Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Edmund von der Burg
So London.pm looks good on the outside due to Tony's efforts. But is there any inner beauty? Here is my cunning plan to regain the inner beauty: 1) wget -r the current site to a bunch of static files 2) tedious finding of repeated text replacing them with Template::Toolkit [% INCLUDE ... %]

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread James Laver
On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: Here is my cunning plan to regain the inner beauty: 1) wget -r the current site to a bunch of static files We have a bunch of static files. The whole thing is generated from xml. 2) tedious finding of repeated text replacing them with

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages Apache::Template FTW! Then cache on the front. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site:

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Leo Lapworth
2009/7/3 Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages Apache::Template FTW! Then cache on the front. /me passed Edmund the can of worms and points to the JFDI

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Edmund von der Burg
2009/7/3 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: Here is my cunning plan to regain the inner beauty:  1) wget -r the current site to a bunch of static files We have a bunch of static files. The whole thing is generated from xml.  2) tedious

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Jonathan Stowe
2009/7/3 Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com: On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote:  3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages Apache::Template FTW! Then cache on the front. I hear that pastel-like seaside shades are very much in vogue

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread James Laver
On 3 Jul 2009, at 13:37, Edmund von der Burg wrote: Nope - need to be able to view the final HTML without running a server. Otherwise there is just yet another barrier to making changes that stop people from doing things. A little build script is the simplest possible compromise Right,

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread James Laver
On 3 Jul 2009, at 13:45, Jonathan Stowe wrote: I hear that pastel-like seaside shades are very much in vogue this season. Well PHP 5.3 was released this week. We should definitely use that.* --James *along with postgres. it's christmas, you know.

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Jonathan Stowe
2009/7/3 Edmund von der Burg e...@ecclestoad.co.uk: 2009/7/3 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: Here is my cunning plan to regain the inner beauty:  1) wget -r the current site to a bunch of static files We have a bunch of static files.

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Martin A. Brooks
On 03/07/2009 13:52, James Laver wrote: Right, because it's not like we're all programmers or anything and may know how to set up a server For the most part programmers don't know how to manage servers, that's why you're programmers and don't step up to become sysadmins. Programmers are

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Simon Wilcox
On 3/7/09 13:45, Jonathan Stowe wrote: 2009/7/3 Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com: On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages Apache::Template FTW! Then cache on the front. I hear that pastel-like

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Tom Barrett
2009/7/3 Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.net On 03/07/2009 13:52, James Laver wrote: Right, because it's not like we're all programmers or anything and may know how to set up a server For the most part programmers don't know how to manage servers, that's why you're programmers and

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Uri Guttman
DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: DH On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages DH Apache::Template FTW! Then cache on the front. Template::Simple is the easiest and fastest one

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 3 Jul 2009, at 16:47, Uri Guttman wrote: DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: DH On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages DH Apache::Template FTW! Then cache on the front.

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Dirk Koopman
Uri Guttman wrote: DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: DH On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html pages DH Apache::Template FTW! Then cache on the front. Template::Simple is the

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Uri Guttman
DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: DH On 3 Jul 2009, at 16:47, Uri Guttman wrote: DH == Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com writes: DH On 3 Jul 2009, at 12:32, Edmund von der Burg wrote: 3) tiny, simple, bulletproof script to take templates and generate html

Re: Genius plan for the website!

2009-07-03 Thread Uri Guttman
DK == Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk writes: DK Uri Guttman wrote: Template::Simple is the easiest and fastest one out there. and the connection to london.pm is that one of your members funded its conversion to a cpan module! also it now has compiled templates (in git but not