Jordan Reiter

172 reputation

bio	website	aace.org
	location	Philadelphia, PA
	age	35
visits	member for	1 year, 10 months
	seen	Jan 17 at 19:17
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I'm mostly a code monkey but interested in how information is used generally, even wrote my master's thesis on it, sort of. Currently working on developing an online community for academics as well as a digital library for educational professionals.

	172 reputation	bio	website	aace.org	visits	member for	1 year, 10 months
7 badges		location	Philadelphia, PA		seen	Jan 17 at 19:17

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Nov 14	accepted	Ideal “intermediate” file format to use for structured/styled text?
Nov 2	asked	Ideal “intermediate” file format to use for structured/styled text?
Aug 27	comment	Tabs versus spaces—what is the proper indentation character for everything, in every situation, ever? Oh right, got it. Of course, the reverse is also true. If you cut and paste in code that is tab-indented and didn't know, unless your editor auto-expands them to spaces you could run into the same problem. Although I'll add for me the real headache is reformatting indentation from, say, 3-space to 4-space, especially when the coder also uses spaces to line up variables, parentheses, etc.
Aug 27	awarded	Commentator
Aug 27	awarded	Critic
Aug 27	comment	Tabs versus spaces—what is the proper indentation character for everything, in every situation, ever? @WayneWerner the problem is with the code that used spaces for indentation and would be just as problematic if the person cut and pasted 3-space code into 4-space code.
Aug 27	comment	Tabs versus spaces—what is the proper indentation character for everything, in every situation, ever? Yeah, but that is really an OS issue, not a keyboard issue. No matter what computer you are on, you expect hitting either the enter or the return key to take you to the next link. You don't use one key to issue a line feed and one to issue a carriage return.
Apr 11	accepted	Adding dynamic business logic/business process checks to a system
Apr 10	comment	Adding dynamic business logic/business process checks to a system Okay, sounds like there's less of a headache down the road if I just go ahead and code each time. What I've settled on is creating a model called Rule that stores the name of a function to call on the object. That way I can associate rules dynamically but have the logic of those rules handled by a function. Code in pastebin: pastebin.com/BPwvJAsc
Apr 10	asked	Adding dynamic business logic/business process checks to a system
Dec 12	comment	Tabs versus spaces—what is the proper indentation character for everything, in every situation, ever? Technically, the return key was invented to move the typewriter head to the front of the line, whereas the move to the next line was performed by rotating the roller. Later, the return key would also automatically advance the roller as well. You don't see people getting all hung up on the return/enter key though. The tab key was clearly added to computers to perform indentation. It's a digital analog of the tab stop, which I had on my old non-electric typewriter. Tab stops could be set to move the roller to any position you chose, almost identical to the tab key's current role in indentation.
Dec 12	comment	Tabs versus spaces—what is the proper indentation character for everything, in every situation, ever? It's not tedious at all, since it means you can tab most of the way there and then just use a couple of spaces, rather than having to type dozens of spaces just to get to the right column.
Nov 9	comment	Best practices for web application Authentication/Security (Any Platform) When storing the one-way encrypted (i.e. hashed) password, make sure you either use a strong hash (i.e. not MD5) or salt the password (see stackoverflow.com/questions/420843/…) or both.
Nov 9	comment	Sharing Authentication Across Subdomains using cookies I'm aware that I can store cookies on the .example.org domain. What I'm wondering is what the best practice is for cross-domain authentication using shared cookies. I'm looking for advice on best-practices in terms of implementations. For example, it would be a BAD idea to just store USER_ID as a plain integer and assume that was sufficient.
Nov 9	asked	Sharing Authentication Across Subdomains using cookies
Oct 19	awarded	Scholar
Oct 19	accepted	Is there a standard, formal name for an object or class that behaves as if it is a given object?
Oct 19	awarded	Editor
Oct 19	revised	Is there a standard, formal name for an object or class that behaves as if it is a given object? Further explanation
Oct 19	comment	Is there a standard, formal name for an object or class that behaves as if it is a given object? Sounds like its primary use is in testing, but I'll take it.