Daizu CMS

Articles for 2006

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April

• A new CMS Sunday 2 at 10:55
  Introducing my attempt to write a better CMS.
• Initial notes on the CMS design Sunday 2 at 14:35
  An explanation of some of the ideas I'm pursuing for the design.
• Meaning of copyfrom_path in Subversion editors Wednesday 5 at 19:13
  A warning about how to provide ‘copyfrom’ information to Subversion commit editors.
• Large bean Thursday 6 at 12:41
  Why I chose the name ‘Daizu’ for this thing.
• Track path changes and file identity Saturday 8 at 19:08
  Using Subversion's ‘copyfrom’ information to track changes in the paths of files across revisions and branches.
• Organising content Wednesday 12 at 17:53
  How the Subversion filesystem hierarchy is understood by Daizu.
• How to store file data in working copies Sunday 16 at 07:40
  Storing the content of files in the database, and avoiding duplicate copies of the same data.
• Loading metadata Monday 17 at 21:04
  How Daizu loads metadata from Subversion properties into the database.
• Parsing content as HTML fragments Monday 24 at 07:20
  Why I'm writing articles as XHTML fragments, and how I'm loading them in such a way that character entity references and XInclude both work.
• Minting ‘tag’ URIs Monday 24 at 12:11
  How globally unique URIs are created to identify files.
• Generating URLs from files Tuesday 25 at 06:25
  My ideas for using ‘generator classes’ and Subversion properties to control URL schemes.
• Loading TT templates from the database Thursday 27 at 16:02
  Loading TT templates directly from the database, and sometimes also from the filesystem.

August

• Tracking branches Thursday 10 at 23:46
  How Daizu figures out which paths in your repository are branches or tags.
• New XML::LibXML input callbacks API Sunday 27 at 05:51
  How the entity-loading callback API has changed in XML::LibXML, and how I'm using it.
• Character encodings in Perl Tuesday 29 at 12:52
  New Perl documentation about Unicode and character encoding support, perlunitut.
• Bug adding namespaced attributes Tuesday 29 at 14:41
  A note about a fixed bug in libxml to do with adding attribtues with namespace prefixes to new elements.

September

• Nasty bug in TT 2.14 Tuesday 5 at 15:21
  Certain exceptions thrown by methods called from templates are caught and silently ignored.
• Displaying null values in psql Sunday 10 at 18:04
  A little tip for people who use the psql client.
• Overriding templates Monday 18 at 01:34
  Generator classes can now rewrite the names of particular template files to customize the output.
• PictureArticle plugin Tuesday 19 at 11:40
  I've finally got round to finishing the PictureArticle plugin, which allows you to publish a picture as an article simply by adding the image file to Subversion and stirring in some metadata. Here for example is a picture of some Korean pickled cucumbers. They taste quite unpleasant by the way, far too salty.
• Output configuration Wednesday 20 at 14:14
  It's now possible to define where output files should be written to, in the configuration file.
• HeaderAnchor plugin Thursday 21 at 08:26
  A new plugin, supplied with Daizu, which makes it possible to link to headings part-way through an article.
• Daizu CMS version 0.1 Friday 22 at 18:32
  Release notes for the very first public release of Daizu.

October

• Daizu CMS version 0.2 Tuesday 3 at 21:23
  Fixes a serious design flaw and many bugs.
• Daizu repository Monday 16 at 00:03
  You can now get the Daizu source straight from its Subversion repository.
• Providing metadata for plugins Monday 16 at 01:48
  An experiment towards building a more robust plugin architecture.
• New _lib directory Tuesday 17 at 20:11
  Making Perl look for module files in a Daizu working copy in the database.
• Adding content from CVS Thursday 26 at 01:10
  I recently added some content (including revision history) from a CVS repository to my Subversion content repository, and surprisingly it worked perfectly.
• Bloglines and xml:base Monday 30 at 10:53
  Tweaking Atom feeds to work around a bug in Bloglines.

November

• Subversion Perl bug Sunday 19 at 20:32
  A mysterious bug has been holding up development, but it has finally been fixed.
• Navigation menu in SSI Sunday 26 at 17:20
  I added a feature to make republishing articles less often necessary, but then I decided to remove it.
• Daizu CMS version 0.3 Sunday 26 at 18:19
  New features to automatically bring live versions of sites up to date with changes in content.
• Related links metadata Sunday 26 at 23:44
  The new RelatedLinks module allows a list of links relating to an article to be published in the ‘extras’ column on the right of the page.

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