Re: More thoughts...

[Micah K Yoder <LYoder@cyberis.net>]

> I agree with you here Micah.  With the advent of a better back-end, I'm
> really leaning towards PGSQL.  It's features are worth they're weight in

MySQL might get transactions someday, but there's still licensing
issues.  Not that they matter to us, but in a philosophical way they
should.  But I actually wouldn't be too surprised to see it totally open
sourced someday.  It's already 90% of the way there, and it would seem
like it would make sense for them to just do it.

> gold.  With a better back-end, raw DB perfromance would not be such a
> critical issue as it is now.  Right now, every page load is dependant upon
> raw DB perf... that shouldn't be the case some day.

I don't really understand how that could be.  Every page hit will
eventually hit the DB, right?  Or will the middleware cache things?

> I've read about it breifly... looks promising, but I don't really know
> enough about it to comment much.

It looks EXTREMELY promising!  I think it alone will help wipe IE off
the face of the earth. :-)  It's basically a better Java than Java for
Internet app front ends.  Have you seen the stuff that's being done with
it?  Check out XMLterm for one thing.  And I hear of an education
project that's using it.

I did my first bit of tinkering with it yesterday.  I'm also reading a
big thick XML book.  I want to get up to speed on this sort of thing.

Only downside is, I was hoping to get through life without learning
%$#@%$#@ JavaScript.  Looks like that will now be impossible. *sigh*

for the KB, we could put most of our navigation in a pull down menu
system.  It would have the one advantage of frames without their many
annoyances.  So Aaron should be happy. :-)  There could be a KB bookmark
and/or history window, kinda like Netscape's except more integrated.  A
Search dialog box.  Basically the same stuff you could do with a
standalone app, but completely integrated in the browser, and you
wouldn't have to reload things like navigation code and the search page
every time... making things faster...

Later,
Micah