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RoboSanta

21:00

If you don't mind that it checks more things than just POST and GET, you can use the $_REQUEST superglobal instead: public function get($item) { if ( isset($_REQUEST[$item]) && $_REQUEST[$item] != '' ) { $_REQUEST[$item] = filter_var($_REQUEST[$item], FILTER_SANITIZE_SPECIAL_CHARS)...

Ethan Bierlein

ugh

EBrown

@nhgrif You don't have any blog posts on effective manners of eating elephants, do you?

Dan Pantry

importblogkit.com/2015/05/how-do-you-eat-an-elephant

@Ebrown

EBrown

@DanPantry I know about that one, but it doesn't really explain what I need.

Dan Pantry

Thats the article he was referening

EBrown

21:12

I'm just curious if he had any others on how to actually find the portions of a problem that can be broken down further.

Dan Pantry

That's mainly experience unfortunately

EBrown

(Or if anyone does, even.)

nhgrif

All problems are different. It's a matter of experience doing the exercise.

Do you have a specific problem?

EBrown

I have a bunch of them...lol

Dan Pantry

Pick one :p

EBrown

21:15

Let me find one of the more elusive ones.

Now I can't even find it. >.> It's that elusive.

Ethan Bierlein

huh

I just remembered why I don't browse reddit

Mast

@EBrown Tiny elephant?

EBrown

Ok, so for example, I have to build a backup utility to create backups of specific databases from a SQL server on a regular basis, and do things with them.

Ethan Bierlein

I went from game ideas, then to monks looking at beer.

EBrown

Sometimes it has to backup the SQL database to a file, sometimes to another server, etc.

Dan Pantry

21:19

@EthanBierlein circle jerks?

Ethan Bierlein

Finally, I landed at a subreddit dedicated to worshipping Nic Cage.

Of course, I did find one gem.

You can find it here: twitter.com/verafilatova/status/397305119379038208/photo/1

Zak

21:36

just had a great idea. Why on earth am I dealing with 8 different data arrays when I can just make an array of arrays :)

nhgrif

@EBrown I am at the store, give me like 30 min

EBrown

@nhgrif I appreciate it, sir! :)

Vogel612

@Zak beware you can only redim preserve the outer dimenesion IIRC

I ran into problems with that for some creepy as heck access vba

nhgrif

In the meantime, do you have a fairly complete-ish list of the business requirements, @EBrown?

Jeroen Vannevel

@Zak Custom class to group them

EBrown

21:43

@nhgrif Yeah, I'll get them around here quick.

Vogel612

@JeroenVannevel might be an option, then again I figure Zak is working with vba

Simon André Forsberg

Any AngularJS developer around?

Zak

Yep. For the time being, the only programming I know / do is in VBA

@Vogel612 It's cool. I'm well aware of that condition (would love to know why it's restricted though).

Vogel612

no idea, but it was a real PITA since i had to dynamically resize the array depending on the data I parsed

parsing an unordered graph into a jagged multidimensional array T.T

Duga

Dragon - I understand. I was not aware of code review. I will give them a shot as well. — ineverfinishanyth just now

Zak

21:54

@Duga If nobody minds, I'd be more than happy to take that one if/when it comes through

Ethan Bierlein

@Zak Go ahead! ;-)

Zak

I would comment inviting them to come over but my SO rep isn't even high enough to do that :)

nhgrif

@EBrown Any time you're using plurals is a good indication that your bites are probably too big still. Any time you're using "and" or "or" is a good indication that your bites are probably too big still.

EBrown

@nhgrif Yeah, I need to write this on paper and break it down first, methinks.

The requirements are actually much greater than that, I just tried to summarize.

nhgrif

Right. Start by writing the complete requirements down. Put them in a place where I can see it, and I can help you go through it if you want.

EBrown

22:06

Alright, I have to go shower/shave first, so it will be a few.

Duga

@ineverfinishanyth Just make sure to read our help centre before posting anything. :) — EBrown 41 secs ago

Simon André Forsberg

@Zak get to 200 on CR and you will be given +100 on SO

Zak

@SimonAndréForsberg Oh cool. I'm guessing that's for exactly this reason?

Simon André Forsberg

@Zak it's called "Association Bonus", it's for many reasons.

EBrown

22:26

@nhgrif I'm going to setup another room for this.

Zak

does anyone know why this line wouldn't cause an error in vba:

str strVariable = "text"

nhgrif

Is str a type?

Zak

a what?

nhgrif

Well wait, why do you think it would cause an error?

Zak

because usually, if I accidentally had 2 variables separated by a space, vba would flag it immediately

okay, I have something of an answer

apparently, Str() is a VBA function

but I would've still expected that line to cause an error of some kind

Vogel612

22:40

TTGTB

'niters

Zak

'night

Duga

This would probably be a good candidate for codereview.stackexchange.com — Aleksandar just now

Simon André Forsberg

Well said words by @DanPantry:

in Cardshifter TCG, 30 secs ago, by Dan Pantry

If we play the whats the best tech game we'll be here for hours

Legato

I should try to make a card game thingy. Seems heavily involved. Also, apparently I should stop using JQuery and learn Angular.

Zak

22:55

this seems fun nameexoworlds.iau.org/exoworldsvote

Dan Pantry

I wouldn't say stop learning jQuery and learn Angular, @LEgato, they are for different things.

But I'm of the opinion that there's almost no reason to use jQuery in standard websites these days and no reason to use jQuery in web apps compared to Angular/React

The only exception is Backbone which has a hard dependency on Jquery/zepto and Ember (which is why I don't use either)

Legato