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How can you measure your skills as a programmer?

At a previous interview I have been asked the question: 'From 0 to 10, how do you rate yourself as a programmer?' I found it a very hard question to answer as I am not aware of a metric to measure how good my skills are. Moreover, knowing how well you perform would be useful to understand what you need to improve to be a better programm...

Retrieve Windows Experience Rating

Hey all I'm looking to retrieve a machine's windows experience rating in C#. If possible I would also like to retrieve the numbers for each component (Graphics, RAM etc.) Is this possible? ...

N2 CMS rating user control

Hi all, I'm currently putting together a site in the N2 CMS framework. One of things I'd wanted to do was to be able to have users rate various elements of the site using a fairly standard star rating-style user control or something similar. Has anyone seem anything similar to this implemented within N2 specifically? Just looking for s...

Mysql order by rating - but capture all

Hi, I have this PHP/MYSQL code which returns records from a table ordered by their ratings, from highest rated to lowest rated: <table width="95%"> <tr> <?php if (isset($_GET['p'])) { $current_page = $_GET['p']; } else { $current_page = 1; } $cur_category = $_GET['category']; $jokes_per_page = 40; $offset = ($current...

Are there open-source "rate my X" website tools?

Not as in "hot or not" type sites, but consumer/community sites like "rate my college professor" or "rate my plumber" etc., sites where people can comment and rank things. I was just wondering if there's some kind of PHP/MySQL package which has some basics already done. It's hard to know what to search for. Oh and by the way, yes, I k...

Ajax star rating resets when focus lost (jquery)

Hi Guys, I am using following code for ajax rating system jQuery.fn.rater = function(url, options) { if(url == null) return; var settings = { url : url, // post changes to maxvalue : 5, // max number of stars curvalue : 0 // number of selected stars }; if(options) { jQuery.extend(settings, ...

Framework or library for creating user based rating systems such as in Digg, Reddit etc?

Looking for a good client side library using which I can create a reddit vote up / down, commenting, etc system? The more mature the framework the better as this will go on a production site immediately. ...

JQuery: Thumbs up and down rating system?

I'm want to implement thumbs up and down rating system in my web app using jquery. Please tell me some plug-in or code how to implement the thumbs up and down rating system in my website, please share links or resources. Thanks ...

Star rating in AJAX with Ruby On Rails

I think that acts_as_rateable seems to be quite obsolete and doesn't support AJAX. I'm looking for a simple "5 star" rating system: is there any plugin or tutorial that can help? ...

Bug in ASp.NET Ajax Rating Control

Im using ASP.NET Ajax Rating control in my current project and i get this strange behaviour: When somoene clicks on the control to rate some content, rating is properly executed but browser sroll position jumps to the top of the browser window! This is very user un-friendly. Is there a fix for this bug? ...

calculating a top 5 in php and mysql

Hey I've made a rating system in php and mysql and now I want to select a top 5, I've made something but if a user adds a rating (with the max) it's nr 1 ranking. How do you guys do it in php and mysql ? the table looks like this: -- id -- mid -- uid -- rating The rating is a number from 1 to 5 Thanks in advance! ...

Tag, comment, rating, etc. database design

I want to implement modules such as comment, rating, tag, etc. to my entities. What I thought was: comments_table -> comment_id, comment_text entity1 -> entitity1_id, entity1_text entity2 -> entitity2_id, entity2_text entity1_comments -> entity1_id, comment_id entity2_comments -> entity2_id, comment_id .... Is this approach correc...

jQuery star rating in a table

Hi, I have an MVC application generating a series of radio buttons based on a dynamic set of questions. The questions are generated, and the star rating works perfectly, but for some reason, when I try to have each radion button in its own cell in a table, once the javascript kicks in, all the radiobuttons appear in just one cell. Wit...

What is a better way to sort by a 5 star rating?

I'm trying to sort a bunch of products by customer ratings using a 5 star system. The site I'm setting this up for does not have a lot of ratings and continue to add new products so it will usually have a few products with a low number of ratings. I tried using average star rating but that algorithm fails when there is a small number of...

PHP/MySQL - algorithm for "Top Rated"

So I just built a star-rating system and and trying to come up with an algorithm to list the "Top Rated" items. For simplicity, here are the columns: item_name average_rating (a decimal from 1 to 5) num_votes I'm trying to determine the "sweet spot" between number of votes and rating. For example... An item rated (4.6 / 20 votes) sh...

Favorites star switching in Javascript

A good example is the SO star on the left hand side of this post. You can click on it to add this message in your favorite and click again to remove this flag. I already create a page /favorites/add/{post_id}/ but how to handle that in Ajax ? Many things to do : Be sure that it worked when you click Change the image Change the link ...

jquery star rating plugin and jquery click function

I'm using the jquery star rating plugin: http://www.fyneworks.com/jquery/star-rating/ I might get some html code like this: <form name="api-disable"> <input type="radio" class="star {split:2}" name="api-readonly-test" value="1"/> <input type="radio" class="star {split:2}" name="api-readonly-test" value="2"/> <input type="radio" c...

Star Rating widget for jQuery UI

I was introduced to the Star Rating widget for jQuery UI: http://orkans-tmp.22web.net/star_rating/ I was originally using this one: http://www.fyneworks.com/jquery/star-rating/ Is there any difference between using the two? Well trying to use the jquery UI one, I can't get the input buttons to show up as stars. I have these js and css ...

Jquery star rating plugin and cancel rating button

Using this plugin: http://www.fyneworks.com/jquery/star-rating/#tab-Testing I have a simple callback function that picks up the id from the radio buttons: <input type="radio" class="auto-submit-star {split:2}" id="myid" value="1" /> $('.auto-submit-star').rating({ callback: function(value, link){ alert($(this).attr('id')); } ...

MySQL Rating/Voting system (accurratly ordering by best rated taking into account number of votes)

Let's say I have a MySQL table that is something like this: software table: id int name text votes int rating int Where votes would be the number of times someone has voted for that item and rating would be the average of those votes. Example data: id: 0 name: FooBar! votes: 5 rating: 3 Now another user comes along and rates this...