Comments on: LDAP Ate my Brainz http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/02/19/ldap-ate-my-brainz/ No Node Left Behind Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:39:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: oubiwann http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/02/19/ldap-ate-my-brainz/comment-page-1/#comment-350 oubiwann Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:31:01 +0000 http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/02/19/ldap-ate-my-brainz/#comment-350 Coté, I honestly hadn't ever thought about Mailman being a pain... only the really, really crappy forums software. Not only is pretty much all forum software badly written and krufty, it's also based on old, worn-out concepts. There are much smarter ways of writing software, but most developers are still stuck in the 80s and 90s. I don't even want to think about the places the average PHP coders are stuck... Now that you mention it, and from this perspective, I have to concede your point. Mailman was written in the mid-90s (if I'm not mistaken); though written in python with code that is stable, easy to read, and in general high-quality, the application architecture is out of date. We are starting to see very intelligent user- *and* developer-friendly methodologies for writing and deploying web services, applications, etc. There's no reason we can't re-examine our old stand-bys and give them new life, or better descendants. Coté, I honestly hadn’t ever thought about Mailman being a pain… only the really, really crappy forums software. Not only is pretty much all forum software badly written and krufty, it’s also based on old, worn-out concepts. There are much smarter ways of writing software, but most developers are still stuck in the 80s and 90s. I don’t even want to think about the places the average PHP coders are stuck…

Now that you mention it, and from this perspective, I have to concede your point.
Mailman was written in the mid-90s (if I’m not mistaken); though written in python with code that is stable, easy to read, and in general high-quality, the application architecture is out of date. We are starting to see very intelligent user- *and* developer-friendly methodologies for writing and deploying web services, applications, etc. There’s no reason we can’t re-examine our old stand-bys and give them new life, or better descendants.

]]> By: Cote' http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/02/19/ldap-ate-my-brainz/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Cote' Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:32:04 +0000 http://blog.zenoss.com/2007/02/19/ldap-ate-my-brainz/#comment-333 To the original problem, I really hate how hard it is (or was last I checked) to setup a "simple" mailman instance. I wish there was a nice, self contained application that you could just assign an email account to and it'd archive the messages in clean web page format. That way there's no "server" to setup, and you just need to add a new "member" to any mailing list to start archiving it. To the original problem, I really hate how hard it is (or was last I checked) to setup a “simple” mailman instance. I wish there was a nice, self contained application that you could just assign an email account to and it’d archive the messages in clean web page format. That way there’s no “server” to setup, and you just need to add a new “member” to any mailing list to start archiving it.

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