Hi all,
It’s been a long time coming, but we’ve just rolled out some major changes to our utos-conman staging server tonight. I’d like to get everyone involved in testing these changes so we can roll them out to the live site (http://2009.utosc.com) by end of week.
The changes are these:
- Twitter functionality for updates
- updates should be going to twitter.com/utostest, (because this is a sensitive feature and we don’t want too many messages going out to our live twitter feed, we’ve put the updates behind the /admin/ section, username/password: conman/conman).
- Multiple presenters per presentation
- Our RSS feed of abstracts is getting better
- UTOS-ConMan now has a byline and category displayed.
and the biggest change…
Migrations!!
The nice thing about migrations is the ability to roll to any state within our database if something isn’t working. It also gives us snapshots in time of where we were with the database.
We’re using South (http://south.aeracode.org) to do our migrations and boy is it nice! The tutorial can help get anyone up to speed. Essentially, instead of using syncdb, we’ll be using South’s migrate.functionality.
I wanted to thank all the folks who have helped us get this far, and a special thanks to Utahcon for his work as of late. We’re really making some good progress toward some awesome conference management software.
Feel free to check out the code from our google code svn repository. WE TAKE PATCHES!
If you are interested in any other improvements for previous staging releases, please feel free to let me know.
Cheers,
Clint