PCHeintz72's Filtered Multi-Format List Update-03/22/09
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PCHeintz72's Filtered Multi-Format List Update-03/22/09







Spokavriel wrote: Thought you could use the heads up. Trisis no longer has any story other than Mercury 2.0 on Media Miner. I have no idea why and I really miss the original version of one half a wing and a prayer. But I don't know how to get into contact to ask why. The chapters for all the stories are now on a Fanfiction.net page. At least the Clean Version of OHaW&aP and the rest.

Spokavriel wrote: Thought you could use the heads up. Trisis no longer has any story other than Mercury 2.0 on Media Miner. I have no idea why and I really miss the original version of one half a wing and a prayer. But I don't know how to get into contact to ask why. The chapters for all the stories are now on a Fanfiction.net page. At least the Clean Version of OHaW&aP and the rest.

PCHeintz72 wrote:I'm currently relearning VB (knew 6 previously, learning .NET), and starting ASP.NET. Both by books. I may well use the knowledge when done to code a site from scratch. Found a potential host site, and figured I might be able to code both interactive search of the created database (not a live web search) and download. Both using ASP. Though I've already determined I dislike the performance of the CSV from a coding standpoint, I'll need to convert them to Access or Foxpro or some such first.

Xon wrote:The direct link to One-Half a Wing and a Prayer works.
For example;
- this link only shows only Mercury 2.0.
- this xml feed shows "Polarity", "Mercury 2.0", "One-Half a Wing and a Prayer".
- this author link reachable via the 1st link, but not the story is the actual author profile page.
MediaMiner has horrible navigation.
MediaMiner has always used their internal link system inconsistently. Causing far more confusion than is needed. I had to research this on my own quite a bit some time back to figure it out.
First, I never use chapter links to link a story, even if it is to announce a new chapter, they are completely inconsistent, I use the much better designed story links. You can tell the difference in that chapter ones have multiple numbers in the link and have 'view_ch.php' in them. Story ones have one number and have 'view_st.php'. Note the best way to use them is with the final slash, as other wise Media Miner has a tendancy to convert the link to a chapter view whether you like it or not.
I never use search pages to display author stories, instead I go to author Member Profile Pages. That shows them all. One has to be careful how to get the correct link for an author page due to the inconsistencies though.
You cannot click on an author name in a direct chapter link, as that instead brings the near useless author story search page. Oddly, clicking an author name in a catagory view does jump you to a Member Profile Page. In any case, author pages are consistently formatted, all that is needed is the below, but replace XXXXXX with the userid number:
- http://www.mediaminer.org/user_info.php/XXXXXX/
The XXXXXX userid number is the same number that appears in the status bar at the bottom of the screen upon putting the mouse over the Author Name in either a catagory view or a chapter view. It will show in this case as:
- http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/src.php/u/124442
Thus the correct author Member Profile Page would be:
- http://www.mediaminer.org/user_info.php/124442/
Note that unlike story links, an author link can work both with and without the final slash without MediaMiner auto-conversion. However, I include it in mine for internal consistency.

I perfer C# and SQL server over VB/Access


PCHeintz72 wrote:2b. My system supports dumping to CSV files, these are useful to spreadsheets like Excel, and databases like Access/FoxPro. However. ASP.NET, and VB.NET do not treat CSV as a usable database, and I've found examples on-line that can get around it, the getting around part is annoyingly inefficient code wise. Better to convert the CSV to a database format. Since most examples in the books I've got use Access, and I have Microsoft Office, Access it is likely to be.

Sky wrote:PCHeintz72 wrote:2b. My system supports dumping to CSV files, these are useful to spreadsheets like Excel, and databases like Access/FoxPro. However. ASP.NET, and VB.NET do not treat CSV as a usable database, and I've found examples on-line that can get around it, the getting around part is annoyingly inefficient code wise. Better to convert the CSV to a database format. Since most examples in the books I've got use Access, and I have Microsoft Office, Access it is likely to be.
Just as a Devil's Advocate thing...
It seems you do development on Windows, which means you're not likely to consider MySQL or PostgreSQL. Is SQLite not an option? It appears to embed pretty much directly into a project.

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