Manic Depression Website

This website crawls the web, taking content from sites, referencing the original site, and allowing Google to crawl it:

Manic Depression Guide

Great way to get traffic!

That is a good idea. I have wanted to build a bot for some time now. I may do something like that to get traffic to my site.

Random Thoughts

The Random Thoughts project is going quite well. Users are enjoying the site and entering some very interesting posts. The posts are typically very simplistic, but they are interesting and some of the content is very unique. Most other blogs are from more serious people, but the Random Thoughts website gets content from just about anybody. The thoughts of almost all type of people are published to the world. It allows people to share culture and beliefs.

Wikipedia User Page - Adam Cox

Wikipedia - User Generated Encyclopedia Website

Wikipedia is a website with a large encyclopedia built by the visitors to the website. It is "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit."

Wikipedia is built on the Mediawiki free and open-source platform. You can help support this platform by helping to build the platform by fixing and adding the content. You can also support this project by making donations at Wikimedia Foundation.

As a repeated visitor to this site, I have found the content very educational. As a software engineer, I feel that the site lacks code samples. The few samples up there, are very short. But, the site is an encyclopedia and not meant for code samples.

I have contributed several edits to this site and you can find these edits by visiting Adam Cox's Wikipedia User Page. I have not yet added any articles, but I have edited existing articles. Hopefully, by the time you are reading this, I will have contributed some useful articles.

Drupal 5.8-dev CMS

Drupaul is a CMS (Content Management System) that is very powerful and easy to use. It can save a lot of time with all the core system and third-party modules. A large Web 2.0 website can be built fairly quickly with Drupal. Some of the cons are that it is a large platform and can be slow if not used properly. Any custom PHP, MySQL, third-party modules/themes can easily turn into an issue for the entire system. The environment for developing modules allows easy and deep integration of the system, but can limit your reach. The system is easy to set-up and build a basic website and it allows much more advanced development. It is overall a great free and open-source system!