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06 Apr 2005: New web site

We've been quite busy lately migrating content from our old XML-generated webpage to a wiki solution. It is using Media Wiki (yeah, the same as in wikipedia and mono-project sites). It seems to work quite well.

The silent hope behind this idea is to make it easier to publish some learning materials about Nemerle and fix/extend the existing, so external contributors can do it.

One of my personal fears was that it is going to be inefficient. Fortunately with eAccelarator it seems to work quite well (it can now handle about 15 hits per second which is well above the typical /. attack level :-).

Another thing was the inability to make a hard copy of several related pages, like some bigger tutorials. However after little perl voodoo we rip the content from the wiki to HTML, later to TeX and finally to PDF.

One thing remains to be moved -- it's the language reference manual. It contains grammar description which I have no idea how to put into the wiki... (other than simply putting it in <pre>).

--Michal

From: dsti@bluewin.ch (194.158.228.129)

Hi Michal,

the idea of generating PDFs out of some wiki content is excellent.
If you don't mind, I would appreciate it if you could send me your perl voodoo script. I'm in the process of testing media wiki for our team board and we were already discussing that some content should also be available for offline usage. I was thinking about converting some TeX files to Wiki pages but the other way round really makes a lot more sense.

Thanks,
Daniel

dsti@bluewin.ch

From: Michal Moskal (81.219.231.40)

The code is publically available in our SVN: http://nemerle.org/svn/wiki2pdf/

From: Michal Moskal (81.219.231.40)

testing,

From: (219.93.174.106)

Best of the text i read about a problem.

From: (220.194.26.10)

We are wellocme to it's configuration.

From: (213.114.21.87)

Wellcome to the real world.

From: (218.28.14.73)

Need to be readed.

From: (69.31.86.8)

Your article is prety nice. It's a pity that i didn't see it more later.

From: (69.31.86.8)

Persone los pioneros non rabata. Great...