On 2012-05-28 at 09:34 -0700, Tom Perrine wrote:
> I believe that the entire LOPSA content philosophy has been "thanks
> for sharing your content, we really appreciate your work" combined
> with "we hope that you will post at LOPSA to foster our community"
> with a side order of "we're happy to host your content, esp if you
> don't have a place to host it, or if we can help it get more
> visibilty".

An excellent stance, which I appreciate.

> I absolutely agree with your comments about data migration. Making
> content that was perfectly fine into something that isn't is well...
> bad.

On the off-chance that I'd end up moving it, I grabbed my original
plain-text format version (before I added the wiki markup for posting to
lopsa.org) and redid things using HTML, pulling in the typo fixes and
adding [ed: comments] where truly needed.

While talking with Matt Okeson-Harlow on Google+, I realised that I
could have another go at updating the lopsa content, but with this.

It took a couple of attempts to get it to stop telling me to contact an
administrator to deal with errors, but then it "took", and this time
saving did not lose text (that I can tell).  A little editing later, to
fix some tags it didn't like, and switch <div></div> to <p></p> to get
layout working, and it appears that https://lopsa.org/SSLIntro is once
more readable.

Well, legible.  Readable is a matter of debate.  My writing style still
isn't great, and I *really* had not learnt to edit down and throw away
text-already-written when I wrote that.


FWIW: the "Edit with Emacs" extension for Chrome (or "It's All Text!"
for Firefox) as essential for doing any editing in web-pages.  They let
you take any textarea box and edit the content in an external text
editor, feeding the changes back in when you save.  It only takes a
little light editing to get the EwE "pycl.py" file working with MacVim
and then turn it into a LaunchAgent plist to be started at login on a
Mac.
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