[ANN] surprise - new website to host codes

Bill Vlahos bvlahos at mac.com
Sat Jan 7 00:44:08 EST 2006


Very nice. What is the technology behind this? Is it done in Rev or 
something else?

Bill Vlahos

On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Marielle Lange wrote:

> 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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