At my site which a combination blogger/yahoo groups/office pool central any user can make their own blogs and provide RSS feeds. In addition the users can build their own FOAF RDF files which can then be used to explore their network of connections. SVG plugin required.
[shameless plug] My site 23 Pools offers all these and more built on completely open source tools: Linux, AOLserver, PostgreSQL, Postfix.
For an example blog check out mine and a cool usage of SVG for viewing the connections between users. You will need a SVG browser plugin if you arent running latest Mozilla with the SVG built in. [/shamelessplug]
I have a friend who is a mangager at IBM and he was recently required to change his team makeup to be 70% from IBM India. He is bummed but there is nothing he can do to prevent the shift in manpower. I think this is a different world from the past and these jobs are not coming back. Unless you move into management, work for a small local firm, or try to go out on your own like my self 23 Pools there is a good chance that your job may not be there in the future. What I don't understand is why the pricing of housing hasn't come down more and expect that to be the next bubble to burst.
shameless plug Since Football season is here and a lot of OS workers hang out in offices come check out a site which allows you the functionality of Blogger, Yahoo Groups and allows you to run your own Football Pools. The whole site architecture is OS using AOLserver, PostgreSQL, Postfix, on GNU-Linux
PostgreSQL kicks butt and so will the Redskins this year. You can check out the some of the technical details at www.23pools.com/sh/co/tech and make your predictions using PG to store your picks or check out a sample blog at Never Give Up
Shameless plug of my site at 23 Pools allows you to setup Personal and Group Blogs with features like FOAF, GEOurl, Creative Commons licensing, Trackback, and other normal blogish stuff, for example check out my blog for an example of functionality.
In addition though to being a blog hosting site you can setup your own groups with normal Yahoo Groups like features but also give you the power to do just about any type of contest from:
football pools
square pools
bracket pools
survivor/dead pools
baby pools
Sorry for the plug but it is football pool time again so create a blog and an office pool in one swoop. All written using Open Source of course
Its interesting that whenever anyone quotes a MySQL vs Postgres link and includes the PHP article the referenced above, they rarely realize that the author of that article (and one of the initial developers of Sourceforge) wrote an article 4 months later that Revisiting the MySQL vs Postgresql Implementation. The original quoted article ended up recommending MySQL while the later article clearly showed that PostgreSQL blew away MySQL under a high load. This research is what made Sourceforge convert from an initial MySQL implementation to a PostgreSQL one.
As a sidenote, I am currently building a pgdiff tool
that allows users to create alter scripts for migrating between schemas. This is useful for shops where there may be a development/staging/production versions of the database...
Just as a side note... I enjoyed your article "Spring in Cambridge" and have investigated your&company site. Just curious have you checked out the OpenACS community (I know you mostly do Windows and can appreciate why) but you may be pleasantly surprised that alot of the early feeling of ADs goals seem to be carrying on with growing community over at www.openacs.org Best regards
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What if in my site there is content that the users may wish to bookmark? Do you use an url rewrite to strip out old session data and create a new one? Plus have you had any feedback from users that like may be turned off by the unappealing url appearance?
Exactly... with the random scheme it is possible (not likely) but possible that the next 1000 requests all go to the same appserver... I dont understand either why they just didnt use some version of round robin (weighted or whatever) to balance the load...
Dont you need it if you want XFS? According to XFS Cavaets it says
Required Compiler and Library Releases gcc version 2.91.66 required Due to known problems with later versions of gcc, gcc version 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) must be used when compiling XFS and the associated kernel. This is the default compiler on Red Hat Linux 6.2 systems, and is provided as "kgcc" for Red Hat Linux 7.0 and higher (see the next item for more information). Other distributions may be using a later version. The easiest way to check what version is in use is by running gcc -v.
I know NASA didnt send this but communication should be like programming.
Keep out the fluff or at least be consistent. The binary representation ends after the ninth digit. They should either take it out or extend binary for full alphabet of digits mapping legend.
And the large prime at the bottom presumes exponentiation is represented in a very human way, not to mention that how do they know the minus sign?
And the heading at top of page is extra noise too.
They should keep it simple and tear out the extra stuff so as not to confuse any intelligence trying to decrypt our mathematical hello.
I originally posted these questions a couple days late so you probably didn't read them but I'm still interested if you are willing to answer... if not I'll post them over at photo.net Back in November 97 you started a thread in one of your forums entitled "can a db-backed Web site turn a profit?" You went on to say then that you didn't see how. In reference to that I have a few questions?
Do you still hold this opinion?
If you do, do you see a division in the web between those companies that use the web as a loss leader, those that attempt to make, run a profitable business and will eventually fail, those sites that attempt to build a popular enough site to be a buyout potential, and those that are only interested in contributing content, services with no thought of profit.
Do you take this opinion into account when determining which sites Ardigita retains as clients, since most of your revenue stream comes in the form of ongoing support contracts, turning down some business that may not be funded well enough making their venture a gamble?
I know you have taken large established clients, but have you developed any sites that begun at a startup level, and if so have any become profitable?
The Group Collaboration Sites that are the target of the Open Source ACS toolkit seem to work best when the community targeted is less than 100,000 users, what is the largest community site (membership) that you know of using the ACS toolkit and at what point do you think the sites using ACS will have trouble currently scaling to and is there a plan to increase that threshhold
Thanks for contributions you have and continue to make.
Back in November 97 you started a thread in one of your forums entitled "can a db-backed Web site turn a profit?" You went on to say then that you didn't see how. In reference to that I have a few questions?
Do you still hold this opinion?
If you do, do you see a division in the web between those companies that use the web as a loss leader, those that attempt to make, run a profitable business and will eventually fail, those sites that attempt to build a popular enough site to be a buyout potential, and those that are only interested in contributing content, services with no thought of profit.
Do you take this opinion into account when determining which sites Ardigita retains as clients, since most of your revenue stream comes in the form of ongoing support contracts, turning down some business that may not be funded well enough making their venture a gamble?
I know you have taken large established clients, but have you developed any sites that begun at a startup level, and if so have any become profitable?
The Group Collaboration Sites that are the target of the Open Source ACS toolkit seem to work best when the community targeted is less than 100,000 users, what is the largest community site (membership) that you know of using the ACS toolkit and at what point do you think the sites using ACS will have trouble currently scaling to and is there a plan to increase that threshhold
Thanks for contributions you have and continue to make.
This in just another example of one of the many benefits that Arsdigita has contributed to the community. I have been following their Open Source toolkit they use for building online communities and they were influential in convincing AOL to Open Source AOLServer which after evaluated multiple web servers I decided as being the perfect tool for my own web site. The company also has a foundation encouraging young people to build community beneficial sites that gives out a scholarship every year. The company also has a track record for building sites that are *useful* to society ie an environmental aware site and adopt a pet site and an online charity site and an online legal resouce for consumers and the list goes on. They additional continually offer 1 day, 2 day, 3 week free training courses on their own Open Source software. I for one am happy to see that in todays society where corporations are constantly known for their despicable deeds am happy to see a company that gives back. I personally have gleaned much from their resources and would just like to say thanx.
Hopefully this may be of help to you also.... after all this research I was very pleased to go with AOLServer even though they were not in the web server comparison at thttpd site the model was represented by Zeus and thttpd and AOLServer has many additional features that really sold me.
About 6 months ago I began development on a site that I wanted to be scalable to the extreme. After research into which tools best fit my job I decided on AOLServer for many reasons including: multithreaded vs forking architecture, persistant db connections, shared memory space, proven track record, simplistic implementation including embedded tcl in pseudo asp like pages. Fortunately since then AOLServer has become OpenSource under the GPL allowing my complete architecture to rely on only OS tools: LINUX, PostGres, AOLServer, Postfix, and more. I believe AOLServer to be one of the best kept secrets as far as Open Source tools out there. A company named Arsdigita has an Open Source toolkit designed for building online communities and online forums for any problems in case you get stuck. I would write more but its 8AM and I haven't been to bed yet... maybe when I get up after Noon;)
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At my site which a combination blogger/yahoo groups/office pool central any user can make their own blogs and provide RSS feeds. In addition the users can build their own FOAF RDF files which can then be used to explore their network of connections. SVG plugin required.
[shameless plug]
My site 23 Pools offers all these and more built on completely open source tools: Linux, AOLserver, PostgreSQL, Postfix.
For an example blog check out mine and a cool usage of SVG for viewing the connections between users. You will need a SVG browser plugin if you arent running latest Mozilla with the SVG built in.
[/shamelessplug]
I have a friend who is a mangager at IBM and he was recently required to change his team makeup to be 70% from IBM India. He is bummed but there is nothing he can do to prevent the shift in manpower. I think this is a different world from the past and these jobs are not coming back. Unless you move into management, work for a small local firm, or try to go out on your own like my self 23 Pools there is a good chance that your job may not be there in the future.
What I don't understand is why the pricing of housing hasn't come down more and expect that to be the next bubble to burst.
shameless plug
Since Football season is here and a lot of OS workers hang out in offices come check out a site which allows you the functionality of Blogger, Yahoo Groups and allows you to run your own Football Pools. The whole site architecture is OS using AOLserver, PostgreSQL, Postfix, on GNU-Linux
PostgreSQL kicks butt and so will the Redskins this year. You can check out the some of the technical details at www.23pools.com/sh/co/tech and make your predictions using PG to store your picks or check out a sample blog at Never Give Up
end of shameless plug
In addition though to being a blog hosting site you can setup your own groups with normal Yahoo Groups like features but also give you the power to do just about any type of contest from:
Sorry for the plug but it is football pool time again so create a blog and an office pool in one swoop. All written using Open Source of course
Its interesting that whenever anyone quotes a MySQL vs Postgres link and includes the PHP article the referenced above, they rarely realize that the author of that article (and one of the initial developers of Sourceforge) wrote an article 4 months later that Revisiting the MySQL vs Postgresql Implementation. The original quoted article ended up recommending MySQL while the later article clearly showed that PostgreSQL blew away MySQL under a high load. This research is what made Sourceforge convert from an initial MySQL implementation to a PostgreSQL one.
As a sidenote, I am currently building a pgdiff tool that allows users to create alter scripts for migrating between schemas. This is useful for shops where there may be a development/staging/production versions of the database...
Why watch when we all know it will crash with 2 seconds left ... we all know the end of the world is always on 2 seconds away.
Time to pull out Focaults Pendulum or some Robert Anton Wilson to remember what really is going on....
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Just as a side note ... I enjoyed your article "Spring in Cambridge" and have investigated your&company site. Just curious have you checked out the OpenACS community (I know you mostly do Windows and can appreciate why) but you may be pleasantly surprised that alot of the early feeling of ADs goals seem to be carrying on with growing community over at www.openacs.org Best regards
What if in my site there is content that the users may wish to bookmark? Do you use an url rewrite to strip out old session data and create a new one? Plus have you had any feedback from users that like may be turned off by the unappealing url appearance?
Exactly ... with the random scheme it is possible (not likely) but possible that the next 1000 requests all go to the same appserver... I dont understand either why they just didnt use some version of round robin (weighted or whatever) to balance the load...
Here is a good article that may help explain differences. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue55/florido.html
Dont you need it if you want XFS? According to XFS Cavaets it says
Required Compiler and Library Releases gcc version 2.91.66 required Due to known problems with later versions of gcc, gcc version 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2) must be used when compiling XFS and the associated kernel. This is the default compiler on Red Hat Linux 6.2 systems, and is provided as "kgcc" for Red Hat Linux 7.0 and higher (see the next item for more information). Other distributions may be using a later version. The easiest way to check what version is in use is by running gcc -v.
I know NASA didnt send this but communication should be like programming. Keep out the fluff or at least be consistent. The binary representation ends after the ninth digit. They should either take it out or extend binary for full alphabet of digits mapping legend. And the large prime at the bottom presumes exponentiation is represented in a very human way, not to mention that how do they know the minus sign? And the heading at top of page is extra noise too. They should keep it simple and tear out the extra stuff so as not to confuse any intelligence trying to decrypt our mathematical hello.
I originally posted these questions a couple days late so you probably didn't read them but I'm still interested if you are willing to answer ... if not I'll post them over at photo.net
Back in November 97 you started a thread in one of your forums entitled "can a db-backed Web site turn a profit?"
You went on to say then that you didn't see how. In reference to that I have a few questions?
Do you still hold this opinion?
If you do, do you see a division in the web between those companies that use the web as a loss leader, those that attempt to make, run a profitable business and will eventually fail, those sites that attempt to build a popular enough site to be a buyout potential, and those that are only interested in contributing content, services with no thought of profit.
Do you take this opinion into account when determining which sites Ardigita retains as clients, since most of your revenue stream comes in the form of ongoing support contracts, turning down some business that may not be funded well enough making their venture a gamble?
I know you have taken large established clients, but have you developed any sites that begun at a startup level, and if so have any become profitable?
The Group Collaboration Sites that are the target of the Open Source ACS toolkit seem to work best when the community targeted is less than 100,000 users, what is the largest community site (membership) that you know of using the ACS toolkit and at what point do you think the sites using ACS will have trouble currently scaling to and is there a plan to increase that threshhold
Thanks for contributions you have and continue to make.
Back in November 97 you started a thread in one of your forums entitled "can a db-backed Web site turn a profit?"
You went on to say then that you didn't see how. In reference to that I have a few questions?
Do you still hold this opinion?
If you do, do you see a division in the web between those companies that use the web as a loss leader, those that attempt to make, run a profitable business and will eventually fail, those sites that attempt to build a popular enough site to be a buyout potential, and those that are only interested in contributing content, services with no thought of profit.
Do you take this opinion into account when determining which sites Ardigita retains as clients, since most of your revenue stream comes in the form of ongoing support contracts, turning down some business that may not be funded well enough making their venture a gamble?
I know you have taken large established clients, but have you developed any sites that begun at a startup level, and if so have any become profitable?
The Group Collaboration Sites that are the target of the Open Source ACS toolkit seem to work best when the community targeted is less than 100,000 users, what is the largest community site (membership) that you know of using the ACS toolkit and at what point do you think the sites using ACS will have trouble currently scaling to and is there a plan to increase that threshhold
Thanks for contributions you have and continue to make.
This in just another example of one of the many benefits that Arsdigita has contributed to the community. I have been following their Open Source toolkit they use for building online communities and they were influential in convincing AOL to Open Source AOLServer which after evaluated multiple web servers I decided as being the perfect tool for my own web site. The company also has a foundation encouraging young people to build community beneficial sites that gives out a scholarship every year. The company also has a track record for building sites that are *useful* to society ie an environmental aware site and adopt a pet site and an online charity site and an online legal resouce for consumers and the list goes on. They additional continually offer 1 day, 2 day, 3 week free training courses on their own Open Source software. I for one am happy to see that in todays society where corporations are constantly known for their despicable deeds am happy to see a company that gives back. I personally have gleaned much from their resources and would just like to say thanx.
http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/benchmarks.h tml
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~jxh/research/
http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/server.html
http://aolserver.com/features/
http://www.aolserver.com/tcl2k/html/index.htm
http://www.linux-ha.org/
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/
http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/citi-netscape /reports/web-opt.html
http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/ java2/index.html
http://www.squid-cache.org/
Hopefully this may be of help to you also.... after all this research I was very pleased to go with AOLServer even though they were not in the web server comparison at thttpd site the model was represented by Zeus and thttpd and AOLServer has many additional features that really sold me.
About 6 months ago I began development on a site that I wanted to be scalable to the extreme. After research into which tools best fit my job I decided on AOLServer for many reasons including: multithreaded vs forking architecture, persistant db connections, shared memory space, proven track record, simplistic implementation including embedded tcl in pseudo asp like pages. Fortunately since then AOLServer has become OpenSource under the GPL allowing my complete architecture to rely on only OS tools: LINUX, PostGres, AOLServer, Postfix, and more. I believe AOLServer to be one of the best kept secrets as far as Open Source tools out there. A company named Arsdigita has an Open Source toolkit designed for building online communities and online forums for any problems in case you get stuck. I would write more but its 8AM and I haven't been to bed yet ... maybe when I get up after Noon ;)