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Specs of Salons Subscription System

Posted by chrisd on from the slashcode's-story-serving-cousins dept.

legLess writes "Scott Rosenburg, Salon's VP of operations, wrote an interesting article for Web Techniques about Salon's subscription system. It goes into a fair amount of technical detail (JavaBeans and JSP on Linux for login and authentication; Perl, HTML::Mason and MySQL (CD: and oracle) for content). He also talks about their subscription numbers, what drove them to do it, and their plans for the future (technical and operational). A little fluffy, but still a good read."

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  1. what the fuck? by autopr0n · · Score: 2, Troll

    No wonder they have 87 million in debt. Why the fuck do you need oracle to serve content? MySQL works fine for slashdot,

    MySQL is a piece of shit. (no nested selects? WTF?) And incase you hadn't noticed, slashdot fails all the time. The only reason they stick with it is because the source was originally hard-coded with MySQL API calls. Andover even pored money into the company behind MySQL to beef it up when it was flush with IPO money. Nowadays they're using proprietary extensions (witch cost $$, btw).

    MySQL was not designed for a lot of the things its being used for.

    You're comment is a lot like saying: "Who the fuck needs a mainframe? my DOS LAN works fine!" or something.

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  2. Re:I pay for Salon by revscat · · Score: 1, Troll
    Do you even understand what the word "independent" means? I made no claims about Salon's bias, nor will I do so. (Mainly because such arguments are specious at best). "Independent", however, means that they are separate from any corporate control, and that remains true. Of course seeing as how conservatives absolutely obsess over the so-called liberal bias in the media, it suprises me exactly NONE that you interpreted my sentence thusly.

    Come one take it for what it is. You read it because youre a leftist and you want toi read news with a leftist view. It's the same reason why I read Worldnetdaily.com

    Would somebody PLEASE give the conservative community a fucking DICTIONARY? I swear to GOD there are about half a dozen conservatives who can spell, and maybe three or four of those who can construct gramatically correct sentences. And one of those is George Will! JESUS! I try to pay attention to the arguments and not the sentence structure, but fuck me! It just makes one start to think that 99% of the conservatives on the net are, well, morons!