Re: Meeting on Wednesday?

I'll get the minutes out as soon as I get home today.

Derek


On 11/30/06, Andrei Smirnov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> THank you all and Michael especially for a useful discussion yesterday at
> Morlug meeting.
> I wonder if Michael could send to me the name of that website to learn
> about XHTML/CSS
> and for possible web-page templates. Also that IE6 fix you were talking
> about.
> If minutes of the meeting will be provided, I'd appreciate it a lot.
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei
>
> On 11/29/06, Brian Christopher < [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I'll be there.
> > ~Brian
> >
> > Brian Christopher
> > OIT Helpdesk
> > (304) 293-4444x1
> > >>> Michael Bond <[email protected]> 11/29/06 8:44 AM >>>
> >
> > 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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> > >
> > >
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> > > http://smirnov.mae.wvu.edu
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