Web development pages changelog

Adding redirects

Jan. 30, 2012, 3:05 p.m.
Adding redirects involves adding lines to the server’s configuration files. Be very careful, but don’t panic. It isn’t difficult. And you can add the lines using the repository and let someone else look at them before restarting the server.

Signup Archive — switched to www-only logins

Jan. 30, 2012, 12:05 p.m. — jerry
Switched from portal logins to www-only logins on request of Shahra.

Tutorials Editor — Switched to www-only logins

Jan. 30, 2012, 12:04 p.m. — jerry
Switched from portal logins to www-only logins on request of Shahra.

Creating site.list files

Jan. 12, 2012, 11:32 a.m.
Site.list files can remove or add items to navigation.

Mass mail users — added division

Dec. 1, 2011, 11:33 a.m. — jerry
Added division to mass mailer data; if sorting by division, mass mail users are divided up into divisions.

ITS Tutorials — Switched back to www-only SSO

Nov. 29, 2011, 3:21 p.m. — jerry
On request from Shahra, switched from portal login to www-only logins.

Feed editors

Nov. 28, 2011, 2:33 p.m.
Add RSS feed editors, and allow existing editors to edit another area’s feeds.

Mercurial

Nov. 22, 2011, 3 p.m.
Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Nov. 22, 2011, 2:59 p.m.
Mercurial is a modern, open source, distributed version control system, and a compelling upgrade from older systems like Subversion. In this user-friendly, six-part tutorial, Joel Spolsky teaches you the key concepts.

Mercurial Keyring Extension

Nov. 22, 2011, 2:58 p.m.
Keyring extension uses services of the keyring library to securely save authentication passwords (HTTP/HTTPS and SMTP) using system specific password database (Gnome Keyring, KDE KWallet, OSXKeyChain, dedicated solutions for Win32 and command line).

A Visual Guide to Version Control

Nov. 22, 2011, 2:56 p.m.
Version Control (aka Revision Control aka Source Control) lets you track your files over time. Why do you care? So when you mess up you can easily get back to a previous working version.

Mercurial guidelines

Nov. 22, 2011, 2:55 p.m.
Version control allows us to easily see what changes happened when, and to more easily merge changes when two or more people are working on the same project.

Python strftime

Nov. 21, 2011, 12:02 p.m.
date, datetime, and time objects all support a strftime(format) method, to create a string representing the time under the control of an explicit format string.

Mako templates

Nov. 21, 2011, noon
Mako is a template library written in Python. It provides a familiar, non-XML syntax which compiles into Python modules for maximum performance.

File Downloads — emphasized no-extra-spaces requirement

Nov. 16, 2011, 12:19 p.m. — jerry
Emphasized the requirement that there be no extra text, including spaces or line breaks, before calling the download method. This will cause files to be corrupt after downloading.

Automatic RSS feeds

Nov. 14, 2011, 11:32 a.m.
Automatic RSS feeds, usually social networking feeds.

Management overview — Pull photos directly from MySDSVCS

Oct. 24, 2011, 2:51 p.m. — jerry
Rather than look for photos on the file system, generate a direct URL to the Campus Card system.

Video Optimization — Web Video Publishing Optimization

Oct. 7, 2011, 4:51 p.m. — scottlund
When you take a master video file and need to put it in the web, it should be optimized for playback, download, and quality. This tutorial describes how to create videos for download using Handbrake for Mac and PC.