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Charles
Welcome Change

Jaz wrote:
don't like my idea charles ;-(

Your idea is certainly interesting, Jaz!

Maurits
AKA Matthew van Eerde

How about another series... Great Unsolved Problems
State an unsolved problem and solicit creative solutions

Possible problems:
* How can a table cell inherit styles from both a column container and a row container, when DOM is a tree?
* How can SMTP sender verification work across mailing lists and automatic forwarding?
* How can Task Manager tell when a task is stuck in an infinite loop, as opposed to just doing something that takes a long time?
* How can you verify that there's a real human interfacing with your software, without making them perform some trivial but demeaning task?

AndyC

Charles wrote:

We'll cover Javascript and VBscript too for all you web devs out there.

Cool. As a sysadmin, VBScript is my spiritual home...

Charles
Welcome Change

Maurits wrote:
How about another series... Great Unsolved Problems
State an unsolved problem and solicit creative solutions

Possible problems:
* How can a table cell inherit styles from both a column container and a row container, when DOM is a tree?
* How can SMTP sender verification work across mailing lists and automatic forwarding?
* How can Task Manager tell when a task is stuck in an infinite loop, as opposed to just doing something that takes a long time?
* How can you verify that there's a real human interfacing with your software, without making them perform some trivial but demeaning task?

Maurits, this is an interesting idea. Remember that C9 is YOUR community so feel more than free to spin up a new series on your own. It's as easy as prefacing the first post's title with something like Great Unsolved Problems: HTML Table Style Inheritance.

You can make it happen!

Charles

Intrigued
Hi

How about LUA too!

Shaded
Mean ugly geek with axe

Intrigued wrote:
How about LUA too!

Whats LUA?

...

I've had no takers on the offer to collaborate privately about Spot the Bug. This leads me to think either it was so easy nobody that sent a response feels the slightest curiosity whether they were right or nobody sent a response.

So what do you guys think of it? Easy? Hard? Perl is irrelevant?

... nah better not tell me its irrelevant. Then I'd have to use it to achieve world peace or end hunger just to prove you wrong, and I'd rather go to Death Valley this weekend.

Rossj

Shaded wrote:
Intrigued wrote:How about LUA too!

Whats LUA?

Small. Fast. Embeddable.

mVPstar
I'm white because I smelt an onion.

How about doing some IT stuff as well such as quizzing us on what actions we should take in specific crises? Perhaps have like a separate activity in addition to Spot The Bug? That would be fun Smiley