[thesite] My Intro and a look at a UEUE Proposal

Warden, Matt mwarden at mattwarden.com
Mon Oct 15 22:49:11 CDT 2001


On Oct 15, Rory.Plaire at wahchang.com had something to say about RE:...

>| >As the user posts messages, their article counts and 
>| references are all
>| >correctly updated on the food.evolt.org site.
>| 
>| I guess I could go with that. But, I'd like to somehow have the
>| propogation outside of the evolt CMS code. Especially in the 
>| situation of
>| a changed password or email address or something like that.
>
>Couldn't the CMS alert the DBMS, through a stored procedure? Or even the DB
>alert itself through a trigger, that the user is not found and then make the
>change? 

I don't believe either of these methods work trans-database.

We could have a flag field in eueueueueueueueue database and some process
running outside of the CMS and everything that simply takes the record,
inserts it into a list of datasources, and flags the field.

Not sure if we wanna go this far, but it would keep it out of the CMS.

>| >Global User Information
>| >-------------------------
>| >If we don't do the one global table, like Matt has already 
>| suggested, then
>| >any application that wants a 30000 foot view of User 
>| specific information
>| >will have to query the ueue.evolt.org server for the list of 
>| all Child
>| >Servers the user is a member, query each Child Server for 
>| the user's content
>| >information, and pull all of that into one report or list.
>| 
>| Ok, here's my thinking. When you sign up for www.evolt.org, 
>| you should be
>| "signed up" for all *.evolt.org sites. So, I don't think the 
>| list of sites
>| of which that user is a member is needed.
>
>I now see what Matt is concerned about -- I believe. Another real world
>example: I am a citizen of the US. Therefore, without hindrance or
>restriction, I travel to all parts of the country. (I'd love this to be the
>world... someday!)

What, the US be the world? I think they're working on that. Oh, this isn't
thechat...

>That is, with the status of citizen, I don't need to have
>special clearance to move about from area to area. Security would manage
>whether or not I can or cannot access sensitive areas. Of course, this
>metaphor would begin to break down if we became a more diverse community...
>such as implementing this strange food.evolt.org everyone keeps mentioning.
>;) 

well, but what i'm saying is that Joe User should be able to sign up in a
single location and then access member-only features in all *.evolt.org
sites. Why should Joe sign up for weo, then sign up with the exact same
info for feo? Or why even go the extra step to say Joe wantes to be a
member of both sites. Let's just let him.

Taking your example kind of, it's kind of like asking someone to register
fro a drivers license in every single state that person wants to drive in,
rather than allowing a single drivers license to be valid for all
states. The info for the drivers licenses will be (relatively) the same,
so just use that.

>| Yeah. Look for "login.evolt.org". I believe it's even in the subject
>| line. It was quite a while back. Dan was working on it (so he'd be the
>| author of the messages). Hope that helps some.
>
>Thanks. With the concept of "shared reality" being something that is
>continually created and renewed through dialog and conversation, having an
>"elder" population with large mental databases is a valuable asset! Well,
>technology can help, too.

google.com

"login.evolt.org" site:lists.evolt.org

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22login.evolt.org%22+site:lists.evolt.org&hl=en&filter=0

is that the technology you are talking about?

bud dum bum.

i'll be here all week (except thursday), folks.

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mattwarden
mattwarden.com






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