By Jon Griffin

I am going to discuss what I see as a major problem with OACS and its infrastructure. Take it for what it is; an insider look at the future for OACS as told by outsiders.

How did this report come about? Well, some of my OACS sites were actually ACS sites and have been upgraded since 1999, before OACS was even a reality. I therefore have not just history, but a vested interest in OACS.

By Jon Griffin

I used wordpress for a while, and since I despise mysql and don’t really like a patchy server, I quit using it. There were however many things that could be learned from it.

One of the beauties of OpenACS is that it is extremely flexible. One of the big disadvantages it that it is not on the “cutting edge” of net technology.

Thoughts on xowiki version .46

I have to say that with the advent of xowikiin openacs, I regained my love for using the OpenACS framework. This has to be one of the greatest additions to the wiki scene and should be the “killer” app for people thinking of using OpenACS.
xowiki doesn’t attempt to be a clone of the other wiki’s out there, but instead tries to harbor the great features of OpenACS as well as make it simple for anyone to add content to a site. It’s evolution isn’t really related to the earlier veneers on top of the content repository, but it certainly has superceded them on all levels.

By Jon Griffin
I have added my documents related to ArsDigita, OpenACS and ACS (ArsDigita Community System). They are relevant for anyone wanting to understand OpenACS, it’s history and why some design decisions were made. There are also some pearls of database programming (specifically Oracle) in these documents.

Originally ACS was only meant to run on Oracle and AOLserver (formerly naviserver). When ACS changed to it’s new version (4.0) back in 2000 (if I remember correctly), they added a hook for multiple database backends. Originally this was for the ACS/pg (later OpenACS) project.

By Jon Griffin

Sample

Sample -disabled for now and forever. This is DEPRECATED.

Actual Code

Thanks to Brad Duell who figured all this out and fixed many bugs.

Several procs were modified and added to paginator procs. You can download the patch file at OpenACS – Misc Patches