Date index for Aug 2002

I began playing with Achievo "stable" and decided to go for the gusto 
and replaced it with 0.9.0, running on RedHat 7.3, etc.

No problems and what a neat concept.  I was able to take Ivo's "Part 1-
Developing Achievo Extensions" and within minutes have demonstrated 
that it CAN be extended, just so long as your typing in the code Ivo 
suggests is accurate.

I did get a little confused about whether the "class.newmodule.inc" 
goes in the root directory or inside the "node folder".  Turns out, it 
only seems to work if the class.*.inc is in the node folder.

Also, the suggestion that the "extensions designation" in the 
baseline "config.inc.php" needs a "trailing slash" does NOT seem to be 
required.

But overall, after considering Relata and OPT, I think I'm going to 
concentrate on Achievo as the "easiest to extend" of the leading 
general purpose interfaces.

So far, the only aspect I see that would increase my initial enthusiasm 
is if Achievo had a more easily interchanged database backend.  It 
works fine with MySQL, but I think I'm going to find places where it 
could be quickly integrated but the target organizations would want to 
run MSSql, Oracle or Postgres.

But that's NOT to say this is not useable "as is".
Thanks to all concerned with the baseline project and its continued 
development.

Dave Nuttall
Enterprise Knowledge Providers, LLC
San Antonio, TX