Just A Summary : Typo 5 is out - and more on the future

Comment on Typo 5 is out - and more on the future by Ricardo Sazima

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:39:00 -0600

Piers,

This is timing or what?! I just headed to typosphere to check whether there was a Rails2.x-compliant release!!!

Thanks for the great work!

BTW, future directions are sensible, I just hope to see multiblogging (as in several different blogs in 1 Typo installation) as soon as possible…

Best regards, Ricardo

Comment on Typo 5 is out - and more on the future by Gen Du

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:03:12 -0600

I think multiple databases for multiple blogs is a big mistake. It’s pretty far from the Rails standard way of doing things and that always causes trouble.

How will authorizations and user accounts get shared across multiple DBs?

Comment on Typo 5 is out - and more on the future by Piers Cawley

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 02:38:52 -0600

You may not have noticed this before, but I don’t give a damn about the ‘Rails standard way’. I do give a damn about doing the Right Way for the application at hand. It’s good when the Right Way and the Rails Way coincide, but it’s certainly not a given. Rails 2 does way fewer wrong things than Rails 1.2, which did way fewer wrong things than earlier incarnations of Rails, but it is not now, and never will be, the One True Way of web development.

The trouble is, the current ‘stub’ of multiblog support in Typo just serves to complicate things horribly for the majority of users who only use one blog. I’m not at all happy about that increase in complexity for little gain.

My current thinking is that multiblogging using multiple databases can be implemented in a plugin and so will have precisely zero impact on the majority of users. Multiblogging using an ActiveRecord based blog object on the other hand involves nasty database denormalization and the concomitant violations of the DRY principle that tend to follow when your data model is compromised.

As for sharing users across blogs, that’s easy, we just have to set User.connection independently of ActiveRecord::Base.connection. We don’t even have to monkey with Rails to do it, it’s all there in the code.

Comment on Typo 5 is out - and more on the future by Sean Schofield

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:47:51 -0600

First of all, nice job on Typo. I’m using 4.1.1 now and its working out nicely.

I have one suggestions for future development. You may want to consider reworking the authentication and authorization schemes so that Typo could be more easily incorporated into other applications.

Specifically I would love to see restful_authentication and role_requirement but that is my personal bias since I’m using those now.

In the meantime, do you have suggestions for how to best achieve “single sign on”, etc. with Typo now?

Comment on Typo 5 is out - and more on the future by http://www.gnoshme.com

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:47:57 -0600

I’m glad to see that your RSS feeds don’t work either! What’s up? Any pointers to adding quick and dirty RSS if Typo5 default is not working?

Comment on Typo 5 is out - and more on the future by Piers Cawley

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:12:28 -0600

Strange, I just did curl www.gnoshme.com/articles.atom and curl www.gnoshme/articles.rss and all was fine.

What RSS feeds are you talking about?

I thought we’d even still go 302 redirects in for the old feed URLs, but I’m less certain about that.

BTW, your feeds are pointing to wump.com, which might have something to do with it.

Comment on Typo 5 is out - and more on the future by Matthew Carriere

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:15:10 -0600

I am having a strange feed issue. I can see all my posts in ATOM but only 1 in RSS. I am running 2 typo blogs on this server and the other one is fine. Is there someway to refresh the RSS feed or something?