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Let me introduce myself
Hello, I'm sending this note primarily as an introduction, as I expect to using Links SQL in some capacity or another for a while now.

Over 5 years ago I started a resource site for people working to get public skateparks. The site is currently housed at:
http://www.summersault.com/legalskate/
and up until now has been maintained as static HTML. However, the project has been growing quickly lately and moving to a SQL-based solution made sense to me. Links SQL seemed like a logical place to start for what I wanted.
The new site is slated to launch ASAP rebranded as skatepark.org with a design sort of like this:
http://www.skazat.com/skate/jindex.html

I'm a professional web developer for my day job, and I do a lot progamming with Perl and Postgres, and had actually was well into a Links SQL-like project when I found this software that was further along in maturity that my own code.

My primary interest with Links SQL at the moment is to get the software running on top of Postgres, which make sense for me because I use it for every other project I've done, and I'd prefer to maintain one system and with one syntax. Smile My longer term interest with the project is to add extensions (free, when there are not licensing conflicts) to use the data model for a web-based and database-backed community system. I have in mind the same sort of thing that Arsdigita has already done with the "Arsdigita Community System" using tcl, AOLServer and Oracle.
An Example of this system in use is at:
http://www.photo.net/photo/
A developer-oriented version of this software is available to play with and read about here:
http://acs.arsdigita.com
http://acs.arsdigita.com/doc/

Although I can see I still got a ways to go just getting Links SQL to work on Postgres, the next direction I'm interested in working on in integrating a SQL-based discussion board into the project as well as a comment system. An example of the ACS bboard system is here: http://www.photo.net/bboard/ , while their comment system is used on most every static page on the site.

I'll try to answer questions about Postgres if anyone has them, and I'm sure I'll have my own questions about other aspects of Links SQL, as I already have. Smile

I've also found that the photo.nets web/db forum has been responsive for answering questions in this area. The userbase there is centered around the tcl,aolserver,Oracle paradigm, but many seem to have experience with other databases and languages. That's at:
http://www.photo.net/...a.tcl?topic=web%2fdb

-mark

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http://mark.stosberg.com/