Yeah, I think we have two different philosophies on open-source. I'd write open-source for the need of building the perfect application utilizing multiple developer perspectives. (To save from the headaches of rewriting everyone else's) Quite frankly, the 'perfect BBS app' has yet to be written. And I'm surprised.
Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -----Original Message----- From: jon roig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 10:35 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Cold Fusion forum (OPEN SOURCE?) I've open sourced small things in CF, but as for Open Sourcing a big project... why on earth would I want to do that on a platform that is inherently not free? As much as I like CF and working in it -- I do make a living from it -- I'd much rather do my open source programming in a language that presents no $$$ barrier to adoption, a platform that anyone on earth can use, regardless of financial backing. (I created OpenRealty -- http://jonroig.com/freecode/openrealty in PHP, for instance, and it's being used by hundreds of sites...) I'm not one of those little Stallman groupies either... and that's also not to say there aren't little pockets of OS CF stuff developing. I mean, look at CFLIB.org and how helpful that has been to the community. -- jon ------------- jon roig senior manager, online production epilepsy foundation phone: 215.850.0710 site: http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Adrocknaphobia Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 11:47 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Cold Fusion forum (OPEN SOURCE?) Chris, I've dealt with UBB, fuseTalk, ezBoard, and the old Allaire Forums. If I can say anything on the subject, it's that NO ONE has gotten it right (especially on the database end). Mike D said a year ago he was going to re-write the old Allaire Forums and eventually open source it. Which, stop me if I'm wrong, is what is being used on houseoffusion.com? But I think I missed the part where he open sourced it. Last I checked in June at cfFun, he said he was still working on it. I for one would really like to work an open-source bbs project. I think there is a pretty high demand for a sturdy open source board, which can be customized at the will of the programmer. I've thrown around the open-source idea with a bunch of people but found our selves intimidated by the legal requirements. You know we have a really great community here, but I can't tell you of ANY cold fusion open-source projects. Is open source cold fusion a pipe dream? Would anyone else be interested in contributing? Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -----Original Message----- From: Chris Montgomery [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 10:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Cold Fusion forum Howdy Michael, Thursday, December 19, 2002, 7:54:13 PM, Michael T. Tangorre wrote: > I am attempting to to try some more advanced things with an idea I > have. I am going to be building an online forum to tinker with.. can > anyone point me to some database examples? The code side is what I am > going to be playing with but need a good architecture to use.. anyone > know of one I can download? I didn't see a reply to this yet, so I'll offer one to consider: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbopenforums/ It uses Fusebox, but you might be able to get something useful out of it. If you are wanting to explore how the database would be structured for a forums app, you might want to research hierarchical database design, parent-child relationships, or using recursion with your database. This page is an example of doing recursive joins for a forum: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/sqlguru/q120899-1.shtml with a follow-up here: http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/sqlguru/q121799-1.shtml Another post about threaded discussion forums database design: http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=1353 with a follow-up here: http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=1602 Some good SQL sites to check out: http://www.dbmsmag.com/index.shtml http://www.codebits.com/ntm/ http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/07/12/aboutSQL.html http://www.sqlteam.com/Default.asp http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/ http://www.intelligententerprise.com/info_centers/database/ http://www.databasejournal.com/ http://www.sqlmag.com/ Hope that helps you somewhat. Happy Holidays! -- Chris Montgomery monty @ airtightweb.com Airtight Web Services http://www.airtightweb.com Web Development, Web Project Management, Software Sales 210-490-3249/888-745-7603 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
