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hmarq · Site Admin Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 351

I do this for a living and have for several years on the web ... we'll be using PHP & Apache on Linux (though any unix would be fine for final rollout); haven't decided yet on the final data engine ... mysql might be OK, but postgres has some nice things not in mysql . mysql is already running this board and it might be fastest to prototype in ... just would have to convert all the auto_increment stuff to real sequences if we move.

I should have the template driver up and running the site shortly and I have a bunch of infrastructure code to just copy and make consistent with the site structure ... db driver, cache engine, etc.

If anyone else is looking to help here let me know. This is a working project, not a learning experience so please, programmers only.

Insane Monkey · Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 20

Is this a knock against me and my (lack of) programmer exp? I knew it wouldn't take long for you to try and single me out. Wink

JK. I'll help out whereever needed.
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infosponge · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 6

I have experience building and running web sites with tens of thousands of registered users for people like Random House and some large financial institutions...and Apache/PHP/Postgres/Oracle/MySQL/etc...

Reef Rats · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 2

Yeah and he's one hell of a cachers as well

9key · Joined: 16 Sep 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Dallas, Texas

Only M$ experience here. I can whip up some nice and nifty XML / XSL transformations for you though. Shocked

Recently I've been playing with web services. Wicked kewl stuff!

If you need a hand shoot me an email.
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robertlipe · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 15

By day, I program a little on UNIX-like systems using C, Perl, PHP, MySQL, assembler, or any other tool that seems appropriate. GPSBabel was written to solve my own problems. 5,000 other people have downloaded it. At least three of them have found it useful.

I've been known to cache a little once in a while...

M-Class · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Nashville, TN, US

Microsoft Developer Here...
VB, COM, MTS, ASP, XML, SQL

tc-rick · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 10

Linux programmer here, my geo-* tools are my contribution to caching so far.

Personally, I think we need to get away from a central site and database mentality and do something fresh.

I'd like to see us build a redundant, distributed database using P2P technologies. This solves many of the problems with gc.com, bandwidth, and cost. The down side of that approach is the need for building a cross-platform local proxy in order to participate in our P2P network and provide the interface to the users web browser.

I've been on-again off-again researching P2P distributed databases, and if we go that way I would be much more motivated in helping out.

-Rick

SpongeRob · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 9

Ok, i've used linux based and microsoft based. My recommendation for this is to do it as a mambo component. It's mysql based and FREE. Takes the overhead out. Mambo takes care of user management etc. It's open source. How much better could you get it. If we want something to go up quickly this is it.

www.keenpeople.com runs it. It's complete configurable from the standpoint of themes, looks, etc.

Might be worth looking into. You can always expand from there.

The Diver · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:46 pm Post subject:

DBA (DB2,IMS) background mainly on the big iron. Some Oracle, mySql, PostgreSQL. Code mainly in Rexx these days with some c,c++ and assembler. Currently Senior QA on DB Admin product.

Steve · Joined: 17 Sep 2003 Posts: 21 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA

I've got some hobbyist level experience with Perl, PHP and MySQL. I don't claim to be a coder, guru, developer etc., but I'll be more than happy to contribute what and where I can.
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EM13ob · Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Plano, TX

I'll be happy to contribute some of my time. I write PHP/MySQL applications for a living. I have also been a linux user and administrator for just about 10 years now Smile

amnesius · Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 147 Location: ./earth/europe/*

I have been working for some Internet Companies so far. Using mainly PHP4, MySQL, Perl and Java.

My focus was on developing special features for a commercial content managment system (CMS), like HTML GZIP on the fly compression, Query Caching for MySQL with PHP, PDF on the fly generation and evaluating freeware PHP Bytecode compilers like TurckMMCache for eg.

I can bring some FreeBSD and Linux knowledge along ( not only OS, Apache + Qmail + PHP too )

So if i can help you guys in any way, just let me know. Im quite happy to see someone trys to knock the monopole of GC(dot)com..

Cheers
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belba · Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 5

I worked in a Internet company but currently I'm jobless so I have time for this project. I'm familar with lamp enviroments and this project ist too interesting for me as I can be quiet here. I have also experiences in administration of Web-Server in the wildlife (Internet) and some security issus (IPTABLES, SNORT).

My weak point is my worse english - there is no doubt.

I hope I can help out in this project.

Bye

bgrant · Joined: 30 Oct 2003 Posts: 1 Location: San Francisco

hmarq,

You could perhaps save a lot of time with either:

http://www.drupal.org/

http://www.xoops.org/

...in terms of kickstarting the website/community, anyway.
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