[Coco] Re: chatrooms

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

	I am only starting to learn to do primitive web stuff.
Please keep that in mind as I ask a question. Is there any way
to refresh only the discussion area and not the whole page?

					kevin

Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 06:22 PM 8/11/2004, you wrote:
> 
>> > Hello Roger
>>
>> > I just want to express my appreciation of yours and others efforts 
>> on behalf
>> > of the CoCo community. I saw a couple blurbs from you expressing a 
>> certian
>> > amount of frustration at the apparent lack of interest in your efforts.
>> > When I finally get ahead of my students I'll have a little more time to
>> > fully explore your chat room. Right now I'm scrambling to stay one step
>> > ahead of them 8-). I was tapped to teach a MS Word class one week 
>> before
>> > the class started and MS Word is not my native tougue ;-). Sooo 
>> instead of
>> > enjoying the friendly company of CoCoNuts, I'm busily studying what 
>> I have
>> > to teach the next day. <sigh>
> 
> 
> No frustration here.  I'm having a field day developing this stuff.  The 
> chats on Tuesday night revealed to me what needed to be done next.  For 
> one, I put in a new session management system.  There's 3 ways that I 
> know of: cookies, IP addresses, or session ID sending/returning, and the 
> 3rd method is in use now.  This will help people with older and odd 
> browsers.  I am also working on adding low-level file locking instead of 
> the higher-level method being used.  The advisory file locking functions 
> of Linux are there but HLA is not set up yet to use these functions 
> as-is, so I am consulting with the author on this issue.
> 
> Tonight after a few rebuilds the systems seems to be working okay.
> 
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> Roger Taylor
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