The Pigeon Shack

Tiny and hidden updates have slowly been trickling in, with many more on their way. Recently I plugged in a meta tag framework allowing me to link next and previous posts. Shortly posts will receive the gift of tags, which will also start appearing in the meta tags.

While comments have been implemented for some time now, the whole processes has been cleaned up and locked down a bit. A pain free, fresh and clean implementations of ‘captcha’ will be making an appearing relatively soon as well.

In addition to tags and captchas, feeds are also in the works as are trackbacks and search. Once basic usability has been established, updates on the front end will be on hold for a bit while I brew up an interface for myself. While I love the command line and all, it’s not optimal for adding posts and checking for new comments.

Wow, could a post be any less interesting?

I’m transfering my domain, I don’t think there will be any issues for y’all; but DNS internets stuff always makes my head spin.

I am always a big fan of infinite loops, this is one of the best ones that I have seen yet.

 
Visitor#visitGroup(Group g) {
   g.accept(this);
}

Group#accept(Visitor v) {
   v.visitGroup(this);
}

It took me a good four days to fully understand how svn:ignore and thusly propset works in subversion. Sometimes skimming in books saves me a lot of time, but in cases like this it does not. If you are a skimmer, a ‘n00b’, or myself; here is a reminder how the damn thing works.

propset is a key/value for a directory, each set overwrites the value, it does not concatenate. To ignore multiple files in a directory, separate them by new line in a text file. propset takes a value, a file (or file pattern) to apply it to followed by a directory. Patterns in parent directories do not recurse down. i.e. another/directory/file.rb will not be ignored from the root directory, it needs to be ignored from ‘directory’.

• Ignore a file: svn propset svn:ignore Shack.tmproj .
• Ignore many: svn propset svn:ignore -F ignore.txt .

After countless hours tweeking, hacking and snearing I have finally put together a layout that I do not despise. Many ideas are brewing in my noggin and should see the light of day once this hellish semester is over!