[Thousand-oaks-pm] Two weeks until the next Thousand Oaks PM meeting

Todd Presta toddpresta at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 5 20:44:51 PDT 2005


Most definitely. Adding Perl would be a good thing and it would make sense being Perl-based group.
:)



--- Andrew Woods <andreww at anides.com> wrote:

> 
> I just browsed thru http://groups.pm.org/faq.html .  I didn't see 
> anything disallowing it. There was a reference that they do DNS 
> forwarding. This is basically the same thing, but the power is in our 
> hands to change it to whereever.
> 
> I suspect they use the PM.org hosted space because it's free. Also, 
> those sites tend to be pretty small. I have a development plan for our 
> group that could be pretty cool, but I need the power of Perl to harvest 
> it. More on this later. To get us off the ground, I'm going to replace 
> the existing pages, which I'm trying to get some time to work on.
> 
> 
> Todd Presta wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > That would do the trick too. Do you know if Perlmongers has any policies regarding straight
> > redirects? I went through a random sampling of the PM sites and most of them tend to utilize
> the
> > hosting space exclusively on PM.org.
> > 
> > 
> > Todd
> > 
> > --- Andrew Woods <andreww at anides.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Another idea is to use thousand-oaks.pm.org as a redirect page. It's 
> >>easy enough using <Meta> tags, and a 1 second interval. We would still 
> >>give out the name thousand-oaks.pm.org.  Then, We could set-up say 
> >>http://www.to-pm.org in a location of our choosing. This way,  we don't 
> >>need to use frames when developing (which can be a pain). This has the 
> >>additional benefit of being able to track how people arrive on our 
> >>homepage .
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>Todd Presta wrote:
> >>
> >>>I agree. A frameset would definitely allow the root website to stay at thousand-oaks.pm.org
> >>
> >>and
> >>
> >>>allow some flexibility when pointing to other content areas even on other servers if
> >>
> >>necessary. 
> >>
> >>>Using frames and would basically turn the TO homepage into a portal (of sorts). It would just
> >>
> >>suck
> >>
> >>>for text-based webbrowsers (yes I use them sometimes ;)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>--- Paul Jacobs <pjacobs at valueclick.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>The name doesn't matter. We don't even need a domain name - I think we should continue to
> use
> >>>>thousand-oaks.pm.org as the primary name we give out. The forwarding burden is on pm.org,
> >>>>whether your server is set up for it or not. You'd just forward to an IP. I've seen tricks
> >>
> >>with
> >>
> >>>>framesets that make it appear to be at the original address, and I have code avaialable to
> >>
> >>copy,
> >>
> >>>>but it doesn't change the url as you click through the site. That would take more
> programming.
> >>>>
> >>>>On the other hand, you can point such a frameset to a subdirectory of an existing web server
> >>>>rather than it's root. That can be easier to deal with.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm not sure I understand kind of server setup would not allow something.otherthing.com to
> be
> >>>>pointed to it but would allow otherthing.com to be pointed to it. It's not particularly
> >>>>important, but I'm curious.
> >>>>
> >>>>- p
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From:	thousand-oaks-pm-bounces at pm.org on behalf of Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com
> >>>>Sent:	Thu 6/30/2005 2:29 PM
> >>>>To:	Andrew Woods
> >>>>Cc:	Thousand-oaks-pm at pm.org
> >>>>Subject:	Re: [Thousand-oaks-pm] Two weeks until the next Thousand Oaks PM meeting
> >>>>Andrew,
> >>>>
> >>>>No, I don't really have a solution.  What I was hoping for was to be able
> >>>>to point the domain over to some excess space on my server by having PM.ORG
> >>>>change their DNS entry.  But my server won't allow pointing a third-level
> >>>>domain in that manner.
> >>>>
> >>>>So, I could setup a second level domain, like SOMETHING.org and probably
> >>>>get PM to point to that, but I wanted to kick that around a bit before
> >>>>taking any action.
> >>>>
> >>>>It's not a money issue, the domains are dirt-cheap.  But what name should I
> >>>>register?
> >>>>
> >>>>Or, should we find some other way to do it?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Daniel Sherer
> >>>>Manager, ITG Data Warehouse
> >>>>Health Net
> >>>>(818) 676-7592
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>                                                                                            
> 
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>>>                             
> >>>>                     Andrew Woods                                                           
> 
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>>>                             
> >>>>                     <andreww at anides.c        To:       Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com         
> 
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>>>                             
> >>>>                     om>                      cc:                                           
> 
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>>>                             
> >>>>                                              Subject:  Re: [Thousand-oaks-pm] Two weeks
> >>
> >>until
> >>
> >>>>the next Thousand Oaks PM      
> >>>>                     06/30/2005 02:11          meeting                                      
> 
> >>
> >> 
> >>
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> >>>>                     PM                                                                     
> 
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >>>>                             
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Daniel,
> >>>>
> >>>>Is there a server available to develop the TO.pm website on.
> >>>>I've done a little work in my extra time.
> >>>>
> >>>>http://home.earthlink.net/~atwoods1/topm/
> >>>>
> >>>>Click on the Camel to see a sample inner page.
> >>>>I'll be working on the navigation this week.
> >>>>I'd appreciate your thoughts.
> >>>>My goal is to present it to the group at our next meeting.
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks,
> >>>>
> >>>>Andrew
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Daniel.Sherer at healthnet.com wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>One of the action items from our last meeting was a request for more
> >>>>>reminders of meetings and to get those reminders farther in advance.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Paul has advised us that he won't be able to attend.  So, is there
> >>>>
> >>>>someone
> >>>>
> >>>>
> 
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