Get to know the team: Daniel15

December 30, 2006, 02:42:05 AM Posted by Daniel15 on December 30, 2006, 02:42:05 AM in Get to know the team: Daniel15 | 44 Comments
Name: Daniel Lo Nigro
Age: 16
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Favorite Quote: "The day Microsoft makes something that does not suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners" (stolen borrowed from c2h5oh's signature)
Position: SMF Customizer

1. Do you have pets?
Yeah, 2 dogs
2. What is your favorite color?
I don't really have one favourite colour, although I do like blue and orange
3. What kind of music do you like?
Mainly anything that isn't Rap or Country
4. What do you do on your free time besides spending time on SMF?
Mainly programming work (in either PHP, Visual Basic 2005, Linux [Bash shell scripting] or DarkBasic)
5. What are your goals/dreams in life?
At the moment, it's to finish high school, and go on to university.
6. What got you involved in SMF?
I got involved in SMF back in 2004, when people were desperate to get a shop mod for SMF. At the time, I was looking at about 10 or so open-source forum systems, and SMF seemed to be the best one out of all of them.
As my interest in SMF grew over the years, I noticed a few unanswered posts in the support boards. Seeing as I had nothing else to do, I started posting replies to those support queries. After doing this for a while, I got contacted by jerm, who asked me if I'd like to become a support team apprentice. After a short period, I joined the SMF team as a Customizer.
7. Who do you admire? Why?
I admire a lot of people... I admire the whole SMF Team for their dedication to producing a high-quality forum system (especially [Unknown], because if it weren't for him, SMF definately wouldn't have been what it is now) :).
8. Are you into sports?  If so which ones?
Me? Sports?
9. What is your dream job?
A programmer in some large company :D
10. What was your first screenname?
My first screen name was Daniel15 (chosen by me in 2003), although I'd previously used 'TheBest' on some forums (chosen by a friend, not me :P). I chose Daniel15 whilst signing up for my old ISP... I wanted the username 'Daniel', but it was taken, so I needed to make up something on the spot.
11. Do you have any piercings?
No
12. Are you a lefty/righty or ambidextrous?
Right-handed, although I also use my left hand to do most things (except write)
13. Do you have any tattoo's?  If not do you wish/plan to get one?
No
14. Do you have any siblings?  If so how many of each.
One sister, two step sisters and a half brother.
15. What is your favorite website?
I have a few favourite sites, although the sites I visit most are http://www.simplemachines.org/, http://www.frihost.com/forum/, and http://www.digg.com/
16. Do you play computer games?  If so which ones?
Usually DOS games, although I do play some newer games (Unreal Tournament and Need For Speed Underground are the main ones)
17. Do you play video game consoles?  Which ones?
A Sega Mega Drive with Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Nintendo 64 :)
18. Are you married or planing to get married?
Not sure at this point in time
19. How many languages do you speak?  Which ones?
I speak one "real" language, English. I can also speak PHP though ;)
20. Do you drink?
No
21. Do you smoke?
No
22. Did you play hookey from class?
No
22. Do you have a license?
No, not yet (I'm not old enough)
23. Do you obtain a good amount of sleep daily?
Yeah, between 10-12 hours
24. How do you sleep?
In a bed in my room :)
25. Have you ever been on an airplane?
No
26. have you ever broken a bone?
No
27. Do you wear jewelry?  If so what jewelry do you wear?
Nope, no jewelry
28. How do you dress?
Very casually. Usually in a T-shirt and jeans
29. How many keys are on your keyring?
Three
30. What time do you go to bed?  What time do you wake up?
During the holidays, I usually go to bed about 1:00 AM (after checking the Simple Machines community forum one last time), and wake up about 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM. During school days, I go to bed at 10:30 PM and wake up about 7:30 AM.
31. What's the freakiest thing you have done?
I haven't really done anything freaky :P
32. Do you live alone?
Nope, I still live with my parents. My mum and dad are divorced, so I'm at my mum's house sometimes, and my dad's house other times (my dad doesn't have a good Internet connection, so that's why I don't make as many posts as other people do ;))
33. How many hours a day do you spend in the computer?
Way too many.
34. How many hours a day do you spend in SMF?
During the holidays, maybe 4 or 5 hours (or more). During school days, I can only spend about an hour here.
35. What is your favorite beverage? Coffee, Tea, Soda, Beer, other?
Orange juice and lemonade are my two favourites
36. What do you hate?

  • People that don't code PHP scripts properly :P
  • Daylight savings
  • Geocities
  • AOL
37. What do you love?

  • SMF
:D

38. What is your religion?
I'm Catholic, although I don't go to church often (some people refer to me as an athiest Christian :P)
39. What is your hair color?
Blonde
40. How tall are you?
No idea, although I think I'm about 165 cm
41. How much do you weight?
Again, no idea (haven't weighted myself for ages)
42. What's the feature on SMF you can't live without?
  a. As an administrator?
  Definately the Package Manager.
  b. As an end user?
  Quick reply, Inline editing, and the 'Show unread posts since last visit' feature (that actually works properly compared to other boards)
  And smileys, of course! :D

Comments


Panzer- on December 30, 2006, 04:59:21 PM said
Congrats on your promotion Daniel :)

Quoteand a half brother.
???

Peter Duggan on December 30, 2006, 05:09:56 PM said
Quote from: Daniel15 on December 30, 2006, 02:42:05 AM
18. Are you married or planing to get married?
Not sure at this point in time

Not sure about which, Daniel? >:D

Quote
36. What do you hate?

  • People that don't code PHP scripts properly :P

You hate the people or just what they do? ???

Quote from: Panzer- on December 30, 2006, 04:59:21 PM
Quoteand a half brother.
???

One shared parent.

Daniel15 on December 30, 2006, 07:48:27 PM said
Quote from: Panzer- on December 30, 2006, 04:59:21 PM
Quoteand a half brother.
???
Like Peter Duggan said, one shared parent. In this case, my father got divorced and remarried ;)

QuoteYou hate the people or just what they do?
I just hate what they do...
I was joking anyways (hence the :P). I was a person that didn't code PHP scripts properly at one point.

QuoteNot sure about which, Daniel?
Heh, I should have been more specific :P. I meant that I wasn't sure if I'm going to get married ;).
And I just realised that planning was spelt wrong :P

DaBoROE09 on December 30, 2006, 07:54:02 PM said
congrats daniel15!

Gary on December 31, 2006, 09:49:56 AM said
Sonic 3 huh? Whats your favourite zone?

Watch The Simpsons? Fave Character? Episode?

Amacythe on January 03, 2007, 12:26:36 AM said
What kind of dogs do you have?

SleePy on January 03, 2007, 06:53:56 PM said
Quote from: Daniel15 on December 30, 2006, 02:42:05 AM
19. How many languages do you speak?  Which ones?
I speak one "real" language, English. I can also speak PHP though ;)

I thought you spoke binary as well?

Quote from: Daniel15 on December 30, 2006, 02:42:05 AM
33. How many hours a day do you spend in the computer?
Way too many.
34. How many hours a day do you spend in SMF?
During the holidays, maybe 4 or 5 hours (or more). During school days, I can only spend about an hour here.

Do you mind giving a accurate graph of your average time spend online over a 2 month period?   :P

Daniel15 on January 03, 2007, 09:52:08 PM said
QuoteSonic 3 huh? Whats your favourite zone?
I don't really have a favourite zone; I like the whole game :D

QuoteWatch The Simpsons?
I used to, but not as much anymore (my view now is "TV is boring", I say that about every TV show :P)

QuoteWhat kind of dogs do you have?
Well, one dog is a greyhound, and the other one is some other kind of dog (it's my sister's dog, and it's white and fluffy :P)

QuoteI thought you spoke binary as well?
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QuoteDo you mind giving a accurate graph of your average time spend online over a 2 month period?   
Let me just find the graph I have lying around :P

Quote36. What do you hate?
Another thing I forgot to write, I hate it when people make stupid grammar mistakes (it's instead of its, would of instead of would have, stuff like that)

LiroyvH on January 07, 2007, 08:06:28 PM said
Quote from: Daniel15 on January 03, 2007, 09:52:08 PM
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Are you able to code anything else then PHP?

Daniel15 on January 07, 2007, 08:42:07 PM said
QuoteAre you able to code anything else then PHP?
Yeah, I can program in Visual Basic 2005, TI-BASIC for TI-84 (haven't learnt it for the TI-89 yet) and I'm trying to learn Bash scripting. I know a few other languages, but don't use them extensively (I can usually debug Perl scripts as well as understand basic C code, but have no idea how to write them from scratch :P)
I can also do HTML and CSS, but that's not really coding as such, is it? ;)

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LiroyvH on January 07, 2007, 09:18:18 PM said
Perl?
Do you want to make some money debugging something, perhaps? :P
Or is that offtopic? (After all this is a thread to ask you questions :P)

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Pause on January 10, 2007, 05:41:14 AM said
What is your opinion on cheesecake?  ;D

Daniel15 on January 10, 2007, 05:48:53 AM said
QuotePerl?
Do you want to make some money debugging something, perhaps?
I don't know enough Perl to be useful :P I write all my CLI scripts in PHP :D

QuoteWhat is your opinion on cheesecake? 
Cheesecake is nice, although I don't eat it often :P
I prefer chocolate cake to any other cake :D

Pause on January 10, 2007, 05:52:15 AM said
Quote from: Daniel15 on January 10, 2007, 05:48:53 AM
QuotePerl?
Do you want to make some money debugging something, perhaps?
I don't know enough Perl to be useful :P I write all my CLI scripts in PHP :D

QuoteWhat is your opinion on cheesecake? 
Cheesecake is nice, although I don't eat it often :P
I prefer chocolate cake to any other cake :D
Singular, double, triple, or quadruple chocolate cake?  ;D

Gary on January 12, 2007, 10:54:47 AM said
I think we all know it's, septuple, Matt. ;)

-AwwLilMaggie

Pause on January 12, 2007, 11:50:35 AM said
Quote from: AwwLilMaggie on January 12, 2007, 10:54:47 AM
I think we all know it's, septuple, Matt. ;)

-AwwLilMaggie

<thread-hijack>

Could be octuple, Gary. ;)


</thread-hijack>

joseph21 on January 13, 2007, 12:16:42 AM said
Congratulations Daniel15 !! :D

a2h_ on January 15, 2007, 06:27:19 PM said
Quote from: Daniel15Visual Basic 2005

No wonder your VB programs are a weird mix of an Office 2003 look and a normal look. Hmm... *opens VB 2005 express*

If only Microsoft allowed us to change the form background to the real office background!

Quote from: Daniel15Age: 16
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Me is under 18 and Australian too :D

pheadrus on January 18, 2007, 09:49:45 PM said
oh yeah, my secret hero (hero of smfshop) is now a legal SMF hero  ;) Congarulations daniel15  :D

botcee on January 19, 2007, 04:25:26 AM said
hey best of luck for the future :D.. im a noob in php..any suggestions on how i can start ?
i hope the answer is not php.net :P

Mert on January 19, 2007, 02:20:09 PM said
Quote from: Daniel15 on December 30, 2006, 07:48:27 PM
And I just realised that planning was spelt wrong :P

well, you spelt FriHost's address as well :P

You wrote: http://www.frihost.com/forum/
In fact it is: You wrote: http://www.frihost.com/forums/

Btw. congratulations :)

Panache Web on January 19, 2007, 06:33:32 PM said
sweet way to go daniel15...

congrats..

Daniel15 on January 19, 2007, 11:55:34 PM said
Thanks for all the feedback, guys :D
Quote. im a noob in php..any suggestions on how i can start ?
i hope the answer is not php.net
Look through some tutorial sites (w3schools.com is quite good).
Also, take a look through the documentation on php.net (especially the documentation on syntax, and tutorials) :)
Quote from: duckling on January 19, 2007, 02:20:09 PM
Quote from: Daniel15 on December 30, 2006, 07:48:27 PM
And I just realised that planning was spelt wrong :P

well, you spelt FriHost's address as well :P

You wrote: http://www.frihost.com/forum/
In fact it is: You wrote: http://www.frihost.com/forums/

Btw. congratulations :)
Oops, I didn't notice that :P


DVD_GR on January 22, 2007, 08:25:59 PM said
daniel happy to see coders at your age...I was never enough for the sport even if tried :(
happy working :D

rabbithutch on January 23, 2007, 05:56:12 PM said
Good on ya, Dan!

Daniel helped me immensely when I was attempting to set up a local server.  He was the only person to respond to my initial post for help (got more help later from others), AND he stayed with it for a period of a week or more as I floundered around trying to understand the very expert advice he gave me.  Expert, diligent, thoughtful and a very effective communicator.  He's gonna make some boss very happy after university!

Oh, yeah !  Ask him if he likes root beer!  Inside joke: After getting localhost to work, I offered to buy the beers if he ever visited Texas - not knowing he won't be legal for a few years yet.  (Hey! Who knew?  We murricans think all Aussie's are beer drinkers after they quit pap.)  :P  So I told him he would forevermore be known as 'Root Beer'.

rh

MH-MINI on January 23, 2007, 07:39:09 PM said
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animecosmo on February 04, 2007, 04:20:56 PM said
You are only 16? Dang... That is not fair. LOL. I am 23 and still struggling like crazy to learn PHP properly.

Pause on February 04, 2007, 04:31:47 PM said
Which just shows, that age is no indication of a person's abilities  ;)

Bir_Derdim_Var on February 06, 2007, 05:09:44 AM said
arkadaşlar şunun türkçesini yazıcakolan vcar mı ne bu ya :)

ayesoft on February 06, 2007, 08:26:24 AM said
Quote from: Bir_Derdim_Var on February 06, 2007, 05:09:44 AM
arkadaşlar şunun türkçesini yazıcakolan vcar mı ne bu ya :)
her yerde türk olduğunu belli etme :D

Daniel is So So :S

zbdude on February 10, 2007, 06:23:24 PM said
I read your blip as I have many times at other forums, 

There is one thing that caught my interest.

My associates really raze me about still playing the old dos games and using dos programs. 

I am going to print what you said about dos games,  show them and ha them.

Thanks

you made my day

Daniel15 on February 10, 2007, 07:39:23 PM said
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Quote from: animecosmo on February 04, 2007, 04:20:56 PM
You are only 16? Dang... That is not fair. LOL. I am 23 and still struggling like crazy to learn PHP properly.
Hehe :P
I started learning PHP a few years ago, and I'm still learning a bit now (my approach is to learn by doing :))

Quote from: Bir_Derdim_Var on February 06, 2007, 05:09:44 AM
arkadaşlar şunun türkçesini yazıcakolan vcar mı ne bu ya :)
* Daniel15 wonders what this means :P

QuoteI am going to print what you said about dos games,  show them and ha them.

Thanks

you made my day
:D

Purple on February 11, 2007, 02:13:00 PM said
Congrates Daniel!!!

tradenet on February 13, 2007, 12:46:20 PM said
Hmmm...seems all of Daniels sites are down today.

Daniel15 on February 14, 2007, 12:19:16 AM said
Quote from: tradenet on February 13, 2007, 12:46:20 PM
Hmmm...seems all of Daniels sites are down today.
Yeah, server problems, combined with clueless data centre staff ;). Since Dynamic-Sig.com and DansoftAustralia.net are on the same server, both were down.

Daniel15.com is on another server, but the DNS and mail is hosted on the server that was down (I host the email there due to the spam filtering, and I haven't bothered moving the DNS yet :P). When it appears to be down, http://daniel15.frihost.net/ should still work :)

tradenet on February 14, 2007, 09:44:12 AM said
I hear yeah on that one bro'

kateydrop on February 25, 2007, 05:50:43 AM said
Congratulations Daniel!

Well done u

Life is for living Daniel...enjoy your youth...you only get one bite at da cherry!

;D

xfollowthereaperx on February 28, 2007, 12:03:07 AM said
Very cool, I'm a fan of your work  :P

mattrm on March 08, 2007, 02:35:37 PM said
Quote from: Daniel15
Quote
Do you mind giving a accurate graph of your average time spend online over a 2 month period?   
Let me just find the graph I have lying around :P

Assuming you use Firefox you can produce a graph using this extension:

http://www.pageaddict.com/ [nofollow]


Daniel15 on March 09, 2007, 04:04:50 AM said
Quote from: kateydrop on February 25, 2007, 05:50:43 AM
Life is for living Daniel...enjoy your youth...
:D

Quote from: xfollowthereaperx on February 28, 2007, 12:03:07 AM
Very cool, I'm a fan of your work  :P
Yeah, you're quite active at my forum :D

Quote from: mattrm on March 08, 2007, 02:35:37 PM
Quote from: Daniel15
Quote
Do you mind giving a accurate graph of your average time spend online over a 2 month period?  
Let me just find the graph I have lying around :P

Assuming you use Firefox you can produce a graph using this extension:

http://www.pageaddict.com/


Nope, I'm an Opera user ;)

C 4 t i m e r on March 09, 2007, 04:40:02 PM said
ı can speak İngilish, but some I am sory,  I am from turkish Vay Be KOpardım :D

Phoenix Omega on March 10, 2007, 01:57:27 PM said
Quote
Quote
36. What do you hate?

  • People that don't code PHP scripts properly :P

You hate the people or just what they do? ???

maybe he hates both.  :)

trecool999 on March 12, 2007, 12:11:37 AM said
Quote from: C 4 t i m e r on March 09, 2007, 04:40:02 PM
ı can speak İngilish, but some I am sory,  I am from turkish Vay Be KOpardım :D

English ;).

Congrats Danny Boy! Believe it or not, I am younger than you, I can get away with bad scripting, no need for flaming! :D

pongsak on March 26, 2007, 11:33:50 AM said
U 're so Young!
Great Man..genius. :)
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