OpenGuides-Dev December 2003

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[OpenGuides-Dev] A similar effort
by Earle Martin 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

I just discovered an interesting project called "Add Your Own": http://www.addyourown.com/ It's a wiki restaurant review system! They even have a rudimentary metadata system for locations and restaurant types. Is it worth us plugging the OG system to them? One interesting thing their site does that ours doesn't is a summary view: http://www.addyourown.com/neighborhood.php?nbh_id=13 I think this is a smart innovation. It would be nice to be able to do that for a given category - see a list of all the nodes, with selected metadata fields, in a tabular format. Maybe this is something I should have a go at, since it's long overdue that I contributed some more code. Ha! Someone's already mentioned us to them! Fantastic. http://www.quicktopic.com/23/H/3pd3JmL66G6/p6.1 -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA4.BA2";$c= join"",unpack"C*",$b;$c=~s/7/2/g;@b=split"",$c;foreach$d(@b){$e=hex(substr($a ,$f,$d));while(length($e)<8){substr($e,0,0)=0;}print pack"b8",$e;$f+=$d;}

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[OpenGuides-Dev] test-sites.org
by Jody Belka 12 Jan '04

12 Jan '04

Thought this up friday afternoon, had the domain registered and active by the evening, and the site running by morning today. Let me know what you think. http://test-sites.org Jody

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[OpenGuides-Dev] openguides rdf
by jo walsh 22 Dec '03

22 Dec '03

hi, i have just dug out a patch for OpenGuides::RDF i wrote around 6 months ago but stalled on because it had non-cpan dependencies, then i forgot about it. now it doesn't. but maybe the code there's changed? it doesnt do much but fixes the problem of there being none of the category information getting through to the RDF and of everything being allegedly a chefmoz:Restaurant. also for rdf reasons i thought it would be nice to have the locale as a uri, rather than a string, e.g. http://london.openguides.org/locale#Cockfosters so you can say things about unambiguously the same thing elsewhere. it wouldnt nesc have to be a resolving uri though i guess it could really be the uri of the category page? i'd like to incliude this behaviour in my proposed patch though, what do you think? i also noticed what a lovely scutterplan you get if you hit e.g. http://www.ox.compsoc.net/oxfordguide/?action=index;format=rdf ... are you doing a fair bit of work on this anyway kake? i am writing a little scutter that would grab an openguides rdf model and geenrate map formats with it, e.g. for http://www.mapbureau.com/pointmapper/ . this would be a great service for the OG pages themselves if we could get free (or even cheap?) base maps. ah, i can dream. i have most of central oxford drawn on my gps though. zx -- "Common sense won't tell you. We have to tell each other." -DNA

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Announcing CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Diff 0.04
by Ivor Williams 19 Dec '03

19 Dec '03

I have just uploaded this to CPAN. It fixes an annoying bug with <BR /> tags. Also included is the ability to choose which metadata fields appear in the diff. Note: this requires VCS::Lite 0.05.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Changing the edit_type after the event
by Ivor Williams 18 Dec '03

18 Dec '03

Folks, Reflecting on the Longon.OG site, I wonder if it might be desirable to alter node versions after the event. In particular, the following scenarios: You posted a minor change but forgot to set the edit_type to "Minor tidying", and it now appears on the front page. You notice that a newbie has posted 10+ changes to the same node as "Normal editing", pushing out any prior changes that were useful or informative. There are probably others, notably with edit warfare (which, no OpenGuides site has yet had to deal with and, cross fingers, won't). I just wonder whether it might be useful to provide a varient of the node_history or recent_changes page that allows you to change the edit_type of an existing node version. Thoughts please. Ivor.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] A deletion mechanism, at last!
by Earle Martin 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Being laid up with the flu, I couldn't sleep last night and my brain was aflame. So, I did a bit of hacking, and here's the result: http://un.earth.li/~earle/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi Note the link at the bottom right. Try creating some test nodes and deleting them! (If you could not delete "Example Node" I'd be grateful. The password is "test". The way this works is that it checks the password you enter against a value in wiki.conf[0]. Not very subtle. However, this exposes a security issue, that I believe Ivor first picked up on - by default, wiki.conf is in the same directory as wiki.cgi, which means that anybody who knows that can just look and see all the configuration settings, including the password. So, what's needed is for wiki.conf to be somewhere that's not world-readable. I was thinking maybe at configure time you'd be asked for a location for wiki.conf to be stored in, and that value could be stored in a file next to wiki.cgi for it to read. Comments? [0] I'll need to modify the config script to ask you for a password next. -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] OpenGuides 0.30-01 bug and diff plugin
by Ivor Williams 16 Dec '03

16 Dec '03

Checking out a fresh "grubclone" on un, I get the following in ./Build test: t/13_cookies........................1..16 ok 1 - use OpenGuides::CGI; ok 2 - ->make_prefs_cookie dies if no config object supplied ok 3 - ...or if config isn't a Config::Tiny ok 4 - ...but not if it is ok 5 - ->make_prefs_cookie returns a cookie isa CGI::Cookie ok 6 - ->get_prefs_from_cookie dies if no config object supplied ok 7 - ...or if config isn't a Config::Tiny ok 8 - ...but not if it is ok 9 - get_prefs_from_cookie can find username ok 10 - ...and geocache prefs ok 11 - ...and preview prefs ok 12 - ...and latlong prefs not ok 13 - ...and formatting link prefs # Failed test (t/13_cookies.t at line 46) # got: undef # expected: '1' ok 14 - ...and minor edits prefs ok 15 - ->get_prefs_from_cookie doesn't die if no cookie set ok 16 - ...and returns six default values # Looks like you failed 1 tests of 16. dubious Test returned status 1 (wstat 256, 0x100) DIED. FAILED test 13 Failed 1/16 tests, 93.75% okay ================= Also, I have applied a change to wiki.cgi, to use CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Diff instead of OpenGuides::Diff. (but not removed Diff.pm from the dist yet). t/51_diff.t uses OG::D and uses some stuff with mock objects. Do we need any tests for diff inside OG, as C::W::P::D has its own tests? btw, should I have changed the version number to 030_02? Ivor.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Postcode co-ordinates
by David Cantrell 15 Dec '03

15 Dec '03

http://www.jibble.org/ukpostcodes/ -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit, not with the Good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal -- W.S.Burroughs

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Template bug fix
by Jody Belka 12 Dec '03

12 Dec '03

Attached is a patch to fix a bug in the differences.tt template, whereby it has the cgi url for the 'List all versions' link hard coded, instead of using the TT param supplied. Patch is against 0.30_01 as requested by Kake (although checking, that file hasn't changed since 0.29 anyway) -- Jody Belka knew (at) pimb (dot) org

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[OpenGuides-Dev] More nice CSS lists - anyone want a new navbar? :)
by Kate L Pugh 11 Dec '03

11 Dec '03

veeg sent this round the company mailing list today. Very shiny. Like the alistapart "Taming Lists" article, but much much more. I may steal one of these tricks to liven up the Reading OpenGuide navbar. lots of examples of the different ways of applying style to simple html unordered lists: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/ Kake

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