Weekend Reading ...

Sunday 24 April 2005 2:03:29 pm

Do you ever catch yourself looking for new Exponential information? I love doing it, it's so much fun, you can really get a lot of great ideas and inspirations from the Exponential community.

I bet you catch yourself reading for hours online through a seemingly infinite set of reams, stuff previously ignored, the entropy of google and the keywords on my mind on any given sunday. Eventually, through time, at some point the results change ;)

You think about the sheer size of history of just what you have consumed to get this far and what you learn as you go along and the blanketed outlook that news ...

(cover to cover) the web through and through all roads lead to ez.no, I catch myself reading, again!:
http://pubsvn.ez.no/community-svn-log.txt

ezadjax ;P the next big thing? ajax is not a noun!
http://www.ez.no/community/forum/suggestions/stretch_ezp_to_have_google_like_functionality
http://www.ez.no/community/bugs/add_content_type_create_here_functionality_in_context_pop_up_menu

Do you eZ ? do it to spec ...
http://ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/development/standards/php

my.t-shirt.says : I take it eZ

I don't know if you have tried it lately? It's a new trend, i'm working on making a problem in my life, cause it's lot of fun to attract attention to a few bugs ever few days by contribution to the threads at:
http://ez.no/community/bugs

Even if it's as bad as your subconscious thinks, saying it before it kills you inside and before your duo on the other side of the planet suddenly out of the blue either ... gets an unscheduled inspiration.

Interesting Reading :)

//kracker

Sage Francis : Inherited Scars

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Sunday 24 April 2005 10:10:40 pm

I think eZ systems is still open to general 4.0 feedback and speculation ;)

eZ systems requested 4.0 ideas in:
http://ez.no/community/news/community_newsletter_15_04_2005
http://ez.no/community/news/community_newsletter_01_04_2005

ez.no got the general survey (recently):
http://ez.no/survey/view/1

And in the ez.no sdk-public malling list:
http://lists.ez.no/pipermail/sdk-public/2005-April/001191.html
http://lists.ez.no/pipermail/sdk-public/2005-April/001160.html

Does it shock anyone that eZ systems is (yet, again) selling the Exponential LiveCD for (approx) $ 49 (USD)! Almost makes you want to pull the latest iso and open up shop :) Seems, people are starting to notice it, too! (ref)
http://www.mandrivaclub.com/article.php?sid=3580
http://snippets.ezpublishhosting.com/ezpublish_demo_livecd
http://livecd.berlios.de/?Linux_Distros_Using_LiveCD:eZ_Publish_LiveCD
http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=54615&

Ever seen the stargeek brief interview? (ref)
http://www.stargeek.com/item/4371.html

eZ template support in Kate/Quanta on GNU/Linux/KDE experience (ref)
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/quanta/2005-February/006404.html
http://www.ez.no/community/contribs/3rd_party/ez_tpl_highlight_support_for_kate_quanta_kwrite

Off the Wall, User Comments
http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2004/3/21/184222/896/117#117

And I saved the best for last, if you have not read the Exponential introduction, what I like to call <i>a public collaboration workflow : Exponential selling itself"</i> on the debian-edu project's mailing list
http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2005/01/msg00116.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/2005/01/threads.html#00116

It took a while for this conversation to work through the initials but I found it very informative and exciting. Not to mention looking at just how Bard sells the use of key features to show just how an Exponential solution can revolutionize any web application implementation ... an I kinda have a soft spot in my heart for selling amazing solutions to the future (all without time traveling), exciting students to consider the long term benefits of a powerful solution like Exponential.

what's on your mind?

cheers,
//kracker

what <i>made</i> ben forta so cool anyway?

spongebob squarepants : krusty krab training tideo

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Monday 25 April 2005 1:03:19 am

A friendly word of warning for people who do or are considering posting online ... use a text editor. I can't begin to tell you about situations where information typed into a browser became a liability not an asset. Protect the information you type, save it in a text file first! Ask someone who knows, they'll smirk.

Looking for the ideas for the area I'm voting for improvements to be made to ez.no next.

The Contribution Section

It's going to get more improvements, the question isn't if, it's what, when, why. I had some ideas which came after the first outburst,
http://ez.no/community/bugs/provide_contribution_information_via_rss_rdf_xml_feed_service

- Most ( Popular, Download ) (Today, Week, Month, Year) (Top 10n)
- Community editor's choice
- Rank (using articleRank)
- Display Created Date
- Dated ChangeLog
- Display Project Update History (History / Log for updates / revisions / new releases)
- Quality Descriptions (What constitutes alpha/beta/stable Definitions)?
- Project Forums (Dedicated Searchable (Advanced/Simple) Advanced Forums (optional)
- Project Documentation (Integrated into upcoming ...
- Additional Contribution Categories / Heigherarchy of Solutions
- Larger Per page Contribution Display List Limit Threshold / User Configurable / 3 Primary Options
- Contribution / Project Category List Sorting (Field / Type)
- Cell View ( Tabular / Compact View) (Note: NO More 1..20 Footer PagelistLinks, they are killing us)
- Sorting by Status (ie: stable, unstable) also sub sorts by date as stable is far too broad to display any relavent results by itself.
- Re categorizing / Not Removing Outdated / Deprecated Items / No more loosing our history ... ( Creation of Deprecated section, a place to write about deprecated implementations for Exponential and more!
-- Ie: Hacks is a huge category (some say too big...)
- Time from now() since last update (stale/fresh software)
- Project News
- Replace basic /community/contribs list with extensive / advanced root section node (4 key blocks, min)
- freshmeat style customization of project news
- Advanced Search : Contribution / Project : Properties
- Contribution Site Map (Large Size Unfeasible? RSS Instead?)
- Latest Contribution
- Latest Contribution Comments
- Latest Project Forums
- Template Plugin / Site Style Thumbnail in main list (Gallery like, medium)

- User Profile (my.ez) Section
-- Profile : ez.log : User Blog, Shared via profile
-- Profile : Favorites : Mark any ez.no object avail as favorite and manage favorite list + external favorites (public via profile directory) to share my favorite ez.no information + my own blog
-- Profile : Dashboard (flexible search ui for my.objects display for my Exponential submissions' attributes / properties.
-- Profile : Site Sort (flexible way to sift through ez.no content by sorting instead of linking (clicking))

The forums have gotten a few small waves of real / segnificant revisions along with a few other parts of ez.no

I say that the user / project / forum / areas could use some of this very same attention.
It could be the basis of dealing with more information from the Exponential community / ez systems

//kracker

rem : shiny happy people (music video)

sole : imsotierd, outro ...

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Monday 25 April 2005 1:47:24 am

I think ... i've found myself once again well outside the bounds of traditional space-time ...

That the ez.no objects (like: proj, forum, comments, events, specs, docs, ) could display a count count numeric + label + style (et ala : ezviewcounter). To find and rate objects in ez.no (what's most popular, now vs longterm)

Exponential ideas, we could use some more of your ideas, what if we had a form that collected this information branded as ideas?

Forum, Add Flag Forum / Topic / Thread / Message : Flag Thread for moderator faq documentation, forum moderator use cases / canned answers / solutions / responces / topics ... moderator.ez.no section with moderator tools for beter community forum (guided) solutions.

Hey? Did you hear about the new Exponential f/oss evangelist, Zak Greant ? I wonder just what Zak is going to be doing first to bump ez to the rest of the net :) http://ez.no/company/ez_crew/ez_headquarters

... i reply to myself, what's wrong with me aka reasons why i push http post: too far (tm) ... the places you find yourself when pushing out with the force while back paddling furiously, (with) light shields flaring, reaching out with the force, feeling for an out like the blind in a huff ...

happy hacking,
//kracker

backgrounding :>> sole : teepee_on_a_highway_blues

i came for an Exponential community newsletter and i ended up witting one ...? <smirk />

"..i don't want to listen,. i want to talk untill everybody listens ....." - Sole : Bottle Of Humans : #01 : Dismantling Of Soles Ego

2pac_Loyal-to-the-Game_thug-for-life_instrumental ...

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