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Los sistemas de control de versiones nos sirven para la gestión de los diversos cambios que se realizan sobre los elementos de algún producto o una configuración del mismo.

Normalmente es usado en el desarrollo del software, donde un equipo puede estar trabajando con los mismos ficheros. Cada cambio realizado se identifica por un código, el cual tiene asignado un ‘timestamp’ y la persona que realizó ese cambio.
Gracias a este control del cambio, nos permite poder volver a cualquier versión anterior del diseño.

Este tipo de control hoy en día se aplica sobre cualquier formato,no sólo código fuente, sino sobre cualquier tipo de fichero o incluso en gestores de información tipo WIKI.

Los sistemas de control de versión tradicionales, tienen en común una serie de características tales como:

• Centralizados, existe un servidor que controla el repositorio de los ficheros.
• Almacenaje de ficheros
• Edición de ficheros.
• Bloqueo de ficheros, impide a otros usuarios usar ese fichero al mismo tiempo.
• Registro histórico de acciones realizadas.
• Unificar código (merge), si varios usuarios editan un fichero, la aplicación une los diferentes cambios.

El funcionamiento del mismo se basa en un repositorio histórico central, el cual el usuario puede acceder para crear una copia local para de ese modo modificar ficheros. Una vez el usuario ha terminado de editar esos ficheros, los añade al repositorio central.

Hoy en día existen diferentes tipos de software para la gestión de control de versiones. Están proliferando nuevas formas de uso, como comunidades de desarrollo on line, o el almacenaje de ficheros en la nube.

Dejo una lista de los sistemas mas popular y de algunos nuevos: Continue reading ‘Gestión de la Configuración: Control de Versiones’ »

This is a really simple yet handly tip to redirect your feed to Feedburner.

Edit, or create an .htaccess file in your htdocs root, and add this lines:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !FeedBurner
RewriteRule ^rss/$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourURL [R,L]
</IfModule>

Now any request to yoursite.com/feed will be redirected to the custom feedburner feed ;)

Be aware that only works in apache.

Redirect your visitor to maintenance page is a must when you are upgrading your site. Now you can redirect your user to maintenance page easily by using .htaccess file. I guess you do not want your visitor to see an error page or 404 page during your server upgrade. So just follow the steps below to create a .htaccess file to redirect your visitor to maintenance page during upgrade:

1- Create a file and name it .htaccess with the content below:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/maintenance.html$ 
RewriteRule $ /maintenance.html [R=302,L]

Continue reading ‘Site in Maintenance using .htaccess’ »

Demo | Download | For Open Classifieds

Since I’m not a web designer, make this templete it’s been a bit difficult for me.

Why I did it then? easy, I want to learn just a bit of CSS, in order of been able to make my own changes also I had an Idea for a template for Open Classifieds but since no one would help me I’ve decided to do it myself.

I will not normally release this short of things.

With Open Classifieds 1.6, that is coming really soon, I hope I will have this template ready by then ;) In the meantime please try 1.6 RC 2.

Just a list of things that you can’t forget in your web site:

Legal stuff (for Spain):

• LSSI, Ley de Servicios de la Sociedad de la Información, only if you have benefits form your site
  
• LOPD, Ley orgánica de protección de datos, if you store data from you clients, customers, visitors…
  
• Privacy Policy, about cookies, links to 3rd parts, terms and conditions…
  

Search Engine Optimization (SEO):

• Title, description and keywords dynamically generated depending on the content.
• Friendly URLS (human readable URI)
• Title and alternative text for all the images!
• Robots.txt: say to the bots what they can/can’t see or how often they can do it.
• Sitemap.xml: Say to the bots what’s updated and when

User/Browser:

• About: I think it is important to know a bit more about the site or what they are reading…
• FAQ: I’m sure there’s always questions and you have the right answers, important to keep it updated
• Cookies: Check if the browser of the user able you to read them…
• JavaScript: Check that JavaScript is enabled or they could not enjoy your beautiful ajax…
• Screen resolution: Don’t do a site with fixed width of 1600px…almost no one have that, my preference is a variable width.
• Sitemap: Make easier to the users to browse your site with a proper sitemap
• Contact: Just a contact form, makes you more reliable in front of the user and really useful. really important.
• Search: Is always welcome an small form to make a search
• Favicon: Something really simple to do but would make lot easier to see your site in a tabbed browsing
• NO pop ups: That’s terrible! please no Java Script pop up! at least use some modal box or something more friendly…
• RSS: This is mandatory…make to your regular readers live easier!

Make money  / ask for money:

• Paypal: I think nowadays is the best way to receive donations or to pay for something.
• Adsense: Use some adsense just if it’s not a professional site of course…you don’t want the people to leave your site without buying!

Statistics:

• Google analitycs: Really important to analyze your traffic!
• Site Up Time: also important to know if your site is down or not!

Finally:

• If our site it’s about downloads or videos, use external services such as megaupload daylimotion imageshack….
• It’s your site fast enough? is compatible with other browsers? many small details that are important

As you can see I don’t say anything about flash web sites, since you can do nothing of this almost xD

I’ve forgot something? Any ideas?