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LinuxTag 2003: Doc Web App – "Give it a try"

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Rasmus is in favour of a Web app for the PHP documentation group. “Let’s give it a try”, he said at the PHP documentation group meeting at LinuxTag. Christian from Bitflux and me will see how the Bitflux Editor Next Generation can be used for Mozilla-based online translation of the manual inside of a Web app that fits the workflow requirements of the PHP documentation group (sepcifically the synchronisation of CVS and documentation Web app).

UPDATE

Just talking to Goba at LinuxTag, he sits next to me (hi :). These are the points we have to take care of:

– URLs are referenced with entities anywhere in the DocBook XML, see http://cvs.php.net/co.php/phpdoc/entities/global.ent?login=2&r=1.120

– some more entities are used for ready made paragrpahs (e.g. “This function is experimental…”), see http://cvs.php.net/co.php/phpdoc/en/language-snippets.ent?login=2&r=1.55

– taking a look at Livedocs, we should take care that we use the css definition attributes created by the PHP parsing the DocBook XML to format output in BXE NG

– browsing in the document is provided via Livedocs ToC. The idea is that translators choose a page from the ToC, and click on “edit” at the page. Then BXE NG will pop up an everything will be fine 🙂

UPDATe

Christian has a blog entry on this topic, too.

Tim O'Really about network aware software

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Tim O’Really wrote some thoughts about network aware software [1]. With CONESYS [2], we provide a middleware and administration infrastructure for Content Management Systems that want to be able to connect with other applications via XML. For data exchange, it makes use of the OAI harvesting protocol. CONESYS will be presented at LinuxTag [4].

via blog.bitflux.ch [5]

[1] http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3422
[2] http://www.conesys.net
[3] http://www.openarchives.org
[4] http://www.zzoss.com/weblog/index.php?m=200304#43
[5] http://blog.bitflux.ch/p1077.html

Prevayler OO DB

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From the Prevayler Web site [1]:

“Prevayler is the most reliable Free Software Prevalence layer we are capable of providing for Java.”

“With Prevalence we are finally free to create true object servers and use objects the way they were intended all along.

We are able to use any algorithm, data-structure and query language we please. We are no longer constrained to the ones provided by database and application servers which must run on disk data-blocks.

We believe the whole OO community is finally free to recover from the atrophy caused by database and application server restraints. We no longer have to distort and maim our object models to satisfy their limitations.

We no longer have DBAs imposing us database layout restrictions. We have freed them to do something more useful.

We have set fire to the table-models on our walls. We have deleted our database creation scripts. We no longer have to keep them updated.

We no longer have to license, install, configure and maintain a database and application server every single time we want to develop, demonstrate or deploy our systems for any of our clients. Give us a Java VM and we are good to go.”

via Reto Bachmann-Gmuer, private email

[1] http://www.prevayler.org/