Apr 06
Chris Rathjen : Team Foundation vs. Subversion: Shelving:
Chris compares the two different mechanisms used for a concept introduced in Team Foundation (TFS) known as Shelving. It is a concept where you put a certain state of your development environment ( workspace, repository, whatever the local term is you are used to) aside (on a shelf), work on some other stuff and take the shelved state back into your workspace (UnShelve) when ready.
Let me add a few notes on how we do this in Xaraya with BitKeeper.
Apr 06
Feature: No More Free BitKeeper:
Linus, not interested in a one sided deal even when he’s on the winning side, decided for this and other reasons to migrate away from BitKeeper and to begin looking for an alternative.
It will be interesting to see how this works out.
Apr 03
Making xaraya react to the mt_keywords MT member was easy with the existing keywords module. The harder part (read: more time consuming) was to make the visual presentation of them in the site somewhat acceptable.
If you view this article by itself (what we call the display view in Xaraya), you’ll notice an extra part on the right side “Related entries” which lists other entries which have the same keywords attached to them. This allows a reader to quickly read all entries which have the same or similar taxonomy. The block isnt fully functional yet, because it reacts to some keywords while it doesn’t for others, so there’s still some digging to do there. (FIXED)
Outstanding task list:
- making Xaraya react on the mt_tb_ping_urls member
- deal with the allow/disallow flags for trackback and comments
- find a home for mt_excerpt
- implement the mt.supportedTextFilters method to allow for markdown or textile input
Apr 02
I dropped a quick message to Adriaan Tijsseling, the developer of the amazing Ecto package with a number of questions. One of the questions was whether Xaraya could be included as an endpoint in the accounts screen.
This morning, I fired up Ecto, and the update which contained it was already there! Man, this guy is quick.
Awesome!
