boilerplate is no problem for me, I am also a contributer to Wikipedia and know the problem.

Today I made my first contribution (http://rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Loops%2FFor&diff=76344&oldid=76268), maybe you just can tell me, if this is okay or, if not, what I should do better.

Greetings --RF - ♫♪ 09:57, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I can't see anything wrong with it. I won't worry about it too much; if you do something wrong, someone will probably correct it. if you repeatedly do something a regular find frustrating or irritating, they'll leave a note on your talk page and help you with it. --Michael Mol 16:51, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
Thank You --RF - ♫♪ 20:37, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with math after move

After Sunday's move, I'm having problems adding math to a page. When I add 

<math>n \div 2</math>

I get this error message 

Failed to parse (Cannot write to or create math output directory): n \div 2

Looks like something isn't quite right yet… –Donal Fellows 21:29, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

It's funny, because I tested that. I'm certain I did. Well, I'll look at it. --Michael Mol 22:19, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
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