Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-25 Thread Kees Nuyt
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:40:13 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >The new look for the SQLite website is now in place, >if you haven't already noticed: > >http://www.sqlite.org/ > >Even though the new look is "in place" you should >understand this as a work in progress, not a done >deal. I am

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-16 Thread Scott Baker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The new look for the SQLite website is now in place, > if you haven't already noticed: > > http://www.sqlite.org/ > > Even though the new look is "in place" you should > understand this as a work in progress, not a done > deal. I am still looking for suggestions,

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Scharf
Hi, the colors of the links are reversed: By default, links that have not been visited are blue and visited links are purple. The sqlite website makes visited links green and unvisited links purple. This is *very* confusing. Michael

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-15 Thread Darren Duncan
At 1:40 AM + 11/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new look for the SQLite website is now in place, if you haven't already noticed: http://www.sqlite.org/ The feedback from this mailing list has so far been very helpful. Please don't stop offering suggestions. So I just looked at

RE: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-15 Thread Noah Hart
Richard, I like the new website and layout, but find the initial page much to wordy for an initial screen. Just a suggestion: Create lots of white space to the left of the Current Status/Common Links box and leave the exiting paragraphs, but move them down visually Something like the

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-15 Thread John Stanton
James Dennett wrote: Dennis Cote wrote: Dr Gerard Hammond wrote: The first few words sound incorrect to me. Shouldn't it be. "SQLite is an in-process" and even then I don't know what 'in-process' actually means. I agree with this completely. I can't say I have ever heard the term

RE: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-15 Thread James Dennett
Dennis Cote wrote: > > Dr Gerard Hammond wrote: > > The first few words sound incorrect to me. > > > > Shouldn't it be. > > > > "SQLite is an in-process" > > > > and even then I don't know what 'in-process' actually means. > > > > > I agree with this completely. > > I can't say I have ever

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-15 Thread Dennis Cote
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 5) There is no link to the CVStrac home page on the navigation bar Developers Richard, OK. I see that now. When I saw the Developers link I thought it was a link to the bios and pictures etc. for you and the

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-15 Thread Dennis Cote
Dr Gerard Hammond wrote: The first few words sound incorrect to me. Shouldn't it be. "SQLite is an in-process" and even then I don't know what 'in-process' actually means. I agree with this completely. I can't say I have ever heard the term in-process before. Perhaps it is database

RE: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-15 Thread Samuel R. Neff
assionate developer to join our team building Flex based products. Position is in the Washington D.C. metro area. If interested contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Dr Gerard Hammond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 10:33 PM To: sqlite-users

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-15 Thread Daniel Önnerby
I guess letting developers having opinions about the website is like to many chefs making a soup. Everyone have different opinions. I like the new design but have a small comment about the rounded corners in the menu. If there are rounded corners in the menu - the content below the menu

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Darren Duncan
At 8:39 PM -0600 11/14/07, andy wrote: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > * Somebody please suggest a better tag line - > something better than "The World's Most Widely > Used SQL Database". How about: "Small, Fast, Reliable. Choose any three." I'm not sure if I heard that

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new look for the SQLite website is now in place, if you haven't already noticed: http://www.sqlite.org/ YUCK! What happened? Yesterday when I looked there was a simple summary of what SQLite was about centred on screen (the whole page fitted vertically and

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread C M
I agree; less is more. Way too many words on the front page now. First, why have nav bars at top AND at the right side? (Plus vertical nav bars are best put on the left side. ) I'd recommend just (something like) this text on the main page: SQLite is a free, public domain, compact, embedded

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread drh
Dennis Cote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5) There is no link to the CVStrac home page on the navigation bar Developers -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread John Stanton
Steven Fisher wrote: On 14-Nov-2007, at 3:37 PM, John Stanton wrote: I am looking at it on a wide screen and it does not render to the full screen width. I would guess that making the toolbar an image would stop the wrapping. The image would scale to 100%. I used to think it was a good

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Steven Fisher
On 14-Nov-2007, at 3:37 PM, John Stanton wrote: I am looking at it on a wide screen and it does not render to the full screen width. I would guess that making the toolbar an image would stop the wrapping. The image would scale to 100%. I used to think it was a good thing when web sites

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread John Stanton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Scott Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I probably am misunderstanding something. The box scales down to narrower windows just fine, so why can't the box scale until it hits the width of my browser, and _then_ start doing the vertical-wrapping thing? There is a CSS

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread John Stanton
I took a quick look at the page with Firebug and could see that there are spaces embedded in the toolbar, a Firefox feature. They could be removed by concatenating the href's onto one line of text. The font specified plus the spaces renders to a width greater than the table so it wraps. I

RE: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Dennis Volodomanov
The navigation bar for me is on 2 lines - Support is wrapped to the second line. Is that intended? (doesn't look right :)) Dennis - To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Richard Klein
* Suggestions for something better to put on the home page. I see the home page has been expanded. Very nice! I would add some formatting to the overview text to make it more visually appealing. Perhaps make each paragraph a bullet item, with the first sentence in bold: o *SQLite

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread drh
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Daniel_=D6nnerby?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What happened to the download-page, I only see the "Direct Access To The > Sources Via Anonymous CVS"? > Cockpit trouble. Fixed now. -- D. Richard Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread John Stanton
Grzegorz Makarewicz wrote: Michael Scharf wrote: * Somebody please suggest a better tag line - something better than "The World's Most Widely Used SQL Database". I really like this tag line! However, it would be great if there would be a link with some information that

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Steven Fisher
On 13-Nov-2007, at 5:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Suggestions for something better to put on the home page. Yeah. My first thought when I brought up that page was "There's no way I'm reading all that text!"... and I already use sqlite. I like the points it goes over, though.

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Daniel Önnerby
act [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:59 PM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website "Scott Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I pr

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Dennis Cote
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new look for the SQLite website is now in place, if you haven't already noticed: http://www.sqlite.org/ Even though the new look is "in place" you should understand this as a work in progress, not a done deal. I am still looking for suggestions, comments, and

RE: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Samuel R. Neff
m building Flex based products. Position is in the Washington D.C. metro area. If interested contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:59 PM To: sqlite-users@sqlite.org Subject: Re: [sqlite] Reques

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread drh
"Scott Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I probably am misunderstanding something. The box scales down to > narrower windows just fine, so why can't the box scale until it hits > the width of my browser, and _then_ start doing the vertical-wrapping > thing? > There is a CSS parameter that

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Grzegorz Makarewicz
Michael Scharf wrote: >> * Somebody please suggest a better tag line - something >> better than "The World's Most Widely >> Used SQL Database". > > I really like this tag line! However, it would be great if > there would be a link with some information that supports/explains > this

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Scott Hess
I probably am misunderstanding something. The box scales down to narrower windows just fine, so why can't the box scale until it hits the width of my browser, and _then_ start doing the vertical-wrapping thing? -scott On Nov 14, 2007 10:59 AM, John Stanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread John Stanton
I would not agree with that. Parallelism is very much architectural if it to be better than yet another layer of software loading down what is a non-parallel architecture. It will be some time before the technology filters down to the mass users. Joe Wilson wrote: --- John Stanton <[EMAIL

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Scott Hess
I notice that in Firefox on Linux with a maximized window on a 1600x1200 screen, the "Support" link in the navbar wraps around. The navbar still looks nice, but since it's only half the width of my screen, it shouldn't need to wrap. It also happens with narrower browser windows, I'm guessing

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread John Stanton
Threads simulated in software are a kludge to better utilize current processor and operating system architectures. In time machines where the parallelism is handled in hardware will be more widely available and the threading will be transparent and highly efficient. Joe Wilson wrote:

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Scharf
* Somebody please suggest a better tag line - something better than "The World's Most Widely Used SQL Database". I really like this tag line! However, it would be great if there would be a link with some information that supports/explains this statement. Anybody could say "The

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Joe Wilson
Threads are very much in the C tradition - minimalistic. If you code in C you must know what you're doing anyway. C is by no means a high level or safe language. But until an automatically parallelizing safe language with good performance becomes popular - this is what we got. You just have to

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-14 Thread Michael Scharf
Why Threads Are A Bad Idea: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-1.pdf From the article: "Threads are a seemingly straightforward adaptation of the dominant sequential model of computation to concurrent systems. Languages require little or no syntactic changes to

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Trevor Talbot
On 11/13/07, Joe Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you use the idiom whereby each thread solely takes its tasks > from a thread-safe work queue, you can have a clear separation of > responsibilities and minimal or preferably no shared-state between > threads. You get concurrency as a side

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Joe Wilson
--- "D. Richard Hipp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Joe Wilson wrote: > > > http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/threads.pdf > > JO and I reach a similar conclusion but by different > reasoning, I think. I like this line: Should You Abandon Threads? * No:

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread D. Richard Hipp
On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Joe Wilson wrote: http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/threads.pdf JO and I reach a similar conclusion but by different reasoning, I think. --- Richard Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What? And encourage people to write multitheaded

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread D. Richard Hipp
On Nov 13, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Richard Klein wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What? And encourage people to write multitheaded programs? Not likely... I've been meaning to ask ... When you say that multiple threads are evil, do you mean "as opposed to multiple processes"? Or do you feel

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Joe Wilson
http://home.pacbell.net/ouster/threads.pdf --- Richard Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What? And encourage people to write multitheaded programs? > > Not likely... > > I've been meaning to ask ... When you say that multiple threads > are evil, do you mean "as

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Richard Klein
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What? And encourage people to write multitheaded programs? Not likely... I've been meaning to ask ... When you say that multiple threads are evil, do you mean "as opposed to multiple processes"? Or do you feel that multiprogramming in general is evil? - Richard

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Joe Wilson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joe Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You might mention the library is multi-thread safe in the Features > > section of http://www.sqlite.org/about.html > > What? And encourage people to write multitheaded programs? > Not likely... Good luck with that quest.

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread drh
Joe Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might mention the library is multi-thread safe in the Features > section of http://www.sqlite.org/about.html What? And encourage people to write multitheaded programs? Not likely... > > Do you have a page that describes all the SQLITE_OMIT_* ifdefs

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Joe Wilson
You might mention the library is multi-thread safe in the Features section of http://www.sqlite.org/about.html Do you have a page that describes all the SQLITE_OMIT_* ifdefs and compile options? Never

RE: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Samuel R. Neff
I think the "about" text misses some of what, to me, are the most important parts of SQLite - in-process - zero maintenance Also as a .NET developer I would be put off by the "C-Library" reference. SQLite works very well in many languages regardless of the fact that it's written in C. I would

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Roger Binns
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am still looking for suggestions, comments, > and bug reports. There is no search on the front page or even anywhere else on the site that I can find. You don't even have to go to the hassle of adding your own - Google

Re: [sqlite] Request for help with the SQLite Website

2007-11-13 Thread Rick Langschultz
This is a big improvement to the website. Keep up the great work on SQLite. Looking forward to 4.0 On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new look for the SQLite website is now in place, if you haven't already noticed: http://www.sqlite.org/ Even though the new look is