djpretzel 6 hour coding-fest appreciation

[DarkeSword]

Hey guys. Dave worked really hard on a lot of backend shit today. You won't really see any differences, but its a big deal as far as behind the scenes stuff goes. LETS SHOW SOME APPRECIATION

RIGHT ON PRETZEL MAN

RIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

edit: god its late i should sleep

[Liontamer]

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[Broken]

Horray for Dave!
Keep up the good work on all of the site revamps.

[CHz]

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[Lanodantheon]

Right on!

Thank you Dave!

[avaris]

Muchos Gracias!

Of course now DJP prob looks like this --> :sleepdepriv:

[Palpable]

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Not visible to you, perhaps. On a side note, what do you guys think of the new No-Larries forum?

[Hausdog]

[quote=avaris;388364]Muchos Gracias!/quote]

Way to say "Muchas gracias."

Also, the no-Larries forum is the best thing to happen to OCR in the history of everything.

Thanks for improving OCR!

[JJT]

OCR, now with 60% less communist subversion

[Fishy]

I love the "hide all sensible comments" feature of the control pannel.

gg dave

[starla]

Hoooraaaaay :D

[Critical Hit]

Thanks for everything you do around here, Dave. Hope you're taking it easy right now.:sleepzzz:

[Zombie]

:nicework::nicework::nicework:

Good man DJP, good man.

[The Unsung Plumber]

If I lived anywhere near you, I would share this awesome DQ blizzard I am having. But alas, I am not, so these kind words must suffice.

[sae]

I love the "hide all sensible comments" feature of the control pannel.

gg dave

Is there a way to disable that feature?

Thanks DJP!

[Hum4n After All]

"Clip it together, try to keep and staying Alive."
Dave deserves like 50 shots.

[CHIPP Damage]

Thanks a lot DJP! I am always happy that you continue to run the site for us with steady improvements to boot. So how was the food at this coding festival? Were there cute girls?!

[The Pezman]

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I know you're joking and all, but my thanks might be a little more meaningful if I had some idea of he actually did. "He did some stuff and now the site is better, trust me" falls a little flat in my book.

Let me know and he'll have my gratitude.

[DarkeSword]

I know you're joking and all, but my thanks might be a little more meaningful if I had some idea of he actually did. "He did some stuff and now the site is better, trust me" falls a little flat in my book.

Let me know and he'll have my gratitude.

Wow. You're kind of a jerk.

[V___]

Wow. You're kind of a jerk.

I'd say the basis of his comment is justified

[djpretzel]

I'd say the basis of his comment is justified

Except that:
If I thought the meaning of what I coded would be transparent and easy to convey, I would have done so.
Having to explain it, especially when it's likely to mean nothing to most visitors, is basically a waste of my time, which the initial post should have indicated is in rather short supply.Furthermore, I don't give two fucks whether I've earned the respect of "Pezman" or not. The only thing he's earned, in my book, is an opinion of him as being a self-important asshole who's deluded into thinking everyone should explain themselves so as to earn his respect, which I'm guessing he's probably the highest assessor of.

If you want to be ungrateful, rude, and self-important, do it somewhere else. The point of the thread was that I spend a shitload of time working on the site, and often it's on stuff you don't see. In this case, switching from mysql to mysqli and refactoring datalists into a class hierarchy. There, hope that satisfies you.

Maybe someday, when you pour your heart into something and experience such degrees of ego combined with dismissive attitude, you'll learn to understand that whether the "basis" of a such a comment is "justified" really isn't the point...

[atmuh]

djp ban pezman i will love you forever

[DarkeSword]

I'd say the basis of his comment is justified
While Dave said it best, I'd just like to add that this thread for for the purpose of SHOWING APPRECIATION for the specific hard-work he did. He mentioned late that night before going to bed that he'd spent something like 6 hours coding things. I figured I'd mention it to everyone, even if such things were invisible to the end user, so that we could all just collectively say "Hey, thanks."

Dismissing my post as "he did some stuff to the site, trust me" insinuates that I'm lying about it. Why would I lie about it? Can't you people just show some appreciation without overthinking things just once? Sometimes I'm baffled by some people here. :|

Anyway I just wanna say that I'm glad a few people understood the point of this thread.

[atmuh]

YOU USED THE WRONG EMOTICON DS WHERE IS THE ROLLEYES
oh ya and with little coding i have done in my life i can appreciate crazy coding that people do
that crap is DIFFICULT

[V___]

While Dave said it best, I'd just like to add that this thread for for the purpose of SHOWING APPRECIATION for the specific hard-work he did. He mentioned late that night before going to bed that he'd spent something like 6 hours coding things. I figured I'd mention it to everyone, even if such things were invisible to the end user, so that we could all just collectively say "Hey, thanks."

Dismissing my post as "he did some stuff to the site, trust me" insinuates that I'm lying about it. Why would I lie about it? Can't you people just show some appreciation without overthinking things just once? Sometimes I'm baffled by some people here. :|

Anyway I just wanna say that I'm glad a few people understood the point of this thread.

I understand the point of this thread, and I never said anything about not appreciating the effort put in by DJP. I simply stated that I thought Pezmans comment was justified, after you simply dismissed his post calling him a jerk, rather than responding with some sort of valid argument. Its similiar to the childhood arguments where one will call the other ugly or stupid, something along those lines not responding on the topic, and the child is deemed to have 'won' the argument despite unless the other responds in a similiar manner (which isnt possible on a forum vs a mod). Rather than just calling him names you could have made comments like Dave and yourself just did, or simply ignored his post. My assumption would be that the wording of the original post may have prompted Pezmans response; I wouldnt neccessarily have 'thanks' for DJP for this recent coding binge (unless I knew what I'm thankful for), however I am (and have been since the discovery of this site) thankful/appreciative of DJPs continued efforts on this site.

TlDr; I was simply pointing out that Pezmans point was a valid one, and DS's response to Pezman was unnecessary and unsatisfactory imo.


DJP: Sorry, that post was directed toward DS, and was not meant the way you read it. Regardless of what you have been/are doing, you still get lots of thanks for this website, for future and retroactive efforts. Thank you, and again apologies for the miscommunication.

[Ciel]

"heh you wont impress me w/you 6.05 hour of codeing, i amg a patron of overfclocke dremix(s) d jpretfzel youy will haver to do better than thies."

Thanks for the work you've just put into the site djp, as well as the numerous years of other hard work. I wish I were cool like Pezman but I can't help appreciating it.

[DarkeSword]

ITlDr; I was simply pointing out that Pezmans point was a valid one, and DS's response to Pezman was unnecessary and unsatisfactory imo.

Except that it really wasn't a valid point. It was actually pretty uncalled for. Look at the thread. It's for showing appreciation. It's not for someone to come in and act like a hotshot and say "Yeah well just saying that he did stuff isn't good enough for me etc."

That's being a jerk, and I pointed that out.

Going further than that, why is it so hard to take on good faith that what I said was true? Do I have that kind of reputation where I'll lie about stuff just to garner praise for myself and the rest of the staff? Do you have any idea how ridiculous that sounds? Dave, Larry, Andy, and the rest of the staff do enough where I don't have to lie about anything.

If you don't want to show your appreciation, then you don't post. If you want to know what Dave did, before you say "Hey, thanks," then just ask nicely. Don't be a self-important douche about it. :roll:

EDIT: Yes, I realize the irony of my trademark smiley following that last statement. I've earned that right. Bite me. :P

[phill]

In this case, switching from mysql to mysqli and refactoring datalists into a class hierarchy.


...sweet Jesus my friend, doing that sort of work without some hefty compensation shows some pretty strong devotion to this site and its community.

[CHIPP Damage]

OKAAAY! Back to the appreciations, baby! I'll give us a couple of example posts. ^_^

Thank you, djp, for switching from mysql to mysqli and refactoring the datalists into a class hierarchy. I have no idea what that means, but I bet it was freaking hard and the fact that you would go an do something like that for six whole hours has got my whole body feeling all tingly at your dedication to this amazing site that you run FOR FREE!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Yes, down there too. !

OR

Thanks, djp. That rocks.

Edit: Ah! Looks like Phil got in before me. That smooth mother.

[Irregular]

Just wanted to say thanks for founding and maintaining the site.The mysql to mysqli and refactoring datalists is beyond my ken, so even if I can't see it, props to the coder!

[Kanthos]

I understand what you did, DJP, and nice work. Even if I didn't understand the particular details, I know the value of performance enhancements in code, as well as the drive to make your software be all it can be, regardless of whether people see all the benefits of that or not.

Most of the rest of you are typical end-users: MOAR GRAPHICZ AND UI PLZ!

[Sir_NutS]

Where is the token nice work pic? COOP??!???

[Hausdog]

Actually, Kanthos, most of us are saying thanks because we trust that djp is doing things to make the site better even if we can't see them... it's only a couple of people who are taking this for granted.

[Kanthos]

No, I realize that. I'm just being somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and the "MOAR GRAPHICZ AND UI PLZ" was directed at one person in particular.

[chrono26]

more djp mixes please!

[Bundeslang]

Keep up the good work.

And never sell and change the site to EA-Remix (Almost two years ago, or is it three already??)

[starla]

I would expect if you've ever programmed, you'd understand a bit better - for example writing a wonderful function to call instead of writing the same code over and over will make the code smaller and more efficient.

Also, the remixer collab database is pretty sweet-town.

[djpretzel]

Not to bump my own appreciation thread or anything, but the list class hierarchy is now 100% complete, and furthermore (wait for it).... there's also a list factory class that abstracts away list construction!

If that doesn't get your blood pumpin' I don't know what will! ;-)

The code on http://www.ocremix.org/browse/ used to be 20 or 30 lines of conditional wonkery (before the list classes, it was longer)... now it's:

echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("albums");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("composers");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("emulators");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("games");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("organizations");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("remixers");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("remixes");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("songs");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("systems");

I do believe that's some of the first code I've posted here, but - although it appears ridiculously simple - it's also some of the best, in terms of design patterns, etc.

[D-Lux]

The very little experience I've had with coding has been, in general, a failure.

You get a pat on the back from me, sir.

[pu_freak]

YEA! So when's the djp-coding-party?

[Dhsu]

...sweet Jesus my friend, doing that sort of work without some hefty compensation shows some pretty strong devotion to this site and its community.
Or that he likely actually enjoys what he does. I think a lot of people underestimate the simple pleasures of programming, tweaking stuff to make it better/faster, and in general just having things WORK.

although it appears ridiculously simple
That's usually the sign of good design/code. Nice work! :nicework:

[DarkeSword]

Not to bump my own appreciation thread or anything, but the list class hierarchy is now 100% complete, and furthermore (wait for it).... there's also a list factory class that abstracts away list construction!

If that doesn't get your blood pumpin' I don't know what will! ;-)

The code on http://www.ocremix.org/browse/ used to be 20 or 30 lines of conditional wonkery (before the list classes, it was longer)... now it's:

echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("albums");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("composers");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("emulators");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("games");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("organizations");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("remixers");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("remixes");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("songs");
echo ListFactory::getListXMLTotals("systems"); I do believe that's some of the first code I've posted here, but - although it appears ridiculously simple - it's also some of the best, in terms of design patterns, etc.

This code is absolutely terrible. You are a terrible person. :(

edit: ... :mrgreen:

[The Pezman]

If you want to know what Dave did, before you say "Hey, thanks," then just ask nicely. Don't be a self-important douche about it.
I'll respond to this, just so I can clear my good name and everyone will know what I meant. I'd rather not clog up the thread with any more arguing, so you all can PM me if you still want to rip me apart.

I never meant to sound like what Darkesword described. I've been here for a bit more than a year now, and have met Dave and many of the other major players on this site more than once. I'm not claiming to be anyone's best friend, but nothing I've done on the forums or in person indicates I have the characteristics so readily ascribed to me. But even disregarding that, is what I said so terrible? For one, I didn't even realize it was offensive, so I'm sorry about that. I didn't - and don't - intend to demean Dave's work (or, for that matter, anyone else's) work on the site. He does a lot and deserves gratitude. I just thought it was strange that DarkeSword would encourage us to thank Dave for working... without having some idea of what he was working on. Not because I think Darke was lying and Dave didn't do anything. But giving us even a general overview helps to explain exactly the kind of effort it may have taken. In this case, I think I was right, since many people (myself included) did understand some of what Dave actually did and were better able to appreciate (and therefore thank more sincerely) the effort.