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Journal perfessor multigeek's Journal: Geneous Mistro URL DB Field List 15

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Here are the fields as they now stand in the URL DB. Again, these are my roughs and very subject to improvement, but they have generally given me the places to put such information as seemed important about a site. I'm planning to add three more ratings: Funny, Timeliness, and, uh, another one subject to discussion.

Advertising (as in do they have it and if so, what types & degree)
Category
Category2
Category3
Category4
Contact.Email
Contact.Name.First
Contact.Name.Last
Contact.Phone.Fx
Contact.Phone.Vc
Design.Notes
Host.ISP
Img.Logo
Img.Thumbnail
IUO.Notes *
Keywords
Notes
Rating.Cool
Rating.Credibility
Rating.Design (look)
Rating.Informative
RecordID (in theory not needed since URLs are unique, but all DBs of the system use the same record ID nomenclature)
Review.Date
Review.Staffer (any suggestions to what to change Staffer to?)
SiteType
Status (as in Rough, Edit, Final, Archive, Hold)
Subject (for a brief, unique text description of what the fershuginah thing is about)
Tech.Host.OS
Tech.Notes
Tech.Plugins (so that eventually one can sort for things like non-Flash sites only or look for example of a given plugin in use)
Title (my version of Name since Title is the field name used across the DB system)
URL
URL.Basic
URL.Flash
URL.Primary
WhoseSite (as a reality check. "Oh, so that site on XML is hosted by Micro$oft?!?")
Whose.Addr.City
Whose.Addr.Cntry
Whose.Addr.State
Whose.Addr.Street
Whose.Phone

Eventually the Whose fields should all be data within the Orgs realm.

* IUO: means Internal Use Only. Originally I had several of these but they all merged.

Rustin
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  • Why not change it too bloody Review.Reviewer, Review.Name, or Review.Reviewer.Name (since I seem to remember having to add my name to the Staffer list, which made it you and me. At least where the Sourcematter DB was concerned.)

    For those who didn't know, I did an Intership at Reed and Wright. A real one. "Hey, Craig, can you call my Uncle *?" This led to Craig's first real encounter with a live and snarling Manhattan phone book. Oooo, scary. Watch out folks! "H@(& $#!^!, how many Universities are there
    • By the way, the Handle is "Willis Corto". Notice the space perfessor multigeek. As in Colonel Willis Corto, United States Army, Nightwing Assault Unit, (Retired). Sorry, just had to get that out of my system. Laterness.
    • So be it. Those sound like good ideas to me.
      Staffer will be changed to Reviewer, and Tech.Build.App and Tech.Build.OS will become new fields. Of course each will need to eventually be an array/table with sliders to have any serious long-term accuracy but that's fine.

      Re the space in "Willis Corto", I apologize. My bad.

      And yes, Craig, I will be getting in touch.

      Rustin
  • BTW, the domain names (com, net, org) are taken:

    domain: GENEOUSMISTRO.ORG

    owner-address: David F. Glasser
    owner-address: 2398 Bellwood Drive
    owner-address: 15237
    owner-address: Pittsburgh
    owner-address: Pennsylvania
    owner-address: United States of America
    reg_created: 2003-04-12 04:49:54
    created: 2003-04-12 06:49:56
    changed: 2003-04-12 07:06:40
    nic-hdl: DFG2-GANDI
    phone: +1 4125196193
    e-mail: dglasser@pobox.com

    And he even uses the same registrar as I do. :-/ .info and .biz are available. I'm ashamed

    • Yes. I had discovered that. Of course I could just concede and go with, say, geneous-mistro.org but I think it is worth at least *asking* what he intends to do with them since he obviously registered them in response to the Dilbert cartoon.

      After all, we were civilized and asked Scott Adams before presuming such a thing.

      I'll email him today and ask.

      Might I suggest that the more of us politely email him, the better.

      As in
      "Mr. Glasser, Hi there, I'm a part of the geneous mistro database project and we
      • After all, we were civilized and asked Scott Adams before presuming such a thing.

        Hey, I had *nothing* to do with that bit. ;-)

        If you are not, well, we will remember that too.

        That will go down in Works.Insane_Projects.Geneous_Mistro.Early_History as "thinly veiled". :-D

        BTW, if we can choose, I'd go for .net.

        • That will go down in Works.Insane_Projects.Geneous_Mistro.Early_Histor y as "thinly veiled". :-D
          LOL

          Hey, we're all mellow folks here, right?

          Heh.

          Actually, it looks like he's being nice about this. Though he probably wasn't expecting to be hit with four megs-plus of database files containing thousands of records, a screen shot, and a preliminary readme.
          May the gods help him if he's enough of a geek to actually start *reading* all of them.
          He'll be stuck indoors for while if so, which seems a shame. I'
          • Why .net rather then .org?

            It's a network, not an organization. A web of truths.

            'Course, you could call it an organism - we can put it online, pour data in it and take bets on the side for when it'll become self-aware.

            • It's a network, not an organization. A web of truths.

              'Course, you could call it an organism - we can put it online, pour data in it and take bets on the side for when it'll become self-aware.
              Okay, you're right. You are thinking bigger then me.
              Excellent.

              And yes, you're right. .net is more appropriate though I still think that the .org has a place, seondary though it will be.

              Rustin
      • I have just gotten an email from David Glasser saying:
        Please send me full details of your "Geneous Mistro" project along with documentation (that I will verify) that it has the imprimatur of Scott Adams if you want me to consider your request.
        So I have sent him four Dbs, a screenshot, a link to this discussion, and a forward of the letter from Scott Adams.

        Rustin
    • reg_created: 2003-04-12 04:49:54

      So, am I understanding correctly that he just recently, as in a few days ago, registered these names? If so, that seems too coincidental.

      • So, am I understanding correctly that he just recently, as in a few days ago, registered these names? If so, that seems too coincidental.
        Yep. I think that timecode is catching everybody's eye. Seems a safe assumption that he read the same comic that we did.
        In fact, for all we know, he may have his *own* content management scheme he wants to use the name for. That would make me very sad. Unless (are you reading this, David Glasser?) it had useful functionality and he wanted to fold it into *our* Geneous Mi

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