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My web engineer Russ is sitting right here...straight from the horse's mouth, here it is:
"The Xeon server is almost ready - I've got the mainboard, the chips, the power supply, and the RAM - All I need is a ATX case and a hard drive."
There you go. We're hitting a big budget crunch, so honestly it'll be ready when it's ready, not before that.
If your interested, I could write some articles/samples for a bit of content. I'm not a brilliant web guy (I haven't generally got the time to sit and learn it properly), but I write up articles every so often, and I've been meaning to write a few more recently/ Plus I've got a lot a original sample code and apps which could be posted...
cheers
- gaffa
As for me, it's fine. Welcome to the crew, I suppose :)
I have been working a lot with my other sites lately. Not the Merrysoft one though. I think I don't have enough time to write docs, atleast in the while of next month (mainly because of the vacation trip).
Anyways, I hope I find time to write something up.
What are the topics you can write on best, Gaffa? Can you write something on the MAPI or SAPI parts?
And MerryVIP, what happened to my doc (part 1) on the Common Controls? Or should we go for something less known?
I shall be getting my PC up tonight, hopefully, with a borrowed motherboard. Mine is still under repairs, but if the replacement works, I shall be able to start working from tonight or morrow.
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I guess my focus is more on control creation and COM implementation. I've got a plug-in development article in the pipeline, and a couple of others that are more focussed on n-tier architecture.
- gaffa
Maybe an article on creating various controls at runtime? What all things you require if you want to create a control dynamically, like the GUID of the control class etc.?
To make it exhaustive, you can include topics like how you can dynamically create controls in VB5 using an API, how you can add controls dynamically to forms, tabstrip, tabbed dialog and frame containers etc., the pros and cons of having or not having a control array and the uses of the WithEvents statement.
What do you say?
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Well,
It has been awhile since we all talked,
csammis how are things coming? good I hope.
HoneyBee, got your computer fixed yet? I hate when that happens, :)
I also have been thinking about the code script. I know you wanted the user to send the code to whomever to check it out, but what if you had them submit the code, save it in the Temporary Table in the DB and then send an email to MerryVIP or whomever to check it out? in the email it would have a link to go and see if the code looks ok and then on that page it will have a link to Approve or DisApprove. once approved it will then be sent to the DB so everyone can see it.
Just an Idea.
Plus nobody said if the script will work like it sits now or do I have to make changes?
By the way Welcome aboard Gaffa
Sorry for this, but my computer is still down. With some luck and money, I shall dream that it's back up at the end of this week.
To get a PIII will cost me a lot more than getting my old MB repaired, so the proposal was vettoed by our family. The MB repair is gonna take couple more weeks. So I tried a replacement. When the replacement motherboard was fitted on my machine, we found that both the HDDs had crashed, too. So that's some more bucks down the drain.
Fortunately one of the HDDs is under warranty and I shall get it replaced in a couple of days. I hope to get a new PI motherboard around the same time and finally get that piece of junk worth something.
Hate to lose touch with the site. I am also planning to get cable, but that's in a near-to-distant future.
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The server is not going well. We may be stuck with the current one well into July. The mainboard is disagreeing with my engineers as to whether it wants to boot. It will be done eventually.
Ok...Looks like I and others have a lot of spare time from this thing then. Better see what we can make in August. At the moment it's summer...and I think it is the worst time for projects, as it is the time of enjoying of the free time.
Anyways, I will be soon going (I thought I would leave earlier, but here we see again, not everything goes as planned).
As an idea, we could have a chat session somewhere. Of course choosing a good time is hard...We're living all over the world. But in the session we really could get things rolling better (as well as ideas). But this after the holidays.
Have a good summer!
a chat session sounds good. what is the time difference from the U.S. to you guys that live over in the middle east somewhere.
name the time and I can be on icq or something. I don't have msn or aim or Ymessanger, don't plan it so don't ask.
I have plenty of time so if you guys are taking a vacation I can do some uploading and when MerryVIP come back he can fix all my goof ups :) well, he can change what ever he doesn't approve of.
At least I could get the script going. I didn't want to send the cgi script because if we get the use of MySql and php then we would have to upload all the code again and that would be time consuming. So I wanted to wait until csammis got the new server up.
both scripts have been done for about a couple of weeks, so when ever you guys are ready to do something give me a jingle on icq or here.
Time makes absolutely no difference to me, I'm in college :D
Midwest USA, which is where I am, is -6 GMT
I am +5 GMT, but I don't have ICQ. I only use YM and then, too from the office, so I can't chat for too long.
Once my home PC is up and running, I shall see if I can afford a cable connection. Then once or twice a week I can join you guys.
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As far as a chatting program, we could just use IRC. It's a classic, easy to use...and scoutt, you won't have to stoop yourself to using a different "popular" chat :rolleyes:
For the record, my AIM handle is FhornHackr
Oh, and scoutt? What's your ICQ handle?
If someone really wants, my ICQ# is 69392422. I hardly use that program. IRC would be fine. I think I'm at home until next Thursday.
Oh yeah, and I'm +2 GMT. I can be awake long if needed and come online late (like 5 AM :D )
ICQ# 6065308
no offense, it's just that I don't care for the other ones. I know everybody uses them and that is why I don't like it.
IRC is fine with me though.
I understand the attraction of doing something because most people don't...I program in Brain***** :) But why oh why do you people have to use numbers that no one can possibly remember?
are you talking about the ICQ #? we don't get to choose those numbers. that is assigned to you when you sign up.
I know they are. What I mean is, why doesn't ICQ use meaningful handles instead of long strings of numbers? (It's rhetorical)
they do that too. you can also find me on the name beavis.
Well, it's been quiet for a while...Guess we all soon have the time to go on with this project?
I have time. if I didn't lose the code :p
The DSL has arrived, but it won't be active until 18 Aug....thought you all should like to know!
Side notes for VBDen: The 404 page issue has been corrected, so no more weird MP3 downloads will happen!
Side notes for Mulunkey! Software: We just hired a Macintosh specialist, and she's helping us port to Mac and create new programs, so who knows what'll turn out from us? ;)
Side notes for all involved:
-- We decided not to upgrade the server. The Xeon board was defective, and we don't have the time or resources to wait before we leave for college again. Besides, the current server has been reliable for some time!
-- There may be some errors related to IP changes in the next few days, sorry about that
Frankly, I have not visited vbDen in quite a few days. My computer is still dead, and will be so for at least a week more. Also net access from the office is restricted, and we are working to release our Beta product in a couple of weeks.
Are we all just as eager as we started to build this site?
Have there been any additions to the content of the site since a month or so?
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Our websites our down due to a snafu on the part of our ISP. They'll be back later this week I believe.
Yeah, nothing's done in a month. Or over. I've been on my vacation and nobody else haven't been able to update, I think.
Anyways, I believe I have spare time atleast at school to write docs and so on. At home I still do so much else that I'm not sure if I have time for any docs. Hope I have a lot of computer subjects...Ought to be, last year at school and I'm on computer based class.
Does it strike anyone else as odd that all of us seem to have more time while school is in session than during vacation? ;)
No, it's not odd...There's so much free time at school (and that darn fast inet connection ;) )
That's not true for me!! Actually I don't go to school, that's why.Quote:
Originally posted by csammis
Does it strike anyone else as odd that all of us seem to have more time while school is in session than during vacation? ;)
LOL
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Is anybody still paying attention to this?
Okay, Mulunkey! Software just rereleased a week ago. We've gotten some contracts and offers, so we're busy. Here's the deal.
The Xeon server never worked. There was a flaw in the mainboard, and we simply do not have the time/money/patience to deal with it. We still have the old server without MySQL, and it is not going to be installed anytime in the foreseeable future. We've added some servers (http://ahna.mulunkey.com, for instance), but they'd be useless to you for development. That doesn't seem to be a problem because...
...it's been months since anyone did anything with this project. I tend to agree with honeybee, we've all lost interest in the site. Is anyone going to be working on it, or would it be just as easy to close the door on this one?
It's sad to see the enthusiasm slowly going out of the project.
Meanwhile I have uploaded a tutorial on rtf-help in VB on my site, the link is in my sig.
Any time the members' site is functional and requires any assistance, I shall be there.
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Don't give up! You have a good thing going! I certainly would like to see a members' site!
Ok, I think we need to remake the thing...and plans.
I think the biggest slowdown in the project is that most of us wanted the database. I think we can survive without. I'm a fast updater when it comes to HTML, so I think we could handle it in plain HTML. Just my opinion...because if we want mySql things, it probably takes ages to make.
Different idea: www.**********.com
This forum is highly customizable. I think I could be able to make a site on it. It is fast (the pages are sent compressed) and I think it would work perfectly. Then we would only need a server for images and other files and probably a redirection page (easy to do).
At the moment I'm coding a game with my friend. And I'm rather lazy to do content, to be honest...but I still could take care of the updates and make a preview thing for you all.
I want to clear this forum thing a bit more...I tell how it would work.
The forum is fast, as I said, and it has a database of course. It could be made so that it looks like a normal site, but there would be a subaddress in which "staff" could login, write new articles and new ones could register. Of course everyone are able to register, but it can be made so that they can't post anything.
For outsider, it would look like a normal site. For us...it looks like a forum...or more likely a site that can be updated via the internet. The articles can be edited afterwards.
Tell me what you think...and ask questions if you have them.
I think it's just great!
The only thing is we need to make sure it doesn't go the dotcoms way. It says it's totally free, without even the add banners. If that's really the case and there are no hitches, I think we should go ahead.
However, we mustn't turn it into a discussion forum, the forum tools must be used only to post articles, not to ask questions and answer them.
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Ok, I do a sample when I have time...don't know when exactly, but I'll do something :)
And making it also a discussion forum seems to be a bit impossible...maybe can be done, I'm not superspecialist of the forum thing yet, though I think I have made a lot changes compared to most of the other forums.
The problem in converting it into a discussion forum is that it will be in direct competition with VB Forums, which is against the basic idea of a Members' Site. We should restrict the forum idea only for posting articles, and only by approved members.
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If we convert it into a Discussion Forum, it will be in direct competition with VB World, which is against the basic idea behind a Members' Site. The forum facility should only be available for posting articles and to approved members.
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