The Compers Inn - Part 27

toniq

Trammel wrote: »

Hi

Im a software engineer and thinking of starting to comp however this forum isnt as efficient as I would like for its subject. I run my own email server so am going to make a special email address just for comping (with a different alias for each comp).

I have an idea for software that will download the full list of comps, sort them into date order and mark a tick next to the ones that I have left a "thanks" for... would this be allowed, as it would be more efficient and reduce my need to check the forum (therefor saving MSEs bandwidth too as all posts only need listed once).

Im thinking of making the software automatically generate a new email alias for each competition and make a note of that in a database too... so if I get an email the it automatically marks which comp it was from (to mark the spammers, and also link win notifications back to the post via the email alias) but this would all be done from an internal database so wouldnt add any overhead to MSEs webserver.

I was thinking of making the software allow distribution of the lists in a future version which would make the impact on MSE website even less as most people would then not need to even check the forum and get all their comp posts via the new peer2peer sharing network (maybe with an automatic form-filling system)... any ideas on this part?

Trutfully i don't think any of that would work on this forum, you are best to take up your ideas with the forum team rather than asking here.

Jokey

Pheeew!! All sorted!!!!!!!!! Will explain after. Thanks everyone for your lovely words and advice. Just busy with makin kids dinners etc, will read back and answer posts in a min or 2

hjb123

am busy looking for a dress to wear to a couple of summer weddings.....is a black dress a no no? Seen a nice one, layered/ruffled and wasnt sure whether its appropriate or not for a wedding - could wear a coloured jacket or belt etc? THIS is the one I have seen:D

Skippycat

Hi everyone. Hope everyone is well today? Feeling somewhat icky today myself. Think I've got a bit of a stomach bug unfortunately so am just taking it easy at the minute *sigh* Might try having a little something to eat soon.

Skippycat

sweetiepie1982 wrote: »

Pheeew!! All sorted!!!!!!!!! Will explain after. Thanks everyone for your lovely words and advice. Just busy with makin kids dinners etc, will read back and answer posts in a min or 2

Glad to hear you are feeling a bit better now sweetiepie x

Skippycat

hjb123 wrote: »

am busy looking for a dress to wear to a couple of summer weddings.....is a black dress a no no? Seen a nice one, layered/ruffled and wasnt sure whether its appropriate or not for a wedding - could wear a coloured jacket or belt etc? THIS is the one I have seen:D

That dress is really pretty! I think black is perfectly fine for a wedding if you add a bit of colour in somewhere as well (jacket or handbag / accessories etc)

Just make sure you don't go to the wedding dressed all in white and upstage the bride - lol!

Trammel

toniq wrote: »

Trutfully i don't think any of that would work on this forum, you are best to take up your ideas with the forum team rather than asking here.

Basically, its as simple as this:
Dim URL As String = "http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=72"
Dim request As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(URL)
Dim response As HttpWebResponse = request.GetResponse()
Dim reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
Dim str As String = reader.ReadLine()
Do While str.Length > 0
Console.WriteLine(str)
str = reader.ReadLine()
Loop

This snippet of code reads the main "index" (page 1) of the comp forum... parsing names of threads and their links is then just as easy... it could index the whole comp forum in a few seconds and then never need to check any of those posts again (it could even share the posts easily via a P2P link so that only one person ever needs to check the forum unless a discrepency arose between peers, which would be handled automatically)

Its basically a way of making the web distributed and so almost eliminating the cost of servers. This is a more localised / specialised implementation, however, the same system can be used to distribute any website and still have it update from the main "source" if it changes.

Jokey

Trammel wrote: »

Basically, its as simple as this:
Dim URL As String = "http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=72"
Dim request As HttpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(URL)
Dim response As HttpWebResponse = request.GetResponse()
Dim reader As StreamReader = New StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
Dim str As String = reader.ReadLine()
Do While str.Length > 0
Console.WriteLine(str)
str = reader.ReadLine()
Loop

This snippet of code reads the main "index" (page 1) of the comp forum... parsing names of threads and their links is then just as easy... it could index the whole comp forum in a few seconds and then never need to check any of those posts again (it could even share the posts easily via a P2P link so that only one person ever needs to check the forum unless a discrepency arose between peers, which would be handled automatically)

Its basically a way of making the web distributed and so almost eliminating the cost of servers. This is a more localised / specialised implementation, however, the same system can be used to distribute any website and still have it update from the main "source" if it changes.

:eek: :eek: I don't know about anyone else hun, but that means very little to me!! It's like reading blah blah blah for me, sorry . You prob need to speak to someone like Toni said. This is just a chat area. Even the competition discussions would be more helpful

Jokey

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xx

katiekittykat

Good afternoon all - had an amazing weekend in London - met up with a fellow MSE'er whilst i was there who won the same prize which was lovely.

Not had time to read back - not done any comps since friday so have soooo much to catch up on xxxx