forums

Where can I get good answers to my Perl-related questions?

AFAIK one of the objectives of Stack Overflow is to make sure anyone can come here and find good answers to her Perl related questions. Certainly beginners would ask what is the best online source to learn Perl but others might just want to ask a question. Probably the friendliest place is the Monastery of Perl Monks. It is a web site w...

How does StackOverflow know when there are new answers to a question?

If this question has already been asked I appologies, please point me in the right direction. I was wondering if anyone has any insight into how StackOverflow pops up the "n new answers have been posted, load new answers" thing at the top of a question when you are adding a post. This seems like a very useful function for my forum web-s...

What would you recommend as an easily modifiable forum package?

I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums. Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database. Right now all my site...

list of useful websites that teach ASP.NET

What are the most useful websites to learn ASP.NET with? What blogs do you read it to enhance your technical knowledge of ASP.NET? What forums are useful to you? First I will answered this Question. [Website] ASP.NET [Website] 4GuysFromRolla [BLOG] ScottGu Blog [BLOG] Omar Alzaber Blog I have a lot of links but maybe you have...

What should be included in your software product forum so that clients can utilize it to the maximum?

My company is planning to start a forum for our software product which the clients can refer for general FAQ's, problems etc. Right now we are planning to have:- User manuals. Best practices for different section's of the application Frequently faced problems. Forum where user can discuss issues with development team. Any other idea...

What are some of the best non-english general programming resources?

It may be my own limited perspective, but it seems that a majority of computer programming websites and resources are English-only or English-mostly. Certainly the role of English in the development of programming languages has been a factor, as discussed in some other SO questions. So I'm curious, what are some of the important (well t...

What blogs/websites are the best central source of information on CouchDB?

I'm trying to find information about CouchDB and it seems quite sparse or not centralized at least. What blogs/websites are the best central source of information on CouchDB? Are there any books on the subject? ...

Database bandwidth much higher compared to server bandwidth. Normal?

A while back we were transferring our reasonably popular forum to a new dedicated server (with the same host), and we noticed something weird. At first we used the new server to host just the database as this was the biggest issue. Then later we transferred the forum files and changed the dns for the domain. When we look back at the ban...

What are some of the best special-purpose mailing lists / forums for programmers?

In addition to (and prior to) Stack Overflow, there are quite a few special-purpose mailing lists and forums out there for programmers. In my case, there's the Tomcat mailing list (i.e. [email protected]), the mysql mailing list (i.e. [email protected]) and the many forums at java.sun.com. Then there are those used for more ha...

Where does open source help end, and consulting begins?

As one of the core contributors for an open-source framework, I'm frequently dazzled by the blurry line between "open source help" and consulting. I'd like to ask for your advice on the matter. Frequently, people using the framework would post 400+ lines of their code and expect me/others to dig through it to find an error; there are t...

FluxBB vs PunBB

It's a bit of a soap opera but apparently FluxBB forked from PunBB after PunBB was acquired by a commercial entity. Does anyone have any solid opinions on which is currently better and which has a brighter outlook? I generally prefer leaner software with only the core features. ...

phpBB forum autologin and search

I would be grateful if someone could please show me an example of how to login to a phpBB forum remotely and perform a search. The language i am using is java however, i just need to know the steps involved. even some pointers on what to google to get the answers i need would be great i have googled everything i can think of. ...

Help with making WordPress post to IP.Board 3.0

Hey, I need help making WordPress post to IP.Board 3 after its done publishing and such. I inserted the following code before return $post_ID; into wp-includes/post.php. <?php /** * Library to facilitate posting to the IP.Board 3 forums * * @author bfarber * @version 1 * @since 3rd April, 20...

Quoting users in forums

I'm working on the comments section for a site, where users can quote something another user said. This is your basic "quote" button on a forum. Using BBcode for this. But not sure how to accomplish the result. How is this feature usually done? i can have [quote=username] some sentence [/quote] which would ideally be converted to ...

SQL database with Phorum

Hey SO, I was just exploring Phorum for my website. I already have a separate log in system associated with the main website, which I was hoping to be able to carry over to Phorum, so people don't have to sign up twice. I saw the way to hook in a SQL database through include/db/config.php, but there seems to be no good documentation...

Image processing related discussion forum

I am looking for discussion forum for Image processing related queries, Can someone direct me some discussion groups, Though I am a beginner, I am catching up fast ;-) ... ...

Joomla - Different forum per page

Hi, I'm fairly new to Joomla - so hopefully this isn't too simple. My client would like to have a separate discussion forums per "Page". For instance, say you user groups Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3 and have Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3. Each Page will have a discussion forum that will only be accessible by the corresponding Group. To ha...

Best ASP.NET Forums

Hi, I am new to .NET development. Would you please let me know the best ASP.NET forums (where I could get some clarifications to my queries) like this forum (StackOverflow)? Thank you & Regards. Shravya. ...

Best ruby on rails Forum system OR best Forum for integrating with a Rails app?

I'm looking for advice on the current best forum/community/bulletin board system written in Rails for integration into an existing Rails app. I'm also open to non-Rails forums that can be integrated with my Rails app & authentication without too much trouble. Any advice? I did a bit of research and found answers from more than a yea...

Forum solution for ASP.NET MVC Application

Does anyone know a good plugable ASP.NET MVC compatible forum solution? I don't want to re-invent wheel to have good forums in my application. ...