OpenGuides-Dev May 2007

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our robot overlords have decided...
by Bob Walker 20 May '07

20 May '07

the june hack fest will be in bermondsey, london -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk/ For great beery Justice!

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Visit other OpenGuides week!
by Dominic Hargreaves 18 May '07

18 May '07

I hereby declare this week, from now until the end of Sunday, as open season on other people's Open Guides. This means that we want to encourage members of the OpenGuides community to visit other guides in the network, and add content, perform housekeeping tasks, and generally Make Things Better. The following guides have explicity agreed to participate: The Oxford Guide <http://oxford.openguides.org> The Randomness Guide to London <http://london.randomness.org.uk/> The Vegan Guide to Oxford <http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/openguides/vegan-oxford.cgi> Tourist Engineer <http://engineer.openguides.org/> Open Guide to Milton Keynes <http://miltonkeynes.openguides.org/> but as long as you follow the house rules of the guides in question, there is no reason why you shouldn't help improve other guides listed on http://openguides.org/ as well. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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mysql tuning
by Bob Walker 15 May '07

15 May '07

wiki::toolkit isnt creating an index which really helps perfomance for mysql http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/ticket/25 postgres has this index on already. if your using mysql you really should run CREATE UNIQUE INDEX node_name ON node (name); on your openguides database. -- Bob Walker http://london.randomness.org.uk/ For great beery Justice!

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OpenGuides 0.60 released
by Dominic Hargreaves 13 May '07

13 May '07

I have just released OpenGuides 0.60. It's available from http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/computing/code/openguides/OpenGuides-0.60.tar… with md5sum 9e912af93e960d4958f480ed0be59afd OpenGuides-0.60.tar.gz and, in due course, CPAN. Debian packages have been uploaded to unstable. Please note, I'm reworking the way I provide Debian packages; this release won't be available from my repository on larted.org.uk. I will post early next week once I have tested how the Debian package installs on etch and sarge. Kake lists the sellings points as: - improved stylability of the edit form - the possibility of excluding categories and locales from the random page - new random page link macro A full changelog is below: 0.60 13 May 2007 Removed footer search from edit page (shouldn't have been there). Upgraded Module::Build requirement to cope with API change. Added new parameters to action=random - you can now supply category and/or locale to get a random page chosen from that category/locale. To go with this, added a new macro: @RANDOM_PAGE_LINK [[Category Pubs|View a random pub]] Fixed bug in OpenGuides::Feed - HTML equivalent link now works even if your script_name isn't blank. Rewrote the HTML of the edit page to use <div>s rather than tables. Note that you will probably want to provide at least basic styling for these classes. As part of this, added a new template, edit_form_actions.tt Moved node image boxes below phone/address/etc on the edit form, and moved summary field from openguides information section into main section. Made div#maincontent on the edit form wrap the preview view only, not the whole form. Added links to the "revision N" and "Last edited" text in the navbar. Added format => "raw" option to OpenGuides::Search->run to let you get your results back as a hash. Add JavaScript to the Create New Page page so the prefilled "New page name" disappears when you click in the field (it doesn't make anything other than "New page name" diappear). Move node RDF generation from inline to node_rdf.tt and replace home-grown escaping with encode_entities_numeric from HTML::Entities (technically this is an added dependency, but we already require the package it comes in, via Wiki::Toolkit::Formatter::UseMod). Move random page functionality from wiki.cgi into OpenGuides.pm and add some tests. Add config options to let admins omit category and/or locale pages from the list of pages that can be returned by the Random Page link. Use full URLs for all links in navbar, so people can INCLUDE navbar.tt in their own scripts. (May revisit this later using "base href".) Added some stylesheet hooks to newpage.tt; see README.CSS for details. Documented the stylesheet hooks in the admin interface (see README.CSS) Bugfix: uninitialized variable warning in script_url Bugfix: Make sure clean target works Cheers, Dominic.

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Fwd: YAPC Europe 2007 Reminder - CFP and CFH Deadlines Approaching
by Thomas Klausner 13 May '07

13 May '07

----- Forwarded message from Michael Kr?ll <michael.kroell(a)uibk.ac.at> ----- From: Michael Kr?ll <michael.kroell(a)uibk.ac.at> Subject: [Conferences] YAPC Europe 2007 Reminder - CFP and CFH Deadlines Approaching Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 11:02:55 +0200 To: conferences(a)yapceurope.org Hi, The deadline to submit Hackathon proposals for this year's YAPC Europe in Vienna is just around the corner. Please do not forget to submit your proposals by Sunday, 13th May 2007. Information on what we're looking for exactly and what we can offer to moderators (e.g. travel/accommodation refund) can be found at: http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/cfh.html The Call for Papers deadline is less than 3 weeks away from today: http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/cfp.html The theme for this year's conference is "Social Perl", which we hope will inspire submissions for this and related topics. If Perl has helped you or your company to get people together, or if you can report how Perl is "social" to other programming languages, or how Perl may profit from inspirations from other languages, we'd like to hear about it. Although this is our main topic for the conference, it will not be the only one, and as such we will also be accepting talks on just about any theme. Types of talks include 20 or 40 minutes talks, 60-90 minute tutorials, or 3 hour Hack-a-thons, BOFs or Workshops. There are still some slots free! Hope to see you in Vienna, Michael Kr?ll on behalf of Vienna.pm -- 063A F25E B064 A98F A479 1690 78CD D023 5E2A 6688 http://zis.uibk.ac.at/.m/uibk.ac.at_pgp_pubkey.asc _______________________________________________ Conferences mailing list Conferences(a)yapceurope.org http://lists.yapceurope.org/mailman/listinfo/conferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- #!/usr/bin/perl ... http://domm.zsi.at for(ref bless{},just'another'perl'hacker){s-:+-$"-g&&print$_.$/}

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Hackfest - 9th/10th June 2007
by Kake L Pugh 10 May '07

10 May '07

Dom and I feel that 9th/10th June is looking like the best bet for the hackfest, so we've settled on those dates. Next up is venue choice - please indicate your preferences: http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/HackfestSummer2007 Kake

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Guide in a Box
by David Cantrell 09 May '07

09 May '07

I was muttering at Kake in the pub a few days ago about making a "Guide in a Box" available. By which I mean an image of a bootable disk/filesystem, with OS, web server, database and OpenGuides all pre-installed and configured. On first boot, it would ask for minimal configuration information - IP address, guide name, passwords. I can see this being useful for people who want to run a guide but are less technically minded - they'd be able to just use the filesystem in VMware/Parallels/Xen/whatever without having to know about what's going on underneath. It might also be useful for developers who could use it as the basis for installing a guide hacking environment on their machines without it interfering with anything else that they do. Thoughts? -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic It's my experience that neither users nor customers can articulate what it is they want, nor can they evaluate it when they see it -- Alan Cooper

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Visiting other OpenGuides
by Kake L Pugh 08 May '07

08 May '07

Hello. I've been thinking recently about the various different OpenGuides we have floating around, and the individual styles that they're all evolving. I've been doing a bit of copyediting on some of the non-RGL guides recently; I feel pretty comfortable doing this on the Oxford Guide because Socks thanked me for it on #openguides. I was wondering if it might be a good idea if we maybe chose a week some point soon to visit each other's guides and do a bit of editing. Even if we're unfamiliar with a particular city, we can still do typo fixing, tidying up formatting, sorting out any duplicated content, making sure everything's in the category it should be in, even adding new categories to pull together existing content, or adding content such as external links if that's appropriate for that particular guide. (Maybe making progress on the OGL Great Renaming could form part of this, if that project is still going on? Though I wouldn't want it to dominate the week.) I think this would build up the community feeling a bit more, as well as breathing fresh life into all of the guides, and being a project that even non-coders can get their teeth into. What do people think? A prerequisite for this would be some documentation about what is/isn't appropriate on a given guide, since this isn't always obvious - for example, I've not been sure whether it's appropriate for me to add new categories to the Oxford Guide - but having this documentation would be very useful anyway, and is a worthwhile project in itself. I think it's also a project that _demands_ external input, since it's only by having other people asking "is it OK to do this?" that we can be sure we've set down the things that are so embedded in our minds that we never actually think about them. Thoughts? Kake

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openguides.org website again
by Kake L Pugh 06 May '07

06 May '07

In the absence of a redesign of openguides.org (I just haven't found the time, don't know if anyone else has?) I offer the following suggestion for fitting the Randomness Guide into the list of links: http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/tmp/ogsite2/page It's not perfect by any means, but it's good enough, I reckon. Any objections to me committing this to svn and asking Earle to update the site? Kake

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cgi-wiki-dev list
by Dominic Hargreaves 06 May '07

06 May '07

Just a reminder for anyone who might have joined the list recently; we have a separate mailing list which gets used for discussing Wiki::Toolkit specific things on occasion. This is at http://www.earth.li/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cgi-wiki-dev Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)

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