Re: [NOVICE] jobs mailling list: pgsql-jobs@postgresql.org

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:21:09PM +1000, Rudi Starcevic wrote:
> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 15:21:09 +1000
> From: Rudi Starcevic <rudi@oasis.net.au>
> To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [NOVICE] jobs mailling list: pgsql-jobs@postgresql.org
>
> OK ..
> So far we have
>
> a) a jobs email list
> b) simple xml powered site
> c) project eros
> d) Shridar's OAS
> e) combination(s) of the above.

hmm.. xml is pretty easy.. didn't think of that when I wrote the previous
mail.. I have some experience in this area (at least generating an xml
document from my 'news' section for zoidtechnologies.com) so it isn't too
much to ask for.. all I need is the 'content' you guys want provided. if we
use RSS (which is an XML document), there's a few fields we need to fill in,
like a description of the site and such, and then we have essentially a list
of the jobs. you can define a headline and then a url, even an image and
some summary text.. it's quite flexible, and most of the fields are
optional.

so, I vote for a combination of the above: a+b+c (but not d, because it's
C++, and I like php :)).. so that is what I propose..

of course, since it's all in a database anyway, there's nothing saying we
can't use both option C and option D, it's just that it is double the work.
since option C is php, and we are already using php on various websites, it
will be less to install. all I need from the sysadmin is to get PEAR
(http://pear.php.net/) and Smarty (http://smarty.php.net/) installed.. you
already have pg installed and configured.

regards,
J
--
|| Jeff - http://zoidtechnologies.com/
|| GNUPG Fingerprint: A607 0F19 7C75 1305 67E4  BDFF 26BD 606E 3517 2A42