Roedy Green...

A

Andy Fish

the trick is that if he doesn't already have a link, he writes a new section
and puts it up

I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I suspect that's what happens
 
M

Matt Humphrey

Andy Fish said:
the trick is that if he doesn't already have a link, he writes a new section
and puts it up

I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I suspect that's what happens

So, given a sufficiently long TCP/IP timeout, Roedy would have a link for
everything.

;-)


Matt Humphrey (e-mail address removed) http://www.iviz.com/
 
A

Andy Fish

Matt Humphrey said:
So, given a sufficiently long TCP/IP timeout, Roedy would have a link for
everything.

just try that meaningoflife URL again in about 1/4 hour...
 
T

Thomas Weidenfeller

Andy said:
the trick is that if he doesn't already have a link, he writes a new section
and puts it up

I think this is quite obvious. But if he continues at that pace, he will
have to put all his other projects aside, and write a content management
system and a search engine for the site :)

/Thomas
 
R

Roedy Green

...do you have a link for *everything*??? :D

there are currently 2382 entries in the Java glossary
http://mindprod.com/Jgloss/Jgloss.html

I have been writing this seriously since around 1996. So that is an
average of roughly one new entry a day.

399 entries in the gay and black slang glossary
http://mindprod.com/ggloss/ggloss.html

186 entries in the computer buyer's glossary
http://mindprod.com/bgloss/bgloss.html


The entire website including downloads is currently 9152 files and
takes 130 MB.

You can get a free local mirror copy which does not include the
downloads which automatically stays up to date via the Replicator. It
takes about 53 MB uncompressed but compacted. See
http://mindprod.com/projects/htmlcompactor.html. Complete from-scratch
replicator download of the website is 34 MB compressed.

See http://mindprod.com/products.html#SITE

I don't know how many links there are in total. If you are really
interested, I could add the code to count them. Most entries have
several. The most thankless and boring job is finding replacements for
broken links that Xenu discovers.

If you are interested in how the website is created and maintained,
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/html.html#HOW
 
R

Roedy Green

That's true. I often at least polish an entry, particularly one I have
not looked at in a while, before or just after posting the link. That
is why the links often have such uncanny relevance to the question
just asked.

I get quite ticked at people bawling me out for "JUST" giving them a
link, or refusing to even look at it, when I just spent two hours
preparing it for them.
 
L

Liz

Thomas Weidenfeller said:
I think this is quite obvious. But if he continues at that pace, he will
have to put all his other projects aside, and write a content management
system and a search engine for the site :)

/Thomas

Maybe he is like George Forman (the boxer) and there are many
people with the same name doing the work
(George named all of his boys George.)
 
R

Roedy Green

I think this is quite obvious. But if he continues at that pace, he will
have to put all his other projects aside, and write a content management
system and a search engine for the site :)

I have written a number of tools already for managing the site.
You can see:
- automatic index generation.
- automatic link generation from keywords.
- automatic sorting of links.
- compaction for fast loads.
- Java macro expansion for all kinds of intelligent boilerplate.
- untouching so you don't get false deltas from macro expansion.
- the Replicator to keep your local mirror up to date.
- JDisplay for prettified downloadable source listings.
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/html.html#HOW for more detail.

Google spiders me often enough that its site index works pretty well.

Google likes my site. People write me all the time about the way
Googles Dorothy-in-Kansas-style swept them there and stayed for a few
days or weeks poking around. The entire site is quite eclectic. I
talk usually only about the java glossary and the computer buyer's
glossary here. It is the part that soaks up the lion's share of my
time.
 
R

Roedy Green

That would not count the links in the pages to other pages or outside
pages, just how many places you can land in the website.
 
T

Thomas Weidenfeller

Roedy said:
I get quite ticked at people bawling me out for "JUST" giving them a
link, or refusing to even look at it, when I just spent two hours
preparing it for them.

Not that there is a real need for it, but you could post the link's
contents, too. Something like:

Taken from <http://mindprod.com/jgloss/[page name].html>, follow the
link for a formated version:

[and then a simple text copy of the link's contents]

Instead of just

See <http://mindprod.com/jgloss/[page name].html>

/Thomas
 
C

Chris Uppal

Thomas said:
Not that there is a real need for it, but you could post the link's
contents, too.

Or just a "teaser" -- quote the first couple of lines, but stop short of giving
away any real content ;-)

-- chris
 
R

Roedy Green

Not that there is a real need for it, but you could post the link's
contents, too. Something like:

The contents are huge, and formatted and peppered with Applets. I get
bawled out already for my bandwidth use.

It would rude and presumptuous to do paste them inline every time, and
counter to the general good. Most people DON'T want to read it. Most
people would have seen it many times before. Why should they waste
bandwidth to save the newcomers one click? Why suffer with badly
formatted stuff when a meticulously formatted version is a click away?

If you can't chase the link quickly, perhaps a different
newsreader/browser is in order. For me Agent and Opera work quite
fast, especially if you already have Opera up.
 

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