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I haven't done this in 3 or 4 years, but a client wants to downgrade their dynamic website into static HTML.
Are there any free tools out there to crawl a domain and generate working HTML files to make this quick and painless?
Edit: it is a Coldfusion website, if that matters.
Getleft is a nice Windows client that can do this. It is very configurable and reliable.
Wget can, too, with the --mirror option.
Try using httrack (or webhttrack/winhttrack, if you want a GUI) to spider the web site. It's free, fast, and reliable. It's also much more powerful than primitive downloaders like wget; httrack is designed for mirroring web sites.
Be aware that converting a dynamic page to static will lose you a lot of functionality. It's also not always possible - a dynamic site can present an infinite number of different static pages.
It's been a long time since I used it, but webzip was quite good.
It is not free, but for $35.00, I think your client won't go broke.
A quick google for offline browsers came up with this and this that look good..
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Our company wants to build a message-sharing system in intranet, like twitter or facebook but with file attachment in order to share messages or files quickly.
I have surveyed some micro-blogging systems like below:
Google Wave (discontinued)
Sharetronix (not free for enterprise use)
wordpress + p2 theme (not easy for user management)
Because that the sharing messages do not very important for our business,
we would like to build it like twitter, not forum-like systems.
Besides, if using CMS like Drupal or joomla, it's much fat for our purpose.
Is there any suggestion about this?
Thanks a lot.
maybe a spin on StatusNet might help solve your problem. I mention "spin" (read: modification) because you mentioned files.
To add to #darkphoenix, status.net now allows for attachments and whatnot:
http://status.net/wiki/Attachments
I'm not sure what the real goal of this might be, but some chat programs would allow for file transfers. Would be fairly light-weight, I imagine, but I have not looked into them.
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Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available? Or is it best to use wiki type systems? We want to be able to create user guides on the fly through a web front end and accessible on the net. Or is this best achieved using Wikis?
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I use MediaWiki for a user-guide and help page at my company, and it works really well!
Create custom namespaces for different parts, and if you want to have access controls you can create different groups.
The extensions are great, because you can always find one to do anything you want (ie. print to PDF for an offline copy)
I'd strongly recommend using Wikis. As long as your chosen one's markup covers your needs, it's ideal for user guides.
This post is not 100% on topic - it's about creating user manual for the workplace (as opposed to the software) - but many ideas are still worth reading.
This is a good guide for using Wiki in knowledge sharing.
http://www.futurechanges.org/patterns/
We have used Wikispaces.com to create manuals and guides for several projects. Especially if you are a non-profit with a K-12 educational mission, then current setup for a Wikispace includes Private Projects so you can evolve documentation and make it public when it's appropriate to do so.
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I always used to use Dreamweaver for web work, but now I work in Emacs, with Filezilla for non-text file uploads. What I miss from Dreamweaver is the easy synchronisation feature in its file manager. Is there any simple opensource software that would fill this gap for me?
I prefer WinSCP as an FTP/SFTP/SCP client, and it's one of the few clients I've seen that supports synchonised browsing similar to Dreamweaver. SmartFTP is another one that does this, but it's not free.
See http://winscp.net/eng/docs/task_navigate#synchronize_browsing
Aptana does that and it's opensource; however, sftp support is not free. I would say it is the one of the better alternatives to webdesign. Give it a try, I've been hooked
Another plus feature is the integration of jquery, python, php, and svn. The pro version includes sftp support and cloud hosting, and i think it's around $100
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I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums.
Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database.
Right now all my site is Perl-based, and looking around I don't see many great Perl forums - the only obvious one I could find which is featureful is yabb - but that is written to authenticate against flat files and to be frank the code is nasty.
If I need to use a PHP solution then so be it, but first are there any simple forums that are written in perl that you'd suggest? I'd expect to have different forum-groups and nominate particular users as moderators. More than that I don't need, just basic threading and an attractive appearance.
Really simple forums are often really insecure forums. If you're determined to use perl, a major web forum doesn't come to mind, and if your competent in security I'd say roll your own. You could even release it to the open source community to help people like you. I know there are several great PHP ones out there that aren't so insecure an rather well developed.
I seem to remember that Drupal had a reasonable fit as a module.
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It's great to find all those little snippets of code on the Web for your current needs, but is there anything better than getting whole application source code at once and reading it like a book?
There's no better way to learn positive and negative aspects of various architecture solutions.
That's why I was trying to find some known/big websites with its source code published, but haven't found anything more than I knew already ( http://code.reddit.com/browser )
Do you know anything more?
PS. Just being curious - have you heard about any unofficial big web site source code leak?
Wikipedia's source code (MediaWiki) can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/
The most relevant parts are
"phase3" (the core code; this strange name is because it was rewritten a couple of times)
extensions (Wikipedia uses several of them; which ones can be seen at Special:Version)
Additionally, here is a very detailed explanation of Wikipedia's whole architecture: Wikipedia: Site internals, configuration, code examples and management issues.
You can check out SlashCode, which is the code behind Slashdot and any other sites that use that as a CMS / blogging solution. http://www.slashcode.com
Browsing through the SourceForge repositories is just what you want.
There are tons of well-known, high-quality applications, like Hibernate to give one massive example.
And all the source code is right there :)
http://www.koders.com/
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