I'm looking for a way to let members of my forum create an individual "member page" for themselves, or have it created for them automatically upon being accepted into a certain usergroup, that they could fill out with miscellaneous info. To be more precise, the forum revolves an online game, and the member page would have details about their characters, background stories, etc. It doesn't really have to be tied to their forum account, although it would be a smooth way to handle it from the user standpoint. Except I'm clueless on how to make this work. [more inside]
posted on Jul 9, 2008 - 3 answers
Wordpress/PHP question. I'm working on a Wordpress theme and want to use an algorithm to alter some of the HTML it emits. I've got a general idea of how to do this, and could probably manage a brutish implementation on my own, but my PHP-fu is weak and there is probably a better way. [more inside]
posted on Jun 30, 2008 - 16 answers 
Help a Perl/Python guy learn C# [more inside]
posted on Jun 11, 2008 - 15 answers
Stumped with RPy, need help badly! [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - 4 answers
I'm an administrator who is a relative n00b to programming, and need to find a good place to start. [more inside]
posted on Jun 17, 2007 - 5 answers
Help me optimize a list in Excel. (Excel gurus welcome!) [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2006 - 3 answers
Anyone on MetaFilter any good at writing Windows Scripting Language (VBScript) scripts? I am a total nonprogrammer but need a simple task done, which is copying a file from one directory to another (on a Win XP) system either (a) every twenty minutes, or better still (b) after checking to see if the archive bit on the file has been reset, indicating that it has been changed since the last filecopy. This should run as a background script without any user intervention or evidence that it is happening, if possible. [more inside]
posted on Aug 19, 2006 - 3 answers
Tearing my hair out over automator and applescript. [more inside]
posted on Jun 30, 2006 - 8 answers
I need help on learning fancy new web coding techniques [more inside]
posted on Apr 14, 2006 - 13 answers
How do I convince someone to fully "hand over" (to the public, not to me specificallY) a now dead, open source but not totally "open licensed" project. Furthermore, how do I find people who might want to work on its revival? [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2005 - 6 answers
Please help me get my head around multidimensional arrays in PHP. [more inside]
posted on Nov 23, 2005 - 20 answers
Looking to learn a scripting language. Which? [more inside]
posted on Nov 4, 2005 - 38 answers
How can I merge multiple MP3s into a single MP3 using a web scripting language such as PHP, ASP.NET, etc.? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2005 - 9 answers
So I have a big conference coming up and we’re considering giving each attendee a usb-drive with all the presentations on. The problem is that if I don’t find a way to automate the copying of files I have to do it manually by myself! (+)
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - 19 answers
Php session help requested. [MI]
posted on Feb 13, 2005 - 10 answers
Excel formula question. Using Excel as an employee scheduler and need to help trying to create a formula for tracking.
posted on Feb 1, 2005 - 4 answers
Looking for a reasonably quick introduction to Perl Unix scripting, preferably online.
posted on Nov 4, 2004 - 7 answers
Perl, semaphores, linux, problems [mi]
posted on Oct 4, 2004 - 6 answers
What are some computer languages for describing/generating graphics?
posted on Sep 10, 2004 - 35 answers
Microsoft Script Debugger - Has anyone actually gotten this thing to work properly? I've got some JavaScript (that I didn't write) that is completely bisbehaving in IE (although it produces no errors...it works fine in FireFox, so my usual line of attack doesn't work). I've used the View | Script Debugger | Break at Next Statement and then refreshed the page. It opens the debugger app but doesn't open any source files and it most certainly doesn't break. Has anyone seen this behavior and overcome it?
posted on Aug 10, 2004 - 4 answers
Library/information science question(s): My code-fearful friend succeeded in getting through library school without exposure to more than basic HTML. I now have him on a diet of Dreamweaver and XHTML, with a sprinkling of GoLive. He's wondering about next steps: for someone who wants to be well-equipped to work in an academic, medical, legal, or similar library or archive (with web development as part of his job, rather than the focus of it), what scripting language(s) and/or content-management systems are most important to learn? Is the library world fragmented in this regard, or is there a dominant technology? What would be a logical entry vector into this world for someone without a comp-sci bone in his body (in terms of languages/systems, and specific learning resources)?[no more inside]
posted on Jan 22, 2004 - 6 answers
