I need to create a design for http://jkslade.net/ (including wiki, blog, gallery), as well as http://home.jkslade.net/, which will eventually provide various site services such as a slideshow.
Anyway, I wanted to jump right into the slideshow bit, but got sidetracked with basic setup issues – subversion for revision control, and freezing edge rails. Seems like a lot of my isues were related to network flakiness…
So I set up the subversion repository for managing both the site services app (done in RoR) and the stylesheet / layout stuff. I could have just use local file:// access to the repository, but decided to set up svnserve instead. This page was most helpful for that, since my system is ubuntu-based.
Next step was to get on edge rails, and set that up as a svn:externals source — this guide is pretty clear, but there are others. It seems that right in the middle of the process, rubyonrails.org stopped responding, so I couldn’t actually test it. I decided to call it a night.
The first thing I should work on is a common layout and style across all the parts of the site. But that’s not much fun. The first think I want to work on is the slideshow app to serve thumbnail images at random in a scrolling div, and have those linked to larger-sized images. The goal is to get to where it automatically serves images from my PhotoshopElements collection instead of me having to upload images to gallery all the time.