NEW! Improved Post Reply

[John Robinson]

I've made some improvements to Post Reply. You'll see 'em.

[mystery-ak]

How come Im not on either of the *members* list.....what do I have to do to get on it?

[smith288]

You arent adding this stuff to the beta side anymore?

[John Robinson]

Unfortunately the three code bases (live, beta, and development) became horribly disjointed. I abandoned further development of the beta and development branches to concentrate on the live branch. I will back port useful features of both beta and development over the course of several months.

It's too bad, the development branch was looking VERY nice. It solved some of the biggest gripes of the new format.

Anyway, after staring in agape horror at the three jungle islands I carved, I decided to aggressively pursue a development environment that would not let me wander (or wonder) so far off course without sufficient bread crumbs to find my way back. My wonder bread I discovered was CVS, which I had never considered in the past because I'm just a one-man development team (CVS -- concurrent versioning system, used in multi-manned projects, almost a necessity, if not for the project, then for the project manager's sanity.)

[palo verde]

I love it, I love it, I love it
you did great
thanks
it is such a pleasure to just be able to press enter and not have to do code for new line
Love, Palo

[smith288]

in a windows world, is CVS like Visual SourceSafe?

[John Robinson]

I don't know anything about Visual SourceSafe. The title does sound as if they are similar products.

CVS allows developers to "check out" a copy of a project, the developer makes changes to the project, and then "commits" those changes to the repository. If a second developer commits changes inbetween the first developer's checkout/commit, the first developers changes would be merged into the repository (unless there is a conflict which must be resolved first.)

CVS allows for project branching. A project can have any number of branches. For instance, each public release would be a branch of the same source tree. The development branch would be another. At any time, a developer could checkout any branch (say for bugfixing) and commit that branch back into the repository at the appropriate place. A developer can view all the differences between two branches, which makes porting fixes very easy.

CVS rocks my world. I wish I had looked at it earlier.

[madfly]

Ping...FYI

This might have contributed to our problems.

The post about word wrap off/on when copy/pasting might have been where my post got fouled up.

Also, found that most of you guys are using NETSCAPE, different versions.

Still troubleshooting this.

Going to newest thread linked by JR above.

[Tom Jefferson]

John,

I don't know if you are the one I should be directing this to, but....

Using the auto-detected HTML in posting, how do you make the text bold, italic, underlined, etc., without using HTML commands?

[Tom Jefferson]

Madfly,

If we use the auto-HTML, how does one make the font bold, underlined, italic, etc?

[madfly]

I don't know the answer Tom. I read this whole thread as if it were a new one until I saw my post from June. Too early here, lol. I guess if you don't use HTML you just get straight text. The only auto HTML features that I know of are line breaks and URL's becoming links automatically.

[smith288]

John Robinson said:

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I've made some improvements to Post Reply. You'll see 'em.

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