On 07/12/2012, at 8:11 PM, srean wrote: > John, > > you should be a teacher (too), and I would repeat my urgings, put these in a > blog, for one thing you dont have to repeate your explanations again and > again. An added advantage is that for a reader it has lower barrier for entry > than searching through google groups. > > If the posts are reasonably tagged with keywords, it will make documentation > easier to write. One just needs to cat all the posts on a particular tag and > then make that collection coherent by ordering them and maybe adding some > transitioning glue.
The intent was to use the Wiki for that. Wiki is better than a Blog because it can be re-organised. However whilst the Wiki worked reasonably well I required that it integrate with Git. Mike originally used a database for the wiki. He put in a filesystem based store as well. All nice. The problem is that the wiki server had to backup to git, and extract from git. This created a nightmare of permissions and password like issues I never solved. Unix admin I am not. The idea was that you could use the wiki to create or edit content OR a text editor off line. I want that because online editing doesn't work well for me. I have a slow wireless internet connection in Australia connecting to a server on a Rackspace hosted virtual machine in USA. The lag is not so nice for loading a page .. AJAX is out of the question. Stuff like gmail is unusable. Its too slow. Page loads and interaction speeds of over half a second are too slow. Interaction speed must be less than 1/10 of a second. Also my connection just "drops out" for up to 20 seconds or more quite regularly. This means doing any work on the virtual machine using SSH is a serious pain in the arse: command line editing is character by character. I scream every time I have to login and build Felix. In the meantime there is a solution. Someone else is free to take my rants, clean them up, and put them into fdoc format and commit to git in the "web" directory, which will then make that stuff part of the website. -- john skaller skal...@users.sourceforge.net http://felix-lang.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list Felix-language@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
