Re: [spoon-discuss] Database?

[bd <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Sunday 16 March 2003 10:59 pm, Daniel Lepage wrote:
> Ah, I remember what I wanted to ask before I left... I was thinking
> about how Stats would fit into this program I'm writing, and it
> occurred to me that while the program will need to know what players'
> statistics are if it is to be able to determine when a player has moved
> as much as they can, is carrying too much, etc., it would be a real
> pain in the ass to implement things like this "slow spell" Orc mentions
> on the stats page, and it would be especially dumb if Orc were tracking
> it all anyway... given time, I imagine I could teach my program how to
> load Orc's website and figure out the info from there, but that would
> be ugly, inefficient, and would require me to rewrite it every time Orc
> changed the style of the site.
>
> What would make things easier, and what would probably simplify other
> ministries run by programmers, would be if some sort of database were
> set up to store such things, so Orc could make changes and I could
> simply call stuff up from the db...
>
> If other player attributes such as score and BNS were added as well,
> any ministry could easily lookup anything about anyone. We could fairly
> easily have a site that would give anyone all of the information about
> someone, instead of forcing people to go to one site to get stats, one
> site for Force, one site for score and inventory besides gnomes, one
> for gnomes, etc.
>
> Does this seem like a good, beneficial, and feasible idea, or am I just
> running at the mouth?
>
> Given that I'm probably not going to check my bnomic email in the near
> future, and so probably won't see the answer to the above question, why
> am I asking questions in the forum?

So... we're looking into a standard nomic data-exchange thingy? Why not set up 
an XML-RPC thingy for data access? Or just an XML data dump, but a more 
complicated thingy could query it instead of dumping everything.

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bd
Somewhere in DOWNTOWN BURBANK a prostitute is OVERCOOKING a LAMB CHOP!!
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