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Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 11:20 am

quote:
Originally posted by WISearchers:
Chad or someone:

Can you email me on how to use the RSS "code" to use its content? I understand what it is, just not how to use it for publishing "news" on a website.

Tony (WISearchers)

RSS is simply a way for clients to access timestamped data. It happens to publish this data in XML format for ease of parsing (only important to us geeks!) You can get an RSS reader or use Yahoo to read new articles available on a blog or website.

What is RSS?: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html

Yahoo: http://my.yahoo.com/s/about/rss/index.html

Some readers I've used: http://www.rssbandit.org/ http://www.newsgator.com/home.aspx

Theres tons of readers out there, just google "RSS reader".

FYI, looks like Mambo can publish via RSS: http://www.mamboserver.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=0

Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 10:17 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
And Major Brat definitely needs her own forum.

Geeze...talk about a personal attack!

LOL! You kill me Russ!

...Acutally...I'd be all over it! It would definately have to be on the "No whining" channel! Anyone know what channel that is?

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 7:42 am

quote:
Originally posted by CB&MB:
Geeze...talk about a personal attack! LOL! You kill me Russ!

...Acutally...I'd be all over it! It would definately have to be on the "No whining" channel! Anyone know what channel that is?

I don't know Which Way you are going with this MB.

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:16 pm

quote:
Originally posted by WISearchers:
I don't know Which Way you are going with this MB.

Just wanted to let Russ know that it's okay for him to poke fun at me w/out my getting bent out shape. No whining here friend.

MB

WGA Member Joined: 2005-05-11 Posts: 210 Location: WI, USA

I have to agree with PHPBB, and would throw in http://www.postgresql.org/ for the database. While MySQL is very fast, PostgreSQL has many powerful features of a true database (like rollback). I *might* even be able to donate some time, but that is very dependant on what projects I'm working on.

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WGA Member Joined: 2005-05-11 Posts: 210 Location: WI, USA

Of course, I also suggest this photo for the WGA homepage:

Edited to include the originating page which explains the context.

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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 8:01 am

Note: You should never include pictures of members on an organization website, it sometimes causes people to get big heads.

WGA Member Joined: 2005-05-11 Posts: 210 Location: WI, USA

Of course, this was a close second:

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 11:28 am

Ok, you got me!
But .... you think that's bad .... ALL of my geocaching pictures of me look that bad or worse! It's the only thing I don't like about geocaching ... it reveal to me that I have very viewable and ugly nostrils!

Here's another example, taken at "I believe" in Mequon ...
Click Here if you Dare!

... Incredibly similar ... but at least I kept my mouth shut!

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Joined: 2002-04-06 Posts: 1030 Location: Kenosha, WI

quote:
Originally posted by Opossum:
I have to agree with PHPBB, and would throw in http://www.postgresql.org/ for the database. While MySQL is very fast, PostgreSQL has many powerful features of a true database (like rollback). I *might* even be able to donate some time, but that is very dependant on what projects I'm working on.

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Oh sure... Start a database holy war. I'm a big user of MySQL...

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:06 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Opossum:
I have to agree with PHPBB, and would throw in http://www.postgresql.org/ for the database. While MySQL is very fast, PostgreSQL has many powerful features of a true database (like rollback). I *might* even be able to donate some time, but that is very dependant on what projects I'm working on.

Thanks for the info Opossum. PHPbb is set up to support a number of databases including PostgreSQL, so I'll look into it. Later versions of MySQL (>4.0) address some of the shortcomings you mentioned, specifically transactions, while remaining relatively fast.

(FYI: The current WGA site is using MySQL for storing various things including the membership list and COTM and, knock on wood, we haven't had any major problems.)

Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 3:37 pm

quote:

Originally posted by Opossum:
I have to agree with PHPBB, and would throw in http://www.postgresql.org/ for the database. While MySQL is very fast, PostgreSQL has many powerful features of a true database (like rollback). I *might* even be able to donate some time, but that is very dependant on what projects I'm working on.

quote:
Originally posted by jvechinski:
Thanks for the info Opossum. PHPbb is set up to support a number of databases including PostgreSQL, so I'll look into it. Later versions of MySQL (>4.0) address some of the shortcomings you mentioned, specifically transactions, while remaining relatively fast.

(FYI: The current WGA site is using MySQL for storing various things including the membership list and COTM and, knock on wood, we haven't had any major problems.)

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Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 4:33 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Cathunter:
How about creating a seperate "techno-geek" forum to seperate the technical posts from the general posts?

Based on the fishcachers bunny/pancake thing, it sounds like the suggestion above might be a good one.

WGA Member Joined: 2005-05-11 Posts: 210 Location: WI, USA

--On the up side, they're clean nostrils...

Energy Saver: "...at least I kept my mouth shut!"
--I'm not even gonna touch that one!

Cheesehead Dave: "I'm a big user of MySQL..."
--Great! Now you know of something better! (laughing) Nah, really, if WGA
is using MySQL there's probably little reason to switch mid-stream, unless they
want to (re-)write code to use the additional features, and I probably
wouldn't. So, Dave, can the WGA put you down for 40 hours of volunteer work?

(Edited to make it read better on the extremely wide-page.)

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WGA Member Joined: 2005-05-11 Posts: 210 Location: WI, USA

Other sites, like http://www.azgeocaching.com/ have put some pretty fancy sites
together. While AZ's may be a bit much for my tastes, can we contact them or
other states and share resources? Keeping scripts working and such has to be a royal
pain whenever GC.com changes something, but if each state maintained one script
and a list of what changed at GC.com, that wouldn't be so bad. I'm not saying
everyone should run off one server with one set of scripts, but a good part of the
scripting and driving mechanics must be sharable, in my very humble (although
outspoken) opinion.

(Edited to make it read better on the extremely wide-page.)

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