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

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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.

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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.

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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? :)

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