Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Pocket PC Thoughts is resurrected...sort of
Posted by Jason Dunn in "THOUGHT" @ 12:14 AM
What a weekend! The day I start moving into a new house, the server fails. I spent the entire weekend moving boxes, unpacking boxes, and assembling Ikea furniture, trying to get an Internet connection, all the while hoping that Chris Edwards and his PHP skills could pull off the challenge of ressurecting this site in 48 hours. He did it! Chris, I owe you one.
So what are you seeing here? We've quickly tied together phpBB, a PHP-based freeware discussion board forum that is well-known for it's stability and speed. Chris had created a custom modification for his own site that allowed certain posts to be tagged as "front page news". So on the back-end you have the power and flexibility of a full-featured discussion board, and on the front end you have a web-logging style interface. The best of both worlds!
I can't stress this enough: we have a long way to go. The previous year and a half of content will be imported to create a rich, searchable database of content (I hope). I've collected hundreds of pages of content that people have emailed in, so we'll try to get that into the system. We're also working on a new template that will make the front-end on a desktop PC more interesting, and on the Pocket PC it will get leaner and meaner.
The blow that was dealt when we lost all that content was frustrating, but ultimately this site is focused on the future, not the past. I've always had a vision for what this site could be, and we're just starting to move towards it...
So what are you seeing here? We've quickly tied together phpBB, a PHP-based freeware discussion board forum that is well-known for it's stability and speed. Chris had created a custom modification for his own site that allowed certain posts to be tagged as "front page news". So on the back-end you have the power and flexibility of a full-featured discussion board, and on the front end you have a web-logging style interface. The best of both worlds!
I can't stress this enough: we have a long way to go. The previous year and a half of content will be imported to create a rich, searchable database of content (I hope). I've collected hundreds of pages of content that people have emailed in, so we'll try to get that into the system. We're also working on a new template that will make the front-end on a desktop PC more interesting, and on the Pocket PC it will get leaner and meaner.
The blow that was dealt when we lost all that content was frustrating, but ultimately this site is focused on the future, not the past. I've always had a vision for what this site could be, and we're just starting to move towards it...
