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Internet
Office News
Once
again, a very busy and very important week for the Internet Office!
We start out with the release of our newest project, the IO Code
Archive at http://www.ehnet.org/ca/!
The IO Code Archive, coded by IOA Turtle, serves as a central
hub for EHers who wish to exchange useful coding tips. In an effort
to expand the Code Archive, I am offering something similar to
what I did with the EH Greeting Card Center: if, at the end of
two weeks, you have posted 5 code snippets, it will earn
you an ISM or equivalent. 10 snippets gets you a
PC or equivalent. And 20+ snippets will get you
a nice shiny BS or equivalent. If you post a lot more than
20, perhaps we can work out some sort of reward on a case-by-case
basis. The medals will be awarded at the end of two weeks in order
to give everyone a chance to post as much as they can.
Also,
in case you haven't noticed, I've added a new feature to the IO
report, the "Code Snippet of the Week" which will be
a code snippet picked from the IO Code Archive with a short description
for those reading the report. The full code can be found at the
IO Code Archive.
Now,
one of the largest endeavors of the Internet Office has finally
been released as of today! Ladies and gentlemen, it is my extreme
pleasure to present to you My EHNet or also known as MyDot
at http://my.ehnet.org! MyDot
is a project that is completely coded by our very own IOA Alex
Foley. Alex has been working on MyDot for about a month now,
and his work and effort put into it matches the quality of the
final result! My EHNet allows you to customize your very
own EH start page with news and information from all over - TC
news, BHG news, random IRC quotes, World News, Sports news, Internet
news and LOTS, LOTS MORE! There are over 30 blocks to choose
from and 8 different themes for the site so that you can
view the site to YOUR preferences. That's not all! My EHNet comes
with a fully functional EH search engine! Currently, there
aren't as many links as we'd like, but we hope that EVERYONE will
submit a link to
their own personal EH webpages. The more sites we get, the better
the search engine works! Also, CA:IO Mutilator is working on a
full-indexing search engine which will not only search the sites
in the database, but it will search the actual pages of each site,
such as Yahoo or AltaVista. For his hard work on a simply superb
site both in appearance and coding, I am awarding IOA Alex Foley
a Gold Star! What I really hope is that many EHers actually do
take advantage of My EHNet and set it as their homepages, and
tell your friends about it too! I know I definitely will!
Speaking
of medals, I have awarded IOA Bevel Leeson a Commendation of Excellence
(CoE)! This is LONG overdue for Leeson. He's coded a major EH
subgroup site, the CD site, which itself alone is grounds for
a CoE. But not only that, he's coded the CD iBank and Stock Exchange,
he's done the ASF site, a Hawkeye I site, and the new ISD Vanguard
site. All in all, he's certainly deserving of a CoE which I should've
given him long ago. Congrats, Lee!
The
newest IWATS Internet programming course, JavaScript, has been
released! Written by Alex Foley, you can find it at http://javascript.minos.net.
It's a very nice introduction to JavaScript as a client-side scripting
language. I'd also like to remind people about the PHP IWATS course,
written by Mutilator, at http://php.minos.net!
They're both very good courses for the beginner, intermediate
and even advanced web programmer!
MinosNIC
users who use PHP's mail() function to send out e-mails from their
web site are advised to be sure they are sending the correct headers
to direct bounce messages back to their account. A From: header
is not enough... a Return-Path header (typically with the same
address) must also be specified. For example:
mail("recipient@someserver.com","My
email","This is the message","From: minosuser@someisp.com\nReturn-Path:
minosuser@someisp.com");
Without
these additional headers, bounce messages will be directed to
the system postmaster instead.
Emperor's
Hammer: Site of the Week
This
week's SOTW is My EHNet at http://my.ehnet.org,
fantastically coded by Alex Foley (alexfoley@dombek.com).
My EHNet earns 5 stars, simply for the reasons stated above
:P
Internet
Office Links
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Internet
Office Poll
What
do you think of the Code Archive & Code Snippet of the Week?
- It
r0xx0rs
- It's
very helpful to me
- It's
a novel idea, but I don't program
- I
can do without it
- It
is the bane of my very existence
VOTE
FOR YOUR CHOICE
at http://www.ehnet.org!
Code
Snippet of the Week
XML
Parsing with PHP
Written
by Ari - the ultimate solution for parsing XML with PHP parsing
functions. Very useful for syndicating news or rosters into
your page.
You
can find the full code for this snippet, along with many others,
at the IO
Code Archive!
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