Tag: releases

GitHub adds Releases

By now you know that I can’t praise GitHub enough.  It is one of the best tools for developers ever.  Seriously.  It’s up there with git itself, and even Vim.  If you aren’t using it yet, stop whatever it is you are doing and rush there.  Now. I’m not kidding.

So, anyways.  Today GitHub added another awesome feature – Releases.  These are basically git tags on steroids.

GitHub releases

 

I’ve been already playing around with the idea of releases for our work projects. See, for example, phing-version branch of my sandbox repository.  It worked, but it’s not perfect.  With GitHub Releases however I’ll have pretty much everything I need – release notes, easy full diff reviews, binary attachments, etc.

A little side note for binary attachments: I mostly work with PHP, which doesn’t really need binary attachments.  But I am a part of other, “heavier” projects, developed in C++ for example.  This feature will come in handy.  Also, as far as PHP goes, I was playing with the idea of using RPM and YUM as a mechanism for managing installation, upgrade, and downgrade process.

Back to GitHub Releases now.  This is an excellent example of why you should use GitHub instead of setting up your own environment.  You’ll waste more time and money.  It will be ugly.  And you’ll have to maintain it.  With GitHub you’ll focus on your actual development work and will get excited every now and then when they add a new feature.

CakePHP 2.1.4, 2.2, and a pick into 3.0

There’s been a stream of good news from the CakePHP headquarters recently.  If you are as slow as me on catching up with these things, here is a quick summary.

  • CakePHP 2.1.4 has been release, and that’ll be the last release for the 2.1 branch.  It’s time to move on.
  • CakePHP 2.2 stable has been released, and that’s what you should be using for your projects.
  • CakePHP 3.0 has been mentioned, so if you are interested in contributing early, here is your chance.

CakePHP 3.0 will take a few month to develop.  Mainly, the work is focused around the following:

  • Drop support for PHP 5.2.
  • Add and improve support of PHP 5.4+.
  • Reorganized CakePHP classes to use namespaces to avoid collisions with other libraries and classes.
  • Improve bootstrapping for better control by developers.
  • Rewrite the model layer to support more drivers, object mapping, richer API, etc.
  • Rewrite the routing to work faster and be more flexible.

Overall, it looks like some really healthy activity in CakePHP project.

Upgraded to WordPress 3.4

WordPress 3.4 was released a few days ago.  I didn’t have the time to take a better look at it, but once I read through the new features today, I got excited.  Theme options preview and embeding tweets are the two sweetest features.  Here is a test for the tweet embed.

Which features are your favorite?

Fedora 18 : Spherical Cow

First, the source:

Thank you to everyone who participated in voting for the Fedora 18
release name. The name for Fedora 18, the follow-up to Beefy Miracle,
is:

      Spherical Cow

Voting period:  Friday 2012-04-20 00:00:00 to Friday 2012-04-27 00:00:00
Number of valid ballots cast:  429

That offset a lot of people, it seems.  But personally I like it.  I think it’s always a good idea not to take yourself too seriously.