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A forum is a medium of online communication whereby users hold conversations in the form of posted messages(posts).

A forum is a medium of online communication whereby users hold conversations in the form of posted messages(posts).

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Where can I get good answers to my Perl-related questions?

AFAIK one of the objectives of Stack Overflow is to make sure anyone can come here and find good answers to her Perl related questions. Certainly beginners would ask what is the best online source to learn Perl but others might just want to ask a…
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Handling unread posts in PHP / MySQL

For a personal project, I need to build a forum using PHP and MySQL. It is not possible for me to use an already-built forum package (such as phpBB). I'm currently working through the logic needed to build such an application, but it's been a long…
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Image processing related discussion forum

I am looking for discussion forum for Image processing related queries, Can someone direct me some discussion groups, Though I am a beginner, I am catching up fast ;-) ...
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How does StackOverflow know when there are new answers to a question?

If this question has already been asked I appologies, please point me in the right direction. I was wondering if anyone has any insight into how StackOverflow pops up the "n new answers have been posted, load new answers" thing at the top of a…
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How do forums show you unread topics?

I have user discussion forums I coded in php/mysql, I am wanting to know how the big name forums can make it show you which topics have new posts in them, usually by changing an icon image next to the thread without using hardly any resources?
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using django and twisted together

1)I want to devlop a website that has forums and chat.The chat and forums are linked in some way.Meaning for each thread the users can chat in the chat room for that thread or can post a reply to the forum. I was thinking of using django for forums…
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Building a community forum with Twitter Bootstrap

I'd like to build my own community forums with Twitter Bootstrap framework. Does anyone have any tips for me? I really have no idea where to start.
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where are the official directx forums?

I have been checking around MSDN and Microsoft.com but i can only find Archived forums. Are there any microsoft run forums for DirectX anymore?
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does anyone know a good mapinfo forum?

I'm new using mapinfo and I am going to work a lot with it. I haven't been able to find a good forum, making it impossible to get community driven assistance. I wish any of you could tell me if there is a good place to find mapinfo related…
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Creating nested models in Rails 4 forum app

Hello I am making a Forum application in Rails 4. It can have numerous forums, each with numerous topics. Each topic can have many posts. When creating a new topic, one must also create the initial post, much like Stack Overflow itself. Therefore, I…
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ASP.NET MVC Discussion board

has someone put together a decent discussion board/forums based on ASP.NET MVC or MVC2? A simple solution would be good enough. Preferable something which integrates into an existing site. Any hints?
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Trying to get forums to display all subcategories with category

This is what my forums currently look like: http://prntscr.com/73oicl But, as you can see, the categories both say "community", which isn't supposed to happen. The "Test" subcategory should be right under the "Announcements & Updates" subcategory. I…
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Forums for text mining/similarity

I am aware that stackoverflow is a programming oriented forum that helps coders to solve bugs . But i have plenty of conceptual doubts in text mining techniques / information retrieval and semantic similarity . Please suggest a forum where they…
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Why do forums store posts in a database?

From looking at the way some forum softwares are storing data in a database (eg. phpBB uses MySQL databases for storing just about everything) I started to wonder why they do it that way? Couldn't it be just as fast and efficient to use.. maybe xsl…
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Adding a next/previous button in blog posts

On my page all the blog posts will be showing up. So I wanted to implement a next/previous button to better my page. def PostLists(request): num = request.session.get('num',-5) request.session['num'] = num num = num + 5 exp =…
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