Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Newbie question

[Steve W. <sw...@pa...>]

Time and again, I turn to the Red Bean book, free and online:

http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html

It's a great combination of tutorial and cookbook.
~swain

On Dec 17, 2003, at 3:55 PM, russ wrote:

> I'm not actually a newbie, but I'm afeared this question is.
>
> I've been following and using PHPWiki for years; I spent a long time 
> hacking up 1.2.* for personal use. I'm eagerly awaiting 1.4 for a few 
> installations, and I'm sure some customization and tweaking will 
> follow. This time, however, I want to do it right. I want to be able 
> to upgrade as the product changes. I want to be able to isolate and 
> save my changes. I want the option of submitting my work back to the 
> project.
>
> However, I'm not 100% sure how to go about it. I looked into the inner 
> workings of diff and patch a bit months ago. Is that the place to 
> start? Does anyone have a pointer to a good reference for someone who 
> is not a necessarily a coding newbie but is a project newbie? How 
> about my own code? Should I use source control for that? Any other 
> best practices I should look into?
>
> Sorry if this is ramantly off-topic (can't be worse than the 
> administrivia reply-to thread :), but any pointers (reply-to just me 
> is fine, too :) would be much appreciated.
>
> russ
>
>
>
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