BeeSeek Blog

HoneyBee is the part of the project that is going to become our stable web application and will provide the BeeSeek service to everyone.

This is the HoneyBee's homepage:

As you can see, is the same as beeseek.org.
But have a look at the following screenshot: the results' page has just been updated to a new theme that reflect the style of our network:

All the restiling work was done in the BeeSeek Forum-it, where everyone can suggest new ideas to improve BeeSeek.

~ Installation ~

The page is now working installing Hive and HoneyBee as a module, using bazaar as already explained in the previous article Debugging.

Once downloaded both the programs, you need to copy all the items contained in the HoneyBee directory:

• ball-blue.png
• fireresult.html
• honeybee.py
• separator.png
• firepage.html
• head-bg.png
• honeybee.js
• logo.png

theese files (the list could change in the time because of the development activity) have to be copied to:

/hive/etc/modules

and the file:

• honeybee.conf

has to be copied in:

/hive/etc/

For all the Ubunutu users are also avalaible our repository:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/beeseek-core-devs/ubuntu/ DISTRO main devel

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/beeseek-core-devs/ubuntu/ DISTRO main devel

In the place of DISTRO put the name of your distribution: Edgy, Feisty, Gustsy or Hardy.

~ Start up ~

Now is possible to use HoneyBee launching Hive (read here) and connecting your browser to:

http://localhost:50007

Happy BeeSeeking to everyone!

We decided to reopen the BeeSeek's forum...well, actually we opened two forums.
In fact we opted for a double installation, to have one in English, project's official language, and the second in Italian. Thanks to SMF, a lightweight but complete and powerful platform, now we have our two forums.
Here are the links:

http://forum.beeseek.org/ for the English forum
http://forum.beeseek.org/it for the Italian forum

Unlike the old forums, the new ones are made to provide a wide support to users about all the problems and questions related to BeeSeek. That's why we made many sections over all the possible topics, but, don't worry, we made also a section called BeeSeek Bar, where you can freely improve your offtopic's skill ! ;)

Before the official opening, we made a new theme that match the renovated blog look.

Registrations are, of course, open to everyone and you can propose yourself for the moderators' team submitting this post.

And now, all you have to do is to join us! :D

While the sun shone on the beach-umbrellas, the BeeSeek's hive continued to hard working, producing some interesting news. Besides the constant develop of Hive and Hive Manager, the Andrea Corbellini's creations, the new BeeSeek Wiki changed its platform from MediaWiki, one of the most known, to MoinMoin, the platform used, in example, in the Debian Wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/FrontPage) and Italian Ubuntu Wiki (http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org) . Most are the motivations of this change, in example MoinMoin provides a roomier interface than MediaWiki and a best format, highlighting the source code syntax, so that we can create a more clearly documentation. For them that would help us, but are get used to MediaWiki there are no problems! MoinMoin, in fact, use a nearly equal syntax (with some little difference). For them that don't know the MediaWiki syntax, there is a good WYSIWYG (http://wiki.beeseek.org/SyntaxReference) and a good graphic editor. Again, MoinMoin is Python powered, so you can join the Wiki Team to contribute to the modify of the wiki pages appearance.
We are also searching an alternative platform to phpbb, the actual platform that run our forum. The comunity proposal are good accepted ;) . Give us your opinion in the comments!
Have a good day!

Translated by CohibO