Why no 'MyJavaRanch' ?

[Raghav Sam]

just out of curiosity, why doesnt javaranch have separate member logins (something like MyJavaRanch ...)?
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Raghav.

[Cindy Glass]

To quote myself in an earlier post:
JavaRanch just licenses the UBB software, we do not maintain the underlying code and functionality.
We are just volunteers too, with REAL jobs elsewhere. None of us really has spare time to code forum software.

[Mark Herschberg]

Although given all these out of work, inexperienced programmers who say they want to do volunteer project work to gain experience, you'd think at leats some of them would volunteer to provide more functionality to the site. :-)
--Mark

[Raghav Sam]

Originally posted by Mark Herschberg:
Although given all these out of work, inexperienced programmers who say they want to do volunteer project work to gain experience, you'd think at leats some of them would volunteer to provide more functionality to the site. :-)
--Mark

nice suggestion Mark! anyways i was not suggesting we have a 'MyJavaRanch'. that question was just out of curiosity. in any case logins are irritating unless absolutely necessary.

[paul wheaton]

If there can be a bunch of free software to do that sort of thing, we could look into it ...

[Frank Carver]

I'm a little bit puzzled by what you mean by "MyJavaRanch". Adding "My" to a site name is presumably a way of implying some sort of site functionality, but it's not a term I'm familiar with - can you expand a bit on what you understand by this?

[Angela Poynton]

Personalisation .... my favourite topic right now.
Basically the ability to personalise your view of the site.
Like My Yahoo etc ....
I think we don't need it right now but it may be a possibility for the future.

[Raghav Sam]

Originally posted by Angela Poynton:
Personalisation .... my favourite topic right now.
Basically the ability to personalise your view of the site.
Like My Yahoo etc ....
I think we don't need it right now but it may be a possibility for the future.

yes, thats what i meant. for example 'MyBrainBench', where-in you have a member login which leads to a personalized page. probably this page could give details about the no of postings, postings done in the past day, week etc.


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Raghav.

[Frank Carver]

Oh right.
Personalization I'm familiar with! My (still pre-production, sadly) web portal system "wayne" uses mass-customization to aggregate a personal view of arbitrary web sites, rdf newsfeeds and web services. It could probably work as a wrapper round Java Ranch wth a bit of thought. When I get a trial version deployed, I'll see if I can do that as an excercise.

[Johannes de Jong]

Originally posted by Frank Carver:
When I get a trial version deployed.

Let me know if you need testers Frank.

[Zoe Peng]

How to start to do the personalization service?
what's the first step do I need?
I can't find any docs in java.sun.com..there are some, but, under the j2ee blueprint.(still don't know how to start)
I play with IBM webshpere studio, but, still don't know how to start..
any suggestion for newbie here? Thanks.

[Guy Allard]

Hello - After thinking a little about it, I do not think javaranch needs a myjavaranch.
The interface suits me as it is.
Regards, Guy