http://rhaptos.org daily 1 2006-12-14T00:38:51Z http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/svn15 The new version of SVN is out, and it has (finally) built-in merge tracking. And it's better than svnmerge. No publisher jccooper 2008-09-10T17:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/catalogrefresh Copies instances will in some places still refer to cnx.org, making them hard to use. I usually just ignore it, but if it becomes cumbersome, you can fix it. No publisher jccooper 2008-01-03T16:04+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/ricesvn Rice IT also runs a general-purpose SVN service. No publisher jccooper 2008-01-02T12:19+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/backups Rice provides a backup space for everybody, and we should probably use it. It's not too hard... No publisher jccooper 2008-01-02T12:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/wfchange The default state for content on rhaptos.org is now 'published'. No publisher jccooper 2007-10-18T15:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/plonerecipes Nice plone.org howto regarding common Plone programming idioms. No publisher jccooper 2007-08-17T18:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/browsechunks The browse system's alphabetical selection for authors, etc, works okay for us, since we have enough data, but it works poorly for bare Rhaptos installs, and is already starting to be a problem for some of the more popular letters. No publisher jccooper 2007-08-15T17:10+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/svnmerge The SVN merge facilities are pretty dumb, and doing merges, especially to long-lived branches, is annoying. I came across an SVN helper tool called (a bit unhelpfully) 'svnmerge', and am trying it out on the Plone 2.5 branches. So far I like it. No publisher jccooper 2007-08-07T17:15+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/upgrades An example of explicit upgrades in an install script. No publisher jccooper 2007-07-17T15:20+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/difftool Connexions has slipped a fair bit into the Plone core. Now we have more! No publisher jccooper 2007-07-09T11:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/tracbranches As if we don't have enough, I think maybe we need one more field in the bug system: branches. No publisher jccooper 2007-07-05T13:01+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/thefuture Some links to demonstrate and learn about some of the new technologies we'll be able to use when we're running Plone 2.5. No publisher jccooper 2007-06-04T13:41+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/workflow Not my idea, but I thought I'd note this so it doesn't get lost. No publisher jccooper 2007-05-30T16:48+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/publishLog One way we might improve intra-day recovery would be keeping an independent log of published content. No publisher jccooper 2007-05-29T09:34+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/upgrading The future of product upgrades in Rhaptos. No publisher jccooper 2007-05-24T20:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/plone25runs Plone 2.5 upgrade script runs all the way through now. No publisher jccooper 2007-03-29T11:52+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/plone25progress So I can start an instance on Python 2.4/Zope 2.9/Plone 2.5.2. I can also run *most* of the upgrade script! Bad news is the timing. No publisher jccooper 2007-03-23T17:15+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/ploneMigrationLong One problem with the Plone migration that has already become clear to me is that it'll take a long time to run. No publisher jccooper 2007-03-21T14:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/lenstorm Possible different types of lensing... No publisher jccooper 2007-03-19T15:32+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/alaxslt Alan Runyan is interested in an XSLT future for the UI of Plone. I had lunch with him today to discuss this, and our situation. No publisher jccooper 2007-02-15T17:50+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/endorsements I've got a del.icio.us-based endorsement system running. It's a bit rough, but that can be fixed. No publisher jccooper 2007-01-25T17:53+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/contentdeletion Normally we don't delete content, but sometimes we are obliged to. Here's how... This blog has been superseded by http://rhaptos.org/docs/sysadmindocs/sa-deletecontent No publisher jccooper 2007-01-18T17:46+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/diffengine My skin-components-by-patch idea has been realized (in a somewhat rough form) in DifferenceEngine. We'll probably be using it going forward, so get a-learnin'. No publisher jccooper 2007-01-10T18:10+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/createInstance A script to automate devinstance creation. No publisher jccooper 2006-12-21T12:48+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/whenbranching Subsequent merging of a branch can be made a bit easier if we add a simple step. No publisher jccooper 2006-12-07T16:07+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/ff20 Firefox 2.0 is out, and one of the spiffy new features is auto-discovery and installation of search plugins. I set us up for this on a new devset. No publisher jccooper 2006-11-17T20:58+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/plonecon What I learned at the Plone conference that may be useful to other folks. No publisher jccooper 2006-10-30T13:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/delicious Delicious, in fact. I've implemented some basic lensing using del.icio.us as the selector. No publisher jccooper 2006-10-06T17:32+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/expressCO This feature, packaged with recent changes to edit in place, allows quick checkout of modules from published page. Now functionally ready, needs UI review. No publisher jccooper 2006-09-19T18:22+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/planningUpdated Now with categories! No publisher jccooper 2006-09-13T19:04+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/api Lots of people are interested in integrating their stuff with CNX. Luckily, most of the tools to let them do it themselves already exist. No publisher jccooper 2006-09-13T18:09+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/sessionmanager Session Manager is awesome. Install it now! For great justice! No publisher jccooper 2006-08-03T16:49+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/naming We need a snappy name for the new subscription tool. No publisher jccooper 2006-07-31T15:09+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/rss-go I've enabled syndication on a trail basis. It's cool. No publisher jccooper 2006-07-31T11:59+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/trainingchecklist Now that I'm around full time, I'll have the chance to do some Plone training. But first, I need to figure out what exactly to present. Follows are some topics; please let me know what you're interested in. Also, anything that's not there. Some entries are separable, some are not. They are grouped vaguely by subject. No publisher jccooper 2006-06-13T17:32+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/devprocess Our solutions to the EIP situation will require the addition of a checkout-from-published feature (which has been requested anyway). I'm going to use that to test a new development process. No publisher jccooper 2006-06-13T17:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/workflowRedo We've redone the rhaptos.org workflow to fit our model better. The visible state now means "internally visible", like many thought it already did; also, the review step has been removed, and you can edit published content. No publisher jccooper 2006-06-08T15:43+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/email You may now email me at jccooper@rice.edu. No publisher jccooper 2006-06-08T12:25+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/devsets Our development model (as it currently stands) puts development on branches. Branches exist only per-product, due to our SVN structure. This is fine if you only work on one product, but what if you need to make changes to two or four or more products? We now have a less-ad hoc way to capture this information than just telling Jenn. No publisher jccooper 2006-04-10T14:45+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/ecassignment Just released for Plone: ECAssignmentBox No publisher jccooper 2006-02-13T14:36+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/transformsworking My transform work, which is mostly involved with Zip file import and export, is largely done and in the testing court now. No publisher jccooper 2006-02-13T14:23+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/transforms See new module transforms on sullivan. No publisher jccooper 2006-01-23T21:04+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/guidointerview In this series of interviews, Guido (creator of Python) talks about its origins, design decisions, and other things. No publisher jccooper 2006-01-09T15:00+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/import We've grown imports for CNXML in an ad hoc fashion. For the last few days, I've been refactoring these into the CMF standard for data transforms. No publisher jccooper 2005-10-17T19:08+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/idioms This page on Python idioms should make you say "oh, neat!" at least once. No publisher jccooper 2005-10-17T18:42+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/training I'm off doing a Plone class the latter half of this week. No publisher jccooper 2005-09-14T12:47+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/flexibletabs CMFBoardTab, which puts CMFBoard forums as a tab, now acquires its actions from the object it is placed on. No publisher jccooper 2005-09-13T16:34+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/tabforums The forum-under-tab functionality I've been working on is done-ish. No publisher jccooper 2005-08-01T14:11+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/goBackAndWait After 'sullivan' is compromised, I end up even more in Siberia, and discover an undocumented Selenium command. No publisher jccooper 2005-06-27T18:14+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/tabforumprogress Forum-under-tab is going well. No publisher jccooper 2005-06-16T19:20+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/wgdiscussion Workgroup discussion forums will soon grow a tab that goes to a discussion forum. No publisher jccooper 2005-06-07T14:54+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/2005aprweek4 Status for final week of April, 2005: No publisher jccooper 2005-04-28T14:31+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/2005aprweek3 Blog status report for third week of April (and second week as well) 2005. No publisher jccooper 2005-04-21T14:21+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/status Status reports are back, sort of. No publisher jccooper 2005-04-07T12:01+00:00 http://rhaptos.org/devblog/jccooper/april2004first Status for first week of April, 2004, and first post. No publisher jccooper 2005-04-07T11:59+00:00