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Interesting -- see this thread at Treemaker Geneology Forum where there is some info on it. The official company explanation fits exactly with the above description.
...all the papers on Jacob Nielson's site, be sure to do so. They are fantastic reads. Though I laughingly agree with a previous post that the colors on the cover are atrocious and painful to the eye, I think this is one author that makes a ton of sense when he talks about useability, testing, design, etc. Read it, share it, do it.
Sure AOL runs AOL Server, but nobody else does. Go to Netcraft & check it out. People don't run it, they run Apache, Netscape, IIS, and other "conventional" servers. It was hard enough getting the board to agree on Apache at an old job, but can you imagine trying to push AOL's server?
I lost much of my faith in Greenspun when I went to his Boston Marathon site to track a friend. It had completely crashed under the load of the users. It lead me to believe the guy is more talk than substance when it comes to websites that scale. He has great things to teach, but the key is to take his example and ideas, and port them, not duplicate them IMHO.
Well, maybe a lc("GOD"). Why do I say this? Well, several reasons...
He touts "wierd" solutions. Come on, who the heck uses AOL's web server & TCL???
He says, "Yea, I do it", but on really expensive boxes that most people could only fantasize about budgeting for.
When he set up the web system to track runners in the Boston Marathon, he fell flat on his face. The GOD of extensible and DB driven's own web system crashed, failed to handle the load BIG TIME.
Now having said that, I will say that his information is a fantastic read. And those "napkin" and "sketchpad" drawings are great. So my advice is read him for ideas about DB layout, community concepts, DB driven concepts, etc. but not for nuts and bolts. When Greenspun tells us how to "do it" and lets us consider LINUX, Perl, PHP, MySQL, and other "open source" solutions, I'll start calling him an uc("god").
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Interesting -- see this thread at Treemaker Geneology Forum where there is some info on it. The official company explanation fits exactly with the above description.
...all the papers on Jacob Nielson's site, be sure to do so. They are fantastic reads. Though I laughingly agree with a previous post that the colors on the cover are atrocious and painful to the eye, I think this is one author that makes a ton of sense when he talks about useability, testing, design, etc. Read it, share it, do it.
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I lost much of my faith in Greenspun when I went to his Boston Marathon site to track a friend. It had completely crashed under the load of the users. It lead me to believe the guy is more talk than substance when it comes to websites that scale. He has great things to teach, but the key is to take his example and ideas, and port them, not duplicate them IMHO.
Now having said that, I will say that his information is a fantastic read. And those "napkin" and "sketchpad" drawings are great. So my advice is read him for ideas about DB layout, community concepts, DB driven concepts, etc. but not for nuts and bolts. When Greenspun tells us how to "do it" and lets us consider LINUX, Perl, PHP, MySQL, and other "open source" solutions, I'll start calling him an uc("god").