MDApplicants Profile Generator

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Maybe a dumb question... but what is the point of MDApps? I applied all over with no issue and didn't hear about it until after being admitted.
 
Maybe a dumb question... but what is the point of MDApps? I applied all over with no issue and didn't hear about it until after being admitted.

It's helpful if you're one of those people that likes to try and figure out what "baseline" competitiveness is at various schools. It also gives you an idea of what you should be doing.

(sent from my phone - please forgive typos and brevity)
 
Funny you should mention it. After pm'ing paul411 without a response I've begun preparing a similar css style sheet. I'll post it as soon as it's done (hopefully within the next week) for anyone who wants to use it. Whether it will have a fancy PHP input interface as I suspect paul411's "generator" had remains to be seen. Maybe paul411 will respond and save me the effort... :xf:

Until then, don't forget you can always Right Click > View Source on any profile using the paul411 template, such as mine, gettheleadout's, NickNaylor's or paul411's. The relevant bit starts with <style type="text/css">.

Just received a reply from paul411 and he just said he doesn't have the webspace to host the generator anymore. And I'm not too technologically savy, how would I use the source code to generate my profile? haha
 
Just received a reply from paul411 and he just said he doesn't have the webspace to host the generator anymore.
Is there a reason it would need to be hosted at special webspace? Can he not just put the code into a free site? If not, I have another idea. Let me know what Paul says or if I should PM him myself.
And I'm not too technologically savy, how would I use the source code to generate my profile? haha
You would take the code sections from the source code and replace the content of a profile with your own, then copy/paste the new code+content into your profile. This is actually quite difficult to do from whole page source code...
 
Is there a reason it would need to be hosted at special webspace? Can he not just put the code into a free site? If not, I have another idea. Let me know what Paul says or if I should PM him myself.

No reason was given to me. I think you should PM him to get some more information.
 
I finally got around to re-writing the profile code generator: http://is.gd/mdapplicants

If people can test it to make sure it works and stuff, I'll send the file so they can host in on SDN.

Disclaimer: I only tested it in Chrome 19.
 
I finally got around to re-writing the profile code generator: http://is.gd/mdapplicants

If people can test it to make sure it works and stuff, I'll send the file so they can host in on SDN.

Disclaimer: I only tested it in Chrome 19.

Cool beans. Gonna try it out later tonight.

So when are you going to sue DocBert for stealing your work, changing the fonts, and passing it off as his own? Lol!
 
I finally got around to re-writing the profile code generator: http://is.gd/mdapplicants

If people can test it to make sure it works and stuff, I'll send the file so they can host in on SDN.

Disclaimer: I only tested it in Chrome 19.
Awesome! Can't seem to get some parts of it to work in FF 13 (disabled NoScript and ABP, but may be an issue with something like that; I think I just have a javascript problem...), but works in Safari 5.
Works on IE! You are my hero, thanks!
wat

:laugh:
 
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Awesome! Can't seem to get some parts of it to work in FF 12 (disabled NoScript and ABP, but may be an issue with something like that; I think I just have a javascript problem...), but works in Safari 5.

wat

:laugh:

The newer ie is actually pretty good

Not that I would ever use it over chrome lol
 
Just a note here guys, for some time I haven't been able to get the expand/hide toggles on individual activities to work in Firefox. I realized the problem was that the "srcElement" code segment isn't compatible with Firefox, and replaced it with the universal "target" in my code. It works now, but I still can't expand/hide individual activities on others' profiles, confirming that it was the problem.

Paul, would you consider replacing the srcElement phrase within the code generator?
 
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