[ANN] surprise - new website to host codes

Marielle Lange mlange at lexicall.org
Thu Jan 5 17:48:30 EST 2006


Dear all,

as promised, the surprise:

<http://revolution.lexicall.org/codes/>

I was not happy with tikiwiki for managing code snippets. So, there  
is now a new cms to host all the questions and answers about coding  
issues that appear on this mailing list.

Features are:
* All posts of the last month already included in the website (more  
than 400 pages already!)

* As announced, xtalk code colorization, for ease of reading.

* Taxonomy back end. Anybody familiar with the delicious way of  
tagging your material will feel at home here. Each entry is tagged  
with a few vocabulary terms that ensure very rapid localization of  
the information you are after. All tags appear on the right handside  
of the website. An interesting one to use is the "user level"  
category which should allow beginner user to more rapidly find out  
about the information that is relevant to them. New categories or new  
terms can easily be added.

* For now, manual parsing, tagging, and editing guaranteeing quality  
of classification and interest of the posts. For the ones ready to  
help, I have a stack to help with rapid parsing of use-revolution  
digests... more about this later. I am not 100% happy with this stack  
yet.

* Powerful search feature. As powerful as google, but limited to this  
website. Provides you contextual hints (what are the "categories"  
that have some matching pages) as well as highlighting.

* Random tips on the top of the right page, to help you increase your  
knowledge of runrev.

* RSS syndication... you can easily track any change made to the  
website from your favorite RSS reader

* RSS aggregation... if you don't have a favorite RSS reader, you can  
easily keep an eye on the RSS feed of some popular programming website.

* Voting feature. You find some information particularly  
interesting... vote for it so that others make sure they don't miss it.

* User points. I use this website as an advanced scrapbook.  
Information will be updated regularly as I would do it anyway for my  
personal use. However, anybody is welcome to register and to ask for  
a moderator status which would allow them to add posts, administer  
aspects of the website or even add terms to the taxonomy. The quality  
of the taxonomy-based tagging, for instance, would greatly benefits  
from community participation. I have mentioned this feature to the  
runrev team and there is perhaps (perhaps... that will be based on  
evaluation after a few months of usage) a possibility for the most  
active contributors to be rewarded.

A lot more is possible. You can check out the list of modules there:  
<http://drupal.org/project/Modules> to know all modules that can be  
attached to this cms.

How to use it.... use the use-revolution list to post emails and to  
post replies to post. I had mentioned the <code type="xtalk"> earlier  
on but in fact it doesn't make much of a difference if you use it or  
not, so you don't really need to bother. If you want to comment about  
something on the /codes website, best is to use the use-revolution  
list to do so with a link to the page on the cms (it will then look  
like <http://revolution.lexicall.org/codes/?q=node/410>). Like many  
others, I prefer to have a single source of information to track.

It's all yours. Enjoy. Feedback welcome!!!

Marielle

PS. the website has some "slow moments" because of congestions on the  
lexicall website or on my provider servers... best is then to wait  
for 5 minutes and then try again. I intend to move to a more reliable  
provider in a few weeks time.

PS2. the open stacks gallery has now been updated with the holiday  
contributions. http://revolution.lexicall.org/stacks_education.php



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