I can't find the time to put up some more content into the boost articles. Will have to wait. And yeah, SF.net is becoming... an annoying place to be.
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I can't find the time to put up some more content into the boost articles. Will have to wait. And yeah, SF.net is becoming... an annoying place to be.
Seems you guys are still working on this thing, cool. I had mentioned a while back that I was developing a similar concept, and I actually have it online now with some solid customizations to MediaWiki.
http://opentutorials.thejefffiles.com/Main_Page
The site has been modded to support LaTeX and syntax highlighting in a variety of languages.
Very nice, jv.
GeSHi, eh? How is it? Was it difficult to install?
Yes, I know about the supported languages. I was considering installing it for cpwiki. http://cpwiki.sourceforge.net/User_talk:Dwks [edit] Neat, a grin in a link. [/edit]
Which brings me to cpwiki.theprogrammingsite.com. I'm sorry that I haven't finished setting that up yet. Sourceforge is not going to work out. It's far too slow and keeps timing out and so on. I'll see what I can do. The trouble is that I'm not sure if I'll be able to transfer the database. I'm using the latest version of MediaWiki, since my server has PHP 5.
Not to mention that I don't appear to have write access from phpmyadmin, so I don't know how I'd overwrite the database anyway.
I think we'd just have to copy and paste the contents of the pages to the new location, if we wanted to move cpwiki to theprogrammingsite. Losing all of the history and such in the process . . . .
Anyway, here is my installation of mediawiki (at the moment -- I'd move it, of course), in case you want to test it for speed or whatever. http://theprogrammingsite.com/cpwiki...php5?Main_Page
If there are no other offers for hosting, and everyone's okay with typing an absurdly long name like "theprogrammingsite", and no one minds losing the history from the previous page as changes are copy-pasted into the new site, maybe we can use that for cpwiki instead of sourceforge.
BTW, at theprogrammingsite, MySQL databases can be up to 100MB, there are over 9 GB of free space at the moment, and monthly bandwidth is 300 GB! If the speed and reliability is okay, it would make a good place for cpwiki.
I just had a go at A pointer on pointers article.
It's probably full of errors and such. Criticism needed and probably some editors, as well...
I have webspace I can donate for this, dwks.
it could go into cpwiki.quiettech.co.uk if that would be ok... or I could open the purse a little and buy a new domain (co.uk only)...
I also have recently bought a 3 year account to a Linux dedicated server at 1&1 that would make a better option since I could provide you with a control panel and all with full database access. Not to mention ability to include the top level domains. However I currently have it down until I have time to set up the Virtuozzo panel which will only happen when I move quiettech.co.uk there.
So... if you are interested we can move to email. PM if that is the case.
If anyone keeps an eye on the wiki, a slew of new articles has appeared recently:
Implicit main
Buffer overrun was updated
Performance and optimization
Undefined behavior
And
Virtual Memory has been updated
Thanks Elysia. But I would suggest not adding/editing anything for a little while. The server is going to be moved soon hopefully. We are just trying to create the conditions to have a smooth migration from wikimedia 1.6 all the way to 1.12 without losing any of the history data.
Yes, hopefully it will go smooth :)
Also, mats contributed with two of them and also helped redesign the virtual memory page, so now it's verified!
Once we figure out how to convert the Wiki databases (we're working on it, really -- okay, Mario F. is), we'll probably grab a very recent backup. Then we'll set up the new wiki, and I'll change cpwiki.sf.net to redirect to the new wiki, just so that no one posts on the old one by mistake.
Until then, post articles freely. :)
Another one:
http://cpwiki.sourceforge.net/Common...kes_and_errors
I'm sure there's lots to add there. Feel free.
But how's the move coming?
There are two sections to the article at the time of this post:
Pointers (again): This time Elysia's restated that stray pointers should not be dereferenced and provided at least one entirely wrong and narrow minded (pointers == dynamic memory mentality) example of how to fix it. And const correctness as it relates to char*. Const correctness is an article I linked to that needs writing.
I request, Elysia, that you avoid creating articles that overlap one another for the time being, for two important reasons. The encyclopedia is not at all complete and we can argue about what articles can be coupled together as "common mistakes" and where to refer readers to at a later date. By the incompleteness statement I mean that there are a lot of topics still out there - inheritance is another big place where people screw up a lot, is it "common"? Does anybody want to teach OOP? We're hardly ready to start this sort of spit-shining.
And secondly, some of the articles you've referenced don't seem to apply best to the mistakes in question. Why does const correctness relate to your article on vertual memory? Why not write the const correctness article instead?