Dreamwidth Development Training

Styles: what do I need to know about our breakpoint system?

2015-07-16T10:02:24Z

Posted by: ninetydegrees

Hi! I would love to patch the style I've submitted but I don't know if it needs media $medium_media_query and media $large_media_query and if so, where to put them exactly. Could someone explain our breakpoint system to me?

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Errors when updating

2015-07-10T17:45:58Z

Posted by: ninetydegrees

error htdocs/scss/components/pickadate/datetime.scss (Line 11 of htdocs/scss/components/pickadate/_base.scss: Invalid US-ASCII character "\xE2")
error htdocs/scss/components/pickadate/time.scss (Line 6: Invalid US-ASCII character "\xE2")
error htdocs/scss/skins/celerity.scss (Line 107 of htdocs/scss/skins/_nav.scss: Invalid US-ASCII character "\xE2")
error htdocs/scss/skins/gradation/gradation-horizontal.scss (Line 107 of htdocs/scss/skins/_nav.scss: Invalid US-ASCII character "\xE2")
error htdocs/scss/skins/gradation/gradation-vertical.scss (Line 107 of htdocs/scss/skins/_nav.scss: Invalid US-ASCII character "\xE2")

Is is just me?

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Question thread for this month is in dw_dev

2014-08-06T13:52:11Z

Posted by: pauamma

This is as mentioned in http://dw-dev-training.dreamwidth.org/58411.html. The question thread for this month is at http://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/161662.html.

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Question thread #21

2014-07-05T11:31:34Z

Posted by: pauamma

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

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Dear Changelog Admins,

2014-07-04T12:59:27Z

Posted by: ninetydegrees

Can one of you move the search module of Changelog towards the top of the sidebar, please?

Edit: actually could you do this for dw_dev and dw_dev_training as well? Maybe other comms too.

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Question thread #20

2014-06-06T11:05:18Z

Question thread #19

2014-05-02T14:40:27Z

Question thread #18

2014-04-03T16:33:08Z

Question thread #17

2014-03-02T12:10:48Z

Question thread #16

2014-02-01T10:51:47Z

Question thread #15

2014-01-01T14:14:38Z

Question thread #14

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Question thread #13

2013-10-26T14:39:00Z

Question thread #12

2013-09-25T09:29:19Z

Question thread #11

2013-08-25T07:56:50Z

Question thread #10

2013-07-20T13:20:34Z

Posted by: pauamma

Again, it's been way too long since the last question thread (why didn't anyone poke me?) so let's have another one!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer.

And since no one poked me this time either: do these still serve a useful purpose? And how often would you like to see them, if at all?

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Bug 4176 - bizarre broken behaviour

2013-06-13T13:12:58Z

Posted by: kaberett

Here is my pull request.

Here is the Bugzilla entry, plus the diff of the draft patch I am building on.

The idea is that we want to add a "User:" line to every support notification e-mail, indicating who was responsible for the activity prompting the notification.

fu pointed out that I need to:

remove the quotation marks around $show_name at line 1068
account for the possibility of $posterid==0 at line 1095

My code as currently in pull request 427 behaves as expected, and as desired except for the issue outlined in point 2.

Removing the quotation marks from line 1068 produces the behaviour that the name of the user who submitted the request is quoted in all subsequent notification e-mails.

this persists if quotation marks are added back in.
this persists if everything after username => is deleted and rewritten.
this behaviour does not persist if line 1095 is replaced with mapping to a static text string, e.g. username => "badgerbadger", and the change is then committed, but does persist if it is instead mapped to e.g. $posterid.
this behaviour does not persist if the entirety of any line which has ever contained $show_name (without quotation marks) is deleted or commented out.
supportlog in the database is recording the correct information; it's just not making it to e-mail, somehow.

Ideas, please? I am WAY out of my depth here.

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Question thread #9

2013-03-09T11:28:42Z

Posted by: pauamma

It's been way too long since the last question thread (why didn't anyone poke me?) so let's have another one!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer.

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Git and Release Branch

2013-01-09T16:40:33Z

Posted by: ninetydegrees

Could someone please explain this entry in simpler terms, preferably with detailed steps? I just don't get it because I have no release branch not stemming from develop so I'm not sure how I should go about creating it (the command given in the entry doesn't work for me obviously as branches on hack are only develop and master).

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Git: more newbie questions: the sequel

2012-08-30T11:28:26Z

Posted by: ninetydegrees

Once your request has been pulled into develop and you've updated develop what do you do with your 'old' branch (local and remote)?

( Read more... )

Answer 1: local can be deleted w/ git branch -d BRANCHNAME (not merge needed yay)

Answer 2: remote can be deleted using git push origin :BRANCHNAME

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Git: more newbie questions

2012-08-28T09:38:37Z

Posted by: ninetydegrees

1) If you're working on bug A on branch A then want to work on completely unrelated bug B on branch B, do you need to stash you changes on A checkout develop then create branch B?

Answer: yes, but see comments about using git commit and git commit --amend in your workflow.

2) When can you use git diff? Before add only? Because otherwise it gives me nothing and I have to use git status -v.

Answer: possibly with git diff --cached or git diff HEAD^ HEAD (untested)

3) Oh I feel so stupid for asking this but how do you get out of git diff or git log on PuTTY? Ctrl+C and Ctrl+X don't work.

Answer: the magic key is 'q' and this is related to PAGER and not PuTTY

4) If you're working on bug A on branch A and have reached a point where you want to do some more work but be easily able to revert to where you were before, what is the best route? Several commits? Creating a subbranch A1 (is that possible?)? Is that where merge is useful? I'm having the hardest time understanding how merge can be used concretely.

Answer: several commits is indeed the best route; the concept of 'subbranches' isn't valid.

5) In git config, is there a way to reset the value of core.editor to whatever is the default on your computer (without naming the editor)?

Answer: yes, with git config --global --unset core.editor

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Question thread #8

2012-07-19T21:44:46Z

Posted by: pauamma

It's time (more than time, actually) for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer.

Also, since I'm not sure that purplecat got a full answer to their question of last month, can anyone finish answering it?

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Question thread #7

2012-06-22T16:10:28Z

Question thread #6

2012-03-24T07:49:45Z