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I kind of think "earnyourhost" seems a bit too commercialized and is more based on earning things from the forums, rather than learning. The system seems to be designed more around creating a community, and I really don't think that domain would facilitate the image needed to do so.

This is one way to view it, but there are theories that we never actually forget anything, and it's all still in our brain, it just can't be accessed for one reason or another. I guess a better way to explain it would be like... things get put in the recycle bin (where they can be retrieved, but otherwise are "trashed" to an extent).

I completely agree with most of those. I'm actually not sure why the older topics aren't automatically closed (even if it's only done in certain categories). Locking them would be greatly beneficial though. One concern I have, though, is regarding "experts" having to respond. A lot of us have knowledge spanning across different skillsets, but aren't experts in any (or are but only in a couple).

Hey, I'm glad everything worked out for you! The entire situation regarding showing substantial medical evidence can be a real hassle, as well as confusing, but it's because they have to ensure they have as much information as possible (as too many people try to "game" the systems). In a case like yours, where there is a legitimate claim, it's great to see that you kept pushing forth, and eventually won!

I'm a bit worried about how efficient it is though. The default setup, on the default page, has like 20-30 queries (if I remember right), and have read a lot about people saying you really have to dig into the core to make it more efficient, or else even a moderate amount of traffic will kill the site. Is this really a concern?

Hey, thanks for this! I haven't dug into Moodle yet so I can't test this yet but I can see it being very useful both as it is and for learning how to make other customizations, .

Talksense is the one that seems the most "natural." The rest are a bit awkward and when trying to remember will be a lot like Xisto (a word that isn't so natural and that you have to think about it and possibly misspell often).

Figure 3, for sure. It's the best one because it allows everyone to have partners (4 per group) for helping one another. The downside to this is that because of how those desks are situated, it's harder for some students to see the teacher, but the general principle is the same: grouping together allows students to learn from each other and in process strengthen their knowledge of the subjects.

I want to toss out the view that while books are helpful to a point, they usually teach you the basics but not the real-world usage. It's after you learn how things really work that you start to learn, and in that case I find breaking down projects much more efficient. For example, take a light website and figure out how things were done, then move to something a bit more complex and test your knowledge along the way.

GMail now uses their "Google Drive" for hosting attachments, so even very large files can be shared/attached easily.

A lot of things you're responding to are also very, very old. A majority of them have updated (answered) threads or are so old that the information found within is obsolete anyways.I can see this being a good thing to start for more recent topics, but resurrecting topics from 2005 and prior just doesn't make a lot of sense.

I've actually had some issues that may be related. When I visit the cPanel sometimes it will give a "warning: Malware" when using Chrome. This is using the link that's in our CH account. I can bypass it by choosing to go there anyways, but wanted to give a heads-up. This started yesterday as far as I know.

I actually found the learning curve of Joomla to be easier to conquer, especially if you want different looks for different pages (in regards to modules and such on the sidebars, or removing them on some pages, etc.).

Hey, sorry I haven't been back around this thread in a while! I haven't forgotten about it or anything, I've just been altering the project a lot. I'm working out details on scalability and such, as I want to ensure everything is done "right" the first time around instead of having to be re-done yet again in the future. It's a fairly large project I'm taking on, but I'm confident it'll all work out (and I'm learning along the way!).

Moodle should support a majority of this stuff. You could also integrate your own live conferencing application into it to make it work the way you want. I'm not really sure how all of that would work, but mostly what you're asking for is just a classroom-based setting (which Moodle is set up for, and it's open source so you can download it for free and adapt it however you wish).

On the note of teaching from a staffroom or such, there are distance learning courses in most colleges. This is where students are in a classroom and the professor is elsewhere (usually in a different school, state or even country) teaching the course via TV. So it's definitely usable in the real-world scenarios as well!

Hey, as a heads-up, it usually helps if you link the game as well so others can see what you're looking at.

I'm still a bit new to this but I'll take a try at this. There are a few different types of join: LEFT JOIN -> always shows the left column *even if there is no matching right column* RIGHT JOIN -> always shows the right column *even if there is no matching left column* FULL JOIN -> only shows when both columns are hit JOIN -> shows regardless, as long as one is hit

I wouldn't say that either of them is "losing." Based on what k_nitin_r said, it appears they pretty much cater to different people. Which one is more "powerful" and such is irrelevant when you're dealing with designers vs. coders. Those who design will always take the route that's easiest to them, and those who code will do the same. Interesting topic though... I didn't know you could set up animations using just HTML5 and JS!

Lucky for me, I'm just recently starting on a new project. I was using mysql for everything when I was learning, but I'm moving over to PDO for the new project because it's seen as being more mainstream as of lately.

That's definitely odd, and would probably be an addon or something you have in your browser, rather than this site. Addons can change information on-the-fly so they could be implementing their own ad network into every page (or most pages) you visit.

This is true -- everything is made cheaper (both in price and quality). The other big problem though is in regards to how quickly technology moves. If you purchase a new camera/pc/phone today, within a week it will already have dropped in rankings in terms of what's best. If you buy a PC part now, give it a month and it will be a lot cheaper and much better ones will be out. And this is a big part of why so much is thrown out too.

In regards to your question about stopping smoking, I know of many people who used to be heavy smokers and went to e-cigs (the electronic ones) and either cut back significantly or quit altogether. I think it's definitely worth looking into!

I have never heard of PunBB but I think for most users it's better to stick with something widely supported. phpBB would be the go-to forums for those who want the free ones, for example, as they have the biggest community. And with all the extensions and documentation available, extending isn't *too* bad I don't think (although I've only done minor stuff, like interfacing the forums with another website for logins and such).

Being that it's open-source, I think any small things (like changing grades), if it's not already supported, should be pretty easy to implement. Sadly I suck with API's so I'd be doing that with an external script. I did a lot of research into Moodle and a major concern I have is how inefficient it is. It looks like any major site that uses the system does heavy altering of its core to make it work better. The default Moodle installation, for example, has (I think it was 36) a lot of queries. Don't get me wrong, I think the concept is awesome. But if I make the move, it will be a long-term choice. Factoring in expansion is a major part of that, and it makes me wonder if I'd be better off writing a custom script rather than trying to learn/alter theirs, especially since I wouldn't be using some of their features anyways, and if there's things I need I'd have to write a lot of new stuff.