William Nagel has created a web site for his book Subversion Version Control – Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects. The site will contain errata and other things related to the book and also has a free PDF version of the book, which was written and published under the Open Publication License.
Category Archives: Software Development
Ari Paparo Dot Com: Getting it Right
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Ari Paparo writes about his experience writing a public bookmarking service and why his implementation didn’t hit the popularity that del.ico.us did. Thanks Nalla for the link!
Free Scrum Process Automation Tool
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Nalla pointed me to ScrumWorks, a Scrum automation tool available at danube.com. Apparently its free with site registration. I haven’t looked into it in any semblence of detail, but thought it was worth a note to myself and a later look into the details.
The New Methodology
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Martin Fowlers updated paper on The New Methodology where he covers the history, reasons and advantages of agile methodologies. He also covers the different agile methodologies out there.
The Patent Epidemic
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I found a reference to this on Slashdot – BusinessWeek has a really good article describing the goofiness that is the U.S. patent system.
Subversion 1.3.0 released.
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The Subversion team announced yesterday the official release of Subversion 1.3.0. This release includes around 30 bug fixes along with new functionality such path-based authorization for svnserve, –xml support for additional commands and performance improvements on the svn status and blame commands. See all the detail in the release notes.
Continuing the WordPress Upgrade Work
I am continuing to work on the site and its migration to WordPress 2.0. Along with the upgrade of the main site, I’ve had to upgrade the following items:
- Ultimate Tag Warrior – I have upgraded this to version 2.8.9 to remove an error in the admin screens
- FAlbum (Integrated WordPress / Flickr Photo Album) – I have upgraded this to version 0.5.6. Along with getting everything to work properly, this version also gets rid of those missing images you saw in the photo album due to Flickr changing its URL scheme. With this work completed, the integrated photo album is now back up and running.
Right now, I think everything is working properly except for the comment issue when “wordpress” is in the permalink. If you find anything else broken, please let me know. I will continue to test over the next week or so.
Incidentally, the WordPress team is planning to release the official 2.0 release on December 26. Once that happens, I’ll go through the excercise again to ensure that I am on the most current version.
Overall, I think the WordPress team did a great job with this version of the software. For some additional information on WordPress 2.0, you might want to hit the following articles written by Owen Winkler:
Sourceforge (Finally) Putting Together Beta Service Offering for Subversion?
From the SourceForge Recent Enhancements section:
As of 2005-11, SourceForge.net staff are actively working to prepare a beta service offering related to the Subversion SCM. This offering will be provided in addition to our existing CVS service; there are no plans to discontinue CVS service. Pre-requisite analysis work has been initiated and hardware has been ordered.
This message was also posted to the Subversion mailing list:
From SourceForge’s site update note:
> As we enter a new calendar year, our focus remains on further
> improving the quality of our service. To that end, I am pleased to
> announce that SourceForge.net will offer Subversion in early January
> 2006, initially as a beta program available to approximately 50
> projects. Then, if the Subversion beta period proceeds as smoothly as
> we expect, we will deploy Subversion site wide by March, 2006.
So lets keep our eyes out for this one …
WordPress 2.0 Update
I found that if permalinks are on and the post-slug contains the word ‘WordPress’, the comments section would not appear on the post. I have submitted an issue to the WordPress team.
If you notice, I have changed the word ‘WordPress’ in each of the slugs to ‘wp’ and they work fine. An old post with WordPress in the slug can be found here. Notice – no comments section.
Obscure issues like this is why I don’t mind installing beta software in my production environment. Chances are, if you don’t run it for real, you won’t find this stuff.
Apple releases podcast server?
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It looks like Apple has released a podcast server solution for its OSX Server product.
Bieber Labs 