Re: [Filecaddy-developers] Survey and SF Permissions

[Matthew B. <mb...@ky...>]

> We need people asking questions :) In my experience "premptive FAQing"
> doesn't usually work. If you *know* something is going to be a FAQ then it
> probably needs improvement.

Can't help but agree, though the data I, er, borrowed from your FAQ gave
me a good quantity of example data while I worked on the display
scripts.  Still am, btw.  I'm learning an awful lot about MySQL and PHP.

> One of these days I'll read through the plug-in stuff. However, I am curious
> why the FAFileMover plug-in architecture was abandoned? Nothing about it was
> incompatible with VFS - in fact I actually had a couple of unreleased VFS
> based FAFileMover plug-ins working.

Once you see the new design I'm implementing, you'll know why.  The old
FAFileMover system was too, er, simple in my mind ;)  Have a look at the
header file (and/or the iSilo/HTML manual, Plugin API section ;) and all
will become clear.

> Still on my todo list. I'd like to eventually produce a nice typeset PDF
> manual like we have for the FlashAdapter software.

Would be nice.  That's what the survey would be for.  "What format would
you like the manual to be distributed in?"
 a) Plain 'ol Text,
 b) RTF (Rich Text)
 c) iSilo
 d) Palm DOC
 e) PDF
 f) HTML

I'll look into making a quiz system.  EVERYTHING on the website is now
my own custom PHP.  The most "borrowed" code comes from the News
scripts.  You can tell why my "company's" tagline is "Re-inventing the
wheel, every time."

> You have as much access as I can give you without making you the project
> admin. It seems to me that any developer should be able to add a survey but
> apparently SF disagrees. If you email what you want the survey to contain
> I'll be happy to set it up. However, SF's survey interface is just as bad as
> the rest of their website so we'd probably be better off to set up something
> custom using the website. There must be some good PHP scripts out there for
> doing polls.

There can only be one admin?  That's daft.  Another thing I'd like done
to the SF page, is a Call to Developers.  What we need are programmers. 
Lots of them. :D

> I'll take a look tomorrow. I just agreed to fill a last minute part-time
> faculty opening at a local technical college. My first class (Enterprise
> Development) starts today so I have to teach myself MS SQL Server admin in
> the next four hours :)

Ouch.  Good luck - you'll need it!

-- 
Matthew (Darkstorm) Bevan       mb...@ma...
Margin Software, NECTI.		http://www.marginsoftware.com
	Re-inventing the wheel, every time.

 - Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.