From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,757d3d6a4830d6a4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-17 04:43:54 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed.tiscali.ch!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!surfnet.nl!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Holm Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Idea of a new Ada website. Message-ID: <20030817134330.5c4d4e65.david@realityrift.com> References: X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.8) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="XWcQ,xx:PlOaW=.D" Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:43:54 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.208.105.88 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1061120634 217.208.105.88 (Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:43:54 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:43:54 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41630 Date: 2003-08-17T11:43:54+00:00 List-Id: --XWcQ,xx:PlOaW=.D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I would like to see a general Ada page that carries nicely organized inform= ation and which doesn't look like it was designed in the early nineties. Perhaps something = like http://www.devx.com/ without all the ads and microsoftisms. Adapower's look= is simply outdated and makes people new to Ada think that we are dealing with a dead language.= You can do wonders with some stylesheets these days even without having any artistic talent wh= atsoever (believe me, I know ;). Having a system which allows users to submit stories, links etc would be gr= eat too (of course they should be moderated before placed on the webpage). That way you can ha= ve a set of moderaters you trust check the webpage regulary and approve any new stuff. = That way you minimize the possibility of the site dying when you lose the interest/time to work o= n it (like adahome or adapower). I don't know of your past website development experience but these things a= re fairly simple to do with a database and some php. Bonafide OS Development (http://www.osdeve= r.net/) has a similar system for it's links. Mirroring files is probably a bad idea. You would have to spend a lot of ti= me making sure all of them are up to date. The only time that would be good is if a project has d= ied and the webpage has been taken down. Instead you should provide links or maybe adopt a syst= em like what http://www.freshmeat.net/ uses as Jeffrey Creem already suggested. You can probably find a ready made system for this written in php and sql, = I wouldn't at all be surprised if freshmeat.net is open source and afaik sourceforge.net has rel= eased their sources as well. If you need any help from someone with some php/sql experience feel free to= mail me. It's been a while but it's like riding a bicycle ;). //David Holm On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:51:48 GMT "Stephane Richard" wrote: > So in essence, you'd like somewhat of a global place (categorized) where > users can go see what library exists, and see what work is being done on > them? would it be a good idea to have that library's code right on the > website too, or would it be better to have a link to where they can get t= hat > code? >=20 > --=20 > St=E9phane Richard > Senior Software and Technology Supervisor > http://www.totalweb-inc.com > For all your hosting and related needs > "chris" wrote in message > news:H0A%a.13334$Kx1.199883@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net... > > Stephane Richard wrote: > > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > I'm in the process of creating my Ada Website. and i'm wondering > > > > > > 1. if it would be considered blasphemis by the existing website of > authority > > > such as adapower (I dont want to compete, I want Ada to have more > presence > > > :-). > > > 2. Encouraged as a new effort to promote Ada in yet one more place :-= ). > > > > > > What I really dislike about Ada is no good library support. There are > > plenty of libs, but collections of them always seem disorganised or a > > bit dead. Jeff Creams' idea of having a posting area for libs is a good > > one. People can post updates on their work, and hopefully the > > organisation will be a bit better and more current than other places > > (Adapower does a good job, I wasn't talking about that site). > > >=20 >=20 --XWcQ,xx:PlOaW=.D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/P2plxVDe1wIoqX0RAgf/AKCvcZ/IkaE6REHcCaK5c8RjGHX0wgCdFZ/k 7OUkuGH7w9pz8MdvhqblZc0= =33d4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XWcQ,xx:PlOaW=.D--