About The Site
By MarkD on June 16, 2003
Borkware.com is hosted at Acorn
Hosting, a reasonably-priced provider of virutal machines. We
share the machine with a number of other folks, but we've never really
noticed any performance problems. In fact, the sites are
significantly faster than on our previous colocated machine. In
addition to Borkware, there are a number of other sites that live on
its IP, with virtual hosting described in our AOLserver Virtual Hosting with
TCP rant.
Borkware and other sites are built on OpenACS 4.6.X, a very nice web toolkit based on obscure, but powerful tools. MacEdition has one of our rants on OpenACS, and there's some instructions on making it work on Mac OS X. In fact, most site development happens locally on Mac OS X, and then the packages are uploaded and installed into the site. Our home office uses satellite internet, which has high latency, which makes interactive development on remote systems inconvenient.
The Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming pages
are an OpenACS package. The errata, source code, and other resources
are custom acs objects that are associated with book nodes, which you
can see if you expand the trees in the comments section. The tree was derived
from the same SGML sources that we used to create the book, with a little
tweaking to get the page numbers correct. The commentary for each book
node is an OpenACS Forum instance.
This site built with emacs.