[ciapug] Re: December meeting

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Nov 28, 2007 4:56 PM, Chris Hettinger <cjh at raccoon.com> wrote:

>
> Additionally I used the MooFx (http://moofx.mad4milk.net/) accordion
> script, with some tweaks to have a set height, on the homepage for the
> first content pane in the left column. Nothing dynamic here yet, so not
> to magically.
>

I'm a big fan of mootools (the library behind MooFx). There are three
header's on the www.ubuntu.com homepage, one is static (the definition) the
other two have flash-like animation that were done with moo. I also like
it's ajax library which I feel makes json and ajax quite simple.


> Mike Parks wrote:
> > A thought? With no real set plan on a discussion, and with the Christmas
> > holiday. There may be a few other who may not be able to attend, because
> > of holiday plans. Maybe we pass on December, and plan the January
> meeting?
>

I won't be able to come tonight, family stuff.

I have a couple topics to suggest for future meetings:
 * Cache control - i.e. making your site cache friendly or unfriendly
depending on your needs. PHP seems to make it easy for your site to be
unfriendly. I've struggled on a couple different projects to make the sites
cache friendly. www.elitecms.com demonstrates a project that I wrote that I
feel does a pretty good job of being cache friendly.

 * Sharing resources between sites - this idea defies simple explanation,
but it's got me very frustrated. Maybe this would be a better mailing list
discussion. But to describe: I have a CMS (Drupal) that serves
www.ubuntu.com. I have several other sites that work with ubuntu.com, for
example, http://webapps.ubuntu.com/course_locator/ that may be written in a
completely different programming language (Python) and/or live on different
servers but need to appear to the end-user as part of the same website. I'm
trying to think of a way that allows me to make a change in one place and
have it affect all of the sites. (For example the navigation at the top
right of the page)

 * CSS maintenance - Managing PHP and Javascript is no problem. I can
comment my code and use includes, functions/classes and libraries and then
when I come back to my code months or years later quickly get up to speed.
I've not had the same success in managing my CSS. For some reason my rules
look like postscript when I return to them after a little while.

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
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