OT: RE: Upload and retrieval of stories? [CF-Talk]

2000-09-20 Thread DeVoil, Nick
download the demo and if you don't mind the "Trial Softmare" message, Softmare! _Excellent_ new word! Having one myself coding in Perl right now ::( Nick ** Information in this email is confidential and may be privileged.

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-17 Thread Stephen R. Cassady
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Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-17 Thread paul smith
Where? I couldn't find it. best, paul At 01:45 AM 9/17/00 -0600, you wrote: (submit a response to a thread - there's a link that shows all the pseudo-code). -- Archives:

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-17 Thread Chris Lott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One thing though - I don't use fusebox and don't like the methodology all that well (OK - let the flames begin - you people do seem a little religious about dissenting voices), but it's a matter of personal choice. Do though DB it all. Right now.

RE: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-16 Thread ron
So, something does exist. Couldn't tell from the truespectra.com site much about the product. Got any general info you would share? Hardware req'ts? Software req'ts? NT or Win2K, lots of CPU and RAM. Runs as a service. Performance options available? (load balancing, clustering, etc.)

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-16 Thread Chris Lott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My new site is related to this thread, so I would like to hear suggestions about the following issues. The site is largely dedicated to serving out a selection of poems, essays, stories, etc. I am trying to bridge the gap between relatively easy

RE: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-16 Thread Dave Watts
On the subject of text, I believe all major browsers has an internal gzip decompressor with can deflate the compressed html stream from a web server. Which webservers compresses the outgoing streams? Is there an option in IIS that we can set or is this automatic? I'm just curious and

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-16 Thread Dick Applebaum
At 12:08 PM -0800 9/16/00, Chris Lott wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My new site is related to this thread, so I would like to hear suggestions about the following issues. The site is largely dedicated to serving out a selection of poems, essays, stories, etc. I am trying

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-16 Thread Chris Lott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for the tips. I'm still leaning towards some way of splitting the content because I want to increase readability on the site for longer pieces by breaking the stories up in to "pages", ala Salon magazine or the like. Primarily because the site

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-16 Thread Dick Applebaum
Ah, I see the appeal of that approach. Off the top of my head the way I would destgn the db is with 2 tables Parent Create Table Article ArticleID (PK) Title DateCreated Author . . . Abstract(text) Child Create Table ArticlePage

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Xing Li
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:00 PM Subject: Upload and retrieval of stories? Hi all, I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length stories from lesser-known authors. I have designed a page that will serve as a template, into which I

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Dick Applebaum
optimized for heavy constant reads and not to mention a internal caching mechanism. Xing www.fanfiction.net - Original Message - From: Steven Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:00 PM Subject: Upload and retrieval of stories? Hi all

RE: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Steven Katz
: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Upload and retrieval of stories? There are a multitude of ways to do this sort of thing. I'll list a couple to get you thinking and then, if you have further questions, elaborate, as I'm sure others will as well. 1) Use form

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Xing Li
] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:00 PM Subject: Upload and retrieval of stories? Hi all, I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length stories from lesser-known authors. I have designed a page that will serve as a template, into which I will insert the material

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Xing Li
a certain number of words? Steven -Original Message- From: Steve Bernard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 5:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Upload and retrieval of stories? There are a multitude of ways to do this sort of thing. I'll lis

RE: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Bernard
would be best. And your tech buddies will think it's tre' cool ;) Steve -Original Message- From: Xing Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Upload and retrieval of stories? If you want to break up the stories into multiple

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread paul smith
I'm thinking of going this route for another application, with one exception, the DB read/write would be once. That is, I'm thinking of storing HTML content in a DB, and, when the HTML is completed for a given CF template, place each block of HTML content in to its specific location on the CF

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Dick Applebaum
From: Steven Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:00 PM Subject: Upload and retrieval of stories? Hi all, I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length stories from lesser-known authors. I have designed a page that will serve

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Jon Hall
the browsers dont support over 72x72... jon - Original Message - From: "Dick Applebaum" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Upload and retrieval of stories? Xing Good points! But, then, why doesn't it, also, make se

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Dick Applebaum
Jon First, changing the size of an image with the image tag only changes what is displayed, not what is accessed by the web server, served, downloaded and cached by the browser. There is at least one server-side program that can do quite a bit to dynamically change an image at the server:

RE: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread ron
At 8:37 PM -0400 9/15/00, Jon Hall wrote: Err this database already exists...I call it a file system. What would you dynamically change in an image? Changing the size of an image is already possible via the img tag. Changing resolution on the fly would require processing power that is way

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Xing Li
But, then, why doesn't it, also, make sense to use static html pages (processed and cached by the web server) and avoid CF SQL altogether. I agree. The best, fastest, and most scaleable way to push pages is to push pre-generated "static" pages as much as possible. I personally would love to

RE: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-15 Thread Dick Applebaum
Ron So, something does exist. Couldn't tell from the truespectra.com site much about the product. Got any general info you would share? Hardware req'ts? Software req'ts? Performance options available? (load balancing, clustering, etc.) To store images do they use: Native OS File system

Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-14 Thread Steven Katz
Hi all, I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length stories from lesser-known authors. I have designed a page that will serve as a template, into which I will insert the material contributed from the authors. I would rather that this process of inserting content not be a

Re: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-14 Thread Mark Adams
Message - From: Steven Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 4:00 PM Subject: Upload and retrieval of stories? Hi all, I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length stories from lesser-known authors. I have designed a page

RE: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-14 Thread Steve Bernard
good to go. Steve -Original Message- From: Steven Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upload and retrieval of stories? Hi all, I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length stories from lesser-known autho

RE: Upload and retrieval of stories?

2000-09-14 Thread Shane Witbeck
-Original Message- From: Steven Katz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 7:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Upload and retrieval of stories? Hi all, I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length stories from lesser-known authors. I have designed