The ColdFusion Podcast Episode 31 - SVN

Posted At : August 28, 2006 9:00 AM | Posted By : Bryan Kaiser
Related Categories: Version Control, Episodes

This week we talk about version control with the popular subversion (SVN) open source product and rundown the news for the last 3 weeks. Be sure and check out EdgeWeb Hosting for your CF sites!

Running Time: 52:40

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Would it be possible when you post the summary info - could you also post the length of the podcast? It would be nice to know how long it is so I can either listen at lunch or if it's longer - listen after work, etc...

Jim

# Posted By Jim | 8/28/06 11:15 AM

Jim,

That's a great idea. We'll definitely work that into our future episodes. I'll also go back and edit the existing shows with the times.

Bryan

# Posted By Bryan Kaiser | 8/28/06 5:33 PM

heh heh - laughing to yourself while standing on a train platform makes people stare at you! Great podcast guys. Thanks guys for getting people staring at me. ;)

You mentioned looking at trac and that you were thinking of looking at it. Having used it a couple of times I think its great and I really must get trac and svn up and running properly at work, even though I'm a lone developer. A couple of articles you might be interested in are these by Andy Allan (http://www.creative-restraint.co.uk/blog/index.cfm...) up in Scotland. Andy talks about setting up trac on windows and how to set it up for multiple projects.

# Posted By Stephen Moretti | 8/29/06 6:01 PM

You left out some links from the news section... like the cookbook. Of course we can google to find them, but that is awful mean when you guys do that!

# Posted By John Farrar | 8/30/06 6:56 AM

John,

I just listened to the news section again to make sure that we caught everything. The Rahul blog was the only thing not displaying (it was there, but not displaying because of the < > characters). We didn't talk about the cookbook this time around (that I heard), but you can get to it at http://coldfusioncookbook.com. Thanks for keeping us on our toes, I never would have noticed that we missed the link to Rahul's blog.

# Posted By Bryan Kaiser | 8/30/06 9:35 AM

Stephen,

We might have to put a warning on the podcast: Warning, this podcast may make people stare. :)

Thanks for the link. I'm going to need a decent bug tracking/documentation system soon, so it makes sense to give Trac a shot. I'll let everyone know how it goes once I get around to it.

# Posted By Bryan Kaiser | 8/30/06 9:59 AM

Thanks Bryan for your mention of my blog.

# Posted By Rahul Narula | 8/30/06 11:13 AM

You mentioned the idea of not using transparent PNG with IE. I ran across this in researching another matter. (Preparing for MS to choose what our users install on their systems.).

http://dean.edwards.name/IE7/

# Posted By John Farrar | 9/1/06 7:25 AM

John,
I had seen this one too. It does include a lot of fixes and will fix the PNG problem, however it simply does a loop on all the images that are .png and applies a filter to them. I was doing this for specific png's in my site, and the sheer volume of having to apply so many filters was killing the system. Thus, the IE7.js files actually made it WORSE because they were taking in all .pngs, regardless if they were 8 bit or 24+. I just stay away from it in IE6 now, and it's much more stable. It just is a pain that IE 6 is so far behind other browser engines!

# Posted By Michael Haynie | 9/1/06 9:58 AM

# Posted By Phillip Senn | 9/10/06 12:49 PM

Phillip,

We also have an archive feed that has all of our show on it. You can get to it by going to http://feeds.feedburner.com/coldfusionpodcast/arch... It was having issues, but I've since fixed it.

# Posted By Bryan Kaiser | 9/10/06 2:33 PM

Hey guys in this episode you mentioned that you found some plug-ins for eclipse for doing HTML, JavaScript, CSS , etc. that you liked better than the eclipse WTP. Since you were talking about SVN (and the SVN plug-in) at the time you didn’t give the names of those plug-ins. Could list the plug-ins for eclipse that you use besides CFeclipse.

Basically, I am looking for a really good CSS tool for eclipse.

# Posted By Greg Cronkright | 10/5/06 1:22 PM

Greg,

I haven't found a CSS editor that I really like yet (I haven't used the one in WTP). All the ones that I've found haven't been updated in at least a year. I'm going to keep my eyes open and will report back if I find one.

As for the other plugins that we use, here's a list:

XMLBuddy (http://www.xmlbuddy.com/)
JSEclipse (http://www.interaktonline.com/Products/Eclipse/JSE...)
Subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/install.html)

Note that Adobe bought the makers of JSEclipse. Since then, I've had trouble downloading JSEclipse. I'm thinking of making an info page about this. I'll post here again if I do.

# Posted By Bryan Kaiser | 10/5/06 1:44 PM

Give Aptana a try - I installed the plugin (it is also available as a stand-alone product) at home and it works well for CSS/HTML... And it seems to play well with CFEclipse.

http://aptana.com/

# Posted By Jim | 10/5/06 1:56 PM

First let me say I love your podcast. I just listened to your podcast about SVN, and there was one thing I was hoping to learn about. Which was how to put your code in production after you have checked your code in?

# Posted By Matt graf | 1/29/07 9:52 AM

Actually you check your code OUT. You commit it back IN to the repository. To get your code from the repository to your production server you could - install SVN on your production machine and checkout a working copy there (you probably want to configure your web server to ignore the svn directories) or you can do an export. If you have TortoiseSVN installed - check out their help - very well done and easy to read.

# Posted By Jim | 1/29/07 10:06 AM

Jim is absolutely correct. You can do an export with Tortoise SVN, or some other subversion client on your production machine (exports don't include the SVN stuff, checkouts do). There is also the option of automatically doing an export from the SVN server using "hook" scripts. You can find more information about that here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.reposad...

I have used that to automatically publish code to a remote dev server on checkin.

# Posted By Bryan Kaiser | 1/29/07 2:47 PM

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