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Some Links To Resources and Documents For Ella Associates

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INTRO
NOTES ABOUT THE ALEXIS DOCUMENTATION MIGRATION
ELLA ASSOCIATES GENERAL INFORMATION
ALEXIS DOCUMENTATION
VARIOUS HELP AND INSTRUCTION PAGES
THE PRIVATE AREA
MISCELANEOUS THINGS
VERY TECHNICAL STUFF
GENERAL COMMENTS




intro [toc]


  Please note this Documentation is in the process of being moved to a full
  XML system which can be edited with the 'Alexis' editor
  Please go to the URL to see the 'live' documentation (not complete 9july2003)

     http://www.ella-associates.org/cocoon/livedocs/

  This page contains links to documents about the Alexis program and
  Ella Associates

notes About The Alexis Documentation Migration [toc]



   Since Alexis is now a working system, it is possible to edit all
   documentation about Alexis from within Alexis. The serpent will eat
   its tail. However there is some legacy documentation which is still not
   yet editable within Alexis (for example the page which you are currently
   reading).

   The documentation which you see here, and the links from here are not
   yet part of the Alexis DocBook documentation system. This means that you
   can't actually edit this document (which 'actually' is a plain text file)
   from within Alexis but you should be able to soonish, if I do it

   If you want to see live renderings in HTML of documents which you have
   edited in Alexis you can go to,
     http://www.ella-associates.org/alexis-info/index.cgi  or
     http://www.ella-associates.org/cocoon/livedocs/

   and you will see links to locations like ...
     http://www.ella-associates.org/cocoon/livedocs/the-ramble.html or
     http://www.ella-associates.org/cocoon/livedocs/alexis-faq.html

   clicking on one of the links will (or should) take you to the 'on the fly'
   rendering of the XML document.

   This means that as soon as somebody
   makes a change to the 'alexis-faq.xml' file within Alexis or in some
   other way, this HTML file is updated automatically. This may be confusing.
   This page contains a collection of links to resources that are in some way
   related to the 'Alexis' project or to other activities of Ella Associates.

   The URL
    http://www.ella-associates.org:8080/slide/documents/alexis_docs/
   contains another listing of Alexis Docs but you are unable to see
   'renderings' from there (ie HTML views)

   See the links below in the 'Alexis Documenation' section for how to get
   a copy of Alexis

ella Associates General Information [toc]



A History of Ella Associates (Formats: html | text)
     A very short history of the company

The Ella Team Page (Formats: html | text)
     This is a page about those involved in the Alexis Project and other members
     of Ella Associates. If you want you can  make contributions using the Forms provided on this
     page.

Ella Associates E-Learning(http://www.ella-associates.org/)
     This page contains some information about the 'cultural learning'
     services provided by Ella Associates.

alexis Documentation [toc]



Download Alexis Now!(/internal/alexis-download/)
     From this page you can download the Alexis program. You will need a
     password to access this page, which you can get from nick@findesign.org

Notes about the History of Alexis (Formats: html | text)
     This file contains some notes about the progress of development of
     the Alexis program

Some Alexis Documentation(/internal/alexis-docs/)
     This directory contains the beginning of the 'alexis documentatiion project' (the adp).
     It includes some UML class diagrams and other assorted information. You
     will need the 'ella internal' password to see this currently (I think nick has
     sent that to everybody who should have it).

Seldomly Asked Questions about Alexis(/alexis-info/docs/alexis-faq.html)
     This page contains some answers to questions about how to use Alexis.
     It is very incomplete and not well formatted.

The Ramble (Formats: html | text | xml | pdf)
       This document is an attempt to explain some of the ideas behind
       the Alexis Networked-enabled XML Editing system, and is an attempt to demystify
       some of the technical terminology.

Initial Notes (Formats: html | text)
     This file contains some initial instructions and notes about Alexis.

Some Alexis Technical Details (Formats: html | text | pdf | xml)
     A brief and incomplete technical explanation of the Server and Client Components
     (Chakriya and Columbine) of the Alexis system. This is already fairly outdated
     since Alexis is in the process of being 'refactored', which means redesigned
     and rewritten.

A Glossary of Jargon (Formats: html | text)
     This file contains a list of jargon and technical terms as well as definitions, often used in relation
     to XML and computer software.


various Help And Instruction Pages [toc]




The Pretty Good Privacy Super-Quick Guide (Formats: text | html)
     How to 'secure' your emails.
     A small but remarkably useful guide to stopping 'strangers' from seeing your
     emails when you don't want them to.

Ella Associates Email Set-Up How To Do It (Formats: html | text)
     This page explains how to set up you email program so that you can
     use your ella-associates.org email address. Unfortunately, it only
     covers OutLook Express and Netscape Messenger 4.61 currently.

About Adding Comments To Ella Web Pages (Formats: html | text)
     This document provides some information about adding comments to Ella
     Web Pages, using the super-simple comment system. This page also provides a example
     of a page you can add comments to, and some tricks you can use when adding
     comments. A somewhat better 'comment' and 'discussion' system, should be on its
     way fairly soon-ish. We hope.

Help on using the 'wiki' Boxes (Formats: html | text)
     This page contains some tips on how to use the wiki system, such as the
     one on the current page. A wiki is just a box which allows you to
     edit the web-page which you are looking at. Its anarchy because anybody
     can edit the page.  

the Private Area     [toc]



The Private Area(/internal/)
     This is a directory private to the Ella Associates Team. Please put information
     destined only for those eyes in this directory. You need a password to access this
     directory. If you don't have a password, please wait after class in the vestibule.

Alexis Download Page(/internal/alexis-download/)
     You can download Alexis from this page, if you have a password

Contact Emails For Ella (Formats: html | text)
     This contains the contact email addresses for the people working within
     Ella Associates and on the Alexis project. You need a password to access this.

Matthew's Work (Formats: html | text)
     This file contains a description of work carried out by M.J.Bishop
     This file is located in the 'internal' directory of this web-site and therefore
     will only be viewable by members of Ella Associates.

Important Tools (Formats: html | text | xml)
     This page contains links to free programs which you may need or may not need to
     use in your work for Ella Associates

An E-learning discussion (Formats: html | text)
     This is a discussion between some Ella members about various things.

miscelaneous Things [toc]



The Page To Check Hotmail Email Addresses(/cgi-bin/check-hotmail)
     This page allows you to check a list of Hotmail Addresses for ones which dont exist (anymore).
     All you have to do is cut and paste the list of email addresses into a box and
     click on the button.

About These Pages (Formats: html | text)
     This page contains some brief information about these web pages
     which you are viewing and how they can be maintained.

A Script Summary (Formats: html | text)
     This page provides short descriptions of the scripts used to make this
     documentation which you are currently viewing.

The Ametlla Music Festival(/poseidonia/)
     This site contains information about the Ametlla de Mar music festival
     which is going to take place on the 15 August 2003. Be there!

The Grapevine(/grapevine/grapevine.htm)
     The grape-vine is a 'newsletter' the aim of which is to provide
     information about musical events ocurring in and around Barcelona.
     Currently (mid may 2003) the grape-vine is being delivered via email but
     it is envisaged that it will be migrated to a mainly web-based system
     using email notifications of updates and changes, and allowing musical
     groups to make contributions.

The Monkey Rhythm Pages(/monkey-rhythm/)
     This is the web-site for 'monkey rhythm' which is a Barcelona based
     'urban acoustic duo' (music) and which consists of people who also
     contribute to Ella Associates.

Findesign(http://www.findesign.org/)
     The Home Page for Findesign which is a Barcelona based web-design company
     whose members also contribute to Ella Associates.

/nick/
/robert/
/marcus/
/mustafa/
/josephine/
/matthew/
     The personal web pages for various members and contributors to
     Ella Associates. In some cases (perhaps the majority) these pages will
     not contain anything, depending on the motivations of the particular
     person.

very Technical Stuff   [toc]



   This section contains links to technical resources. By the word 'technical'
   I mean that they would mainly be of interest to programmers and developers.

Some Netbeans Resources (Formats: html | text)
     Some information about the Netbeans platform apon which Alexis is being
     built and some hints and explanations for developers using Netbeans to
     develop Alexis.

The Tree-View Review (Formats: html | text | pdf)
     This document contains a pacily written review of tree-view style components available
     on the internet, implemented in java or javascript, and hopefully supporting
     an XML configuration file.

Web Collaboration Review (Formats: html | text)
     This document contains a review of some of the available software which
     allows the setting up of a 'community' or 'forum' or similar system.

Wiki Systems (Formats: html | text)
     This file reviews and discusses some 'wiki' systems available on the
     Internet as well as the related idea of 'plain text markup' system.

DocBook Information (Formats: html | text)
     This file contains information about using docbook XML.

/utils/checkhotmail.class
/utils/checkhotmail.java
     A java utility and source code to test a list of Hotmail addresses
     for validity. That is, the program establishes whether each address
     actually exists. The program does this without sending any test
     messages to the target addresses. This needs to become a 'web-script'
     to allow any user to access it. (See the page which is listed in the
     'miscelaneous' section of this web-page)

The NetBeans Tomcat Guide (Formats: html | text | pdf)
     This is the guide to using Netbeans with the Tomcat Server

The NetBeans Users Guide (Formats: html | text | pdf)
     This is the general Users guide from the Netbeans IDE. The File is
     approximately 1 Megabyte. There is an HTML and PDF version which are both
     quite large (1.5 megabytes)

The Netbeans XML Guide (Formats: text | html | pdf)
     The is the Netbeans guide to the XML features within the IDE.

About WebDav (Formats: html | text)
     WebDav is an extension to the HTTP protocol which allows distributed
     'authoring' of documents instead of just distributed 'viewing' of
     documents (as is the case for normal HTTP). The Alexis System uses
     WebDav.

Some RedHat Linux And U.S Server Information (Formats: html | text)
     This file contains the beginning of my investigations into how to do just
     about everything in RedHat Linux. This has become necessary because the US
     Server (T1) is running RedHat not Debian like the 'local server'.

Information about 'iptables' (Formats: html | text)
     This is the beginning of some information and links about the Linux
     program 'iptables' which is designed to prevent 'network abuse'

Some javadoc research (Formats: html | text)
     This page seeks to investigate how javadoc may be used in different and more
     powerful ways from it normal "transform-to-html" mode. This may be important in order
     to integrate Alexis javadoc with other aspects of Alexis documentation.

Information About 'James' and 'SendMail' (Formats: html | text)
     This page contains some links to resources about the two mail servers
     James and Sendmail. Ella Associates uses the James Mail Server (which is
     written in Java) but the U.S. Server initially had the Sendmail MTA (mail
     transport agent) installed, which had to be 'disabled' before setting up
     James.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/
     Documentation for the Apache Web Server. This is very comprehensive and good.
     Every imaginable topic seems to be covered. There are many examples for
     configuration.

http://java.sun.com/xml/tutorial_intro.html
     An introductory tutorial to the XML Standard

Some PHP Resources (Formats: html | text)
     Some web resources and information for the PHP web scripting system

A Review of XML tools (Formats: html | text)
     A short review of some xml tools such as XML editors as well as review sites
     of XML tools (that is web-sites that provide reviews of different tools
     that are available on the Internet). And how Alexis compares

DNS Learning Materials (Formats: html | text)
     This page contains some links to on-line resources for learning
     about the DNS service and how to set up a DNS Server.

Netcat and Smtp difficulties (Formats: html | text)
     A description of attempting to get SMTP to work from a shell script
     The trials and tribulations. This endevour may have well been misguided. Perl,
     or the 'mail' program could do the same more easily.

Some Ella CVS Info (Formats: html | text)
     This contains some information about using the Ella CVS system. This
     file requires the 'ella internal' password.

http://gnuWin32.sourceforge.net/
     Microsoft Windows 'ports' (versions) of many Gnu (open source) tools.

http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/IG/ert/iso639.htm
     A list of valid two letter language codes. You use these when you translate
     a web-page into another language and want the 'users' browser to automatically
     display the right language. eg: If you file is in French name it
     'mygreatwebpage.html.fr' or it could be 'mygreatwebpage.fr.html' (I am still
     not 100% sure).

About the RPM System (Formats: html | text)
     Some basic notes about the Redhat package manager system, which is the
     basic and normal way to install stuff on RedHat Linux..

Some Bash Shell Resources (Formats: html | text)
     This page contains some links for useful stuff for the Unix Bash Shell, including CGI
     scripting

Some Apache Tomcat Stuff (Formats: html | text)
     This page contains or will contain links to resources about the Apache Tomcat
     application server, which is a major component of the Alexis program



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