[Ringing-lib-discussion] Web site

[Martin B. <mjb...@li...>]

I've just put up a new version of the methods.ringing.org web site, which I 
will keep working on.  It's very incomplete at the moment, but the general 
framework seems to work.  As always, comments are welcome.

Richard, would it be possible to set up an email address at 
methods.ringing.org so I don't have to put my own one on the web pages?

As regards the database, there are a few things to be sorted out before 
it's ready for public use:

 - Lead heads don't work properly at the moment, but I know how to mend 
them.

 - Searching by place notation doesn't work.  This is because, in order to 
search by place notation, you also need to specify a number of bells. 
That's not a problem, but it means a fairly major change to DBIx::XMLServer 
which I will do sometime.

 - The database is not being kept up to date.  Richard and I are working on 
this.  If anybody has any bright ideas, we'd like to hear them.

 - I want to make the web page front end much better.  That shouldn't be 
too hard.


At the moment we have client interfaces in Perl and C++, both of which need 
documenting.  What other interfaces would be used by software developers? 
Maybe I should ask on the new ringing software list.  For web-based 
applications I expect that both Java and PHP would be useful.

The database is at a stage where software developers can start writing 
their software to use it.  As soon as we have a way of keeping it up to 
date, it will be fully usable.  So - which is going to be the first major 
ringing application to use our database?

Martin

-- 
Martin Bright
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool