* Basic Setup

I work on the static content of the site using [[http://mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html][Emacs Muse]]. My muse
configuration is pretty long and available in my
[[darcsweb::site-emacs/init.d/muse.el][site-emacs repository]]. The site itself exists in a [[darcsweb::unknownlamer.org][darcs repository]]
which is a fork of the source repository I edit locally--the source
repository contains muse/image files while the site repository
contains html updates as a separate series of patches.

This provides a very nice editing environment and makes publishing
fairly easy--I push edits from my laptop to my workstation and then
off to [[http://hcoop.net][HCoop]] with the html updates. Almost no effort is spent dealing
with some dumb web interface or other pointless things making it much
easier for me to just write things and toss them up onto the web.

* Scripts

There are a few scripts and templates in the [[darcsweb::site-support]]
repository that I use to update the
site. [[darcsweb::site-support/update.sh]] automates the process of
sending patches off to the server via afs.

** Book Database

[[Book List]] is autogenerated by [[darcsweb::site-support/books.lisp]] which
reads a template and a small sexp *database* of book entries and spits
out a muse file which is not kept under VC. This works well for me
currently, but I intend to eventually *upgrade* this simple system to an
[[http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/][Elephant]] object database with a [[http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/][CLIM]] frontend for editing
entries. I'll probably end up writing a minimal database manager for
the sexp based system first.

** RSS Feed

The site rss feed is generated by [[darcsweb::site-support/rss.lisp]]. It
fetches the darcs xml changelog for interesting files and then spits
out a tolerable feed with automagically generated links from =*.muse= to
=*.html=. A [[darcsweb::site-support/update-rss-binary][dumped binary]] is run from a darcs hook on the main
repository that handily updates the feed whenever I commit.

<code>apply posthook update-site-rss
apply run-posthook</code>

Boring old Apache is used to serve up the generated feed. The feed
stays updated when I update, and Apache deals with properly letting
readers know when the file last changed and whatnot.

* License

All of the scripts used to generate the site are in the public domain
unless otherwise mentioned in the files themselves. To use them
anywhere else would require modification, but a few chunks of code
could be generally useful for other things.