August 2001 - main

The ongoing best way to do a website debate
by Earl Brannigan 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

David, One word... ZOPE www.zope.org In a box, if you haven't got a functional site within an hour, and if you can't get a more site up and running in basic form within a day of reading the tutorial (included in installation) then your a donkey!!! Have now donned asbestos clothing and await.... Regards Earl

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re: Abstraction
by Alexis Lee 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

What I understand you want is a way to generate pages with a customisable sidebar and main page on your home computer, which can then be uploaded to a static webspace. You certainly don't need a database for this ($0.02: pg). You don't need to learn a 'web language' such as PHP for it; since you're going to be throwing text into files, C could do it. But web languages weren't designed by fools. You can build PHP as a CGI executable (which can then be used just like any UNIX CLI app), pipe your source through that, and upload the result. Alternatively, you could set up Apache/PHP on your home machine hosting the pages. Use wget to grab each page into export/, rename all to end in .html (for X in `ls export'; do mv $X ${X%.php}.html; done), then upload to your space. AFA designing your source goes, I'd suggest something like this: html.php: <? function htmlopen() { // html, head and body tags; set up for the sidebar content } function htmlsplit() { // close sidebar, open main page } function htmlclose() { // footer, close main page, close html } ?> mainpage.php: <? include_once('html.php'); htmlopen(); // sidebar content htmlsplit(); // main page content htmlclose(); ?> That looks fairly simple to me, and it shouldn't be too hard to add extra sections to the layout later on. I learnt PHP from the reference manual, and I knew enough to write that after day one. Alexis -- "Don't say don't quote me, because if no one quotes you, you probably haven't said a thing worth saying" - KMFDM, Dogma "Imagine a world without hypothetical situations" - Bram Moolenaar `man` first, ask questions later.

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Re: [Alug] Abstraction
by David Freeman 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 22:16:51 +0100 Richard George wrote: > On Sunday 05 August 2001 9:41 pm, David wrote: > > OK, so my web of mail seams to have been distorted into a holy war > before > > I got a good answer. > > > > So this still leaves me with how can I seperate content from formatting > > such as to give an elegant and simple solution which doesn't need a week > > to code, two high level languages, a relation database and an > excerise in > > normalisation. > > You have my answer, reasons, and example. I apologise if it wasn't "good". > If you want any more info, let me know - I'm no expert, but I know > what works > for me. yes you suggested I use a language which mixes content with formatting, requires two new services be installed on the server and something which took 7 months to code, I want something I can knock up in an evening and then just add content to easily. I also want something which can have the format changed easily perhaps with the editing of one file. > Yes, the example took 7 months to code, uses DBs, CSS and js as well > as PHP, > but these are all optional. In between all that, it lets me modify > the site > from a small number of files - which I think pretty much serves your > purpose. > > Rereading your initial mail, it suggests that you want to reformat > prior to > upload; I can't say I have any brilliant suggestions on how to do > that, as I > think the more normal method would be server-side modification or CSS. Yup, I can't guarentee that I will have PHP and mysql on every server I ever use so it gives me compatablity issues, I want simple HTML, no more no less with CSS and a nice easy way to add to it. Thanks D > Richard > -- > Technical Webmaster, http://www.cyclists.org.uk/ > > > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 06 Aug '01

06 Aug '01

This is the automated ALUG irc meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an irc meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.openprojects.net in the #alug channel, you can take a look at www.openprojects.net to get more info on the openprojects network. Popular irc clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and ircII on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.bitchx.com http://www.xchat.org http://freshmeat.net http://www.epicsol.org/ (for Brett!) Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Abstraction
by David Freeman 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

OK, so my web of mail seams to have been distorted into a holy war before I got a good answer. So this still leaves me with how can I seperate content from formatting such as to give an elegant and simple solution which doesn't need a week to code, two high level languages, a relation database and an excerise in normalisation. Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds

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Profanity
by David Freeman 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

"the only language all progammers understand is profanity" Has anyone Ever heard of the programming language, "Universe"? Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds

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Re: [Alug] IRC Nick names
by David Freeman 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

On 05 Aug 2001 13:39:24 +0100 MJ Ray wrote: > David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > > > I would just like to remind members that it is incredibly rude to take > > the Nick of another Member. I cannot emphasis enough how offensive this > > and if it is done again action will be taken. > > Nicknames are not owned, although nickserv thinks differently to me on > that one and will win in a fair fight. This is true, how ever Taking a nick for the purpose of impersonating someone is rude. Especially as the only thing which has ever been able to impersonate my writing style accuratly and fool people was a perl script written by James McGowan at BT (not sure where he works now) Thanks D > _______________________________________________ > alug, the Anglian Linux User Group list > Send list replies to alug(a)stu.uea.ac.uk > http://www.anglian.lug.org.uk/ http://rabbit.stu.uea.ac.uk/cgi-bin/listinfo/alug > See the website for instructions on digest or unsub! ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds

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Re: [Alug] Web of mail
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

Raphael Mankin <raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk> writes: > > * Encourages mixing of code, layout and content > But that is its whole rasion d'etre. As it is for TTK and mason. I'm not saying that's a good thing... > > * It has an object system but no-one uses it > You clearly mix in the werong company. Mix with quality design and > implementation teams and you will find that the object system is > used, and used consistently and extensively. "No-one" is an approximation. Please assume a 1% observation error, as usual. ;-) > > * It has all the security problems given in the "study in scarlet" doc > It is quite possible to write bad PHP, as well as bad perl or C/C++. It is > also possible to write good PHP. *Possible* but far more difficult and no-one (see above) does. Interestingly, I don't like perl either. The better string handling is nice and is the main reason I use it at all any more, but the price of the bolted-on and under-used OO system is too high.

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[Cyril Bouthors <cyril@bouthors.org>] Geographical representation of Free Software Developpers
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

From: Cyril Bouthors <cyril(a)bouthors.org> Subject: Geographical representation of Free Software Developpers Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:54:32 +0200 Hello, A tool allowing geographical representation of Free Software Developpers and organizations on a terrestrial globe map is now available at http://france.fsfeurope.org/coposys/index.en.html I'd like to reach as much people as possible involved in the Free Software Foundation. Please have a look and register. Please feel free to forward this announcement to other appropriate mailing lists. Thank you for your patience. -- Cyril Bouthors -- phone:+33 1 41 66 47 06 fax:+33 1 41 66 47 10

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Re: [Alug] Web of mail
by Martyn Drake 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

On 04 Aug 2001 23:44:52 +0100 Andrew John Savory wrote: > Gah! Sorry, but MySQL is probably the worst choice you could ever > make if you want to use SQL or have a dynamic web site. For > goodness sake, please use a PROPER database! Oracle, Postgres, even > SQL Server is a better choice than MySQL. Where I work, we're nowing using Postgres for all new clients. We will be converting the majority of clients that use MySQL over to Postgres over the course of many months. But everbody agrees that Postgres is the way to go.. Regards, Martyn

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