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That's pretty much what I do for my sites.

(The first needs to be updated badly. I don't do Slash anymore. :-) )

Something else I should have said ...

A couple days ago I posted a message in a SCO story that linked to this. I expected it to be modded Funny, but it didn't get modded once!

Now this post that says nothing but "ooooh my precious porn" gets a +5 Funny. Good grief!

This might get us closer to the heart of the problem. :-)

If you're interested...

I wrote a Yahtzee dice game macro using StarBasic in a Calc spreadsheet.

Get it here. :-)

Bruce,

In addition to the question on which topics you are looking for, I'd also ask what the qualifications would be for writing a book. I did fairly well in grammar classes, and I have written tutorials before (and was praised for them). I run a sole-proprietor consulting company, but things are slow so I might be interested in this if I can come up with a reasonable topic.

Thanks!

I would be interested in hearing some of the lessons you learned in your XUL trials.

For one thing, I got excited about using the HTML composer to allow people to write messages. But apparently that is only available in chrome apps (which are installed locally, not fetched via HTTP). When I reverted to plain-text boxes, I discovered that I could not even get XUL to do the equivelant of wrap=soft in HTML -- the user had to press a hard Enter at the end of every line! That is probably the biggest "killer", for now anyway, for this particular application. Making it look and feel nice to users is of utmost importance.

Also, Mozilla seems to have fairly unstable support for changing some properties dynamically. Some things that worked great in Mozilla 1.0.1 don't work right at all in any recent build (since last August I think). Here is a test page that I put up. When you move the mouse over the image, it's supposed to increase/decrease the opacity. Works great in 1.0.1, but in recent builds it just works the first time the mouse touches it, then the opacity just stays the same. I filed a bug on this -- Bugzilla #185432. Not an issue for my afformentioned application, but I believe Mozilla+XUL could be huge in the edutainment market, and this kind of thing makes it almost worthless for that. They need to get this kind of thing working reliably in all builds.

As one who hosts Slash sites, I'd say that Slashcode might be overkill for a user group. It's nice, it's powerful, and it works, but it's really meant for sites with more than a handful of users.

Count your blessing.

Small college, lab assist, grunt PHP coder, start own business!

I went to a relatively small college and started my freshman year as a lab assistant. I learned some things about Novell (uugh) and networking DOS and Win3.1 computers (double uugh).

But after a couple years of that, plus my CS major, they got interested in me for more stuff. When the college finally got a Net connection and boughtt a nice Sun box to power it, I was the first student they taught UNIX to and became the assistent admin. Lots of fun!

After college I had a couple jobs at consulting companies, the later working with PHP and Perl and databases.

Then I decided what the heck, regular office jobs suck, lots more fun if I run the show myself. So that's what I'm doing. Bought a nice Linux box, put it up at a good colo place, started a Slash hosting and Web development business, and went from there.

I'm getting some customers and they seem to be happy. So if I ever do need to find a regular job for some PHB again (hopefully not) I'll have some references that know that I know something about Linux admin. And keeping a Linux box with several sites on the Net running smoothly is much better experience than installing Linux on a spare partition at home.

I can do that (blatent plug). We're still at 2.0 and may be for some time, but eventually we'll get upgraded to 2.2 or 2.4.

Or if anyone can tell me how to run two versions on the same server we can start right away. Possibly by dedicating one httpd to 2.2 and having it on its own IP (which I could do) but then I'd have to figure out how to isolate the Slash .pm files from each other. I've heard it said that it can't be done, but there's probably a way...

> Try Transgaming's Winex - they rewrote all of MS's DCOM to do the Inter Process Communication Alexandre was talking about.

Actually that's what I'm using. Just downloaded it yesterday!

Tried to install Hasbro's Interactive Risk and Risk II. Those are the only games I really really want bad. I just love that game, and the XFrisk AI sucks rocks. TEG is a bit like Risk and much better in the AI dept, but not QUITE the same.

Anyway, the original Risk installer starts, then hangs, and the Risk II installer aborts when it can't find a file.

For the record, I had Stardock's Entrepreneur running pretty much perfectly under Codeweavers wine several months ago. haven't tried again with WineX yet.

> You can afford $5 a month right?

Maybe if someone would hire me (independent Web/Linux consultant/developer).....