What is on Your Mind?

Hi,

Yes, that was a error caused by me working on a new PHP plugin to help make the mobile experiment better.

Thanks for your patience.

Honestly speaking, I owe the forums an apology for not working on this mobile prototype many years ago.

I stopped intense forum development a few years ago because my eyes were hurting from too much doing software development on my 13" MacBook Air.

Then, when starting a new project working on Unity3D game development for cybersecurity, a friend convinced me to get a 34" gaming monitor to ease the stress on the eyes.

Now, having completed the first phase of that cybersecurity project, I have this very amazing 34" monitor and it's very easy to work on the forums again.

So, I'm very happy now to update the forums and make them much better because of this single major tech purchase, a huge 34" gaming monitor.

Highly recommended... I cannot recommend it enough to anyone who gets tired looking a computer.

Funny you should say that. I'm just about to embark on a similar upgrade. I've never had any problems using a computer all day long (or any general eyesight issues for that matter) but at 67 I'm concerned it could now get worse. Added to that, in my new career, I'm now developing trading robots for the markets so need loads of windows open at once what with numerous charts, code, etc. Already have dual screens and need to go quad but question is how big they should be. Thanks for the advice.

I recommend this monitor for development:

ASUS ROG Swift Curved PG348Q Gaming Monitor - 34" 21:9 Ultra-wide QHD (3440x1440), overclockable 100Hz , G-SYNC™

https://www.asus.com/us/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-SWIFT-PG348Q/

This monitor is simply amazing for the money if you buy it on sale and it is a "game changer" when working on the computer. It's well worth the money.

Well, for me I could not be maintaining (even close) this level and speed of development without this amazing monitor.

No headaches. No eye strain.

Developing code is fun again!

Have started work on a new "Javascript Search Panel" for mobile, so there is a new icon that looks like a magnifying glass in the top mobile navbar.

Currently, clicking on that icon will open a future search panel, and if you click on the other icon on the right (the side menu panel) it will close the TBD search panel and open the side nav panel...

I plan a new search panel for (1) the forums and (2) another one for all the man page sets. The strawman is working and I just need to create the search forms for the panels.

Also, I still plan to get the mobile left and right swiping working for all mobile pagination; hopefully will figure that out sooner than later.

Have been thinking about this:

Considering to change the default mobile view to "Today's Tech Talk" which shows all the discussions in the past 24 hours versus showing the boring forum index page. Also, I am thinking to add small user avatar images for "who is online" to show rows of small 16x16 avatars when users are logging in.

Today, I increased the font size and uses some replacement text magic to shorten the forum names in forum view (on the home page); but the problem with this page is that is is most static all the time.

For the time being I put a "Today's Tech Talk" menu item at the top of the home page.

I need to make a lot more changes, as the more I view this the more changes I want to make.

.. and still need to get the mobile swiper code working as well ....