Psensor v1.2.1

2020-29-06

Psensor v1.2.1 has been released.

The source tarball can be download at: https://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files

The information about the changes can be read at: https://gitlab.com/jeanfi/psensor/-/raw/v1.2.1/NEWS

Psensor is moving to GitLab

2018-28-09

The source code of Psensor is moving to GitLab at: https://gitlab.com/jeanfi/psensor

Psensor v1.2.0

2017-04-02

Psensor v1.2.0 has been released.

The source can be download at: https://wpitchoune.net/psensor/files

Asciidoctor to RSS

2016-11-07

In order to ease the edition of this website and the management of the server, I want it to be purely static and generated from Asciidoctor documents.

The news part of the website is also written as Asciidoctor documents, asciidoctor_to_rss is converting them into static HTML pages and generates a RSS 2.0 file.

Installation of asciidoctor_to_rss

It is required to install:

The sources can be retrieved from GIT:

git clone git clone https://git.wpitchoune.net/asciidoctor_to_rss.git

Compilation:

cd asciidoctor_to_rss
mvn clean install

Howto write news

Each news must be written in an Asciidoctor document and all documents must be dropped into a directory.

There is not any restriction concerning the syntax because the utility is based on the Java bridge of Asciidoctor. I have added an attribute date which allows the utility to know the publication date of the news.

Here is an example of news:

= Asciidoctor to RSS
Jean-Philippe Orsini <jeanfi@gmail.com>
:date: 2016-11-07
:icons: font

In order to ease the edition of this website and
the management of the server, I want it to be purely
static and generated from http://asciidoctor.org[Asciidoctor] documents.

The _news_ part of the website is also written as Asciidoctor
documents, `asciidoctor_to_rss` is converting them into static
HTML pages and generates a RSS 2.0 file.

== Installation of asciidoctor_to_rss

It is required to install:

* http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi[Apache Maven] (3.3.9)

* http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html[Java] (Sun JDK >=1.8)

Configuration

The configuration file of asciidoctor_to_rss is text file containing key/value pairs.

feed.title=News
feed.description=News of the wpitchoune.net website.
feed.link=https://wpitchoune.net/news/feed.xml
feed.baseurl=https://wpitchoune.net/news

html.header.file=src/header.html

feed.title: the title used for the feed, in the RSS 2.0 and news.html files.

feed.description: the description used in the RSS 2.0 file.

feed.link: URI of the RSS 2.0 file.

feed.baseurl: base URI where the HTML news files will be located.

html.header.file: the content of the denoted file will be added in the head block of the generated HTML documents.

Run the utility

The command line usage is:

asciidoctor_to_rss.sh <IN_DIR> <OUT_DIR> <CFG_FILE>

IN_DIR: the directory containing the news as Asciidoctor documents.

OUT_DIR: the output directory which contains all generated files.

CFG_FILE: the path to the configuration file.

The OUT_DIR will contain:

  • one HTML file for each Asciidoctor document,

  • the news.html file,

  • and the feed.xml file which is a feed compatible with RSS v2.0.

RSS Feed

2016-04-07

It is now possible to follow news and announces of the website with the following RSS feed: https://wpitchoune.net/news/feed.xml

Under the bridge it is automaticaly generated with a very simple program from Asciidoctor documents. You can get the sources from the GIT repository: https://git.wpitchoune.net/asciidoctor_to_rss.git .

Call for contributions for the translation of psensor

2016-14-06

The version 1.2.0 of psensor is going to be released in the coming weeks. This release will include many changes which impact the translations. If you want to contribute to the translation of psensor it is now the good timeframe. See the instructions.

New website

2016-14-06

After being bored with Wordpress for years, the wpitchoune.net website is changing. It is now based on Asciidoctor and a simple shell script to generate it.

With the help of Atom and a couple of addons dedicated to Asciidoctor, it is easy and quick to write content. I am happy to no more have to worry about the painful admistration of Wordpress, upgrading it, taking care of security, spamming of comments and bot account creation, and backup of databases.

If you want to know how the website is built, everything is on a GIT repository: http://git.wpitchoune.net/gitweb/?p=www.git. It is simple, really simple…​ but enough for my needs.