1. dbml.dll is the ISAPI version,
more efficient than dbml.exe (the CGI ve
rsion) because it shares the Web server's address space.
2. Running on top of Cold Fusion,
a Web-to-ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) integration layer, version 1 of Forums handles basic text search. Version 2, Allaire says, will work with ODBC-compliant text indexers. See
http://www.allaire.com
for more information about Allaire products.
3. Forums uses local references from message titles
(above) to message bodies (below). This technique minimizes the number of pages users must request from the server--a single HTML page contains a whole thread. However, when the thread hierarchy is visible, messages aren't, and vice versa. It's a real challenge to build a rich and responsive user interface in vanilla HTML.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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