guys guys guys don't get ahead of yourselves! :-) musicdsp.org is pretty simple in terms of code. Rewriting in drupal (or similar) would take way too long and would -this is much more important- require someone who is dedicated to musicdsp.org for the next few years (as I myself have very little experience with Drupal, except the nightmare that is called "security updates").
I'm just looking for someone who has a bit more time than me and feels like hacking (not coding) a few extra things like a captcha (recaptcha?) and what not into musicdsp's current code base - which is PHP. And anyway, if I would rewrite it, I would rewrite it in django as I have a vast amount of experience with django. ;-)) - Bram On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:12 AM, <david.lowenf...@gmail.com> wrote: > adding recaptcha to an existing site would not be too difficult, and would > get the job done. > > if you decide to overhaul... I'm partial to Rails, it's pretty awesome. > (disclosure I'm a ruby/rails developer as my day job) > there are a handful of CMS solutions for rails 3, here are two options that > look decent... I could help customize > http://refinerycms.com/ > http://www.browsercms.org/ > > -D > > On Apr 5, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Kevin Dixon wrote: > >> I would vote for a CAPTCHA... specifically recaptcha >> http://www.google.com/recaptcha/whyrecaptcha >> >> -Kevin >> >> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Bastian Schnuerle >> <bastian.schnue...@silberstein.de> wrote: >>> just did wordpress for a friend .. looks nice .. +1 .. >>> >>> Am 05.04.2012 um 21:50 schrieb douglas repetto: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> I think even Wordpress would work very well for the content on >>>> musicdsp.org. I agree a full drupal site seems like overkill! >>>> >>>> douglas >>>> >>>> On 4/5/12 10:05 AM, Bjorn Roche wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Ross Bencina wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hey Bjorn, >>>>>> >>>>>> On 5/04/2012 1:52 AM, Bjorn Roche wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any thoughts about modernizing the whole thing with a fresh CMS? >>>>>>> I think it would be easier to maintain, have built-in spam >>>>>>> filters, and it would be easier to have multiple people do the >>>>>>> work. Plus it would look more attractive. I don't think it would >>>>>>> take much effort to redo the whole thing in, say, drupal. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Have you ever set up a Drupal site? I have. It is not for >>>>>> small-time, non-commercial, low-maintenance overhead projects >>>>>> imho. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yes. Quite a few. >>>>> >>>>>> Imho it would be a huge job to port the current site to Drupal and >>>>>> there is a lot of ongoing maintenance required to keep security >>>>>> patches up to date etc etc. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Yes. The biggest problem is security updates. You are right: major >>>>> PITA factor. This can be mitigated by a hosted solution, or a >>>>> multi-site install where someone is already monitoring the site for >>>>> security updates. But, at the end of the day, that might not be >>>>> realistic. >>>>> >>>>>> Doing the theme port alone would be a lot of work. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I would not dream of porting the existing theme, but rather use a >>>>> new, or built-in theme. >>>>> >>>>>> Unless I'm completely out of touch it is really non-trivial to set >>>>>> up something like musicdsp.org in Drupal with adequate spam >>>>>> filtering. The standard Drupal capcha solution (Mollom) is not >>>>>> great -- in my experience it flags a lot of false positives (spam >>>>>> that isn't spam). >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Mollom sucks. Captchas alone catch the vast majority of spam. The >>>>> rest can be handled with moderation. >>>>> >>>>>> Anyway, this is really just a vote against Drupal for musicdsp.org, >>>>>> not against using a CMS. >>>>>> >>>>>> I actually think the current ad-hoc php solution is not so bad -- >>>>>> but Bram knows more about these things than me. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Recaptcha could be added to the existing site with fairly little >>>>> effort, but there are other advantages to a CMS: they are easier to >>>>> team-manage, organize, and they have a number of potentially useful >>>>> features like taxonomies (giving the ability to tag and categorize >>>>> algos by language and purpose for example.) >>>>> >>>>> bjorn >>>>> >>>>> ----------------------------- Bjorn Roche http://www.xonami.com Audio >>>>> Collaboration http://blog.bjornroche.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >>>>> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book >>>>> reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >>>>> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ............................................... http://artbots.org >>>> .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org >>>> .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >>>> ...........repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism >>>> ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas >>>> >>>> -- >>>> dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >>>> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, >>>> dsp links >>>> http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >>>> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp >>> >>> >>> -- >>> dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >>> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp >>> links >>> http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >>> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp >> -- >> dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: >> subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp >> links >> http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp >> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp > > -- > dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: > subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp > links > http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp -- http://www.samplesumo.com http://www.freesound.org http://www.smartelectronix.com http://www.musicdsp.org office: +32 (0) 9 335 59 25 mobile: +32 (0) 484 154 730 -- dupswapdrop -- the music-dsp mailing list and website: subscription info, FAQ, source code archive, list archive, book reviews, dsp links http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/music-dsp
