Recent Technology Changes in riscosopen.org
Technologies in use by riscosopen.org
Lightbox is small javascript library used to overlay images on top of the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Phusion Passenger - a.k.a. mod_rails or mod_rack - is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. Administration tools allow you to gain insight into web application operations and server performance.
Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that is optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.
Rack::Cache is a component to enable HTTP caching for Rack-based applications such as Rails.
A family of standard web feed formats used to publish frequently updated information like blog entries, news headlines, audio and video.
Really Simple Discovery is a way to help client software find the services needed to read, edit, or "work with" weblogging software.
PayPal is a American international e-commerce service that enables companies and individuals to send money and to accept payments without revealing any financial details.
Website using the £ symbol on their website - meaning it may accept payment in this British currency.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
The http-equiv attribute provides an HTTP header for the information/value of the content attribute. The http-equiv attribute can be used to simulate an HTTP response header.
Indicates that the site provides an interface specifically for searching the document and its related resources.
By adding rel="home" to a hyperlink, a page indicates that the destination of that hyperlink is the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.
This page contains a meta robots tag which tells search engines and robots to index or not index the page.
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