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[wxCode-users] To all dev: wxCode database

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,
   since we are in a transition phase, I suggest all developers of 
wxCode to insert their components info in the wxCode database without 
using the submit form, just using phpMyAdmin which is (temporary) 
configured as not to require passwords: just go to

http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/phpMyAdmin/

and insert a new row in the "components" table filling all the info of 
the table.

I hope everyone will like the new site look (which is can be seen at 
http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/test).

Thanks indeed,
Francesco Montorsi

PS: soon, also the component websites will need some work to be adapted 
to the new wxCode look... but it will be easy...

Re: [wxCode-users] To all dev: wxCode database

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,
   for the last page of the site ("Edit your component") which allows 
mantainers to update the database, I need to use some type of 
authentication; I think HTTP Basic authentication will be enough... it 
will just require that each mantainer remembers its "wxCode mantainer 
password" and then type it in the HTTP authentication box in the wxCode 
site to be able to edit its component info stored in the database....

if anyone has a better idea, please let me know.

Francesco Montorsi


PS: now all the pages of the site validate as XHTML strict & CSS; I'm 
going to
- complete the edit page
- set up the wiki
- complete the docs of the site (for mantainance)
and then the site will be complete...



Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> Hi,
>   since we are in a transition phase, I suggest all developers of wxCode 
> to insert their components info in the wxCode database without using the 
> submit form, just using phpMyAdmin which is (temporary) configured as 
> not to require passwords: just go to
> 
> http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/phpMyAdmin/
> 
> and insert a new row in the "components" table filling all the info of 
> the table.
> 
> I hope everyone will like the new site look (which is can be seen at 
> http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/test).
> 
> Thanks indeed,
> Francesco Montorsi
> 
> PS: soon, also the component websites will need some work to be adapted 
> to the new wxCode look... but it will be easy...
> 
> 
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Re: [wxCode-users] To all dev: wxCode database

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,
    since the HTTP basic authentication was quite ugly; I decided to use 
a pure PHP authentication.
The usernames & passwords of wxCode mantainers are now stored in the 
wxCode 'mantainers' table.

All mantainers should go to
http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/phpMyAdmin/
select the Mantainers table and click "Insert" and then insert their 
name, email, sf user account and password. When inserting this last one, 
click the drop down list "Function" and choose "MD5" so that your 
password will be secured.
(Note: for David Hart & Thomas Monjalon I've already inserted their 
info, before removing them from components, in the table; they just need 
to choose their passwords).

I've completed all pages of wxCode site and now I just need that you all 
update the DB with your info.
I've also already setup roughly the pmwiki for wxcode:
http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/test/wiki

Otto, can I begin to move the site out from the test dir ?

Francesco Montorsi



Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> Hi,
>   for the last page of the site ("Edit your component") which allows 
> mantainers to update the database, I need to use some type of 
> authentication; I think HTTP Basic authentication will be enough... it 
> will just require that each mantainer remembers its "wxCode mantainer 
> password" and then type it in the HTTP authentication box in the wxCode 
> site to be able to edit its component info stored in the database....
> 
> if anyone has a better idea, please let me know.
> 
> Francesco Montorsi
> 
> 
> PS: now all the pages of the site validate as XHTML strict & CSS; I'm 
> going to
> - complete the edit page
> - set up the wiki
> - complete the docs of the site (for mantainance)
> and then the site will be complete...
> 
> 
> 
> Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>   since we are in a transition phase, I suggest all developers of 
>> wxCode to insert their components info in the wxCode database without 
>> using the submit form, just using phpMyAdmin which is (temporary) 
>> configured as not to require passwords: just go to
>>
>> http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/phpMyAdmin/
>>
>> and insert a new row in the "components" table filling all the info of 
>> the table.
>>
>> I hope everyone will like the new site look (which is can be seen at 
>> http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/test).
>>
>> Thanks indeed,
>> Francesco Montorsi
>>
>> PS: soon, also the component websites will need some work to be 
>> adapted to the new wxCode look... but it will be easy...
>>
>>
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Re: [wxCode-users] To all dev: wxCode database

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,

> Otto, can I begin to move the site out from the test dir ?
I have currently put the contents of the test folder in the htdocs 
folder saving old HTML pages in htdocs.old... I need this to do wiki 
tests...

Let me know if you like the new site...
Francesco Montorsi


> 
> Francesco Montorsi
> 
> 
> 
> Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>   for the last page of the site ("Edit your component") which allows 
>> mantainers to update the database, I need to use some type of 
>> authentication; I think HTTP Basic authentication will be enough... it 
>> will just require that each mantainer remembers its "wxCode mantainer 
>> password" and then type it in the HTTP authentication box in the 
>> wxCode site to be able to edit its component info stored in the 
>> database....
>>
>> if anyone has a better idea, please let me know.
>>
>> Francesco Montorsi
>>
>>
>> PS: now all the pages of the site validate as XHTML strict & CSS; I'm 
>> going to
>> - complete the edit page
>> - set up the wiki
>> - complete the docs of the site (for mantainance)
>> and then the site will be complete...
>>
>>
>>
>> Francesco Montorsi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>   since we are in a transition phase, I suggest all developers of 
>>> wxCode to insert their components info in the wxCode database without 
>>> using the submit form, just using phpMyAdmin which is (temporary) 
>>> configured as not to require passwords: just go to
>>>
>>> http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/phpMyAdmin/
>>>
>>> and insert a new row in the "components" table filling all the info 
>>> of the table.
>>>
>>> I hope everyone will like the new site look (which is can be seen at 
>>> http://wxcode.sourceforge.net/test).
>>>
>>> Thanks indeed,
>>> Francesco Montorsi
>>>
>>> PS: soon, also the component websites will need some work to be 
>>> adapted to the new wxCode look... but it will be easy...
>>>
>>>
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>>> from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles,
>>> informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to
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>>>
>>
>>
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Re: [wxCode-users] To all dev: wxCode database

[Tierra <et...@gm...>]

On 7/6/05, Francesco Montorsi <f18...@ya...> wrote:
> Let me know if you like the new site...

The site looks great, but is there any way to use the safe style as
the default style? Setting the style to the safe style in Firefox
works great, but you have to change it everytime you go to another
page. I noticed while resizing the window that the title division
height is aparently a percentage of the full window height (in the
"non-safe" style). That should be a fixed height (based on how much
the top fonts and graphics take up), which is what it looks like the
safe style does. That all seems odd considering you named the safe
style "wxcode-notfixed.css" which I assume means non-fixed heights,
that, or you meant it's not fixed to work in IE. This all looks like
stuff that could be fixed to work in both browsers with a little bit
of work though. Maybe I'll take a shot at this as a challenge if I
have the time. It would give me a chance to brush up on my CSS.

I would like to say though that the site looks pretty nice, I like the
design and layout.

Regards,
Bryan

Re: [wxCode-users] To all dev: wxCode database

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,

> The site looks great, but is there any way to use the safe style as
> the default style? Setting the style to the safe style in Firefox
> works great, but you have to change it everytime you go to another
> page.
For me there is not so much difference except that wxcode-notfixed.css 
works correctly with all browser while wxcode.css sometimes does not... 
so the wxcode.css was introduced to keep the site "compatible" with the 
old one as Otto asked me.
I understand that it's not feasible to continously change the stylesheet 
from the menu so tomorrow I'll create a cookie which autoselects the 
favourite stylesheet of the user....

> I noticed while resizing the window that the title division
> height is aparently a percentage of the full window height (in the
> "non-safe" style). That should be a fixed height (based on how much
> the top fonts and graphics take up), which is what it looks like the
> safe style does.
well, the problem is that in any case the "pseudo-frame" (a "block" in 
CSS terminology) in the top part of the page will always react badly to 
character-size change in the browser of the user: I changed the 
"topframe" CSS style from height: 19% to height: 10em; and as you can 
see browsing the site there is not much difference.

> That all seems odd considering you named the safe
> style "wxcode-notfixed.css" which I assume means non-fixed heights,
> that, or you meant it's not fixed to work in IE. 
I called the alternative style "wxcode-notfixed.css" because it does not 
have those "position:fixed;" CSS attributes which makes wxcode.css look 
like a frame-based site ;-)

>This all looks like
> stuff that could be fixed to work in both browsers with a little bit
> of work though. Maybe I'll take a shot at this as a challenge if I
> have the time. It would give me a chance to brush up on my CSS.
That would be great !
Please do your tests and let me know...


> I would like to say though that the site looks pretty nice, I like the
> design and layout.
Thanks ;-)
I hope that all wxCode developers will update their components ASAP to 
reflect the new site changes...

Francesco

Re: [wxCode-users] To all dev: wxCode database

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On 7/5/05, Francesco Montorsi <f18...@ya...> wrote:
>     since the HTTP basic authentication was quite ugly; I decided to use
> a pure PHP authentication.
> The usernames & passwords of wxCode mantainers are now stored in the
> wxCode 'mantainers' table.

I noticed that when you sign up for a wxCode username/password (it
should be clarified that this only to allow you to adjust the website
component database and has nothing to do with SF) it says to use
"@nospam" in your email address. But when you submit it, it happily
says that it just sent a message to you...@no.... Maybe
it needs to just add @nospam by itself or even better (but probably
too hard) make it an image. There should also be a way to then edit
these settings, but maybe I've missed that.
=20
> I've completed all pages of wxCode site and now I just need that you all
> update the DB with your info.

It looks great, Thanks.  But, ummm, where does it go? Could you put a
brief note in the readme.txt file about this and needs to be done to
maintain it. Sorry, I've been very busy the past couple weeks and
haven't been able to keep up.

Regards,
    John Labenski

Re: [wxCode-users] To all dev: wxCode database

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,

> I noticed that when you sign up for a wxCode username/password (it
> should be clarified that this only to allow you to adjust the website
> component database and has nothing to do with SF) it says to use
> "@nospam" in your email address. But when you submit it, it happily
> says that it just sent a message to you...@no.... Maybe
> it needs to just add @nospam by itself or even better (but probably
> too hard) make it an image.
you're right: I'll write some clarification in the registration form & 
also modify the script so that the @nospam is added automatically.

> There should also be a way to then edit
> these settings, but maybe I've missed that.
I haven't created a page to modify the mantainer settings since they are 
few and should not change often.
In case you need to modify yours, go to
wxcode.sourceforge.net/phpMyAdmin
I'll mail privately to you & Otto the new database password to use to 
access that page


>>I've completed all pages of wxCode site and now I just need that you all
>>update the DB with your info.
> 
> It looks great, Thanks.  But, ummm, where does it go? Could you put a
> brief note in the readme.txt file about this and needs to be done to
> maintain it. Sorry, I've been very busy the past couple weeks and
> haven't been able to keep up.
Sure; I need to write all mantainance stuff somewhere.. please check the 
other mail I'm sending you.

Francesco Montorsi