RE: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Just a quick update on my website upgrading odyssey. I checked out Wordpress and Drupal. After spending more time and money that I would like to admit I finally realized neither approach was a good fit for my personal predilections. I went back to the original thread and pulled something out that DonW had suggested some time ago, specifically from XARA company. XARA sells a web development tool called: Web Designer MX 8 Premium. The premium version sells for $100. See: http://www.xara.com/us/products/webdesigner/ This is a pretty decent WYSIWYG development tool. It's still a fairly new s/w package. I believe XARA takes advantage of javascripts and CSS. It's all done under the hood. You don't touch a bit of code. It's like designing a web site using Adobe Illustrator, or CorelDraw. It's a great approach if you are spatially oriented, like me. BTW, it's great tool for prototype development. Once you get the hang of where all the tools are located you can whack something out in nanoseconds. Very Quick! It's not perfect. It's not the best choice if you have a very large web site with lots of content with different subjects contained in separate subdirectories. With that said, I suspect there are reasonable tricks to get around such obstacles within XARA if you don't try to push it too hard. But again, I think the software is still fairly new and I'm willing to give them some slack in order to evolve into something more sophisticated. Prior to uploading your revised content to the world you must export it out of XARA's internal file structure. XARA generates a bunch static pages that contain lots of javascrip and CSS files. You can either independently FTP the export yourself or let XARA do the FTPing for you. I hope to have my orionworks.com website revised (more-or-less) by the end of this summer...or maybe by fall. Hopefully, the website will contain additional content, such as my explorations of simulations I've done into celestial mechanics. There might be a Vort or two who may be interested in exploring the subject in more depth. BTW, I haven't abandoned Word Press or Drupal. WordPress was probably a good choice for Mr. Rothwell as he manages the content of lenr-canr.org. While still speculating on the matter, it's possible Drupal might have actually been a better choice for Jed, but the initial learning curve is much higher than it is for Word Press - which explains why Word Press is much more popular than Drupal. I may still end up using Word Press or Drupal to manage specific portions of my website should I need to operate a subdomain that focuses on blogging, or perhaps ecommerce. I think XARA can to that stuff as well, but not to the level of sophisticated that WP and D can currently manage. Again, thanks for the XARA suggestion, Don. I see that the examples of the websites you developed show a distinct XARA touch. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
RE: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Guys, can you please move any further discussion about web-tools to vortex-B??? -Mark From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:orionwo...@charter.net] Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 5:35 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages Jed, I downloaded XAMPP and eventually unzipped the contents onto a thumb drive. I think running XAMPP on a thumb drive will make it possible to run my own portable test server wherever I go. I haven't run my own web server since the 1990s. I'm sure a lot of things have changed since then, particularly security issues. If I execute the xampp-control.exe control program and start up the apache server (and MYSQL) I noticed that this inserts an XAMPP server icon in my window's system tray. Ok, standard operation procedure. ;-) I can access http://localhost and see that XAMPP is running. Success! Ok, so far, so good. However, if I attempt to shut down the XAMPP server it seems shut down my entire household network. In no time my wife lets me know that she can't access her favorite web site where she has been posting messages... and what the hell have I done to the network this time! So far the only way I can get the household network up and running again (that is, after I attempt to shut down the XAMPP service) is to restart both my modem and wireless Lynksys router. That seems to clear up the communication problem. I suspect (I hope) my current approach is fixing the problem with a sledge hammer. Are you aware of a less brutal way of shutting down the XAMPP server while leaving a home network unscathed? Just curious. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Ok, so far, so good. However, if I attempt to shut down the XAMPP server it seems shut down my entire household network. Why shut it down? It takes a while to load, but the Task Manager shows that it does not have any processor overhead. You can click on the Control Panel and Stop Apache and MySql . . . but they do not seem to stop. Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint zeropo...@charter.net wrote: Guys, can you please move any further discussion about web-tools to vortex-B??? This is not political or disruptive. Granted, it is a little off topic. Please ignore this thread. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Hi Jed, and Mark, I should have prefaced the original subject line with OT Off Topic. I think that would have resolved the issue - except perhaps for a few Vort purists. ;-). My apologies for not having doing so in the first place. Again, I want to thank several Vorts for the plethora of advice and insight I received from them. It was not my intention to unduly distract the collective from several energy topics currently under discussion, such as what are Rossi's Defkalion's energy catalyzers made up of... and do those mythical reactors really work??? Neither was it my intention to unduly distract us from on-going Rossi Watching, or perhaps watching Krivit as Krivit watches Rossi, etc... I nevertheless took advantage of the situation when Jed announced the fact that he was focusing on using WORD PRESS templates to completely revamp his lenr-canr.org web site. I have found myself in need of doing a complete overhaul of my own web site. It seemed an opportune time to ask Jed a few probing questions about what it was like working with WORD PRESS. I learned a few things. I'm still very much an XAMPP/WORD PRESS newbie. Nevertheless, I have successfully installed the XAMPP on a Jump Stick. I defined a WORD PRESS database using MySQL on the local server. I also got WORD PRESS installed. I essentially have a local server where I can do all my WORD PRESS editing off-line. (Of course, eventually I'll have to upload it all to my web site, but all in due course!) All of these accomplishments are important landmarks, particularly since my goal is to work with simple formatting templates, and to do as little direct HTML coding as possible from now on. ;-) If I'm lucky I might have something worth publishing by fall. No promises. One of several topics I hope to publish will focus on algorithms I used to simulate the laws of Celestial Mechanics along with what appear to be certain relationships with chaos theory. Some of my research resulted in unexpected surprises. I hope to use plenty of graphics too. It's possible a few might find some of the work interesting, possibly even thought provoking at times. But who knows. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
RE: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Jed, I downloaded XAMPP and eventually unzipped the contents onto a thumb drive. I think running XAMPP on a thumb drive will make it possible to run my own portable test server wherever I go. I haven't run my own web server since the 1990s. I'm sure a lot of things have changed since then, particularly security issues. If I execute the xampp-control.exe control program and start up the apache server (and MYSQL) I noticed that this inserts an XAMPP server icon in my window's system tray. Ok, standard operation procedure. ;-) I can access http://localhost and see that XAMPP is running. Success! Ok, so far, so good. However, if I attempt to shut down the XAMPP server it seems shut down my entire household network. In no time my wife lets me know that she can't access her favorite web site where she has been posting messages... and what the hell have I done to the network this time! So far the only way I can get the household network up and running again (that is, after I attempt to shut down the XAMPP service) is to restart both my modem and wireless Lynksys router. That seems to clear up the communication problem. I suspect (I hope) my current approach is fixing the problem with a sledge hammer. Are you aware of a less brutal way of shutting down the XAMPP server while leaving a home network unscathed? Just curious. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson orionwo...@charter.net wrote: Thank you very much for your very, very, VERY thorough analysis of the trials and tribulations of working with WORD PRESS. Your analysis scared the b'jesus out to me! ;-) Perhaps I exaggerated. Doing web pages in plain HTML is not a walk in the park. I am used to it so it seems easy, but my wife cannot begin to maintain her site. You do have to understand MySQL but it is pretty simple. All you have to know is how to set up an empty database. WordPress populates it automatically on installation. You never need to look at it. I'll take a look at how you managed to perform the remote publishing procedure. I sure would like to keep a similar kind of an arrangement if I can. It is not hard, but it took a long checklist of operations to transfer the data from one site to another. I will send you the checklist. I just ran it again today to make sure I did not leave out any steps. That is to say, I erased the version of the web site on my computer and re-installed it from scratch. The biggest danger is that you will mix up the two and accidentally delete the on-line version. I use a different favicon so I can tell which I am looking at. There are supposed to be programs to do it, but they do not work. When you first experiment with WordPress you will probably try out a variety of Themes and Plugins. After a while they will leave so much digital debris the web site will stop working. Just export the text and images, clobber everything, and start again. Themes and Plugins come as .zip files. Just be sure you save every one in folder somewhere. Not in the WordPress folder. Unfortunately, putting together a local server for development work and then getting one’s localhoast web site to link up to the WWW sounds like it will involve a lot of finicky work and work-arounds. Actually, that part was easy. It is sort of fun to have my own private version of MySQL. It was handy for the library database too. You can get your own localhost the runs under windows, Linux or the Mac for free here: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html This includes Apache (emulator), MySQL, FileZilla (FTP), Mercury (mail) and Tomcat (java server). If you have a lot of items to keep track of in your life, and you need a database, I recommend MySQL. Especially for something like an informal organization where other people want access to the data. Such as a church or club. I could set up a thing like that with ScriptCase in a jiffy. I was thinking of uploading the LENR-CANR weekly total visits and downloads going back to 2002 but ScriptCase does a lousy job graphing, so for now I will stick with these graphs generated on my computer: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=1213 Once we figured out the snafu and got them properly indexed it was just a matter of seconds. It sounds to me as like you still might not be using the MySQL ISAM function correctly. It definitely shouldn’t take 7 seconds No doubt that is the problem, but I cannot figure out how to make it work. As far as I can tell I am following the directions. It must be using the index because when I delete the index, the program crashes. Yet it is not going any faster. Anyway, I replaced it with this, which looks better: http://lenr-canr.org/index/Publications/Publications.php - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
From Robin: I have never used WordPress, but any browser can also access files on your local PC without needing to install an http server. Just click on File on the menu and choose the Open (File?) option. I would guess that WordPress can access local files as file:// rather than http://;, but you should be able to just point at them using a file open dialog. Furthermore Word can edit html documents as can Open Office (free). This was originally addressed to me, but I thought it was worth sharing to the Collective! I suspect you are right, Robin. In fact, I have done this on many occasions with good results. The problem happens when one uses this method without realizing one is doing it. This obviously results in broken links when publishing static html links that point to page on a local hard drive drive. Looks pretty stupid when trying to view content out on the Internet. 8-0 Will take this under advisement. ;-) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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Jed, A follow-up question: Since you were forced to roll up your sleeves and get dirty wrestling with the unwieldiness of using WORD PRESS to manage the content of the huge LENR database, this begs the question: At what point, in your opinion, does the size of the content one manages become a serious management issue insofar as WORD PRESS is concerned. Or... maybe the issue is really not so much about the size of one's Content but due to other complexities pertaining to: [insert issues here.]. I bring this up because it's my understanding that a lot of organizations are using WORD PRESS. And the numbers are growing. Some of these outfits are pretty big. I assume they must, in turn, manage huge databases. I have to assume there are a lot of reasonably satisfied customers, including many from very large organizations that in turn manage very large amounts of Content. What, in your opinion, probably makes WORD PRESS continue to be such an attractive option, particularly if most users are forced to do most of their editing on-line as compared performing the same tasks off-line as you found a way to do - and as how I would like to do it as well? I hope I was clear in my conundrum. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Robin wrote: Just click on File on the menu and choose the Open (File?) option. I would guess that WordPress can access local files as file:// rather than http://;, but you should be able to just point at them using a file open dialog. Furthermore Word can edit html documents as can Open Office (free). Do not EVER use Word to edit HTML documents! It will make hash out of them. And not the good kind of programmer's hash-code hash either -- more like inedible corn-beef hash. I wrote a Pascal program to delete the garbage from Word-generated HTML, because people send me Word documents from time to time that want to be HTML. Also this is good way to decontaminate Word format chaos without killing all the formatting such as italics and superscripts. The program is short but for a 336 KB document it takes about 14 seconds with a fast computer. Microsoft used to sell the Frontpage web editor that also created outrageous HTML. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
From Jed: ... Doing web pages in plain HTML is not a walk in the park. I am used to it so it seems easy, but my wife cannot begin to maintain her site. Getting my wife to use html, let alone an actual 3D keyboard (she's getting pretty good at typing out messages on her iPAD) would be grounds for divorce. Back in the 90s I constructed web sites using a text editor and my knowledge of HTML on a UNIX RISC workstation - an AIX machine I believe. My first incarnation of my personal OrionWorks.com web site was done entirely in html and a text editor. Most of us did it that way because there were no WYSIWYG editors in existence. Back then when I worked for the University of Wisconsin I wrote perl scripts that generated static html pages listing course descriptions. The WEB had just been born. Bye bye GOPHER! I enjoyed designing those kinds of on-line tree structures. OTOH, these days I'm not at all enamored with the notion of returning to those ancient times of writing articles containing huge amounts of embedded HTML code in order to perform things like font changes or table definitions. I confess, I'll use a WYSIWYLG editor hands down when it comes to writing essays, articles, stories, posts, etc... I seem to recall you listed some WORD PRESS plugin suggestions that might help ease the process. Maybe I can live with such compromises. ... ... It is not hard, but it took a long checklist of operations to transfer the data from one site to another. I will send you the checklist. I just ran it again today to make sure I did not leave out any steps. That is to say, I erased the version of the web site on my computer and re-installed it from scratch. The biggest danger is that you will mix up the two and accidentally delete the on-line version. I use a different favicon so I can tell which I am looking at. I will definitely check out at your checklist. ... Unfortunately, putting together a local server for development work and then getting one’s localhoast web site to link up to the WWW sounds like it will involve a lot of finicky work and work-arounds. Actually, that part was easy. It is sort of fun to have my own private version of MySQL. It was handy for the library database too. You can get your own localhost the runs under windows, Linux or the Mac for free here: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html Yes, the installation procedure can't get much easier than having to do nothing more than unzipping the files to a subdirectory on your local hard drive. Walla! Done! Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Jed, A follow-up question: Since you were forced to roll up your sleeves and get dirty wrestling with the unwieldiness of using WORD PRESS to manage the content of the huge LENR database . . . This is a tiny database. Only 3820 items. I used to deal with databases of up to ~250,000 items back when computers microcomputer programming languages could only address 64 KB records per file. That was complicated! This is a piece of cake. , this begs the question: At what point, in your opinion, does the size of the content one manages become a serious management issue insofar as WORD PRESS is concerned. I have not bumped against the limits yet. I have noticed that it gets slow at times but that's a problem with ISP. Everything is slow. Displaying the screens gets slow. Downloading large papers is slow. If I could figure out how to use the indexes properly the Special Collections screens might display a little faster: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=691 I need to index the Publisher column. So far no joy. I may live with it. I bring this up because it's my understanding that a lot of organizations are using WORD PRESS. And the numbers are growing. Some of these outfits are pretty big. I assume they must, in turn, manage huge databases. The databases at places like Amazon.com are enormous but they only display a little at a time for each person reading the site. Amazon has wonderful database driver which they developed for their own use. They rent it out to others. They let small users have it for free. http://aws.amazon.com/rds/ If I could have figured out how to interface to it, I would have used it instead of MySQL. WordPress itself seems inefficient to me. It is not the database aspect of it. The MySQL files for WordPress are small, and probably fit into RAM. The auto-generated code seems unwieldy. There are petabytes of data flying around the world every day. A large fraction of them must be WordPress web pages asking DNS servers where stuff is that *right there on the disk*! They flap wasting bandwidth in other ways, too. Places like the Washington Post have cleaner HTML. They are paying for it. I do not know if they use WordPress. I think I was wrong about the White House. Sources say they use Drupal, not WordPress. I used to know a guy who developed Intel CPU chips. This was before the Internet exploded. He said: We are in a race with Microsoft. We make the CPUs faster and faster so that Microsoft can bog them down with more and more useless code. Nowadays we make the Internet ever faster so that inept programmers can waste bandwidth. What, in your opinion, probably makes WORD PRESS continue to be such an attractive option, particularly if most users are forced to do most of their editing on-line . . . 1. It is free. There are many better alternatives but they costs money. Such as: http://www.360psg.com/content/pages/website-management-software 2. People get used to anything. That is why fossil fuel is so popular. People do not know there are viable alternatives. It is the devil you know. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Jed sez: ... I used to know a guy who developed Intel CPU chips. This was before the Internet exploded. He said: We are in a race with Microsoft. We make the CPUs faster and faster so that Microsoft can bog them down with more and more useless code. Nowadays we make the Internet ever faster so that inept programmers can waste bandwidth. LOL! I'm sure the gods employed over in DoE (Department of Evolution) have similar issues. It would seem that most of our genes have been commented out. A good compression scheme would probably reduce our chromosomes down to two or three average size strands. This is understandable. When it comes to writing computer code it is often prudent to comment out no longer used code rather than delete it. You just never know. Perhaps the need for gills or a tale will once again come in handy in another million years or so. Unfortunately, all of that commenting-out turns code maintenance into a messy task. I also suspect... somewhere... embedded in a string of commented out code is the following statement: (C) Copyright Zeta Reticuli, all rights reserved. Version 3.4.11.34272 currently activated. Next revision slated for 3047, plus or minus a few hundred years. This will include a few bug fixes, like actively filtering out genetic combinations that have a tendency to produce biological containers that think like Rush Limbaugh. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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Steven, Use this: http://web2py.com. Download here: http://web2py.com/examples/default/download it has everything inside (webserver, db, application server, javascript, css, menus) so you do not have to install anything else, yet is small. You can choose many providers or you can just publish to google appengine with one click. You can manage the db and import export data from it. No sql required. You can use your editor or the included one. It is written with security so authenticating parts of the site is easy + secure. To make a new site just go to administrator panel and create a new application. It is DRY (Dont Repeat Yourself) and ZC (zero configuration), hence KISS. To have great support just write on the forum. Major features listed here: http://web2py.com/examples/default/what mic Il 09 marzo 2012 23:29, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com ha scritto: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: Jed, A follow-up question: Since you were forced to roll up your sleeves and get dirty wrestling with the unwieldiness of using WORD PRESS to manage the content of the huge LENR database . . . This is a tiny database. Only 3820 items. I used to deal with databases of up to ~250,000 items back when computers microcomputer programming languages could only address 64 KB records per file. That was complicated! This is a piece of cake. , this begs the question: At what point, in your opinion, does the size of the content one manages become a serious management issue insofar as WORD PRESS is concerned. I have not bumped against the limits yet. I have noticed that it gets slow at times but that's a problem with ISP. Everything is slow. Displaying the screens gets slow. Downloading large papers is slow. If I could figure out how to use the indexes properly the Special Collections screens might display a little faster: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=691 I need to index the Publisher column. So far no joy. I may live with it. I bring this up because it's my understanding that a lot of organizations are using WORD PRESS. And the numbers are growing. Some of these outfits are pretty big. I assume they must, in turn, manage huge databases. The databases at places like Amazon.com are enormous but they only display a little at a time for each person reading the site. Amazon has wonderful database driver which they developed for their own use. They rent it out to others. They let small users have it for free. http://aws.amazon.com/rds/ If I could have figured out how to interface to it, I would have used it instead of MySQL. WordPress itself seems inefficient to me. It is not the database aspect of it. The MySQL files for WordPress are small, and probably fit into RAM. The auto-generated code seems unwieldy. There are petabytes of data flying around the world every day. A large fraction of them must be WordPress web pages asking DNS servers where stuff is that right there on the disk! They flap wasting bandwidth in other ways, too. Places like the Washington Post have cleaner HTML. They are paying for it. I do not know if they use WordPress. I think I was wrong about the White House. Sources say they use Drupal, not WordPress. I used to know a guy who developed Intel CPU chips. This was before the Internet exploded. He said: We are in a race with Microsoft. We make the CPUs faster and faster so that Microsoft can bog them down with more and more useless code. Nowadays we make the Internet ever faster so that inept programmers can waste bandwidth. What, in your opinion, probably makes WORD PRESS continue to be such an attractive option, particularly if most users are forced to do most of their editing on-line . . . 1. It is free. There are many better alternatives but they costs money. Such as: http://www.360psg.com/content/pages/website-management-software 2. People get used to anything. That is why fossil fuel is so popular. People do not know there are viable alternatives. It is the devil you know. - Jed
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
For the record, the problems with the indexes turned out to be: 1. Use type INDEX not FULLTEXT. Ah. 2. Illegal mix of collations (ascii_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (latin1_swedish_ci,COERCIBLE). Oops. 3. Some publisher names have single quotes in them, and some have regular quotes. So I can't figure out how to make an SQL call that will work for both. You can do this: Publisher = Nobel Laureates' meeting Publisher = Pis'ma Zh. Teor. Fiz. But not this: Publisher = Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, Frontiers of Cold Fusion That crashes with an error. Not sure how to deal with that, other than going through the database of publisher names and eliminating single or double quotes. . . . This is why computers are still so hard to program. I expect commercial databases such as the one Amazon.com is renting out do not have such problems. MySQL costs nothing. It is more or less the same kind of thing we had back in 1982. - Jed
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Il 10 marzo 2012 00:40, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com ha scritto: For the record, the problems with the indexes turned out to be: 1. Use type INDEX not FULLTEXT. Ah. 2. Illegal mix of collations (ascii_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (latin1_swedish_ci,COERCIBLE). Oops. 3. Some publisher names have single quotes in them, and some have regular quotes. So I can't figure out how to make an SQL call that will work for both. You can do this: Publisher = Nobel Laureates' meeting Publisher = Pis'ma Zh. Teor. Fiz. But not this: Publisher = Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, Frontiers of Cold Fusion Try the following to escape the dobule quotes: Publisher = Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, Frontiers of Cold Fusion or the following: Publisher = Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, \Frontiers of Cold Fusion\ hope that one works. That crashes with an error. Not sure how to deal with that, other than going through the database of publisher names and eliminating single or double quotes. . . . This is why computers are still so hard to program. I expect commercial databases such as the one Amazon.com is renting out do not have such problems. MySQL costs nothing. It is more or less the same kind of thing we had back in 1982. That is why you should start using PostgreSQL... Indeed MySQL is owned by the biggest (and expensive) DB maker around: Oracle... maybe they are just trying to promote their paid support or the commercial version? ;-)
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On 2012-03-10 00:40, Jed Rothwell wrote: Publisher = Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, Frontiers of Cold Fusion That crashes with an error. I'm not an expert and can't tell if this will work, but I think you need to escape the double quotes by putting backslashes before them: Third International Conference on Cold Fusion, \Frontiers of Cold Fusion\ The reason is that generally double quotes have special meanings in C-like parsers and programming languages (as string delimiters, usually) and can't be directly used inside a block of text (string) without extra characters. Cheers, S.A.
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Now I am sort of on home territory, as I do genetics as a day job. We have very few commented out genes (apart from a reasonable number of genes for olfactory nerves, our sense of smell would appear to of less importance to us than it is to our ancesters, so they do appear to have been commented out). The genes themselves are just a small part of the story. What is more important is how they are turned on and off, and in what way they are turned on and off, and that is what the much of the rest of the DNA is involved with. How it does it and the role of any specific part of the DNA is still very unclear. The information is clearly distributed and redundant. But that is where you find the information that tells the often very generic genes to express themselves in order to make gills, or arms. I'll let you know if I find a copyright statement. I spend quite a lot of time browsing through the DNA looking for anomalies. Nigel On 09/03/2012 23:01, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote: . LOL! I'm sure the gods employed over in DoE (Department of Evolution) have similar issues. It would seem that most of our genes have been commented out. A good compression scheme would probably reduce our chromosomes down to two or three average size strands. This is understandable. When it comes to writing computer code it is often prudent to comment out no longer used code rather than delete it. You just never know. Perhaps the need for gills or a tale will once again come in handy in another million years or so. Unfortunately, all of that commenting-out turns code maintenance into a messy task. I also suspect... somewhere... embedded in a string of commented out code is the following statement: (C) Copyright Zeta Reticuli, all rights reserved. Version 3.4.11.34272 currently activated. Next revision slated for 3047, plus or minus a few hundred years. This will include a few bug fixes, like actively filtering out genetic combinations that have a tendency to produce biological containers that think like Rush Limbaugh. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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Regarding my understanding of genetics, I stand corrected. Thanks for the education, Nigel. ... I'll let you know if I find a copyright statement. I spend quite a lot of time browsing through the DNA looking for anomalies. FWIW, a recent Season 3 installment from the Science Channel, Through the Wormhole: Will We Survive First Contact actually speculated on the possibility that something equivalent to a copyright statement might be uncovered embedded in our genetic code. The premise hinges on a fascinating theory that such a copyright might be deciphered through a better understanding of detecting certain universal similarities that are now suspected to exist in all forms of intelligent communication. The installment talks about how we might go about deciphering alien languages based on some recent unexpected and startling correlations that have been discovered in all of our own human languages. The same correlations were discovered in cetaceans (dolphins whales) language as well. It suggests the fact that they actually are talking to each other – exchanging complex ideas. These unexpected correlations gives some hope that the same correlations might eventually be detected in what is currently thought of as nothing more than random static from EM radiation coming from outer space. Some also theorize that perhaps the same correlations might also be detected within our own genetic code. You might enjoy watching the episode. The episode describes what kind of correlations they are looking for. Therefore, it’s possible you could end up developing some kind of an algorithm that looks for the same kind of patterns. ;-) Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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A WORD PRESS question for Jed, I'm still reviewing the pros cons of using WORD PRESS. I'm seriously leaning towards using it. It looks like my web host provider supports it. Just about every provider does! WORD PRESS is very popular. I'm still a little puzzled over what options are available as to WHERE one edits personal content prior to publishing material out on the web. It looks to me like WORD PRESS is set up such that the preferred (or default) way of editing personal content is through the use of one's favorite web browser, where one actually performs the raw editing of personal content (pages) on-line. Is this the only way... the preferred way to edit personal content destined to be published in the WORD PRESS universe? I'm wondering... can one perform most of the major editing on one's home PC and then ftp/upload the finished content after most of the fixes have been completed? Does one accomplish this by running a http://localhost web server on one's own machine at home? I'm used to editing everything on my home PC. I then use a FTP protocol that automatically transfers only the updated files to the host provider. This, of course, makes sense when one is managing a web site populated with oodles of static html pages. WORD PRESS, OTOH, dynamically generates all content on the fly. New concept. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like my web host provider supports it. Just about every provider does! That is because it takes only MySQL. Any ISP has that nowadays. The rest you have to do yourself, but installation is not hard. WORD PRESS is very popular. Yes. Even the White House uses it. The quality is only so-so but once something becomes the standard it pushes out better technology. Contingency and incumbency at work. I'm still a little puzzled over what options are available as to WHERE one edits personal content prior to publishing material out on the web. That's a problem. You have to learn how to use it. I suppose you can establish protected folders on your web site. But I find it runs rather slowly on line, and I ended up doing many dire things that wiped it out several times. I reloaded from scratch 2 or 3 times. So I recommend installing your own private Apache server and MySQL server on your own computer. There is a free program called XAMPP that does that. The only problem I encountered was that Port 80 is not available so I ended up with localhost:90. It works fine. Programs find it without difficulty. After you install that, you cram everything in folders here: C:\xampp\htdocs That's your local server. A program ending in .php will only execute under this folder. For example: C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress C:\xampp\htdocs\test -- the place I have been testing the ScriptCase database manager C:\xampp\htdocs\xampp -- the place where phpMyAdmin and other utilities live. It looks to me like WORD PRESS is set up such that the preferred (or default) way of editing personal content is through the use of one's favorite web browser, where one actually performs the raw editing of personal content (pages) on-line. Yup. It only works with a browser. And not very well at that. You can hold back pages and do a test run of them without publishing, but it turns out they do not look or act the same was as when you publish. I recommend publishing them on you own private XAMPP server. The problem then becomes how do you migrate pages from your server to the ISP. There are a number of utility programs that come with WordPress to Export and Import, and several add-on programs that do this. Supposedly. I have concluded the reason there are so many add-on programs is because none of them works right. If you transfer the files three times you end up with three copies of everything. You CANNOT erase things. They keep popping up again. The only way to kill them dead is go into MySQL and wiping out the whole database, and install from scratch. It's a long story. I'm wondering... can one perform most of the major editing on one's home PC and then ftp/upload the finished content after most of the fixes have been completed? FPT makes your ISP think it is your personal computer. Nothing works. You have to cram most of the content into the MySQL database. You can write the pages and posts and then export them. That does work. But the underlying structure has to be the some in both places, and the MySQL files that hold the pages and posts have to be manually emptied out, as I said. It is surprising to me that software is not fundamentally easier to use or more reliable than it was in 1978. It is easier for the users, but for programmers it remains a nightmare of complexity. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to use MySQL ISAM-style indexes today. The program syntax is weird and backwards and you can never tell what is supposed to be in single or double quotes. I think I got it to work, because when I deleted the indexes, the program crashed. The thing is, the program took 7 seconds to do a search without the indexes, and 7 seconds with them. They do not seem to do a bit of good! Maybe I am using them wrong, but I have been using indexes for 40 years and it should not be so damn difficult or ineffectual. I cannot imagine how ordinary folks get anything done with computers. I guess they use only canned software, off the shelf, with no changes. WordPress and other similar programs use .php code to generate HTML code on-the-fly. That is, short programs generate long programs, which is what actually runs. I have looked carefully at some of the code that is generated, because I wondered why it ran so slow and kept screwing up. I looked at code from the White House and other professional sites. (You just right click and select view page source.) The code looks like it was written by idiots! It is incredibly redundant and it keeps making calls that take forever, such as loading images by calling the Internet; i.e., the front page at LENR-CANR has this statement to display the little picture of the book: . . . pa href= http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BeaudetteBookSmall.jpg So, every time someone visits the ISP sends out a call to find LENR-CANR.org and translate it into a web address for *every single image and
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To put aside the rant from a moment, you actually write the web page content using a built in HTML editor called TinyMCE. It is tiny yet annoying. It is so rudimentary it does not even support tables. I recommend you add on a plug-in such as: TinyMCE Advanced http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/faq/ This one works. Several other oxymoronic plug-ins such as Ultimate TinyMCE and Simple TinyMCE do not work. At least, not if you follow directions. There is probably something you are supposed to know but don't. Modern software is predicated on knowing the secret handshake. You can write the text with any HTML editor, transfer it to the TinyMCE screen in HTML mode, and then have TinyMCE Advanced execute the Cleanup Messy Code function. This straightens out stuff and replaces depreciated code such as i . . . and u . . . with the approved modern version. All of this stuff is crowd-sourced. The procedures, documentation and instructions are full of idiosyncratic stuff and comments such as: This widget has been deprecated, and will eventually be removed. DO NOT use it. You have been warned. It is charming in a way. It reminds me of the early days of microcomputer software. I guess there is no way you could address so many different market segments and applications without free-form crowd-sourcing, a la Linux and . . . [shudder] Wikipedia. - Jed
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Jed, Thank you very much for your very, very, VERY thorough analysis of the trials and tribulations of working with WORD PRESS. Your analysis scared the b'jesus out to me! ;-) Well, at least you tell a cautionary tale, and that was important for me to hear. I'll take a look at how you managed to perform the remote publishing procedure. I sure would like to keep a similar kind of an arrangement if I can. The idea of doing all my editing on-line strikes me as an incredibly stupid idea. But I guess if you don't have much content maybe doing it all on-line doesn't matter that much. Unfortunately, putting together a local server for development work and then getting one's localhoast web site to link up to the WWW sounds like it will involve a lot of finicky work and work-arounds. BTW, your MySQL comment - about the 7 second delay, I feel your pain. We have had similar issues that we had to resolve at work where documents scanned in were not exporting into our Content Management database in a timely fashion. We were getting MONTHS behind schedule! Turns out they were exporting slowly because the original programmers hired to do the job did not think to insert the indexes properly. As a result each document when exported into the DB2 tables performed a complete sequential search through millions, literally MILLIONS of rows of data for each INSERT. Once we figured out the snafu and got them properly indexed it was just a matter of seconds. It sounds to me as like you still might not be using the MySQL ISAM function correctly. It definitely shouldn't take 7 seconds. The fact that it takes the exact same time either way is a dead giveaway that the indexing portion is not working - IMHO. Thanks for your insights, Jed, Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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Jed, Using Puppy 431, see this: http://fl-broker-cam.xp3.biz/Index%20of%20_wordpress.html EZ Warm Regards, Reality Jed Rothwell wrote: OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson svj.orionwo...@gmail.com mailto:svj.orionwo...@gmail.com wrote:
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mix...@bigpond.com wrote: This is what it should look like. However I think the solution is to not have a frame embedded within a frame in the first place. What you need is to have the tool bar (menu bar?) at the top, attached to the same frame that is displayed in http://lenr-canr.org/index/Summary/Summary.php, WordPress is inflexible and will not allow you to ditch the frames. I think I will go with the easy solution. I am tired of this project. - Jed
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Okay, I put in links to all library indexes the make it convenient to open them in new windows. See: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=1081 I added the Library guide page showing how to do this: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/?page_id=1172 I have had it with this project. Enough already. - Jed
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: I have had it with this project. Enough already. Despite any critical comments, you have done a remarkable job, Jed. The site is vastly improved and has a modern look. Why not consider some simple advertising links? You deserve to offset your costs and I would have no trouble ignoring such advertising on the web site. :-) T
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Why not consider some simple advertising links? You deserve to offset your costs and I would have no trouble ignoring such advertising on the web site. :-) T I agree, it will not make you rich but at least to pay the hosting costs. If you do not like the ads, explain how to make a contribution to support the site with paypal. mic
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Michele Comitini michele.comit...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, it will not make you rich but at least to pay the hosting costs. If you do not like the ads, explain how to make a contribution to support the site with paypal. True. I contribute to several sites both with and without ads. I recognize the value I receive from them and am willing to pay. I ignore most ads, still; although, many of the google mail ads are applicable to things that I am seeking and I visit the ad sites. T
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In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Mon, 5 Mar 2012 17:18:42 -0500: Hi Jed, [snip] I have Gone to the Dark Side with WordPress. LENR-CANR.org is now converted and live. I am still making adjustments behind the scenes. See: http://lenr-canr.org I notice that the library now presents 2 vertical scroll bars, i.e. a window within a window. This is bloody nuisance, not to mention a waste of screen real estate. Can you simplify it to a single window? (Perhaps make the Summary Detail etc. header appear as tabs or a menu bar on the contained window?) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
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mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I notice that the library now presents 2 vertical scroll bars, i.e. a window within a window. This is bloody nuisance, not to mention a waste of screen real estate. Can you simplify it to a single window? That is a function of your screen size. There are no double bars on my computer. If there are horizontal ones this procedure should take care of them, as soon as I figure out how to make it work right: http://genesistutorials.com/genesis-structural-wraps-creating-a-full-width-genesis-child-theme To reduce vertical ones, I gave the screen a lot of empty space within the frame. You have to set pixels vertically; you can't just say 100%, the way you can horizontally. I may put a large button at the top saying Show only Library Screen which will link to the screen outside the iframe, like so: http://lenr-canr.org/index/Summary/Summary.php Here is another view sorted by publication with 3 levels. Probably useless but programmers love to do this kind of thing: http://lenr-canr.org/index/Publications/Publications.php - Jed
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In reply to Jed Rothwell's message of Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:38:09 -0500: Hi Jed, [snip] mix...@bigpond.com wrote: I notice that the library now presents 2 vertical scroll bars, i.e. a window within a window. This is bloody nuisance, not to mention a waste of screen real estate. Can you simplify it to a single window? That is a function of your screen size. Indeed. When one hits ctrl- often enough, the whole screen fits and they go away. Unfortunately by that time the font is so small as to be difficult to read. There are no double bars on my computer. If there are horizontal ones this procedure should take care of them, as soon as I figure out how to make it work right: http://genesistutorials.com/genesis-structural-wraps-creating-a-full-width-genesis-child-theme To reduce vertical ones, I gave the screen a lot of empty space within the frame. You have to set pixels vertically; you can't just say 100%, the way you can horizontally. I may put a large button at the top saying Show only Library Screen which will link to the screen outside the iframe, like so: http://lenr-canr.org/index/Summary/Summary.php This is what it should look like. However I think the solution is to not have a frame embedded within a frame in the first place. What you need is to have the tool bar (menu bar?) at the top, attached to the same frame that is displayed in http://lenr-canr.org/index/Summary/Summary.php, rather than being attached to an enclosing frame. It may need to be a menu rather than a toolbar. If you really want to keep both frames, then simply turn off the scroll bars on the external frame (since it doesn't really need to scroll anyway). Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
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Steven .. I have used the following software for years .. They allow me to design and maintain many small web sites. Might be worth a look. -DonW- Web Design: http://www.xara.com/us/products/designer/ http://www.lauyan.com/en/tw-home/index.html http://www.dbqwikedit.com/ Making SlideShows with Photos and Movies: http://www.wnsoft.com/picturestoexe/ http://www.magix.com/ca/photostory-on-cd-dvd/deluxe/ Photo Editing: http://www.acdsee.com/en/products/acdsee-pro-5 http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/autocollage/ http://www.portraitprofessional.com/ Video: http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/download/trials/moviestudiope http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html?gclid=CIODqrzLz64CFcoZQgodPns hXw Visual Processor: http://www.smartdraw.com/product/ Flash: http://www.flashslider.com/ http://aleosoft.com/ http://koolmoves.com/ Audio: http://coolrecordedit.com/ http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/ http://www.magix.com/us/music-maker/ http://www.chordpulse.com/index.html Data Management: http://www.treepad.com/ http://www.exe-ebookcreator.com/ http://www.treepad.com/treepad_pdf/ http://www.treepad.com/treepadfreeware/ http://www.bookmarkbuddy.net/index.php http://softi.co.uk/scanwiz.htm From: OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson [mailto:orionwo...@charter.net] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2012 8:14 AM To: Vortex Subject: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages For more than five years now I have occasionally spent highly focused periods of time exploring a personal interest of mine, an interest that has involved exploring computer algorithms often used to simulate the physics associated with celestial mechanics. Actually, the scope of my on-going research is much broader than categorizing it as work specific only to the field of Celestial Mechanics. Much of the research eventually ended up exploring various aspects associated with chaos theory. In my research I think I've occasionally stumbled across interesting characteristics (or artifacts) that, as best as I can tell, may have been routinely dismissed and/or ignored by others, perhaps as nothing more than unimportant side-effects of little value and not worth exploring. If that's an accurate assessment, I beg to differ! Some of what I have been exploring appears eccentric enough that it would not surprise me if most simply discarded the results. Meanwhile, the only way to determine if what I've uncovered merits further research is to publish the results. The most expedient (and cheapest) way to publish in today's society is to place one's work on-line. In my own case, this would involve either creating a new subdirectory out on my current OrionWorks.com web site - or by securing a new domain name, such as OrionWorks.org. The latter idea actually sounds better to me since the subject material would focus on scholarly research, not just artistic pursuits. This leads me to ask the Collective for advice on what others might recommend as simple easy-to-use web authoring tools. I must confess the fact that my current OrionWorks.com website has been stuck in the ancient past. I still use Microsoft's antiquated FrontPage 2003 package to sporadically update certain links. Because I have not needed to update the website frequently it has not been a high priority to explore new web authoring tools. However, if I'm going to start putting together a collection of research papers that include lots of graphics (Charts and Graphs), and possibly a few animated simulations as well... well then, it's time to explore what's available, and also what's affordable! I want to employ the KISS approach. At present I have little interest in building a sophisticated website that possibly ends up incorporating fancy database search features employing SQL. However, if someone can convince me that to do so would not be too difficult...I might reconsider. My primary goal is to publish personal articles and research papers that allows others easy access. I want to give users the ability to download papers and articles in popular formats, like PDF. One of the goals would be to give everyone the ability download articles onto tablets. BTW, as hinted at, some of my computer simulations have produced extensive animated graphics. Technically speaking, it would be more accurate to say that my some of computer simulations generate individual graphic files that in turn need to be assembled into a video file in order to comprehend what's happening. Can anyone recommend economical software packages that allow one to assemble batches of individual/still graphics into an animated video clip? Thank you for letting me bend your Collective ears. I'm am now all ears! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
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I have Gone to the Dark Side with WordPress. LENR-CANR.org is now converted and live. I am still making adjustments behind the scenes. See: http://lenr-canr.org Anyway, regarding WordPress: It is a crowd-sourced mess. There are 18,626 plug-ins available at http://wordpress.org/ but most of the ones I have tried don't work. Anyway it is source code, completely readable, so I guess you cannot accidentally insert viruses. You can do plenty of other harm, but all you have to do is go to the plugins and deactivate the unruly one and bingo, it's gone. If you want to use WordPress, my advice is to pay for a Theme that has been carefully assembled and tested by some company. I like studiopress.com The stuff available for free is worth what you pay for it. Look for a Theme that already does most of what you want to do. Studiopress has one to display photographs: http://www.studiopress.com/themes/expose I have no idea whether this is good or bad. There are a zillion Themes available for every application you can think of, and many others you have no thought of. I must admit, a single source of software could never cover such a broad range of apps. - Jed
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Jed, +1 Nice job! Please feed us with some statistics in the next days! mic Il 05 marzo 2012 23:18, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com ha scritto: I have Gone to the Dark Side with WordPress. LENR-CANR.org is now converted and live. I am still making adjustments behind the scenes. See: http://lenr-canr.org Anyway, regarding WordPress: It is a crowd-sourced mess. There are 18,626 plug-ins available at http://wordpress.org/ but most of the ones I have tried don't work. Anyway it is source code, completely readable, so I guess you cannot accidentally insert viruses. You can do plenty of other harm, but all you have to do is go to the plugins and deactivate the unruly one and bingo, it's gone. If you want to use WordPress, my advice is to pay for a Theme that has been carefully assembled and tested by some company. I like studiopress.com The stuff available for free is worth what you pay for it. Look for a Theme that already does most of what you want to do. Studiopress has one to display photographs: http://www.studiopress.com/themes/expose I have no idea whether this is good or bad. There are a zillion Themes available for every application you can think of, and many others you have no thought of. I must admit, a single source of software could never cover such a broad range of apps. - Jed
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Steven, Video) there are plenty those two are a good power/features compromise: http://www.kdenlive.org/features http://www.kinodv.org/article/static/2 Web Authoring) You need 3 things: a) an editor b) a web framework c [optional]) a css + javascript framework a) I would suggest to stay away from complex visual editors ala frontpage any such tool put constraints on creativity and becomes obsolete. Use your favorite editor and your browser to see the results. IMHO beter keep the effort of typing (i.e. the typewriter/editor) distinct from the writing (i.e. the story you put on the paper). Use the following site to learn and answer almost any doubt about html+css+javascript: http://w3schools.com b) To answer this question you need to choose based on your favorite programming language and/or programming skills. You can stay away from SQL in many frameworks. Some hide any db complexity others do not use a db at all. In the list below choose starting from the language you know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks c) This is optional and is needed to manage nice presentational features such as fancy menus, visual effects and recognition of user device (pc, tablet, smartphone ecc ecc). The choice often depends on b) i.e. some web frameworks impose you to use their own css+js and you will eventually fight to make them work your way, while others do not include anything, just plain html so you may need to find your preference. In the links below you will find that most support generation of vectorial graphics. If you are brave enough you can use them to show realtime computation of your algorithms on users browser. suggested: http://www.developerdrive.com/2011/09/13-javascript-frameworks-that-can-make-you-a-better-web-developer/ more complete frameworks: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/20-javascript-frameworks-worth-checking-out/ HTH mic Il 03 marzo 2012 18:44, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com ha scritto: I know nothing about video files, but for web authoring, I have been assimilated by the Borg and I have just about finished transferring everything to WordPress. I am using a minimalist, ultra-clean version: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/ This should be finished in a few days. I am going to cut out the the black plane and make it full-width. I need to fix a few glitches. The images that click to expand keep showing up in different formats, and the lists of papers keep changing format. This is based on: http://www.studiopress.com/themes/genesis It is clean and well written compared to other Themes. Be sure you follow instructions and use the sample blank child theme. This company has several populated themes as well. With modern software you have work to keep it simple. You have to ruthlessly prune out options, mainly by remarking out stuff in the parameter file (syle.css). Rococo complexity is the norm. For example, this Theme came with quoted text in a strange font, with the text in grey shown in an off-white background, making it impossible to read. Who does that?! Why? Add a few of these /* */ to style.css and bingo, that's gone. The thing about WordPress is that there are a zillion group-sourced add-on utilities for it: the plugins and widgets. Some are free, some at minimal cost. You find one for just about any purpose. Most of the ones I have found are not comprehensive or of good quality, but they cover a broader range of applications than any single-source software could provide, even from a company as big as Microsoft. Look for video related plug-ins here, or with Google: http://wordpress.org/ See if you find something suitable. - Jed
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Can anyone recommend economical software packages that allow one to assemble batches of individual/still graphics into an animated video clip imagemagick is probably the easiest way to do this. If you have real research, why not just make a PDF with latex and post on arXiv? That's certainly KISS, and you don't have to worry about hosting. On my own site I host a bunch of PDFs that I've written, and I find it easiest in this case to just write the HTML by hand. No weird programs to install, low server load, etc. On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Michele Comitini michele.comit...@gmail.com wrote: Steven, Video) there are plenty those two are a good power/features compromise: http://www.kdenlive.org/features http://www.kinodv.org/article/static/2 Web Authoring) You need 3 things: a) an editor b) a web framework c [optional]) a css + javascript framework a) I would suggest to stay away from complex visual editors ala frontpage any such tool put constraints on creativity and becomes obsolete. Use your favorite editor and your browser to see the results. IMHO beter keep the effort of typing (i.e. the typewriter/editor) distinct from the writing (i.e. the story you put on the paper). Use the following site to learn and answer almost any doubt about html+css+javascript: http://w3schools.com b) To answer this question you need to choose based on your favorite programming language and/or programming skills. You can stay away from SQL in many frameworks. Some hide any db complexity others do not use a db at all. In the list below choose starting from the language you know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks c) This is optional and is needed to manage nice presentational features such as fancy menus, visual effects and recognition of user device (pc, tablet, smartphone ecc ecc). The choice often depends on b) i.e. some web frameworks impose you to use their own css+js and you will eventually fight to make them work your way, while others do not include anything, just plain html so you may need to find your preference. In the links below you will find that most support generation of vectorial graphics. If you are brave enough you can use them to show realtime computation of your algorithms on users browser. suggested: http://www.developerdrive.com/2011/09/13-javascript-frameworks-that-can-make-you-a-better-web-developer/ more complete frameworks: http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/20-javascript-frameworks-worth-checking-out/ HTH mic Il 03 marzo 2012 18:44, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com ha scritto: I know nothing about video files, but for web authoring, I have been assimilated by the Borg and I have just about finished transferring everything to WordPress. I am using a minimalist, ultra-clean version: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/ This should be finished in a few days. I am going to cut out the the black plane and make it full-width. I need to fix a few glitches. The images that click to expand keep showing up in different formats, and the lists of papers keep changing format. This is based on: http://www.studiopress.com/themes/genesis It is clean and well written compared to other Themes. Be sure you follow instructions and use the sample blank child theme. This company has several populated themes as well. With modern software you have work to keep it simple. You have to ruthlessly prune out options, mainly by remarking out stuff in the parameter file (syle.css). Rococo complexity is the norm. For example, this Theme came with quoted text in a strange font, with the text in grey shown in an off-white background, making it impossible to read. Who does that?! Why? Add a few of these /* */ to style.css and bingo, that's gone. The thing about WordPress is that there are a zillion group-sourced add-on utilities for it: the plugins and widgets. Some are free, some at minimal cost. You find one for just about any purpose. Most of the ones I have found are not comprehensive or of good quality, but they cover a broader range of applications than any single-source software could provide, even from a company as big as Microsoft. Look for video related plug-ins here, or with Google: http://wordpress.org/ See if you find something suitable. - Jed
RE: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Vorts, Thanks for all the useful web video input suggestions. Not surprisingly, some of the tips felt more compatible to my current needs and temperament than others. I am reaching an age in my life where I'm no longer enamored with the mystique of coding extensively in HTML or related programming web-authoring languages. When I was still in my 30s and 40s, I probably would have eaten all that stuff up! But alas, I no longer wish to be a web master wizard anymore. I seem to be graduating into senior nerd status. I suspect one of the objectives many a senior nerd finds highly attractive is the desire to delegate as much low-level coding into capable hands of reasonably well-written canned software packages. If I can find a package that contains a plethora of canned formats and themes, I'm sure I can find a something that will satisfy most of my needs, particularly if one is willing to put up with making reasonable compromises. At present Jed's suggestion of checking out WordPress seems to be a very promising tool. It might fit my current predilections. It seems to handle most (if not ALL) of the behind-the-scenes code. I gather one can still go in and tweak bits of “code” if you really haf-ta, but then you really don't haf-ta. That's fine by me. I just want to be able to publish some of my findings in a direct and efficient manner. Thanks for the suggestion, Jed. But then... Jed admits he has been assimilated into the Borg, so perhaps I should take his suggestion with a grain of salt and a fully charged laser pistol set on random modulation! ;-) Again, thanks for all the suggestions. I appreciate it! Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
Steven, Start here: http://scottjarvis.com/page81.htm Then burn linux puppy 431 to a CD to create live CD. Run in old computer and boot up the Jarvis URL. Right click any place on page and left click View Page Source. Do the same with http://pupweb.org/desktop/ . Then download LIT.zip using live CD from here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=490722#490722 unzip and boot. Examine Script files within by right click then left click Open as test. Enjoy the KISS world. Warm Regards, Reality OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote: For more than five years now I have occasionally spent highly focused periods of time exploring a personal interest of mine, an interest that has involved Snip
Re: [Vo]:Requesting recommendations on Web Authoring tools animation generation packages
I know nothing about video files, but for web authoring, I have been assimilated by the Borg and I have just about finished transferring everything to WordPress. I am using a minimalist, ultra-clean version: http://lenr-canr.org/wordpress/ This should be finished in a few days. I am going to cut out the the black plane and make it full-width. I need to fix a few glitches. The images that click to expand keep showing up in different formats, and the lists of papers keep changing format. This is based on: http://www.studiopress.com/themes/genesis It is clean and well written compared to other Themes. Be sure you follow instructions and use the sample blank child theme. This company has several populated themes as well. With modern software you have work to keep it simple. You have to ruthlessly prune out options, mainly by remarking out stuff in the parameter file (syle.css). Rococo complexity is the norm. For example, this Theme came with quoted text in a strange font, with the text in grey shown in an off-white background, making it impossible to read. Who does that?! Why? Add a few of these /* */ to style.css and bingo, that's gone. The thing about WordPress is that there are a zillion group-sourced add-on utilities for it: the plugins and widgets. Some are free, some at minimal cost. You find one for just about any purpose. Most of the ones I have found are not comprehensive or of good quality, but they cover a broader range of applications than any single-source software could provide, even from a company as big as Microsoft. Look for video related plug-ins here, or with Google: http://wordpress.org/ See if you find something suitable. - Jed
