Have you ever wanted to see all the commits to devel before? What about all the commits to the various Apache ports?

I’ve just finished adding Pager pagination to the search page in the BETA system. It will work only for port searches. Results will not be displayed if you search by Committer or Commit Message. I will fix that soon.
This reminds me, I should get full text search working on some of the […]

I’ve spoken about pagination before. Use the search to see where. I’ve started adding pagination to the Search page. I’ll be using Pager form PEAR again.

If you have not installed portaudit, you should. It will save you time. A little bit of work by those that maintain the FreeBSD vulnerability database saves a great deal of time for all the sysadmins out there. For example, this morning, I got this email:

Following on from the previous post, I found myself with a few hours to myself tonight. The estrogen in the house went out as a group so I managed to do a bit more coding on the FreshPorts listening daemon.

Data driven applications are a good concept to keep in mind when design an application, especially when that application needs to have new bits added to it on a regular basis. My idea for using Python to listen for FreshPorts events is a case in point.

Today I started playing with Python again. My goal is to create a listening “daemon” to process PostgreSQL events. I wrote about my initial proof of concept at the start of the month. Today, it’s time to look at using this for real.

Cydex suggested this one.
Visit this commit and look at the the links to Makefile, distinfo, and pkg-plist. They each now contain a bookmark (e.g. #rev1.44).
In addition, and something you may not have noticed, the icon to the left of the File name contains a link to the annotated version of that file revision.
Take your […]

On August 9, Mark Linimon was talking about having users rank ports. The goal being to approximate a list of ‘key’ ports. I suggested allowing people to nominate their top N ports. And only N. They can change their selection at any time. It would be like a vote or poll, but […]

PostgreSQL is my database of choice. Any who has worked with commercial databases will find more in common with PostgreSQL than any other open source database.
I moved to PostgreSQL for the transactions, the stored procecdures, and the relational integrity Sure, other databases have begun to catch up, but they still don’t have the […]