Experts Round Table Newsletter #1 - 5/17/2006
This is the first edition of ERT's periodic newsletter. The goal is to offer a summary of the site activity, hot topics and general information. To provide feedback go here. If you are an ERT Mentor, please make sure you visit the feedback page.
ERT's forum moves to a new domain
The forum is now hosted at www.expertsrt.net. For more information you can read the lengthy discussion. In general terms the change was brought upon in the interest of improving the ERT experience. The result is a more flexible forum with more room to test new technologies and ideas.
Council Elections
Nominations for a 5-person interim Governing Council for all branches of ERT will be accepted in the upcoming days. If you would like to run or would like to nominate another member, please PM Huntress. Any member is eligible to run.
Mentor Journals
We are exchanging ideas on how to implement a section for journals (blog style), or a Wiki (or anything else that comes up). The concept is based on the original ERT idea of using the content of the knowledge-exchange forum to produce high quality articles for the world - possibly editable articles. Visit.
Blue Security
If you are not familiar with the Blue Frog you need to do some catch-up. Blue Security is attempting to rid the world of spam, 400k users at a time, by playing hardball with spammers. There is a related thread discussing security here.
ASP.NET vs PHP
This arguably-PHP-biased discussion has been going on for a while. Right now it is focusing on switching your OS to Linux, but feel free to highjack it towards any other theme.
Returning focus to textbox on error does not work in Gecko
An unexpected Javascript problem with a pretty peculiar solution, assign the field to a variable and request the focus using a Timeout. Visit.
Playing the Google SEO game
Interesting discussion about the big search engines, directories, and things that work. On a similar note, there is another thread discussing keywords in URLs.
The future of C Language
Will C survive in a new age where everything seems to be about cool acronyms (IDE, RAD)? Sure it was the Holy Grail 25 years ago, but in a world of speed programming and dense libraries, who is still using C?
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