Big things happening over on the dev site. I started the day with a total of 30 checkins to svn, and I ended the day with 114. I've got the sidebar setup, most of the bookmarking done and the 90% of the stylesheet done.

I still need to make sure the bookmarks are integrated, and that's probably going to require digging into the trunk to be able to run url_encode(the_permalink)). I may be able to skate if some kind soul has posted some docs. I need to update all the drilldown pages to reflect the new classes I installed in the style.  I'm going to let the header slide until the next release, because CSS positioning and I don't get along very well. The footer will be done in this release.

I really need to generate some scripts that will sync every table except options from the live site to the dev site.

And I need to remember to remove the static configuration file from svn before I update the live site.

I'd like to say I'm a lot more comfortable with svn now... but not really. I needed to undo some changes I'd checked in, and I had a lot of trouble trying to revert. I'll read up on that tomorrow. All in all, I only had to dig out the books once.

It's monday, and I'm back at work. Training isn't so bad, except for the glacial pace. This is the first chance I've had to see the site on IE. It looks better on firefox, though it remains to be seen if that's a function of display settings. All the features seem to work ok, except for the known bugs. Hopefully I'll have the production site up and running while I wait for my wife to get off work, then I can start beating this site into shape.

TODO:

1. Get www up and running
2. install some plugins? Need to find an expert list of the must-have plugins.
3. Create my own theme.
4. Install gallery and gallery plugins. Upload pics.
5. Start working on some real projects.

Dreamhosts info

Using subversion for web development

Turtle Book

I setup a subdomain I'm calling rtfm, at which I'll be uploading documentation packages for whatever strikes my fancy. Eventually, I could get good at LaTex and generate atomically integrated documentation from the source, but this isn't that day. So I'll just be uploading my own mirrors of whatever I need. Currently, I only have one resource uploaded. The Turtle Book will be the source of most of my traffic for the next couple of days while I learn the system.

Note to self:

• ICE 1.0
• Blandy 1.0

Are the best templates, but neither are widget aware. Which is ok, because the widget aware themes don't want to play nice with the plugins. So we're back to the part where I need to get SVN setup. Which is new for me. I've used a couple of different SCM packages, and even scripted against one of them, but this is all new software for me. Hooray. My spidey sense pictures a trip to MegaBookLifestyleStore to procure one.

8 themes and many plugins are installed, now I need to do some real sysadminning and get SVN on board.

Lots to do before this is really ready for presentation:

1. setup trunk in svn
2. install plugins, configure
3. find better theme template (but this is the fun part so it will probably get done first)
4. build theme
5. work on some real projects