Re: Meeting on Wednesday?

I plan on attending tonight's meeting as usual.  Web development tools sound
interesting.

On 11/29/06, Michael Bond <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Works for me if enough people are interested in a freeform meeting on web
> development tools (Shoot an email to the list if you plan on attending
> tonight). I will have to leave at 8pm tonight (which is when the
> 'official'part of the meeting usually winds down anyway), everyone else is
> of course welcome to stay longer.
>
> I know for a fact that there are a lot of people that do web development
> on this list, hopefully more people will chime in.
>
> I have to warn you though, that i have never used any of the WYSIWYG
> editors on linux. The only ones i have ever used are Frontpage and
> Dreamweaver, and i hate both of those with a passion. They seem to get in
> the way.
>
> Here is a list of the tools that I use:
>
> Text Editor (Linux: Emacs;)
> SCP/SFTP Client (Linux: tramp or gftp, i prefer tramp;)
> Image Editor (Linux: Gimp)
> Color Matching Tool (Linux: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html)
> validator.w3.org (to check my XHTML)
>
> To me, the most important tool is your text editor. It has to be setup
> correctly, good syntax highlighting is important and it has to know how to
> handle HTML files that have javascript, css, and php in them and treat those
> regions in their native modes.
>
> Here is an example of my .emacs file, which does the above nicely :
> http://www.the-forgotten.org/tech/emacs.html
> just one warning: i haven't tested that with recent builds of emacs (i'm
> using a different editor on OS X now), so you may need to tweak it a little
> if you give it a try.
>
> If anyone is interested in the software i use on MacOS X just let me know.
> Most of my tools on OS X are not open source though, and when I am forced to
> use windows i use the same tools on windows that I do on linux, emacs is
> just an older version.
>
> Mike.
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
>
> It may be too late to plan a presentation, but why can't we just
> discuss things of interest in an improvised fashion this time? For
> example, it would be nice to hear if anyone has experience with
> website development tools under Linux. Like if someone wants to setup
> a website which looks professionally, like many of the commercial
> sites, I guess he uses some kind of Microsoft based development tools.
> But what do we have on Linux?
> I personally hitting on some limitation of using raw HTML/PHP in
> vi/emacs, because there are many features in commercial web-sites,
> which is hard to code by hand, and most of the people don't want to
> code. I tried tools like quanta, but is it really the best there is
> for Linux?
>
> What has the Eclipse to offer? I never really used that one.
> And commercial products from RedHat - anyone had experience with those?
> Would be nice to hear about that.
>
> Andrei
>
> On 11/28/06, mbond <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I hate to be the guy that always sounds trollish when posting to the list
> ..
> but ..
>
> Tomorrow is the last wednesday of the month. I haven't seen/heard anything
> about this months meeting yet.
>
> Last month people moved on it and got a speaker lined up that gave an
> interesting talk on home network security. There was a fairly good turn
> out,
> including some new faces. I was hoping that momentum would continue
> without
> me sending a mail to the list reminding people that 'its that time again'
>
> I feel like a damn rent collector or something, reminding people its that
> painful time of the month again.
>
> There is a meeting tomorrow that needs planned (or cancelled) by the
> student
> officers, and the Geek Movie Night on December 9th that still needs
> planned
> and advertised (though, i'm almost starting to think that people are
> interested in the 'extra' social meetings since we let a Lan Party and
> Install Fest slip by as well)
>
> I'd like to quote myself from the September 27th email i sent out:
> I hate saying this but it needs done, If we do not have enough students to
> hold an election in january I will be stepping down as advisor for the
> following school year. Finding new blood is the students of the groups job
> via word of mouth and advertising. Use facebook to your advantage. Hang
> fliers, etc.
>
> Thats only 2 months away, and I'm standing firm to that statement.
>
> I want this group to succeed. And i want to HELP it succeed, but I do not
> have the time, energy, and desire to keep a COMMUNITY group alive that
> others seem to have little or no interest in helping pushing forward and
> making better.
>
> Mike.
> [email protected]
>
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