[columbus.pm] work stinks, more meetings, web stuff - formerl y 'ping'

[Charles Day]

I build pages using a header file, navigation file, actual html pages, & the
footer file, so the html might look like this:

<!--header--->
<!--nav-->

<h1>boring header</h1>
bla bla bla

<!--footer-->




Making changes to thousands of pages takes seconds, and the boring content
remains the same.  

I'm using mod_perl to parse the tags so the link you're on is highlighted.
If this wasn't important, I'd just use SSI for all.  For example:

<!--#include virtual=/header-->
<!--#include virtual=/nav-->

<h1>boring header</h1>
bla bla bla

<!--#include virtual=/footer-->


Even the marketing idiots can edit their own webpages:)

Here's the NavBar.pm that I got from the Eagle book and customized;

http://www.s1te.com/webtools/mod_perl/

This website is also a working demo.  

Never messed with XML yet.  Like to keep it on a need to mess basis:)

Charles







-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Alexander [mailto:jalex+ at osu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 6:21 PM
To: columbus-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
Subject: Re: [columbus.pm] work stinks, more meetings, web stuff -
formerly 'ping'



Glad the list is picking back up again.  I have been pretty since April
due to changing jobs and the horridness of the job I changed to.  It's
getting better but still has to be in the bottom 10% rating IT jobs in
the world.  The management is interesting.

Anyway, we could start meeting again.  I think we still have Chad Lavy
at March First open to allowing us meet at the Smith Bros. hardware
building.  I haven't updated the web page for a while, but since I have
to update my domain as well I think I can do them together.

What are people's thoughts on using perl to automate the building of a
website.  I was working on XML documents for content and then having
seperate files for layout and templates but I have not been working on
it for a couple months.  Has anyone worked with web pages this way? 
Traditionally, I would edit in dreamweaver and FTP it up, but I was
looking for a more organized way to use XML and perl as a tool.  I am
extremely busy and slightly unorganized, so hopefully this will all get
done soon.

-Jason

Bill Anderson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Charles Day wrote:
> > Any werd on getting together this month?  If it's too much of a pain to
> > organize, how about just doing lunch somewhere or pizza at someones
house?
> > 800 employees here and nobody to talk perl to:(
> 
> I'd definitely be interested in talking Perl sometime soon.  I've got
> about 2000 lines of Perl to write by Dec. 8, and I havn't written much
> Perl since April or May so I could use some review and discussion of
> obscure and wonderful Perlisms.
> 
> The OSU OpenSource Club is meeting at 7:00 tonight at Steak'N'Shake on
> High, so maybe we can take over that meeting with Perl. Muahahaha.
> 
> Bill
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