Aaron Whitman - Latest Comments

Re: hCard parser H2VX not ready for HTML5 yet

Angelo — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:24:47 -0000

Thank you Aaron, I've been trying to make it work, but without progress...
Thanks Tantek for making a new (working so far) release. Any idea when the dev-version's coming the standard?

Re: hCard parser H2VX not ready for HTML5 yet

Kayte McLaughlin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:18:15 -0000

Thanks for sharing this tip - I didn't know about this!

Re: hCard parser H2VX not ready for HTML5 yet

Aaron Whitman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:58:29 -0000

Tantek, thanks for the update, I tried several HTML5 hCards on it successfully. All worked as expected.

My particular experience involves timing: updating a website to HTML5 that already had an hCard in it. After the update, the download link was broken because I did not realize this was a consideration when using H2VX. I eventually found the dev version and tired it out with success.

I was not comfortable linking to your dev version -- only because "dev" implies not ready yet. In the short term I've reverted to non-HTML5 markup for hCards, a simple and safe change for me. Glad to hear you are getting ready for the production release with HTML5 support.

The hCard microformat is one of my favorite website enhancements, and I'm very grateful to you and Brian for it. Thanks for H2VX as well -- it's a wonderful gift to the web community.

Regards,
Aaron

Re: hCard parser H2VX not ready for HTML5 yet

Tantek — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:13:13 -0000

Aaron, could you try your HTML5 hCards with http://dev.h2vx.com/vcf/ and post if it works for you?

The dev version has been stable for over a year now, and I just posted the source to github as well:

http://github.com/microform...

I'm planning on pushing it live to production soon, but would appreciate your testing/feedback on it first!

Thanks,

Tantek

Re: hCard parser H2VX not ready for HTML5 yet

Aaron Whitman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:23:23 -0000

Thanks for pointing this out -- it's certainly true that the problem requires a parser update -- not the hCard microformat itself. I've updated the post to clarify the issue as it relates to the H2VX parser.

Some examples of HTML(5) support are the hCard validator http://hcard.geekhood.net/ and the dev version of H2VX http://dev.h2vx.com/vcf/

Re: hCard parser H2VX not ready for HTML5 yet

singpolyma — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:36:51 -0000

TBF, this isn't hCard that's broken, but one specific parser. Any parser I've written would work, I would expect Operator still works, etc. I think the H2VX problem is it uses/used HTML-tidy.

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Aaron Whitman — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:18:58 -0000

Stephen - After updating to the latest WP you will be prompted to update your database when logging into /wp-admin as an admin user on your site. More info here: http://codex.wordpress.org/...

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Stephen E — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:57:09 -0000

How do you update to the latest Wordpress database?

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Aaron Whitman — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:11:03 -0000

Thanks Eric,

I don't symlink any plugins that I do not write myself, so that's why there is no symlink for the plugins folder back to site/wp-content/plugins. This let's the WordPress bundled plugins work normally (Akismet) and let's you add/update/remove other plugins from the admin interface. I do symlink wp/wp-content/plugins/some-plugin-i-wrote back to site/wp-content/plugins/some-plugin-i-wrote so I can maintain revision history with the rest of my theme.

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Eric P — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:22:21 -0000

Hi there. Great tutorial. However... you mention creating site/wp-content/plugins but, unless I missed something, didn't create a symlink for it. I'm not sure what to do about plugins. Do I create a new symlink for each plugin I install?

Re: Markup after the HTML tag

Aaron Whitman — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:59:28 -0000

Whoever wrote the program should know better than that I hope.

I used to agree about the malformed XML = fail stance since you would catch/fix errors before they go live. But now -- with large scale CMS and non-expert (non-interested?) content managers -- I'm all for browsers doing their best with broken markup. Don't punish the viewer because the author made a mistake.

Large sites have an awful lot pages to test every time the CMS publishes. Would be interested to know how rigorous front-end testing is in these organizations and/or the publishing platforms they use.

Re: Markup after the HTML tag

Allan — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:39:00 -0000

It looks like something that a program put in after the fact, on the last line just to be safe. The XML geek in me thinks markup like this should cause the page to fail.

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Aaron Whitman — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:19:36 -0000

Hi Eric,

The symbolic links and apache config let me put everything else outside of the Wordpress directory -- if that makes any sense...

Wordpress directory is the document root, but custom themes, plugins, etc can reside elsewhere with symlinks.

There is no real benefit in production, it's just a side effect of the convenience during development, version control, and deployment of updates.

Cheers,
Aaron

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Eric Lightbody — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:36:31 -0000

Excellent tutorial, thank you! Did you follow these settings to give wordpress its own directory (wp) and keep everything out of the root of the site?

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Aaron Whitman — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:23:59 -0000

Hi Luke,

What about an export then an import into the new SVN reository? You would lose all revision history, but this might not be an issue if you're currently at a stable tag and don't plan on reverting to any past versions of your files. Obviously not ideal, but it should get you migrated quickly.

Aaron

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Luke — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:31:28 -0000

Hi,

Now that Wordpress has discontinued MU, I actually need to switch my wordpress repository to a different repository and get a 'repository doesn't match expected UUID' when I try this. Do you know of a way round this?

thanks,

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Aaron Whitman — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:29:52 -0000

Hi Luke,

The symlinks do require a little bit of maintenance, and are not necessarily required for this implementation -- it's just an approach that appeals to me.

A similar approach would be to keep the symlinked files in your part of the repository, and just copy them into the appropriate folders in WordPress's part of the tree anytime you update the WordPress files. That would probably not be that much more effort

Cheers,
Aaron

Re: Subversion repository with WordPress external

Luke — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:07:49 -0000

Hi,

Does this require you to setup symlinks again each time you do a deployment? I guess you will need to setup the symlinks on the staging and production servers but that these would not be overwritten by the checkout?

I'm actually doing this on windows and found a tool called linkd.exe which I'm hoping will handle the symlinking part.

thanks,

Luke.

Re: Yikes! Melted power adapter crisis

Jason Murray — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:16:09 -0000

Looks like a little electrical tape could make that as good as new (jk). Great site btw.

Re: Yikes! Melted power adapter crisis

John Neima — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:56:34 -0000

Dude - that's scary! When I think about all the stuff I have charging around the house, on carpet of all places...

Re: How did I ever live before Software as a Service?

Aaron Whitman — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:07:02 -0000

I'm a big fan of Freshbooks, and have used it for about four years now. You organize clients, estimates, and projects as objects to create invoices for. On the project side they have really good time tracking, including a widget for Mac Dashboard and and iPhone app. Invoices are sent via email or snail mail (FB sends for you, you just have to buy "stamps" from them) with your logo and other info. One feature I wish they would add (and I have asked them to add in their forums) is budgeted hours for a project, so it's easier to report on status in one place. For freelance work I use FB to send the invoices to clients, but at Optio we sent all invoices to our book keeper who entered in Quickbooks, then send invoices herself. You can get a free account to try, so you might as well. Set me up as a client and send me an invoice. I'll contest it to show you that functionality :P

Re: How did I ever live before Software as a Service?

Steve Lionais — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:00:54 -0000

How's Freshbooks? I use Quickbooks Pro for Mac and it's been sufficient, but not wonderful.

Re: Google Chrome can not open local HTML files

Aaron Whitman — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:41:53 -0000

Ha! You are probably right Allan. Maybe I should have said "*will* not open". I'm sure they could if they wanted to.

Re: Google Chrome can not open local HTML files

Allan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:55:14 -0000

Google is all about The Cloud, man. Opening local files would just encourage the wrong sort of behaviour.

Re: Notre Dame and Eiffel Tower

Anonymous — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:59:00 -0000

European keyboards are so.. European. They are different just because they can be. :) Just wait 'till you try an Italian keyboard: missing keys and you have to pay extra for a e i o and u.