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Discovering CVS
Well, it’s taken me quite a while to get around to this, for all that I’ve known I needed something to keep track of revisions and versions and all the rest of it. So here it is! :) I’ve now delved into using a program known as Trac. It hasn’t made it to version 1.0 just yet, but they are implementing a number of features to their core which make this an ideal project management utility.
Currently, Trac works with Subversion as a repository (though I think you could probably get away with using just about whatever repository you’d like), and it gives you a great ticketing & milestone system for tracking the bugs and general progress of your project.
In addition to the ticketing system though, you’ve also got the Timeline, which comes in handy for sorting through your revisions, and a Wiki (great for those project-specific documents / help files).
In all, I’m rather fond of this software. As I say, it took me a little while to get it installed and set up, but now that I’ve got the hang of it, I’m glad that I got it figured out.
For your reference, here’s their site: The Trac Project
New Boissevain & Morton Library Website
The proprietor here is a busy man and I thought I’d do him a small favour (since he has so kindly given me author access). The new Boissevain & Morton Regional Library website that Chris has been putting together is now officially public at bmlibrary.ca. When you’ve got a moment please take a wander that way and give it a look.
mod_rewrite
I am slowly starting to get the grasp of this VERY handy url re-writing utility. It took a cheat-sheet found on www.ilovejackdaniels.com and this article: URL Rewriting | redirecting URLs with Apache’s mod_rewrite || HTMLSource ]
I would love to say that was all it took, but I did require 2 lbs of coffee, 1 bottle of tylenol and a whole bushel of patience. :D For the most part, however, I now get it, and was able to set up the URL re-writing schema that I wanted to implement earlier (see Updated URLs post). It was more a matter of necessity, to solve the problem with some search engines having broken links to my site.
At the moment, I am still looking into the issue of the old post ID links needing to be resolved from an even older permalink setup on my site, but for now that will take a back seat to other projects. (The post ID setup hasn’t been used in quite a while, so I expect that a lot of the links referencing them will have already started expiring.)
Anyhow, that’s all for the moment.
Blog 404 Page Update
I’ve just fixed the 404 error glitch with the blog pages. You will no longer get the ‘fatal error’ message telling you that I’ve forgotten to fix something in PHP-land. Instead, you will now be redirected to the fancy-looking “File Not Found” page. Much nicer, yes? :)
Firefox Performancing Plugin & Other News
I am currently testing out a new plug-in that I found for firefox (now that I’ve got a new computer box that can run the program flawlessly.) This plug-in gives me a lot more flexibility in terms of working with blog post content, and as long as I’m on my machine, I don’t have to log into WordPress and rely on the web client to do everything for me. It’s really rather quite nice.
I shall have to do some more experimenting to see just what the limits are of this particular editor, but I am happy to say that so far I’m rather pleased with it. (Perhaps I’ll be able to update the site content a little bit more often now.)
If you’re interested in checking this little plug-in out, make a stop by https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1730/ and check it out. It’s got my full recommendation.
On another note, I am currently working on a site re-design (something a little more appropo (sp?) so to speak. ) It’s going to take me a little while to get it all put together, but I think the end result will be a welcome change. In addition to that, I’m going to restructure the way some of the information is laid out on the site. (Clean things up a bit, make them a little more organized.) I currently feel that this site is a good start to what I am looking for in an online representation of my work and services, and that it’s getting to the point where I need to take it to the next level.
So stay tuned! Yet more changes are on their way. :)
