Community service

Community service

[avr]

Hi,

those amongst you who might have looked for a webhost supporting
scheme might have stumbled upon www.ellyps.net before and saw the
ominous "SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.PLEASE COME BACK LATER." sign.

This has now changed to "Tentatively beta".

Scheme is, of course, a fine language for just about anything, but
it's not as popular as it could be in some fields like web scripting.
Maybe this is mainly because setting it up isn't really trivial, and
documentation and tutorials are scarce and take some effort
to get working.

You might find it useful if you're a website programmer who'd like
to try something different from the inescapable php. Or if you're
a scheme hacker who'd like to put up a simple website for one thing
or another without fussing about too much.

I'm sure it's still far from perfect, so please don't rely on it for any
projects that are critical to you. But it might be useful and convenient
to some who were already looking for something like it, and are
familiar with the concepts.

Amongst the things it has to offer are:
*cgi guile
*editing/uploading over webdavs
*mysql
*the guile-web module

For any questions or comments feel free to mail me directly, or if they
are of general interest, onlist. But please note it's not a commercial
project, so please adjust expectations accordingly. It's just something 
I found practical and extended it a little so it might be practical for 
others too.

        friendly,
        Andreas

Community service

[andreas]

Hi,

those amongst you who might have looked for a webhost supporting
scheme might have stumbled upon www.ellyps.net before and saw the
ominous "SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.PLEASE COME BACK LATER." sign.

This has now changed to "Tentatively beta".

Scheme is, of course, a fine language for just about anything, but
it's not as popular as it could be in some fields like web scripting.
Maybe this is mainly because setting it up isn't really trivial, and
documentation and tutorials are scarce and take some effort
to get working.

You might find it useful if you're a website programmer who'd like
to try something different from the inescapable php. Or if you're
a scheme hacker who'd like to put up a simple website for one thing
or another without fussing about too much.

I'm sure it's still far from perfect, so please don't rely on it for any
projects that are critical to you. But it might be useful and convenient
to some who were already looking for something like it, and are
familiar with the concepts.

Amongst the things it has to offer are:
*cgi guile
*editing/uploading over webdavs
*mysql
*the guile-web module

For any questions or comments feel free to mail me directly, or if they
are of general interest, onlist. But please note it's not a commercial
project, so please adjust expectations accordingly. It's just something
I found practical and extended it a little so it might be practical for
others too.
           
        friendly,
        Andreas

Re: Community service

[Ian Price]

Hi andreas,

> I'm sure it's still far from perfect, so please don't rely on it for any
> projects that are critical to you. But it might be useful and convenient
> to some who were already looking for something like it, and are
> familiar with the concepts.
>
> Amongst the things it has to offer are:
> *cgi guile
> *editing/uploading over webdavs
> *mysql
> *the guile-web module
>
> For any questions or comments feel free to mail me directly, or if they
> are of general interest, onlist. But please note it's not a commercial
> project, so please adjust expectations accordingly. It's just something
> I found practical and extended it a little so it might be practical for
> others too.

I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do with this (yet :), but I
think it's awfully nice of you to provide this for the guile community.

Cheers

-- 
Ian Price

"Programming is like pinball. The reward for doing it well is
the opportunity to do it again" - from "The Wizardy Compiled"

Re: Community service

[Nala Ginrut]

Hi there!
I believe this is meaningful for my Ragnarok project. Though it's a
multi-protocols generic server, it contains HTTP, and provides
Guile-template naturally.
If I released a stable version someday (maybe few months later), I'll
start a new project of web-framework just like Guile-on-Rails or
something alike. Which may based on Ragnarok as an inner server.
At that time your site may provide more interesting things for Guilers.

Well, but the only bad thing is, I don't know how long I'll spend on
implementing them...
I pray to finish that as soon as possible in case I've done it and you
down it...

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:49 PM,  <andreas@ellyps.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> those amongst you who might have looked for a webhost supporting
> scheme might have stumbled upon www.ellyps.net before and saw the
> ominous "SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.PLEASE COME BACK LATER." sign.
>
> This has now changed to "Tentatively beta".
>
> Scheme is, of course, a fine language for just about anything, but
> it's not as popular as it could be in some fields like web scripting.
> Maybe this is mainly because setting it up isn't really trivial, and
> documentation and tutorials are scarce and take some effort
> to get working.
>
> You might find it useful if you're a website programmer who'd like
> to try something different from the inescapable php. Or if you're
> a scheme hacker who'd like to put up a simple website for one thing
> or another without fussing about too much.
>
> I'm sure it's still far from perfect, so please don't rely on it for any
> projects that are critical to you. But it might be useful and convenient
> to some who were already looking for something like it, and are
> familiar with the concepts.
>
> Amongst the things it has to offer are:
> *cgi guile
> *editing/uploading over webdavs
> *mysql
> *the guile-web module
>
> For any questions or comments feel free to mail me directly, or if they
> are of general interest, onlist. But please note it's not a commercial
> project, so please adjust expectations accordingly. It's just something
> I found practical and extended it a little so it might be practical for
> others too.
>
>        friendly,
>        Andreas
>
>