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Virtual Love and e-Communication, by Dr. Claude Shema-Rutagengwa (MD)

With e-communication, many things become easier. But while it may be easier in terms of e-communication, it may be more dangerous is as well. We have so many cases to mention, such as the negative side effects of International Communication Technology (ICT) and e-communication in particularly, such as theft of personal information.




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Point to Ponder on the new understandings

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Alianza Empowers Service Providers To Grow Cloud Communications Revenue With A Robust Cloud PBX Integration For Microsoft Teams

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CloudWyze Boosts Coverage Of Its High-Speed Fiber Network In Nash County, NC

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Sunday, August 12, 2007

Now I'm finally getting around to shape Behold into its initial form!

After slimming down the numbering, I've gone after the Tags page. I had all these extra codes (a slash or @ sign) to indicate the type of Tag. After several comments that this is confusing, I've now reworked the display of tags so that only simple or compound GEDCOM tags are displayed. The special Behold tags are moving to a new Options page. Then I'll fix up the error messages in the log file to make them more consistent.

This will do a lot to increase the useability of Behold. It will not take nearly as long to understand (or explain) how these features work and what they do.




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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Setting up the Options page was easy. But setting it up to make it obvious, user friendly, and easy to use was another matter.

I really didn't want to get into adding options until after Version 1.0 was released, but the separation of GEDCOM tags from "other stuff" is necessary right now.

I spent the last week trying out various ideas. What I ended up doing was calling the page: "Report" because all the settings on it relate to the Everything Report. Rather than custom building the page at this time, since I'm sure I'll be changing items as I go, I've used a treeview where you can select the options. The treeview has three parts:

  1. Contents - so you can select which sections of the Everything Report to include and what to name them.
  2. Extra Info - listing some extra information generated by Behold you may want to include, such as Generation number, or AutoOrg relevance.
  3. Text to Display - which lists some of the phrases used within the Everything Report, so you can change them if you want. Eventually all the phrases will be included. This will allow the Everything Report to be displayed in any language, and all I will need are volunteers to translate all the phrases (and also the Tag text). The idea is that I will make these available as Behold files for each language that will be downloadable from the Behold website.

I'll also be adding a needed Title and a Footer, both customizable, to the Everything Report.

So the hard part really was figuring out how to best set this up. I think it's good enough for the Version 1 release this way. A few more days and I should have this completed.




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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Fixing the bookmarks was slightly more complicated than I expected.

I had been using the generated ID, eg. FAM-43 as the bookmark. But I saw that was wrong, since those IDs are specific to the run, and reorganizing may lose them or they might point to incorrect places. So I changed this to use the ID from the GEDCOM instead. This way, the bookmarks can be remembered between runs, as long as the GEDCOMs don't change.

But I had to work through each type of bookmark (individual, family, source, place, etc.) one by one to get them working, so its taking time. I'm almost done though, and should be able to wrap this up and move on in a day or two.




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Sunday, October 7, 2007

I surprised myself. After a few more fixes in attempting to merge the display algorithms, I realized that my Friday arguments weren't beneficial enough to go through that right now. So I left the input improvements and backed out of my data structure changes. Now back towards getting done what's needed to get to beta.

On the Internet, the competition for family networking and build-your-trees online sites is getting crazy. New sites are popping up every day. Almost all are free and "secure" and have the goal of linking everyone in the world into one big tree.

So how do you pick between: AGES-online, Amiglia, AprilTree, Distributed Family Tree Project, FamiliaOnline, Famillion, FamilyInHistory, FamilyLink, Family Pursuit, FamilyRelatives, FamilyTrackers, Family Tree Drillet, FamilyTree (for Facebook), Family Tree Guide, Findmypast, Genealogia, Genebase, Genes Reunited, Geni, GNTP, JotSpot, LostCousins, My Great Big Family, MyTrees Online, OneFamilyTree, One Great Family, Online Family Tree, PedigreeSoft, SharedTree, TreeX, TribalPages, WeRelate and Zooof? Then there's the 3 more I just found out about and added today: Famiva, Genoom and Kincafe to my Online Genealogy Programs section of my Genealogy Software Links page. Have I missed any?

If there's money to be made in this, then someone will step in and start to buy a few out and the others will fold. Maybe the general public and younger audiences like social networking. But I'm not sure if true family genealogists really want what they're offering. Go back to my March 25, 2007 post for my previous thoughts on this.




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A Fun Little Test

I tried my GEDCOM fragment on several programs. This is what happened:

  • Legacy 6.0: First warned there's no HEAD section. Then that there's no TRLR. Then asked if it should try to load anyway. After it tried, nothing was loaded.
  • RootsMagic 3.2.4 trial version: No warning and it only loaded 1 person.
  • GenViewer 1.21: was able to read the individuals. Hooray for GenViewer! The trial version does not let you see families, so I don't know if it was able to link those correctly.
  • PAF 5.0: Opens a nice log file with 318 error messages, the last of which says that it can't find a HEAD record at the beginning of the file. But nothing gets loaded.
  • Family Tree Maker 2005: Tells you it doesn't recognize the format of the file, and stops there.
  • Family Tree Maker 2008: Tells you file is not correctly formatted, and stops there.
Interesting.




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Creating a Community

Slower than I hoped, but I am working through the WordPress/bbPress integration. This is very important to me, since I'll be melding the Behold Blog and the Behold User Forum together into what I hope will attract a "community" of Behold users and others who are interested in Behold. I'm trying to make it a nice and inviting environment in which everyone can discuss Behold and help me decide how best to progress into the future.

My main struggle over the last week was how WordPress handles registration, logins, user profiles and lost passwords. I was not pleased to see how unfriendly it was. So first I customized the forms to make them look like my new website. Then I added a login bar across the top of the Blog and Forum to encourage anyone interested to register. Then I changed the user fields so that there are only these: your UserID, your name, your e-mail address, your password, and two optional ones: your location and your website. Then I made it so that you can select your own password when you register, rather than WordPress' horrid idea of sending you one it creates. And of course, there will be single login for both the Blog and Forum. I had to learn a lot about cookies to get this working together. And my PHP programming skills are improving rapidly.

The other exciting tool is I found the mailing program for my newsletter. It is actually a plugin for WordPress from ShiftThis and I'm very impressed with it. It will allow me to generate multipart HTML/text messages instead of just plain HTML like I had before. And I think I've solved my ISP mailing problems as well. I've found the ISP Dewahost who is affiliated with Plimus that has a hosted SMTP service for sending no-spam bulk-mail. The server is designed only for mass mailings, and the cost is reasonable. I expect I'll be able to start my newsletters again soon after I get the new website up and working.

There's still a lot of work left to get everything working, but I'm getting through it.




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The Works of Horace, Bound

This posting outlines how I bound the (almost) complete works of Horace.

  • Keywords: book binding; librarianship;
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