Rob Brooks-Bilson
Tech, Photography, Stuff
Blog Updated to blogCFC 5.1.001
July 18, 2006
It took all weekend, but I was finally able to get my blog updated to the (almost) latest version of blogCFC. It looks like I wasn't the only one who had a hard time with the upgrade. Admittedly, my troubles were all self inflicted as I had quite a bit of customization to both the look and feel, and some code I had in place to manage two blogs from a single codebase.
If you don't use WinMerge, I suggest taking a look. Without a diff/merge tool like this, it would have taken me a heck of a lot longer to perform the upgrade.
So far, everything with 5.1 seems to be working ok. I had some errors from the Yahoo slurp spider trying to follow my Print links. Not sure why it's doing that as the links are clearly labeled NOFOLLOW.
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7/18/06 10:30 AM
I went through this process this weekend as well, but never ended up pushing up my changes. I use svn to do the hard part of this for me. I use Vendor Branches (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch07s05.html) to keep rays code in my repository and then just merge his changes into my code base. I had 3 conflicts that I had to manage but it took all of about 3 minutes to make the changes.
Vendor Branches have saved my hide on more than one occasion. Its great for websites that use a cms editor or any one elses software as a dependency.
7/18/06 10:41 AM
Thanks Sim, I'll have to check that out. Winmerge was very helpful in my case, as there were literally hundreds of changes from the files other than the main blog.cfc.
7/19/06 2:54 PM
If you haven't tried Winmerge, check out a quick review of it at: http://www.fusionauthority.com/Reviews/4632-A-Revi...
Its a pretty easy to use and small program for comparing 2 files (or directories).
7/19/06 3:37 PM
Hi Ryan,
I've been a long time Winmerge user. It's absolutely indispensible!