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FAD Stats Update... ANOTHER new feature! **UPDATED 03-04**

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GeoffS

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-= 03-04 =-
A few cosmetic changes... added highlighting to the row the cursor is positioned over on the Teams At-A-Glance and Members At-A-Glance pages and the Team Daily Listing page.

-= 03-01 =-
Added In-Team Ranking to the Team Daily page
Removed team None from the Team listings
Added a quick stats page for those people that can't wait for me to post them in the morning. Found at http://fad.tastats.com/team_stats_TA.php, the first line is the subject for the stats post, and the rest is the body. First one to visit after 0300 EST is welcome to post the daily stats! 🙂

-= 02-28 =-
I've changed the show_nodes_1 page to accept 3 paramters:

userid which is mandatory and is the properly escaped and capitalized user nickname.
dayoffset which optional and represents how many days back you want to look. If omited, it defaults to today's date.
rpttype which is also optional and can either be C for cumulative or S for single day, and defaults to S if omited. S will result in a list of all the work returned just for the chosen day. C will result in all the work returned from the chosen day to the latest update.

To see what you've done so far today, the URL should look like this:

http://fad.tastats.com/show_nodes_1.php?userid=TA_GeoffS
or
http://fad.tastats.com/show_nodes_1.php?userid=TA_GeoffS&dayoffset=0
or
http://fad.tastats.com/show_nodes_1.php?userid=TA_GeoffS&dayoffset=0&rpttype=S

To see what you did yesterday, the url should look like this:

http://fad.tastats.com/show_nodes_1.php?userid=TA_GeoffS&dayoffset=1
or
http://fad.tastats.com/show_nodes_1.php?userid=TA_GeoffS&dayoffset=1&rpttype=S

To see what you've done since the beginning of yesterday, the url should look like this:

http://fad.tastats.com/show_nodes_1.php?userid=TA_GeoffS&dayoffset=1&rpttype=C

Want to see what you did for the last week? The URL should look like this:

http://fad.tastats.com/show_nodes_1.php?userid=TA_GeoffS&dayoffset=6&rpttype=C

🙂
 
LOL Now I can understand the nodes (jim named them for me) I can't get lost and confused now.

Great job Geoffs, absolutely a wonderful job.
 
Geoff, a purely cosmetic thing.
On the TeAm listing page, would it be at all possible for the individual's line the mouse pointer is over to be highlighted the whole way across?
Am I making sense ?
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
🙂 Added the highligh to the team & members at-a-glance and the team daily listings 🙂
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Hope the highlight wasn't too much trouble 🙂
It makes things an awful lot easier to read 😀
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
No trouble at all... is blue okay? Would you prefer yellow like a highlighter or light green? LMK!

Geoff
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Colour doesn't matter thanks!
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
No trouble at all... is blue okay? Would you prefer yellow like a highlighter or light green? LMK!

Geoff
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Geoff as your new agent I think we need to get your work copyrighted😀 My percentage will be modest😉
Kidding aside you should copy right this work for your protection.
 
Originally posted by: GeoffS
Never thought of copyrighting it... how would I go about that?
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Came across this site, thought these comments were interesting;

1) "If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted."
This was true in the past, but today almost all major nations follow the Berne copyright convention. For example, in the USA, almost everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not. The default you should assume for other people's works is that they are copyrighted and may not be copied unless you know otherwise. There are some old works that lost protection without notice, but frankly you should not risk it unless you know for sure.


In Summary
These days, almost all things are copyrighted the moment they are written, and no copyright notice is required


And this from here

The Basics
Copyright law secures for the creator of a creative effort the exclusive right to control who can make copies, or make works derived from the original work. There are a lot of subtleties and international variations but that's the gist of it. If you create something, and it fits the definition of a creative work, you get to control who can make copies of it and how they make copies.
You can also sell or licence this right, or, if you do the work for somebody who hired you to do it, they buy this right in advance.
 
In fairness, others have stat pages. What makes yours different is the code, and layout to an extent. As by the nature of PHP, nobody will be able to see the source, only the HTML output. So I think you are safe. Unless you are talking about layout and content, which gets tricky.
 
Originally posted by: mrwizer
In fairness, others have stat pages. What makes yours different is the code, and layout to an extent. As by the nature of PHP, nobody will be able to see the source, only the HTML output. So I think you are safe. Unless you are talking about layout and content, which gets tricky.
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Ive seen people lose the right to there own creation because it was not protected and they did not want to waste the money in court to get it back
 
Well... I guess I wouldn't want that to happen! Thanks for the links and I'll read up on what I need to do this weekend... not like it's going to cost me anything... is it? :roll:
 
Originally posted by: JTWill
Originally posted by: mrwizer
In fairness, others have stat pages. What makes yours different is the code, and layout to an extent. As by the nature of PHP, nobody will be able to see the source, only the HTML output. So I think you are safe. Unless you are talking about layout and content, which gets tricky.
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Ive seen people lose the right to there own creation because it was not protected and they did not want to waste the money in court to get it back
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I agree, and think it would be a wise decision to do so. I was just questioning what exactly you are copyrighting in this example. In the case of PHP code, an end user cannot see the code. Only the HTML output. So they way (and very cool one at that 😎 ) that Geoffs is manipulating data, and storing it in MySQL, is somewhat protected already. Although the layout and design is open for anyone to grab. But my concern on this is what you are attempting to protect.

Protecting and copyrighting things that are generic in nature, such as displaying data in tables, is not new. Should this be protected? This is the same issue that is plaguing software design at the moment. Should everything be protected when it may be the only way to do something?

Climbing off of the soapbox now, I did not mean to imply that the idea was bad. Only asking what was being protected. And in no way do I mean to take steam out of the amazing job Geoffs is doing. 🙂
 
I don't know about any of this copyright stuff but I'm at least pretty sure the name Anandtech is already copyrighted. of course as usually I could be wrong 🙂
You should be able to copywrite your work I would think.
 
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