Re: Misc topic about FreeMind and the SOLR query syntax....

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: Hmmm, I think I need a goad as well as a goal here. One of the interesting
: exports of Freemind is a clickable html "mini website". That is, there's a
: single html file (currently 42K) and a stylesheet and some icons. In the end
: it provides a pretty nifty representation. This solves the problem of people
: having to download Freemind in order to get any value out of it. There's no
: reason NOT to make the freemind file available too though.

Having browsed arround the FreeMind website a bit, and looking at some of 
the "example" FreeMind Maps, i must admit that i don't really "get it" .. 
i don't even really get what "it" is.

that said, the few things i do think i have a firm grasp on are:
 1) the FreeMind XML files are intended to be edited/viewed in a GUI App
 2) The HTML outputs are inteded as a secondary by product
 3) this isn't the sort of thing intended for communcal editing
 4) FreeMind is GPL.

With that in mind, checking the XML in SVN, and having Hudson 
generate the HTML by "running FreeMind" doesn't really seem all the 
prudent/pactical.

My suggestion: Setup a little sites.google.com (or even code.google.com) 
page where you host the latest XML file and the generate HTML.

Worrry about the future if/when the future happens.



-Hoss


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Re: Misc topic about FreeMind and the SOLR query syntax....

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

: on a quick look I don't see how to move a bunch
: of related files that forms a complex page to sites.google.com.
: e.g. the freemind-produced html has a single html page and a
: subdirectory that contains javascript, icons, a stylesheet,
: images, etc. Am I missing something on a 10 minute scan?

Probably not ... i've never used sites.google.com myself, i've just seen 
it suggested as a simple way to host small non-comercial websites.  didn't 
realize it had limitations in how to upload content.


-Hoss


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Re: Misc topic about FreeMind and the SOLR query syntax....

[Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>]

on a quick look I don't see how to move a bunch
of related files that forms a complex page to sites.google.com.
e.g. the freemind-produced html has a single html page and a
subdirectory that contains javascript, icons, a stylesheet,
images, etc. Am I missing something on a 10 minute scan?

Thanks
Erick

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>wrote:

> 1) yep
> 2) yep
> 3) something I had been deferring thinking about, mostly because I couldn't
> think of an easy solution
> 4) yep.
>
> little website: great suggestion. I'm finding freemind a
> great tool for getting my head around new material, but
> I also don't particularly want to hog all the glory (or do
> all the work :) ). The problem as you point out is that
> having multiple people editing a single source file doesn't
> work very well. All that said, it's always worthwhile putting
> something tentative in front of other eyes to see if it's
> just me or if something would be generally useful, and
> the "little website" idea sure fits the bill.
>
> Unfortunately, the next two weeks are booked pretty solid
> so I probably won't be able to put much effort into it for the
> near term.
>
> Thanks
> Erick
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>wrote:
>
>>
>> : Hmmm, I think I need a goad as well as a goal here. One of the
>> interesting
>> : exports of Freemind is a clickable html "mini website". That is, there's
>> a
>> : single html file (currently 42K) and a stylesheet and some icons. In the
>> end
>> : it provides a pretty nifty representation. This solves the problem of
>> people
>> : having to download Freemind in order to get any value out of it. There's
>> no
>> : reason NOT to make the freemind file available too though.
>>
>> Having browsed arround the FreeMind website a bit, and looking at some of
>> the "example" FreeMind Maps, i must admit that i don't really "get it" ..
>> i don't even really get what "it" is.
>>
>> that said, the few things i do think i have a firm grasp on are:
>>  1) the FreeMind XML files are intended to be edited/viewed in a GUI App
>>  2) The HTML outputs are inteded as a secondary by product
>>  3) this isn't the sort of thing intended for communcal editing
>>  4) FreeMind is GPL.
>>
>> With that in mind, checking the XML in SVN, and having Hudson
>> generate the HTML by "running FreeMind" doesn't really seem all the
>> prudent/pactical.
>>
>> My suggestion: Setup a little sites.google.com (or even code.google.com)
>> page where you host the latest XML file and the generate HTML.
>>
>> Worrry about the future if/when the future happens.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Hoss
>>
>>
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Re: Misc topic about FreeMind and the SOLR query syntax....

[Erick Erickson <er...@gmail.com>]

1) yep
2) yep
3) something I had been deferring thinking about, mostly because I couldn't
think of an easy solution
4) yep.

little website: great suggestion. I'm finding freemind a
great tool for getting my head around new material, but
I also don't particularly want to hog all the glory (or do
all the work :) ). The problem as you point out is that
having multiple people editing a single source file doesn't
work very well. All that said, it's always worthwhile putting
something tentative in front of other eyes to see if it's
just me or if something would be generally useful, and
the "little website" idea sure fits the bill.

Unfortunately, the next two weeks are booked pretty solid
so I probably won't be able to put much effort into it for the
near term.

Thanks
Erick

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>wrote:

>
> : Hmmm, I think I need a goad as well as a goal here. One of the
> interesting
> : exports of Freemind is a clickable html "mini website". That is, there's
> a
> : single html file (currently 42K) and a stylesheet and some icons. In the
> end
> : it provides a pretty nifty representation. This solves the problem of
> people
> : having to download Freemind in order to get any value out of it. There's
> no
> : reason NOT to make the freemind file available too though.
>
> Having browsed arround the FreeMind website a bit, and looking at some of
> the "example" FreeMind Maps, i must admit that i don't really "get it" ..
> i don't even really get what "it" is.
>
> that said, the few things i do think i have a firm grasp on are:
>  1) the FreeMind XML files are intended to be edited/viewed in a GUI App
>  2) The HTML outputs are inteded as a secondary by product
>  3) this isn't the sort of thing intended for communcal editing
>  4) FreeMind is GPL.
>
> With that in mind, checking the XML in SVN, and having Hudson
> generate the HTML by "running FreeMind" doesn't really seem all the
> prudent/pactical.
>
> My suggestion: Setup a little sites.google.com (or even code.google.com)
> page where you host the latest XML file and the generate HTML.
>
> Worrry about the future if/when the future happens.
>
>
>
> -Hoss
>
>
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