Overheard in a meeting today:
“You’re going to be less recipient and more participant.”
Seems like a pretty good description of how this media landscape is changing.
How To Set Up Subversion, svnX, for TextDrive on OS X
I’m walking through the latest beta version of Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition, specifically the new bits on deploying Rails apps. Capistrano – the preferred and recommended deployment utility. Thing is – Capistrano hinges on Subversion. Not something covered in AWDwR or appropriate to be covered. There’s plenty of other books on the subject.
Though, that left me stuck on how to set up a Subversion repository and access it.
I do my hosting at TextDrive, and in the interest of making this process just a hair simpler, I set up my svn repository there. Here’s how I did it:
- Set up repository on TextDrive domain in
webmin.[your-server].textdrive.com:80.
There’s a ‘subversion repository’ menu option right when you sign-in. - Assign svn access rights to a TextDrive domain user.
It’s a radio button and select list selection in their profile. - Install Subversion on your local Mac – I did via macports
- Install svnX and in svnX preferences, confirm your path to svn in svnX (macports uses
/opt/local/bin) - Import your project into the TextDrive repository
svn import /Users/your/local/path/to/the/app http://[your-domain]/svn/[repository-name]/ -m 'initial import' --username=[your-svn-account-name] - Connect svnX to the repository
Path:http://[your-domain]/svn/[your-repository-name]
User:[your-svn-user-name]
Pass:[your-svn-user-name-pass] - Check out your project back on to your mac by clicking the ‘svn checkout
export‘ button and picking a directory to put it (not your original directory). I created an/svndirectory within my main project directory. - Now, if everything worked, double-clicking the repository should load it up in a new window.
- I’ve got a weird proxy between me and the internet right now, so I’ll make sure the commits work tomorrow. UPDATE: Yep, it works. Yah!
I’m Still In Here
The office I’m spending the day in has motion detectors on the lights. I sat too perfectly still for too long and the room went black.
Hey. I’m still in here.
MN Governor e-Debate 2006 First Impressions
Steven Clift is moderating the 2006 MN Gubernatorial candidate e-dbate. I’ve been following along via the RSS feed. Ever day a new question – perfect.
This is exactly how I like my politics – integrated into how I do everything already (RSS).
The questions are good, the answers are surprisingly good considering it’s a ‘political debate’. I credit Steven’s format: the candidates aren’t live and aren’t in the same room – and his intro kick-off video.
Even a couple questions in, it’s obvious who the serious candidates are (Pawlenty, Hatch). It’s great that the other candidates are running, and kudos to everyone for participating in the e-debate. I still don’t get being a single-issue candidate, just fixing the issue seems like a much more direct way of changing things than gambling on winning an election.
We Aggregate and Filter Each Other
Great post over at the Pomo blog, Pardon my removal of the blacklisted buzzwords. 😉
The Evil Genius Asks About the First Crack Podcast
Dave Slusher turned the mic on me at the recent PodcastExpo 2006. We talked about hyper-local podcasts and the two reasons why I podcast.
Amazing Race Season 10 – Episode 3 & 4
CBS and TiVo have been fighting the past few Sunday nights – CBS has been throwing off the start time of the Amazing Race by 15 to 30 minutes, and TiVo – hasn’t been able to figure it out.
Since we only watch AR via TiVo. We’ve been missing the back half of each AR. Not cool. Completely blowing my enthusiasm for CBS, Amazing Race, and TiVo.
Blah.
Leo Laporte Gives Up on Podcasting
I’ve subscribed to the Daily Giz Wiz for quite a while now – the combination of goofy banter, unloved gadgets, generally silliness, and it’s brevity makes for great podcasting. It’s the only TWIT-family podcast I was still subscribed.
Unfortunately, in today’s – #166 – the new TWIT intro calls it a ‘netcast’.
Lame. What’s a ‘netcast’? Do I need a boat and a body of water?
I heard Laporte’s rational for attempting to change the name at the recent 2006 PodcastExpo – he wants Apple to claim trademark of ‘podcast’. A term and media form developed by the podcast community – not Apple.
Double Lame. Rather than standing up to Apple, supporting the podcast community, simplifying the explanation for new listeners, keeping things simple for existing listeners – Laporte gives up.
Like Dave Winer said about RSS vs Atom: Two is more than twice as bad.
This thing – a multimedia file distributed via an RSS feed – is a podcast.
I’m unsubbing from DGW until it’s called a ‘podcast’ or at least a ‘clambake‘. I can’t support a name change and the software I’m using only understands ‘podcasts’.
RELATED 06 APRIL 2007
I completely agree with Tony @ Deep Jive Interests when he says:
“I just don’t see what [leaving Twitter] is going to solve.”
This is another silly publicity stunt from the big twit.
RELATED 09 NOV 2007
Rule 1: Be Useful Without an Account
Software as She’s Developed bring reminds us about lazy registration, i.e. a system that’s useful to people just kicking the tires, or just don’t want to set up another name/pass combination.
I’ve baked this into the FeedSeeder project (see the 2nd screencast). I’m working on the deployment recipe right now, so I should be able to show it to you shortly.
The Peacock Problem
