We’re evaluating mailing list software in order to start a few lists to support our B-Line Charting Components customers. We’ve pretty much decided on Mailman since it has integrated web administration and archives. I subscribe to one list that uses it and have been happy with it from a user perspective.
If anyone has experience administering Mailman or cares to share their opinions on a better alternative we’d be glad to hear them here.
The internet is a wonderful thing. It lets everyone from all over the world communicate with one another. At least, it does if they have a common language.
MAX looks like it’s getting great turnout including international turnout, as is evidenced by the international pings to MAX Bloggers.
Unfortunately, I’m not able to read all of the posts since I’m not educated in German and Dutch and my Portuguese is way too rusty. I guess this aggregator is a good example of why people should build language filters into the aggregator.
Ideally, it would be best to support all languages and let visitors specify which languages they can read and filter out all others. However, if an aggregator is written on short notice, totally filtering for just one language would work too.
RSS has a language identifier for this purpose, so aggregator should take advatnage of that. I’m not sure how many aggregators do filter on language, but I don’t remember seeing non-English posts in the MXNA, Full as a Goog, or FLOG.
I always thought it wasn’t possible to run more than one version of IE on the same machine until i stumbled onto this page by Insert Title Web Design. With the new EOLAS patent issues and other browser/versioning issues, being able to run multiple versions of IE might be handy to some.
It’s called “The Bastard Operator from Hell”, and if you are a computer nerd and you like evil comedy, you will enjoy reading some of it.
Thanks to Jonas for the link
SOAP Web Services are almost always talked about in relation to HTTP, as HTTP is the most common transport mechanism. However, the SOAP specification is written such that the messages can be sent over a variety of protocols. Persistent connections such as Jabber or HTTP-R could provide improved performance when multiple calls are required.
Or, if you have other needs, carrier pigeons are also fully supported. Read the RFC.
Everyone has their own favorite method for choosing conference sessions. Macromedia provides separate listings by Track and by Level for MAX. I personally prefer to choose sessions first by speaker.
Since the Macromedia site doesn’t include a Sessions by Speaker list, I enlisted a little help from my track manager and compiled a list for you.
I don’t usually blog anything off-topic. Check this out: http://j-walk.com/other/conf/index.htm
Thanks go to Burak
Has anyone noticed that Macromedia’s stock has been trading at a 52 week high and has gone up 40% in the past few weeks(1-year chart)? This is really good news for Macromedia and in turn for us (especially if you happen to own a few shares yourself). The announcement of new products must be driving this but I really wonder what else could be having such a big impact. Their stock price went up 10% alone yesterday. This makes me wonder do stock analysts actually care about a world-wide Macromedia Usergroup event?
Microsoft dropped the price for MSSQL Developer edition from $499 to only $49. You can find it at some locations even cheaper. This is a great buy so anyone working on a Windows box has no excuse not to have MSSQL.
It’s also great for people on a production budget. While MSSQL Developer is only for developer use, it does include the client tools. That’s important because MSDE can be used in production but doesn’t include any client tools. You can use MSDE in production and buy MSSQL Developer for the client tools to manage your production box.
Continue reading ‘MSSQL Developer for $42!!!’
Ran into a few instances of Thread Hijacking today. Not sure if the term is clear–what I mean is if one person posts a question in a forum starting a new thread and then another person posts a new question as a response in the same thread. Is anyone else bothered by this or is it just me?
We end up with two different questions in the same thread and two different conversations intermingled. Intermingling is nice in the real world–especially for those of us computer geeks held up in basement offices that look more like NASA than my real NASA office–but for forum threads, intermingling is bad.
It’d be easier to get answers to your question is you post it as a new question as opposed to a response to an existing question. It’s more curteous to the original poster and to everyone participating.
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