OpenGuides-Dev May 2006

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[OpenGuides-Dev] OG performance
by Paul Makepeace 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi, I don't follow OG development but as host operator a few things are coming up. The machine's load is gradually climbing over time and some of that is OG. Despite a relatively low hit rate on OG it is consuming quite a bit of resource. If OG started taking off it would take the machine down. First up: index.cgi requires 0.35s to perform a `perl -c` syntax check. Any thoughts on putting OG on a mod_perl server? I have mod_perl running here of course and we'd need to coordinate some apache.conf stuff. Second: the supersearch.cgi gulps down CPU, often for seconds at a time. It is a frequent resident of `top` output. This isn't really acceptable. I'm going to request this feature be turned off unless an effective optimisation plan or some other way to reduce its impact here is constructed pretty soon. Sorry about this but it's encroaching on others. Third: I wonder if there's some way to instruct robots not to spider parts of your wiki. This ought to speak for itself: $ grep crawl /var/log/apache/london.openguides.org-access.log | grep 'action=edit' | wc -l 8242 $ Finally: I posted about a DoS and was wondering what the status of a solution was. http://openguides.org/mail/openguides-dev/2004-October/000542.html Cheers, Paul (any overbearing tone unintentional ;-) -- Paul Makepeace .............................. http://paulm.com/inchoate/ "If my elbow was straight, then I'll show oyu mine!" -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

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hello... maps, openstreetmap, mapstraction
by Tom Carden 26 May '06

26 May '06

Hello list, I spoke to Ivor today at the inaugural London Javascript Night about a new library we've spun off from OpenStreetMap (www.openstreetmap.org) called Mapstraction (www.mapstraction.com). Basically, Mapstraction is a minimal layer of javascript which defines a common interface to Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and MS Virtual Earth. In the future it will also provide a javascript interface to OpenStreetMap. The idea is that you can use the Google Maps API now, because it's great, but if their terms and conditions change, or they start serving ads in maps, or Yahoo has better maps, or whatever, then you can switch provider with one line of code. (We decided not to clone the Google API exactly, but it's very similar). Clearly, it's a foot in the door for OpenStreetMap (which should suit open projects like Open Guides) but if you have a business model predicated on free maps from Google you might also be interested. In order to make sure we're writing useful code, we'd like to offer to look at the Open Guides maps code (and hopefully convert it to Mapstraction) - can somebody point me at the right bit? Also, if anyone's interested in helping out, please visit our site and join the mailing list: www.mapstraction.com Thanks for your attention, Tom.

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Geocoder for the UK...
by Earle Martin 24 May '06

24 May '06

http://www.isharemaps.com/products/isharemaps_on_demand/isharemaps_on_deman… �423 per year, including VAT. Should we club together? -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Nick Burch added as committer
by Dominic Hargreaves 19 May '06

19 May '06

FYI, I've added Nick (who's already done quite a bit of work on Wiki::Toolkit) as an OpenGuides committer. Domini. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Refactoring CGI::Wiki::Plugin::RSS::ModWiki and OpenGuides::Feed
by Nick Burch 19 May '06

19 May '06

Hi All I've been looking through the codebase, seeing if it's possible to enable rss feeds for more things. I think it is going to be possible, but it's going to require refactoring of both CGI::Wiki::Plugin::RSS::ModWiki and OpenGuides::Feed to support it. Currently, it's just possible to get feeds of the recent changes list (with filtering by username, and changing the number shown, but that's about it). I'd like to extend the rss support so that we can have recent changes style RSS feeds of: * recent changes (as now) * all the versions of a node * search results And then something similar for locales and categories. However, Earle is also planning some refactoring to this code. I believe he's planning to add Atom support (Earle - can you confirm). Before I just go ahead and co-ordinate my changes with Earle, I thought I should check: * Is anyone else also planning refactoring of these modules? * Does anyone have thoughts / suggestions on my plans? Cheers Nick

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London cycling guide - still not open
by Katy ELIDED 17 May '06

17 May '06

When will this be live? Katy

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Free the Postcode
by Earle Martin 17 May '06

17 May '06

http://www.freethepostcode.org/ This may seem familiar because Dave did almost the exact same thing back in October 2003 (see list passim), although it didn't get anywhere at the time. If you could pass this URL around and encourage people to enter their postcodes and lat/long, then that would be great! -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/

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Development release of OpenGuides
by Dominic Hargreaves 16 May '06

16 May '06

I've released the first development version of OpenGuides to use Wiki::Toolkit. This is a major upgrade so testing this release (on TEST databases/installs) would be very much welcomed, especially on copies of real data sets. http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/computing/code/openguides/OpenGuides-0.54_01.… ee4296851fdce24dda4b979eb8863eef59da63de OpenGuides-0.54_01.tar.gz 0.54_01 16 May 2006 Support for Atom feeds for RecentChanges. #118 Use Wiki::Toolkit. NOTE this is a development snapshot and is not suitable for production use. It may eat your data! Tests on development mirrors of live data are highly welcomed; the underlying database schema provided by Wiki::Toolkit has changed and the upgrade process needs some rigorous testing. Please provide feedback either via the mailing list or the http://dev.openguides.org/ bugtracker, using the wiki-toolkit-upgrade keyword in the latter case. Remember: if you test this now, you will have more sympathy if a declared-stable release eats your data ;) Thanks, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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Interesting things with feeds?
by Nick Burch 11 May '06

11 May '06

Hi All >From the recent survey thingy, it seems that everyone agrees that the metadata and feeds coming out of openstreetmap is a really nifty thing, and a great point of it. So, I'd like to put together a guide showing people how to make use of all these feeds. I was thinking of including: * basic feed stuff from an openguide * some interesting feed based searches * how to find out more about the feeds, searches etc * examples of using the feeds in other web applications (php, django, rails etc) I was wondering if people could suggest really interesting feeds they use? Also, if people current integrate thee feeds into off-the-shelf systems (blogs?), might they be willing to write a guide to integrating og feeds into them? Cheers Nick

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Beating linkspam by banning inline styles?
by Tom Heath 02 May '06

02 May '06

Hi all, We've had another one of the "[Some grammatical corrections]" spam attacks, this time on our homepage. It's only a single page again this time, but annoying. Seems others have suffered the same thing. Is one solution to this to strip inline styles from user input? (or at least stuff that manipulates height or visibility). crschmidt's SQL hack is nice, but still requires us to spot the attack and its identifying comment phrase. Banning these styles would make all links visible, which maybe isn't what we want, but may at least make it easier for us to spot and remove them. What do people think? Is this a useful strategy? How much work on the codebase would be involved? Cheers, Tom. (Open Guide to Milton Keynes).

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