Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-22 Thread Kathryn Hogg
"Rebecca J. Walter" wrote: > Also with CVS it is possible to make a diff file and only upload the > PART of the file that was changed. > How to do that is still beyond me, i just know it is possible. What I would do is maintain a file tag called UPLOADED which represents the last revision upload

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-22 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:34:20AM +0100, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > Also with CVS it is possible to make a diff file and only upload the > PART of the file that was changed. > How to do that is still beyond me, i just know it is possible. Something along the lines of cvs diff [filename] to obtai

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
Also with CVS it is possible to make a diff file and only upload the PART of the file that was changed. How to do that is still beyond me, i just know it is possible. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/t

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 08:10:07PM -0500, Laurel Fan wrote: > Excerpts from linuxchix: 22-Mar-101 Re: [techtalk] Web diary. by Mary > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > So your total bandwidth consumption is the cvs commit/update > > > (depending on whether the cvs is remote or loc

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Maria G Martinez
Perhaps you might want to see this page, apparently it is a service already existing from the host (xanga.com) of biancabroussard.com http://www.biancabroussard.com/home.asp I don't knowhow useful it might be, but it seems to be what you have been discussing. Hope it helps. Maria --- Mary Gar

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 22-Mar-101 Re: [techtalk] Web diary. by Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So your total bandwidth consumption is the cvs commit/update > > (depending on whether the cvs is remote or local), and however much it > > takes ssh to send those commands over. >

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Kathryn Hogg
Mary Gardiner said: > I'm not seeing terribly much wrong with these ideas yet :) except the > reuploading thing. You're too used to a cable modem now Jenn (Mary's > diary entries are now well over 200K and that used to take some minutes > on a modem, and I'm impatient, and it was costing us a litt

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 05:08:03PM -0500, Laurel Fan wrote: > Then do something like: > > ssh you@remotemachine "cd www/src; cvs update -dP" > ssh you@remotemachine "cd www/src; make" > > So your total bandwidth consumption is the cvs commit/update > (depending on whether the cvs is remote or lo

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 22-Mar-101 Re: [techtalk] Web diary. by Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'm not seeing terribly much wrong with these ideas yet :) except the > reuploading thing. You're too used to a cable modem now Jenn (Mary's > diary entries are now well over 200K an

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:38:11AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If I > > reconsider the dynamic regeneration of pages make will be involved > > too... but I can't see myself using C for a webpage generation script. > > This sentence implies that you think make is only for C. It isn't. > Yo

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread jenn
Mary Gardiner wrote: > > If I > reconsider the dynamic regeneration of pages make will be involved > too... but I can't see myself using C for a webpage generation script. This sentence implies that you think make is only for C. It isn't. You can use it for anything. Jenn V. -- "Do you

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:09:55AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hm. The make would run a shell script (well, nowadays probably a > perl or python script - this would be where the PHP would come into > it) that takes the newly-committed text file or HTML lump, adds the > desired headers and f

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:45:02PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Unfortunately, there isn't any directory notification on Unix. > > It's not clear whether you're including Linux as Unix, but Linux (2.4) does > have directory notification. See Documentation/dnotify.txt in

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:48:10AM -0500, Laurel Fan wrote: > A cron job might seem inelegant, but to me, it doesn't look that bad, > especially since I think that people following it through email don't > have to be real-time. Web and email in general have different > latencies; when I want to s

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread jenn
Laurel Fan wrote: > (Of course, I am probably not the one to ask. Were I to do this, I > would combine make, cvs, and the remote execution feature of ssh, with > a handful of perl/C/bash programs, and probably some "nontraditional" > programming languages such as octave, gnuplot, or the C prepr

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 02:22:00PM +0100, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > but technically... > are you running a PHP script that inputs the html codes and outputs a > final html file which you then upload or what? > thats where i got confused. The initial data will be something along the lines of a fi

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread jenn
Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > I find this quite interesting, but im rather ignorant. > How exactly are you "pretty-fying" it again? i didn't understand that > part. I would imagine: adding headers, adding footers, generally making it into a web page with an actual DESIGN rather than text-that-happ

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Unfortunately, there isn't any directory notification on Unix. It's not clear whether you're including Linux as Unix, but Linux (2.4) does have directory notification. See Documentation/dnotify.txt in the kernel pool. It has some limitations. Updating a multiply-link

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Laurel Fan
Excerpts from linuxchix: 21-Mar-101 [techtalk] Web diary. by Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Now there is one problem with the dynamic pages: the mailing list. Is > there any better way of noticing the addition of a new entry aside from > a cron job (ie directory notification or

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
but technically... are you running a PHP script that inputs the html codes and outputs a final html file which you then upload or what? thats where i got confused. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tech

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 01:11:50PM +0100, Rebecca J. Walter wrote: > I find this quite interesting, but im rather ignorant. > How exactly are you "pretty-fying" it again? i didn't understand that > part. Well, just however I feel like. This isn't related to the actual code. It's basically if I

Re: [techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Rebecca J. Walter
I find this quite interesting, but im rather ignorant. How exactly are you "pretty-fying" it again? i didn't understand that part. ___ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk

[techtalk] Web diary.

2001-03-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
For those who aren't subscribed there has been discussion on the issues mailing list about techtalk. The first point is that someone has noted that this list tends to be women asking and men answering. This post isn't about that, but head on over to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or achives thereof if you are