SOURCE: Emergent Success, Inc.

Sep 26, 2007 14:32 ET

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(Marketwire - September 26, 2007 ) - Emergent Success Inc. today announced the launch of ES-Extranet a proprietary web-based collaboration tool for use by their clients, partners and consultants. Since the email "inbox" was not designed as a collaborative work environment, this technological solution creates the open space where discussion, calendaring, asset sharing and other collaborative activities are easily practiced and navigated.

Emergent Success, Inc. is a collaborative consulting company that facilitates dialogues to assist clients in solving their real-time problems. Even though the preference is to do this work in vivo, the addition of the ES-Extranet will allow anyone involved in a current collaboration to participate in an asynchronous manner. The principals at Emergent Success believe that in the same way that there is enormous value in gathering people together for in-person dialogues, there is also significant value to "virtual" dialogues. Principal Kevin Buck explains "Experience has shown that to engage people with an online tool once you have engaged them in person maximizes any collective effort -- it is not an either/or, but a both/and."

With an eye to collaborative integrity, Emergent Success engaged with David Muro, designer, and Jules Gravinese, web developer, to co-create this new tool. Each brought the best of their knowledge and experience to bear as they developed the intuitive feel and ease of use of this online workspace. Since collaborations are an iterative process, we look forward to the ongoing learning for our company, consultants and clients.

About Emergent Success, Inc.

Emergent Success assists clients to solve their real-time issues by liberating the collective wisdom, talent and energy from within their organization for the emergence of strategic success. Its senior consultants facilitate collaborative dialogues that create systemic integration amongst the unintended silos present in most organizations. The Company is headquartered in Mountain View, CA with consultants located across the United States. www.emergentsuccess.com

I find that web development with MySQL to be so much more pleasurable than with MS SQL Server. Here is a great example to prove my point. In another post I showed how to pull off pagination with MS SQL and ColdFusion. Lots of SQL code. And it required running the query twice. Once to count the entire result set, and another time for the results to display.
This version however, is very slim. It makes use of MySQL's SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS, FOUND_ROWS(), and LIMIT.

SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS(): SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and FOUND_ROWS() can be useful in situations when you want to restrict the number of rows that a query returns, but also determine the number of rows in the full result set without running the query again. An example is a Web script that presents a paged display containing links to the pages that show other sections of a search result. Using FOUND_ROWS() allows you to determine how many other pages are needed for the rest of the result.

FOUND_ROWS(): A SELECT statement may include a LIMIT clause to restrict the number of rows the server returns to the client. In some cases, it is desirable to know how many rows the statement would have returned without the LIMIT, but without running the statement again. To obtain this row count, include a SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS option in the SELECTFOUND_ROWS() afterward.

LIMIT: The LIMIT clause can be used to constrain the number of rows returned by the SELECT statement. LIMIT takes one or two numeric arguments. With two arguments, the first argument specifies the offset of the first row to return, and the second specifies the maximum number of rows to return.

So let's go take a look at this beauty...

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Using ColdFusion I look for the referring web page that sent a viewer to my site. Then I split that traffic up into two categories: 1) Searches 2) Links. If a similar search term was seen before, I incriment it's weight. Same goes for domains of links. The result is a Referer cloud, very similar in look to a Tag Cloud:

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