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> > You've pretty much described www.freebsdrocks.com.
>
> Almost.  What I see advocacy.freebsd.org being, however, is something
> just a bit more "official" in that it tries to archive things like
> advocacy guides, canned presentations, promotional imagery and other
> advocacy resources, one significant one being a "news" service.  It's
> the news pages and dynamic advocacy guide material which I figure will
> require the intervention of a database to make more easily manageable
> than CVS and shell accounts would be.
>
> - Jordan
>

    More dynamic.. For example, the lines on the front page (Red
Heading\nPlaintext) could easily be done in a script right from a database:
IE

    SELECT * FROM advHeadlines ORDER BY timStamp WHERE active;

Then <h3>$headline</H3>$content<br>

    Or even in a table.

    In C? They're not that hard to do.. MySQL is pretty Interfacable now.
The API is workable, and beats the crap out of Netapi32.dll from Win32 =)
Or the DAO/RDO stuff.. Well, they are kinda simple for base functionality,
though creating a class makes it easier, and very C++ like.

    Jordy, there any kind mass brainstorming lists laying around?

Eric




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