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Sherman Pendley

Blinky the Shark said:
And the ever popular...

Come on and zoom zoom zoom-a zoom.

You guys are making me homesick for Boston. I had the privilege of working
as lead developer for two seasons of the 90s Zoom's web site. Remember
"send it to Zoom"? CamelBones was intended to replace the FileMaker and
MacPerl scripts that were used to manage the thousands of submissions a
week, and beat them into static HTML pages for publication on the web site.

Sadly, by the time I got enough round tuits to actually write CamelBones,
I had already moved on and no longer worked at WGBH. I still give 'em
credit for inspiring the project though.

I'd really like to move back up there. Anyone need a programmer for kid-
related project in Boston? Web, desktop apps, games, Mac, Windows, whatever
it takes to teach the little ones is good by me.

sherm--
 
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Ed Mullen

Sherman said:
You guys are making me homesick for Boston. I had the privilege of working
as lead developer for two seasons of the 90s Zoom's web site. Remember
"send it to Zoom"? CamelBones was intended to replace the FileMaker and
MacPerl scripts that were used to manage the thousands of submissions a
week, and beat them into static HTML pages for publication on the web site.

Sadly, by the time I got enough round tuits to actually write CamelBones,
I had already moved on and no longer worked at WGBH. I still give 'em
credit for inspiring the project though.

WGBH deserves a lifetime of kudos. For a time WGBH WAS PBS. they
produced the vast majority of network content back then. Yes, kudos to
WGBH for anything they did, even the questionable. If not for them
there might not be any Public Broadcasting today.

--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net
http://mozilla.edmullen.net
http://abington.edmullen.net
If it ain't broke fix it anyway! If it's broke fix it and make it worse!
 
D

dorayme

Ed Mullen said:
Thank you! I do love remembering. But I am cognizant of how boring it
may be for those outside of the experience.

A true bore is one not so cognisant (like me, I never stop to
consider. I will go to any lengths to make someone listen. I have
handcuffs and other equipment to help sometimes)

On the other hand, I love
hearing myself talk.

That's funny, I have a totally intuitive understanding of what
you mean here...
 
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Blinky the Shark

Ed said:
Yes, I was having a great time back then. Poor. But having fun!
Sports remotes freelancing for ABC and independents. Hanging out the
door of a remote truck wearing three headsets and a telephone and
yelling at AT&T Network Ops, the two Bell NY guys lying under the truck,
being yelled at by the producer when we were 20 minutes to air time for
the Army Notre Dame game and we lost the feed to the network. And
watching Paul Hornung in the booth upstairs over the monitors slamming
down vodkas. Oh, and it was the weekend that the Watergate scandal
broke and people started resigning from the Nixon admin. And the
production company didn't guarantee our hotel reservations so we had no
place to sleep. Yep, we were having just a fabulous time that weekend!
But, now that I think about it, it was fun! :)

Those were the days -- because we were young and bulletproof and excited
by the things we were part of. Two other highs for me were moving to
Hollywood, and a few years later doing the Olympics.
BTW, oddly enough, I drove a cab for a living for about a year back
then. One of the strangest things I've ever done. I felt like an
unlicensed psychotherapist or a bartender, never sure which. People
just started talking and told me all sorts of things about themselves.
Geez. And this was before the phrase "Too Much Information!" became
popular.

But "too much alcohol" was, as always, popular. :)
 
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Blinky the Shark

Sherman said:
You guys are making me homesick for Boston. I had the privilege of
working as lead developer for two seasons of the 90s Zoom's web site.
Remember

Nineties? Web site?

You kids! ;) :)
"send it to Zoom"? CamelBones was intended to replace the FileMaker
and MacPerl scripts that were used to manage the thousands of
submissions a week, and beat them into static HTML pages for
publication on the web site.

Sadly, by the time I got enough round tuits to actually write
CamelBones, I had already moved on and no longer worked at WGBH. I
still give 'em credit for inspiring the project though.

You don't know how many of us doing PBS out in the flyover zone envied
you guys at WGBH and KQED and WNET such. :)
 
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Blinky the Shark

Ed said:
WGBH deserves a lifetime of kudos. For a time WGBH WAS PBS. they
produced the vast majority of network content back then. Yes, kudos to
WGBH for anything they did, even the questionable. If not for them
there might not be any Public Broadcasting today.

Fershure!
 
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SpaceGirl

Been told that more than a year ago. Also your proficient in flash, a
similar progressive loading of sections could be done in flash, right?

I'd probably be more tempted to do it in Flash, yes. The site is quite
a neat idea, and Flash would really lend itself to something that
visual. It would be heck of a lot easier to build, and as you say,
progressive loading would be a walk in the park.
 
J

Jonathan N. Little

SpaceGirl said:
I'd probably be more tempted to do it in Flash, yes. The site is quite
a neat idea, and Flash would really lend itself to something that
visual. It would be heck of a lot easier to build, and as you say,
progressive loading would be a walk in the park.

Don't worry though the OP would never consider such a rational idea. It
does not 'fit' within his preconceived deployment, flawed as it may be!
 
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Good Man

Hello, we understand you guys may be able to help.

We have a page which has been working great for over a year and gets
many hits. However recently something got changed that we cannot seem
to find, and now *sometimes* if you refresh the page (generally while
it is still loading) in IE7, we get the popup window error:

Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site...
Operation aborted

Here is an example of the page in question:
http://tinyurl.com/35mwxr [broadband recommended]

We appreciate you may have other comments on the site such as the size
of the pages, however we are not looking to change that at present,
with faster broadband becoming more abundant. Search engine listings
alert the user that broadband is recommended for this technology.

As we said, the site worked great, but for this unknown reason now
needs some sort of a tweak to fix. The changes we made before it
happened were related to the body tag but they have been completely
undone yet the issue remains :-S

Thanks in advance to anyone able to find the cure for us to test.

Regards,
Mika @ SHS.com

Thanks for causing my Firefox to crash.
 
M

Mika

Good Man said:
Hello, we understand you guys may be able to help.

We have a page which has been working great for over a year and gets
many hits. However recently something got changed that we cannot seem
to find, and now *sometimes* if you refresh the page (generally while
it is still loading) in IE7, we get the popup window error:

Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site...
Operation aborted

Here is an example of the page in question:
http://tinyurl.com/35mwxr [broadband recommended]

We appreciate you may have other comments on the site such as the size
of the pages, however we are not looking to change that at present,
with faster broadband becoming more abundant. Search engine listings
alert the user that broadband is recommended for this technology.

As we said, the site worked great, but for this unknown reason now
needs some sort of a tweak to fix. The changes we made before it
happened were related to the body tag but they have been completely
undone yet the issue remains :-S

Thanks in advance to anyone able to find the cure for us to test.

Regards,
Mika @ SHS.com

Thanks for causing my Firefox to crash.

You're welcome.

If you are capable of giving any more constructive comment than that which
gives us a shred of a clue of the circumstances, that might actually be
considered useful.
 

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