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Welcome to Software Development on Codidact!

Will you help us build our independent community of developers helping developers? We're small and trying to grow. We welcome questions about all aspects of software development, from design to code to QA and more. Got questions? Got answers? Got code you'd like someone to review? Please join us.

Posts by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Allow filtering search for only Meta (or any other category)

You can now add "category:###" to a search, where ### is the number in the URL for the category, to restrict the search to one category. For example, Software Dev Q&A is 38 and Code Review is ...

posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Who should the moderators be?

I nominate Alexei, who has a body of well-received posts on Q&A and meta, both asking and answering, and seems interested in helping to organize and expand this fledgling community.

posted 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Should posting on Meta affect reputation?

When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Who should the moderators be?

As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Usually some people stand out from the proposal process and early activity. Ultimately, of c...

3 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Do we want a wiki (or similar) alongside Q&A?

In addition to Q&A, Codidact supports another post type, article. Articles can be used for blog posts, wiki pages, and other resources. Articles, like questions, use tags, so searching for a ...

5 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta What questions are we most urgently missing?

I've had (and likely will still have) beginner-level problems in learning Ruby and/or Rails. something about... When I've run into problems so far, I didn't have a good-enough understanding to ...

posted 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta RSS feeds for tags

There are RSS feeds for tags already, linked at the bottom of the tag page. (Yeah, I missed it too; I'll see if we can make that more obvious.) For example, here's the RSS feed for the feature-re...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta The size of the code format window is much too small.

I apologize for the long delay in getting such a small change made and deployed. Someday I would like the blocks to be resizable, but in the meantime, a code block now shows 40 lines before the sc...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 4y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta "Review suggested edit" page doesn't display Markdown source correctly

While reviewing older bug reports we discovered that the first problem is now working; the code fences show up in the diff. The second one still shows as one line without a clear diff, but I don't...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Are general questions (hopefully resulting in comprehensive, 'canonical' answers) in scope

This sounds like useful content to me. I defer to the community on how best to achieve that; I'm here to offer another option from the platform side, in case it's useful. Codidact support article...

posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Why is this client code getting the wrong date for a few hours a day?

There are two issues here. The first is that this code isn't rolling over at 8PM as expected: if (now.getHours() > 20) { now.setDate(now.getDate() + 1); } This change happens at 9PM as...

posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Enable text-area for comments to be resized

The comment box is now resizable; drag the control in the lower right corner down to make the area bigger. -- Update: With the later introduction of threaded comments, the comment box lost its re...

posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How can I generate documentation from comments in SQL DDL?

I have some SQL scripts that contain DDL to create tables and schemas for a database. I'd like to be able to comment this SQL and then use those comments to generate output documentation (in HTML)...

0 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Long code lines are not wrapped

Code blocks that are wider than the column they're trying to fit in now get horizontal scrollbars. As noted in another answer, it's not safe to assume that line-wrapping won't change the correctne...

posted 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Tag picking when asking a question is broken

This is now fixed. Suggested tags are now ordered by length, so an exact match on a short tag like c will not be pushed down by fuzzy matches on longer tags like gcc.

posted 6mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta I created a tag, now it need edit.

Is stream the right name, or should it be more specific? If you came across that tag in the wild, would it be obvious that it's Java streams? We also have filestream, node:stream, QTxtStream, vfs...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Enabling 2FA should include some recovery codes

Setting up 2FA now produces a recovery code (with instructions to save it). If you later sign in using that recovery code, it disables 2FA until you re-enable it, getting a new code in the process...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Closed Question Too Generic, Reason Unhelpful

This response is about closure in general, not any specific question. (A moderator has already addressed the specific case.) The close notice also includes the following text (emphasis mine): ...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Who should the moderators be?

I nominate Lundin, who is very active on main and meta, has proposed some initiatives on meta, and is well-positioned to help us firm up sometimes-fuzzy scope and help this young community grow.

posted 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do I configure Jenkins to strip the leading “origin/” in git branch parameter?

For the git branch parameter, set Branch Filter to: origin/(.*) I found the parentheses to be counter-intuitive, because if you don't specify a filter you get: .* (No parens.) If you are filteri...

posted 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How do I configure Jenkins to strip the leading “origin/” in git branch parameter?

I'm using Jenkins with a branch parameter to specify the branch to build from. Other stuff downstream needs the branch name to not have the leading "origin/" -- just "feature/blahblah" or "bugfix/1...

1 answer  ·  posted 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 6y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Renaming a tag to an existing one fails silently

Renaming to an existing tag now gives this error message: Failed to rename the tag. This is at least an error message... The error handler there only knows that it failed, not why, but I thin...

posted 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Do we want MathJax?

Based on the activity here and discussion in chat, I've enabled MathJax on this community. I don't know Mathjax myself, so as verification, I'm copying some Math I found in this Mathematics post: ...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Specify framework / library version in the answer

When I first saw this I thought this would be a use case for being able to apply tags to answers (which I've brought up before on Meta, IIRC). But version ranges are a little different, and I don'...

posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Editing tags failed?

This is weird: I tried to edit the tags on your post to see if I could reproduce it, and the editor showed the C++ tag there even though the post did not show it. I deleted and re-added it and sav...

posted 5y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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