Robert’s Rants & Rationalizations

Earlier this month of December, I broke the code which updates a user’s profile on one of my sites, Reunion Hall.  Of course, I didn’t know I broke the PHP code when I modified it because a few rows in the db wasn’t used any longer.  Ahh, the script wasn’t modified to reflect the missing rows…well, they weren’t missing.  I modified another piece of the code in the ‘add user’ script.   It has taken me, part time, several weeks to find the ‘errors of my ways’, a phrase my teacher would say. So what’s so big about this?  I’m not a programmer.  I can’t write code from scratch!  And, I can now mess with this stuff (php, mysql, etc.) because of open-source!  This saves me yearly fees of proprietary software such as cgis, databases, hardware, etc. Anyways, I found the problem, and I did it before the end of this year!  I have learned and hope I remember, next time. 

Here’s a site that is designed to bring people, residents, citizens in a community together by letting others know a few things about them and their neighborhood, but what about the fact that quite a number of people just don’t want to be part of the daily lives of their neighbor?  Well, that’s the comments from a friend that I told about FatDoor who even got a demo/talk about Fatdoor.com at a MeetUp session. Right now, they are in ‘invite-only’ mode while they prepare for a public roll-out (I’m assuming). I, personally, like my privacy and don’t share my views with my neighbors.  I can do that because I have limited exposure to my neighbors, and that is influenced by my personality.  Others will want to get to know their neighbors, especially when they come together on community issues where they need to make a change, hopefully for the better.  Fatdoor.com will help them keep the channels open between each other. Ironically, I create community-related sites, I don’t participate in them!  In the early 1990′s, I participated in my dial-up graphical user interface (GUI,; ‘goo-ee’) network communities (before they were dubbed “social networks”).  That was probably due to the limited amount of them back then, but today, the internet is HUGE and everyone seems to have one in some small scale or another, especially when it is easier to create them with open-source scripts like phpNuke (http://www.phpnuke.org/), or hosted scripts/sites like Ning.com (http://www.ning.com/).So, what’s the point.  I don’t have one…well, I do.  The point is that it is there and my goal to get you and others to become aware of it has been achieved!  If no one reads a post, does it exist?  Who cares?  If you read it, that’s all that matters!G’day,Robert 

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