Benjamin Grant wrote:
>
> Well, an -almost- live site:
>
> http://dir.salon.com/
>
> We began working with cocoon, internally last year and experimented with it
> quite a bit.
>
> Recently, we chose to re-engineer our Directory, which is a compilation of
> links to all of the articles we have published over the last six years. This
> encompasses about 16,000 articles. We realized we'd also benefit by
> re-publishing all of our old content in XML, as well.
This is *way* cool.
> There are many reasons we opted to deploy Cocoon, and I hope to find the time
> to write them all up sometime soon, along with a basic overview of how we
> deployed it, what kinds of code we had to/didn't have to write to do it,
> etc., in the hopes that it will assist others.
Please do. It would be a really wonderful way to pay us back, expecially
because it gives us clear indications on strenghts and weaknesses that
Cocoon has when you go in serious production enviornments (like yours).
> We are still tuning and evolving the new Directory, and have only directed a
> small amount of our public traffic to it. Over the coming weeks, we expect
> to make it fully live. Our biggest challenge has not been in deploying
> Cocoon, but in re-publishing our old content, which is stored as completely
> non-validated (read: sloppy) HTML fragments in an Oracle database. Most
> likely we will have to re-publish a few more times to get things fully
> cleaned up.
Ok
> At some point in the future, we may contemplate switching our
> entire site over to Cocoon if the directory service proves stable and
> efficient under it.
I will love to help you guys if you need to move faster in this
direction. I think others on this list think about it the same way.
> In addition, we'll begin to make more use of Cocoon's
> features shortly; we've really only scratched the surface at this point.
>
> In the meantime, a big thanks goes out to all of the Cocoon users and
> developers who have made all of this possible.
You are very welcome.
Ciao
--
Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be
able to give birth to a dancing star.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Friedrich Nietzsche
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