Beta Update


A new release of Syncopation 2.0 Beta is available for download.

I have just posted an updated build of the Syncopation 2.0 Beta to my web site. The Syncopation 2.0 Beta 2 release may be downloaded from http://www.sonzea.com/syncopation/beta.html.

With this release, I have been making bug fixes and performance improvements and have also much improved Leopard compatibility. While 1.0.4 runs fairly well on Leopard, the new 2.0 drag and drop features and application startup routines had some issues on Leopard. This new Beta 2 release has addressed all Leopard compatibility issues that have been discovered.

My previous post said I expected to release this by the end of November. As things stand now, that doesn't seem likely. There is still a lot of help files, documentation and such to write. However, as far as the code goes, I think things are quite close to the final state.

In recent weeks, as I have upgraded my Power Mac from Tiger to Leopard, I have also been forced to upgrade my Subversion and TRAC server. The configuration I had implemented on Tiger was wiped out during the upgrade. It turned out to be not too hard, and I have created an article about how to install a secure Subversion and TRAC server on Leopard and posted it to my site. I have seen many other good resources on the Internet for this but not any once source that pulls it all together in terms of setting up HTTPS, the subversion repository, the TRAC components and the TRAC project. I sincerely hope that others find this useful. If people have comments or questions, please email me at syncopation@sonzea.com.

One of the true drawbacks of my current blogging system is that it does not properly support comments or talk-back. I also would like more freedom as far as being able to post from either my MacBook Pro or my Power Mac. This is also not something which iBlog supports very well. In the near term, but probably after the Syncopation 2.0 release, I hope to install a blogging system such as Typo on my server. I have become very much enamored with Ruby on Rails recently, as that is what we are using at work in a couple of projects. I would really like to find a way to use Rails in my Sonzea project, and this seems like as good a way as any. Hopefully, this will make blogging both easier for me and richer in user content.

Cheers!

Posted: Sun - November 18, 2007 at 09:14 PM          

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