OpenGuides-Dev

openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org

701 discussions

[OpenGuides-Dev] Habituation is bad.
by Earle Martin 17 May '04

17 May '04

I couldn't sleep just now, and a realisation came to me. When you see a thing enough times, it tends to fade into the mental background, until you forget why it was there in the first place. This has happened to us, and I'll tell you where: categories and locales. Allow me to explain. Way back when we were using UseModWiki to run "grubstreet", we came up with the idea of categories and locales. Certain nodes had a magic quality - at least, we agreed they did, although the software didn't know any better - of "containing" other nodes. At the time, no functionality was available to us to record metadata, so things were done by naming nodes "Category This" or "Locale There". However, the creation of the OpenGuides software changed the situation. Now we can to designate what categories nodes are in properly, and mark some nodes as being nodes themselves by being in "Category Category". The analogous situation exists for locales. So why are we still naming pages "Category Whatever" and "Locale Something"? Prepending these definitions to node names is ugly, in a Pompidou Centre pipes-on-the-outside kind of way, confusing for new users ("Locale Wherever" was always an awkward construction), redundant in light of proper metadata (incidentally, "Category Category" should just be "Categories") and, most tellingly, causes a variety of ontological problems such as nodes called "Fred" that have to be redirected to "Category Fred", separate nodes for a place and the _locale_ of a place, and so on, examples of which crop up on RecentChanges all the time. This is clearly what the XP people call a "code smell"[0]. How to remedy this situation, as far as I can see: 1) Warn the users. 2) Change the code so that nodes no longer have "Category" or "Locale" prepended to their names. 3) Find all the pages that fit the pattern of "Fred" and "Category Fred" and merge the latter into the former - automatically for cases where the former contains only a redirect, and manually for everything else (not many cases, hopefully). 4) Munge all links pointing to "Category X"/"Locale Y". 5) Erm, that's it? Did I miss anything? Comments, please. I'd like to mark this as priority for OpenGuides 0.32; Kake, if you haven't got time at the moment I can look into it. Would it require any changes to CGI::Wiki? Ta, Earle. [0] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CodeSmell -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

4 7

[OpenGuides-Dev] London.pm talk on geographical modules
by IvorW 14 May '04

14 May '04

I will be giving a talk on geographical modules at London.pm which should be of interest to OpenGuides people. I will make the slides available after the talk. Ivor. -----Original Message----- From: london.pm-admin(a)london.pm.org [mailto:london.pm-admin@london.pm.org]On Behalf Of Mark Fowler Sent: 13 May 2004 18:03 To: london.pm-announce(a)london.pm.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE] London.pm Tech Meet 27th May 2004 @ The Angel @ Old Street London Perl Mongers will be having a technical meeting on Thursday 27th May at The Angel Pub near Old Street roundabout (that's two weeks today if you're reading this on the day I sent it.) The meeting will start at 7pm, with the talks starting at 7.15pm sharp. We'll be in the upstairs room, which has been hired by Fotango, who are also kindly providing a small buffet for us to eat while people talk. http://london.pm.org/meetings/locations/angel_pub.html http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=532783&Y=182390&A=Y&Z=1 Nicholas Clark, the perl 5.8.0 pumpking and leading ponie developer will be giving us a quick summary of some of the development that's going on with the perl core and ponie (Perl On New Internal Engine.) Many people will be presenting talks that they're hoping to give at upcoming conferences. Ivor Williams will be giving us a preview of the Geographical modules talk he hopes to present at YAPC::Europe, and Mark Fowler will be doing likewise for his talk on turning Perl Modules into CPAN Bundlers that he'll be giving at YAPC::NA this year. James Duncan will be giving a twenty minute version of the talk on Enterprise Perl he's presenting at YAPC::NA and OSCON. Finally we're lucky to have Chia-liang Kao, the developer of the Perl based revision control system SVK in town. He'll be giving us a brief introduction to the current status of the project and what SVK can do for us. I hope to see you there. Mark. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -T use strict; use warnings; print q{Mark Fowler, mark(a)twoshortplanks.com, http://twoshortplanks.com/};

1 0

RE: [OpenGuides-Dev] OpenGuides version 0.31
by IvorW 14 May '04

14 May '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: openguides-dev-bounces(a)openguides.org > [mailto:openguides-dev-bounces@openguides.org]On Behalf Of Stephen > Stewart > Sent: 14 May 2004 10:55 > To: OpenGuides software developers > Subject: Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] OpenGuides version 0.31 > > > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 12:53:51PM +0100, IvorW wrote: >... > > I would like a nice clean baseline for the geographical > changes (UTM) I am making. > > > > How you getting on with that? It's in progress. I will get a chance to work on it this weekend.

1 0

[OpenGuides-Dev] RFC: New questions for map coordinates system and distance finder
by IvorW 12 May '04

12 May '04

# what type of database do you want the site to run on? postgres/mysql/sqlite dbtype = # What's the name of the database that this site runs on? dbname = # ...the database user that can access that database? dbuser = # ...the password that they use to access the database? dbpass = # ...the machine that the database is hosted on? (blank if local) dbhost = # What do you want the script to be called? script_name = # What directory should I install it in? install_directory = # what directory should I install the templates in? template_path = # What URL does the install directory map to? script_url = # What directory can I use to store indexes in for searching? ***NOTE*** This directory must exist and be writeable by the user that your script will run as. See README for more on this. indexing_directory = # Do you want to enable page deletion? enable_page_deletion = # What's the URL of the site's stylesheet? stylesheet_url = # What's the site called? (should be unique) site_name = # Do you want the navigation bar included on the home page? navbar_on_home_page = # What should the home page of the wiki be called? home_name = # How would you describe the site? site_desc = # What city is the site based in? default_city = # What country is the site based in? default_country = # Do you want to include Ordnance Survey grid coordinates (only relevant to the UK and Ireland) os_coords = # Do you want to include UTM coordinates (zone, easting, northing) utm_coords = # Which ellipsoid to use for UTM conversion? (enter ellipsoid name) utm_ellipsoid = # What do you want the distance finder to base its calculation on? UTM/grid distance_coords = # What language will the site be in? (Please give an ISO language code.) default_language = # Contact email address for the site administrator? contact_email = # What's the name of the node to use for the text formatting rules link? formatting_rules_node =

4 3

[OpenGuides-Dev] New OpenGuide for Seattle, WA, USA
by Matias Pelenur 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hi all, I'm interested in starting a new wiki guide for Seattle, Washington, USA. I was originally thinking of doing this by myself using MediaWiki (in a way similar to WikiTravel), but then I learned about OpenGuides through WikiTravel, and so it seems this might be a better way. I wanted to see what's involved in starting a new guide (e.g. would you you host it at your openguides server or do I provide my own, etc). I'm interested in what templates etc you have for starting a guide, tips for getting people involved, etc. Hopefully this is enough to get started! Thanks, Matias

3 2

[OpenGuides-Dev] download RDF data
by Jonathan Hayes 10 May '04

10 May '04

Hello, I was happy to see that a RDF/XML download is offered for every page. Is there any possibility to download all RDF data of a guide in one file? Thanks, Jonathan

2 1

[OpenGuides-Dev] User feedback
by Earle Martin 09 May '04

09 May '04

Howdy. I'm in the process of building a user feedback survey for http://london.openguides.org/ . What questions would you ask, and what example answers might you give to them? Thanks, Earle. -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

1 0

[OpenGuides-Dev] trackback suggestion
by Stephen Stewart 07 May '04

07 May '04

Again, just a suggestion, but if someone could write an interface to Movable Type's Trackback function, enabling OpenGuide pages to show what other pages are talking about them, that might be cool. Stephen

1 0

[OpenGuides-Dev] We didn't win anything
by Earle Martin 04 May '04

04 May '04

Oh well! http://www.aec.at/en/prix/awards2004.asp -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

2 1

[OpenGuides-Dev] Northern Ireland OpenGuide
by Stephen Stewart 02 May '04

02 May '04

Hello, http://www.iloveni.com/ I still can't get the 'find nearest' function to work but you can have a look and see what you think. Stephen

2 1

← Newer
1
...
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
...
71
Older →

Jump to page:

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

OpenGuides-Dev