Look around this site and you'll find lots of changing information including a Blog and a Forum. You'll also find a "what's new" page and a library listing that changes with our ever-increasing number of Open Source books.
What are they all for? Why do we have them all? Each has a different purpose!
The
Blog - known as "The Horse's Mouth" - gives me an opportunity to write on any and every subject just in case people are interested - almost like an interactive diary. With search technology leaping forward, a diary / daily note needs not be a boring document in which the occasional gem is so well hidden that it will never be found ... rather, the search technology can be used by the visitor to find the gem. Syndication and listing content on search engines can widen the potential readership (or should I say searchership? ) and turn personal ramblings into, potentially, a useful resource.
Our
Forum - "Opentalk" - provides help for the community of newcomers to Open Source programming to ask questions and discuss issues with others in a similar position, with some more advanced folks helping along and guiding. It's subject based (as opposed to a Blog, which is Author based) although once again the searchability of the Forum, site and Web make the resource far more valuable than a mere paper publication.
The "What's New" page is a quick update for our busy customers who visit our site to find out what we're doing and don't have the time or inclination to trawl and find out.
Links:
Horse's Mouth (Blog)
Opentalk (Forum)
What's new
Home Page (written 2004-08-07, updated 2011-12-17)
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
G905 - Well House Consultants - Blogging and Blog Administration [1] First Jottings - (2004-08-05)
[18] Wanted: More hours in the day - (2004-08-18)
[141] Too technical? - (2004-12-05)
[145] A comment on comments - (2004-12-09)
[177] Blogs come of age - (2005-01-14)
[185] Who am I? - (2005-01-21)
[204] The confidence to allow public comments - (2005-02-06)
[231] Feedback as lifeblood - (2005-02-28)
[245] I'm not blogging it - (2005-03-14)
[359] Chicken soup without the religion - (2005-06-26)
[390] Moderating wiki, blog, and forum contributions - (2005-07-26)
[405] Horse's Mouth is a year old - (2005-08-07)
[410] Reading a news or blog feed (RSS) in your PHP page - (2005-08-12)
[425] Caching an XML feed - (2005-08-26)
[508] Comment, please! - (2005-11-28)
[671] Both ends of the animal - (2006-04-05)
[876] Making pages clearer - easy Disability Discrimination Act Compliance - (2006-09-23)
[1000] One Thousand Posts and still going strong - (2006-12-18)
[1077] In answer to 'am I glad I started a blog' ... - (2007-02-12)
[1203] A Fresh horse - (2007-05-24)
[1978] From spam to mod_alias - finding resources - (2009-01-05)
[2000] 2000th article - Remember the background and basics - (2009-01-18)
[2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut - (2009-05-21)
[2449] Four aspects - Chamber, Transport, Courses and Hotel - (2009-10-11)
[2517] Blogging accuracy - open invitation for any corrections - (2009-11-29)
[2564] Microblogging services - Plurk, Twitter, Jaiku and more - (2010-01-05)
[2751] Going off at a tangent, for a ramble - (2010-05-04)
[2823] Where have all the bloggers gone? - (2010-06-24)
[3016] The legal considerations of your web presence - revisited - (2010-10-26)
[3163] Twitter - the special use of @ # and http: in tweets - (2011-02-09)
[3186] How to add a customised twitter feed to your site - (2011-02-27)
[3208] Links for social media, microblogs and business networking - (2011-03-20)
[3514] Microblogging - what I should have tweeted in the last 48 hours - (2011-11-10)
[3759] The five oldest blogs and the horses mouth - (2012-06-09)
[4000] 9 years, and 4000 articles on - (2013-02-09)
[4121] Has your Twitter feed stopped working? Switching to their new API - (2013-06-23)
[4292] The Horse is back! - (2014-09-15)
[4568] Moderation - and the tendency to over-moderate - (2015-11-02)
[4714] The technical article feed continues - personal updates more proactive on Facebook now! - (2016-10-30)
Some other Articles
What do you look for in your IT trainer?Study room - the Oxford trainHow much does fuel cost for an airline flight?Writing on a SundayBlog v ForumDriving in the UK for new arrivals from the USASeeing the wood for the trees.Looking for a donkeyDiary entry - 5th August 2004