Chat software is all the rage on the Internet.
Is it time to add some real-time interactivity to your site or are you
a chat user and want to learn about your options?
Do you need a real-time communication forum for your users? With the
number of chat software packages available today,
how do you decide which one to use?
Read this overview of chat software capabilities, complete with an
administrator check list of software features.
Communication between users over the Internet can also include
fax and phone exchanges. Several programs exist to interface
between email and fax printers and to enable internet phone.
Calendars are an easily understood way of presenting schedules on
the web. There are several ways to create a calendar, depending on
your needs and resources.
A community can be created with an Email distribution list. There are
several ways to keep your audience in toch with what you are doing and
with each other.
The Common Gateway Interface.
Gateways are programs which handle information requests and return the
appropriate document or generate a document on the fly. Your server can
serve information which is not in a form readable by the client (e.g. an
SQL database), and act as a mediator between the two to
produce something which clients can use.
A very popular CGI language.
This software is provided freely on the understanding that the Author
will not be held responsible for
any problems arising from it's use, and that there is no support except
by agreement on a fee for
services. I wrote it for my own use, and you may well have to hack it
to suit your own needs. If you
make any general improvements please feed back the new code, I will
credit you in the source.
Java (tm) is a simple, robust, dynamic, multi-threaded, general-purpose,
object-oriented, platform-independent programming environment, created
and developed by Sun Microsystems.
