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General Software Discussion / Re: content management systems (CMS): are they still so bad?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 21, 2008, 05:12 PM »
Yes, I want to know IF this 2003 article still makes sense today.
Mouser (and lots of others) have spent quite a lot of time reading about/testing CMSs and most of them are dissapointed.
WP= wordpress
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General Software Discussion / content management systems (CMS): are they still so bad?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 21, 2008, 01:22 PM »
http://www.gerrymcgo...t_2003_03_03_cms.htm

Content management software hasn't worked because it was badly designed and massively over-hyped. Software companies lied about their products, charging criminal prices for crap software. It hasn't worked because organizations didn't understand content. They wanted a quick fix. They issued specifications that bore little relation to what they actually needed.

THis agrees with the thread at DC, where people who spend many hours evaluating all the fancy OSS for CMS (and some paid ones) ended up sorely dissapointed.

Is this the status quo? Maybe WP is the only think you need to do a decent site nowadays (with so many plugins, you can approximate what other CMS do, and it's dead easy to use)...
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Developer's Corner / Re: haxe: wirte actionscript on both client and server? Looks nice
« Last post by urlwolf on January 20, 2008, 09:33 AM »
You can see how easy it is to make a space invaders game in haxe here:
http://filt3r.free.fr/js/game1/

In less than 100 lines of code. It's french, but it's pretty obvious what everything does:
http://filt3r.free.f...-100-lignes-de-code-
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Quick Web Creations - Professional 2.0 Images
« Last post by urlwolf on January 19, 2008, 04:08 PM »
fist time I see a review of software that you only get after going throug a long salespage (with no screenshots, no feature list, no trial you can download). Interesting.

I'm not saying that software sold that way is bad; it's just unusual.
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General Software Discussion / great (long) article on the usefulness of CS research, etc.
« Last post by urlwolf on January 19, 2008, 04:01 PM »
http://unqualified-r...html?dupe=with_honor

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General Software Discussion / extraDNS: does it work?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 18, 2008, 05:09 AM »
Do you think this works, or is yet another time waster?

http://www.pcworld.c...ads/description.html
ExtraDNS saves time by intercepting DNS requests and storing replies in a fast, indexed database. The next time your system needs to resolve the same address, ExtraDNS instantly supplies the reply from its database. This decreases delays when loading a Web page (it also has to resolve addresses for the graphics, banners, and other elements of the page).

All IP numbers are not stored on every DNS server, and browsers usually search for them one by one to resolve the URL. ExtraDNS further speeds up the search process by searching many DNS servers simultaneously.
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General Software Discussion / starting a revolt against Opera. Worth it?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 17, 2008, 10:30 AM »
I'm this close to starting a revolt against Opera.

The basic complaint is that they don't care about their users, and our obligation as consumers is to protest. They do have a forum, but many features asked are never introduced; we are talking about thoushands of posts in a thread. Opera is blind to that.

Similar situations of massive amounts of users taking action: the Save XP petition.

Basically, this would involve to set up a website and start collecting "signatures".

Do you think it's worth it?
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Developer's Corner / Re: forum analyzer. Is there such a thing? Techorati for forums.
« Last post by urlwolf on January 16, 2008, 06:34 PM »
Great findings Lashiec!

With bigboards, I thought: "Very exhaustive, It's a forum directory, nice stats..." but then I realized it misses hydrogenaudio, donationcoder (those are big!) so it must be really partial. Not exactly a representative sample: more like a list of forums that have installed the bigboards tracker.

by the way, Mouser, maybe you should! dc is one big player.
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General Software Discussion / academicproductivity.com (my blog on productivity) lifehacked
« Last post by urlwolf on January 16, 2008, 03:50 AM »
Hey,

Shane's post on the Martini method has been lifehacked :)

Just wanted to let you know.
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Developer's Corner / forum analyzer. Is there such a thing? Techorati for forums.
« Last post by urlwolf on January 15, 2008, 03:55 PM »
The phpbb 3 thread got me thinking.

The "forumsphere" (invented) is completely untapped. Compared to the blogosphere, of course. Most forums are a mess to search. Google doesn't really index them very well.

I want a tool that can do what techorati does for blogs, but for forums.

I also want some analyses:
Who are the big posters?
How many posts do you need to be considered a regular?
Tags for topics would be great.
Activity history (not only traffic).

At the heart of it, what I want to answer is: Is this forum worth a post? Is it worth becoming a regular? Would posting here solve my question?

Then, one should get a rank of forums for any question I type.

I'm sure you have had the same problem . WHat is the right forum to get an answer to this?

What's the signal to noise ratio?

A meta-search for all forums would be a killer feature, not only an ontology like techorati.

This is actually not that difficult to make. Someone who has read the source for phpBB, SMF, and knows others like vBulletin could do such a thing. Most forums have RSS included. Doing something like techorati tags for forum posts is not crazy.

Thoughts?
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Living Room / Re: Nice little write-up of DonationCoder in usa today "tech_space" blog
« Last post by urlwolf on January 15, 2008, 03:27 PM »
Congrats mouser, this is impressive!
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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 15, 2008, 10:20 AM »
justice can you post a link to bugScout? google returns nothing of interest...
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Developer's Corner / Re: source control systems: what's the best?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 15, 2008, 08:28 AM »
Great questions.
I'd like to add that without clear integration with a bug tracker, good source control is not as much of a help.

How does sourceanywhere fares in that respect?
I'd compare it to say fogbugz.com which is pretty windows-centric as well.
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Developer's Corner / Re: PHPBB3 Released
« Last post by urlwolf on January 14, 2008, 01:22 PM »
Interesting.
It seems it now has most of the features that made SMF better.
Anyone who has actually implemented both care to chime in?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Bow to the browser
« Last post by urlwolf on January 13, 2008, 07:47 PM »
Actually, I agree with the list.
Opera is technically superior, but I think its management is horrid; Ignoring their users is not good for any kind of company. They will step on a landmine and remove theirselves from the genepool.

While innovative, they are the snobbish of the snobbish. How else can you explain having threads with thousands of users asking for features that are never implemented?

For example, the thread for PGP support rivals the one on notetakers here. They didn't even blink.
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General Software Discussion / Akelos: Ruby on Rails Magic ported to PHP (the right way this time)
« Last post by urlwolf on January 12, 2008, 07:36 AM »
http://akelos.org/
 
Watch the video...
The ported all the RoR magic to php, and left behind the horror that is to deploy RoR (more so in dreamhost!).
See:
 
http://blog.dreamhos...ould-be-much-better/
 

We don't want to fiddle with the servers (Virtual Private means you need to be your own sysadmin/web guy) so we are seriously considering this.
 
If they ported the RoR philosophy, they have a winner in their hands.
Now, this akelos thing is a tiny community (bad) but it is invented by an Spanish guy (!).

I think this deserves a serious look.
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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 12, 2008, 07:30 AM »
ok, I have finally decided to go for trac.
The collection of plugins, open-source, the fact that I have seen it working with mercurial already, and prettyness made me go for it. It's python, too.
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General Software Discussion / Re: issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 11, 2008, 05:50 PM »
What's so good about Mantis?
It doesn't look very pretty looking at the demo?
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General Software Discussion / issue trackers: do you use one? What's the best?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 11, 2008, 12:03 PM »
I have been looking at fogbugz.com, and, while really cool, I don't feel like getting caught in large fees if my group ever gets any bigger.

I also don't like the fact that it doesn't integrate by default with my favorite dvcs, mercurial.

(If you don't know what an issue tracker is, watching the fogbugz.com video will fix that, and it's really funny).

Fogbugz has Evidence-Based Scheduling, which is pretty cool. It also integrates with customers mail and has a primitive forum.

These are features that don't exist in free alternatives, such as trac. But trac is open source, and it does integrate with mercurial.

Another free one that integrates with mercurial is Redmine.

A nice comparison:
Comparison of issue tracking systems

An easy way to try these systems without having to install them (pain) is jumpbox.com. It gives you a virtual machine running major OS projects (nice resource!).

Things that I want the system to do (quoting other people descriptions):

   All e-mail to [email protected] goes through FogBugz which is a huge huge time saver for me. I can turn e-mails into bug reports, file them away, respond, easily see previous e-mails from the reporter, and generally do everything I need to do when I’m wearing my support hat. It’s all easy and does what I need and want it to do.

    At Fog Creek, we typically create new cases for each bug and/or feature request in an email, leaving the original case available to follow the interaction with the customer wherever it goes. The convenience of linking new cases back to the original email makes it easy to see what prompted a certain case.

Thoughts?
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Official Announcements / Re: JANUARY 2008 GIANT SHAREWARE GIVEAWAY AND DISCOUNT CELEBRATION
« Last post by urlwolf on January 09, 2008, 05:01 PM »
great work cthorpe!
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Developer's Corner / Re: Article Convinces Me To Move To vi(m)
« Last post by urlwolf on January 08, 2008, 04:36 PM »
@tranglos: try cream?
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Developer's Corner / Re: Article Convinces Me To Move To vi(m)
« Last post by urlwolf on January 08, 2008, 12:15 PM »
Damn, I assumed the convincing powers of the article were extraordinary.
Welcome back, then.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Article Convinces Me To Move To vi(m)
« Last post by urlwolf on January 08, 2008, 11:12 AM »
Welcome.
If you experience changes, like you can move object with your mind, you are on the right path to enlightenment.

Beware of the power of vim though. If you start typing normally thinking you are in insert mode, while being in normal mode, you may send a rocket to the moon.

Also, to learn new commands, it's a good idea to roll your forehead on the keyboard and look at the results.

Just kidding. Join the #vim channel at freenode if you need help.
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Developer's Corner / Re: source control systems: what's the best?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 08, 2008, 07:44 AM »
@mouser: great advice.
@fodder: this agrees with you:
http://better-scm.berlios.de/to-avoid/

And here's a very good comparison:
http://better-scm.be...ison/comparison.html
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Developer's Corner / Re: source control systems: what's the best?
« Last post by urlwolf on January 07, 2008, 09:41 PM »
I just tested Mercurial.
It rocks.

This is a new paradigm.
It makes you feel like coding and experimenting a lot.

Note:
There's a 'batteries included' package that lets you play with it in no time.

Tutorials are easy. However, they don't explain how to turn a project into a repo. Just Do
   Hg init
   Hg addremove
   Hg commit

Chaim, what makes you feel you need classical/distributed svn? I think the distributed paradigm just displaced the old, linear one?

Note: Mercurial doesn't integrate with fogbugz. Pity.
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