IMO PHPGroupware sucks. We were using it as a contact management and project management databse My (small) company tried to use it for about 9 months until we got fed up and paid (gasp!) for some Goldmine licenses for contact management. Despite its many, many, MANY stupid quirks Goldmine is much better than PHPGroupware for contact management, for our simple PM requirements Mantis is far better.
MS Project is light years ahead of PHPGroupware in terms of actually being able to manage a project (or set of projects) - I'd keep looking.
PDFs are only good for one thing: printing stuff out, and paper sucks. I loose paper, I can't copy from a paper document into a text buffer, people recycle it on me, I'm drowning in paper - bits on a hard drive never really get lost, I can easily copy text out of one document and into another, and I can easily search across gigabytes of documents, except of course when they're PDFs.
Why couldn't they make it a subscription only website? It seems to have the same reach as a PDF downloaded over the internet, and has the added benefit that you don't have to keep downloading another 50MB PDF each time you move to a new computer.
Where do you get that demonstrably untrue idea? I get as much or more spam on my.edu address as on my.com/.net/.org addresses. Methinks spammers don't give a shit.
1) it's not online.
2) it's nothing to do with your rights.
A group of concerned people list toys they think are dangerous. Gee, that'll prevent me from buying them! It's dangerously curtailing my rights as a consumer! Oh wait, it doesn't prevent me from buying them, nevermind.
You might want to check out CNet's pretty good Wireless Phone comparison DB. It compares phones and plans; it's good for getting a good idea about phones, but not great for phone plans - I found better deals by just calling the service providers directly.
I think a worse "problem" amongst college students is freedom from supervision and easy availibility of various drugs (alcohol, etc). Almost everybody I know (including myself) went nuts freshman year in college with parties and general drunkeness, but then we quickly got over it and moved on. By the time 10BT was rolled out to the dorms it was my junior year (in 1994), and despite the fact that I'm a net junkie (and have been since 1989), and that I never got over the high speed access (which is why I pay $80/month for high speed access now) I still prefered (and still prefer) spending time time drinking my liver into submission with friends than surfing the net..
I dissagree somewhat, I believe that it does cost alot (well, I suppose alot is relative, but anyway) to run a high-uptime web server. Granted there are ways to minimise this cost, but it's still going to require a signifigant investment in hardware and/or people.
If you've got an fancy, high-transaction ecom. site, you don't want that to go down, so you have a hot spare that will automagically fail over to, as well as redundant data lines and a backup "solution" of some kind. Computer hardware is (in my opinion) cheap, if you're not buying SGI, backup "solutions" are worth every penny. But things like data lines will be a large recurring cost. In PDX the going rate for a frame relay T1 (last time I looked into it, and if you have a fancy site, who knows, a fatter pipe might be needed) was around $1k-$1.5k a month. So, it may be more economical to colocate your boxes at a service provider that has fatter, redundant pipes, that'll cost you alot less - if it's an unattended colocation facility, alot more if it's an attended one.
So your box crashes, automagic fail over occurs, customers don't see a thing, but you gotta fix the crashed/incapacitated server. If the server is in your office, and it's working hours, fine, but if it's at an unattended co-location facility, you gotta drive out to the co-loc. If it's 2 in the morning, somebody has to get out of bed and do it. If you're out to dinner with your SO, you gotta leave and do it - a pain in the ass. To be more reliable, you start a rotating duty shift for your people, which will cost you more in labor. Backup tape changes are not a problem if the server is located in your office, you can do that all during normal busness hours, but if it's at an unattended co-loc facility you'll have to schlepp down there to swap tapes periodically.
To me, it's now looking like the $7k a month hosting fees at some fancy attended co-loc aren't so bad. Their onsite staff is typically well trained (in my experience), and they'll do everything you ask them to, you'll never have to touch your boxes again, be able to do all your work at sane hours, and have something that may resemble a life outside of work.
In Portland (Oregon), the McMenamins beer empire has 4 theaters serving beer and food to the over 21 crowd. Most of the movies are only $1 and they conveniently post their schedules on the web.
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IMO PHPGroupware sucks. We were using it as a contact management and project management databse My (small) company tried to use it for about 9 months until we got fed up and paid (gasp!) for some Goldmine licenses for contact management. Despite its many, many, MANY stupid quirks Goldmine is much better than PHPGroupware for contact management, for our simple PM requirements Mantis is far better.
MS Project is light years ahead of PHPGroupware in terms of actually being able to manage a project (or set of projects) - I'd keep looking.
--Brent
PDFs are only good for one thing: printing stuff out, and paper sucks. I loose paper, I can't copy from a paper document into a text buffer, people recycle it on me, I'm drowning in paper - bits on a hard drive never really get lost, I can easily copy text out of one document and into another, and I can easily search across gigabytes of documents, except of course when they're PDFs.
Why couldn't they make it a subscription only website? It seems to have the same reach as a PDF downloaded over the internet, and has the added benefit that you don't have to keep downloading another 50MB PDF each time you move to a new computer.
--bsr
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Where do you get that demonstrably untrue idea? I get as much or more spam on my .edu address as on my .com/.net/.org addresses. Methinks spammers don't give a shit.
--bsr
Why is this under Y.R.O.?
1) it's not online.
2) it's nothing to do with your rights.
A group of concerned people list toys they think are dangerous. Gee, that'll prevent me from buying them! It's dangerously curtailing my rights as a consumer! Oh wait, it doesn't prevent me from buying them, nevermind.
--Brent
- Know how to program, if you're a designer, unless you're the exception not the rule, go back to school, learn some CS.
- Learn ASP (it's a pain in the ass, but it is used, and it is powefull)
- Learn PHP (it's much nicer to use, scales well from small to medium sized things)
- Learn database *design*, not just SQL.
- Learn PERL (to glue together everything)
- Learn HTML (forget using a visual layout tool)
- Learn CSS
- Learn XML
- don't expect to solve appearingly "simple" problems on your first day, it takes alot of seat time to avoid all the traps.
If you want to be a "Web Designer"You might want to check out CNet's pretty good Wireless Phone comparison DB. It compares phones and plans; it's good for getting a good idea about phones, but not great for phone plans - I found better deals by just calling the service providers directly.
Regards,
Brent
I think a worse "problem" amongst college students is freedom from supervision and easy availibility of various drugs (alcohol, etc). Almost everybody I know (including myself) went nuts freshman year in college with parties and general drunkeness, but then we quickly got over it and moved on. By the time 10BT was rolled out to the dorms it was my junior year (in 1994), and despite the fact that I'm a net junkie (and have been since 1989), and that I never got over the high speed access (which is why I pay $80/month for high speed access now) I still prefered (and still prefer) spending time time drinking my liver into submission with friends than surfing the net..
I dissagree somewhat, I believe that it does cost alot (well, I suppose alot is relative, but anyway) to run a high-uptime web server. Granted there are ways to minimise this cost, but it's still going to require a signifigant investment in hardware and/or people.
If you've got an fancy, high-transaction ecom. site, you don't want that to go down, so you have a hot spare that will automagically fail over to, as well as redundant data lines and a backup "solution" of some kind. Computer hardware is (in my opinion) cheap, if you're not buying SGI, backup "solutions" are worth every penny. But things like data lines will be a large recurring cost. In PDX the going rate for a frame relay T1 (last time I looked into it, and if you have a fancy site, who knows, a fatter pipe might be needed) was around $1k-$1.5k a month. So, it may be more economical to colocate your boxes at a service provider that has fatter, redundant pipes, that'll cost you alot less - if it's an unattended colocation facility, alot more if it's an attended one.
So your box crashes, automagic fail over occurs, customers don't see a thing, but you gotta fix the crashed/incapacitated server. If the server is in your office, and it's working hours, fine, but if it's at an unattended co-location facility, you gotta drive out to the co-loc. If it's 2 in the morning, somebody has to get out of bed and do it. If you're out to dinner with your SO, you gotta leave and do it - a pain in the ass. To be more reliable, you start a rotating duty shift for your people, which will cost you more in labor. Backup tape changes are not a problem if the server is located in your office, you can do that all during normal busness hours, but if it's at an unattended co-loc facility you'll have to schlepp down there to swap tapes periodically.
To me, it's now looking like the $7k a month hosting fees at some fancy attended co-loc aren't so bad. Their onsite staff is typically well trained (in my experience), and they'll do everything you ask them to, you'll never have to touch your boxes again, be able to do all your work at sane hours, and have something that may resemble a life outside of work.
-Brent
In Portland (Oregon), the McMenamins beer empire has 4 theaters serving beer and food to the over 21 crowd. Most of the movies are only $1 and they conveniently post their schedules on the web.
-Brent