For the impatient: Download snipsnap2svn.xslt SnipSnap web site Subversion web site snipsnap2svn is an XSLT script that converts SnipSnap XML database exports into Subversion dumpfiles, with change history, so they can be imported into a Subversion repository. This allows you to use Subversion to examine your snips’ change history, experiment with alternative SnipSnap storage backends, […]

This article describes SnipSnap 1.0b1-uttoxeter using FileSnipStorage. SnipSnap, the software that originally ran this site, is great. I heart SnipSnap. Unfortunately, nothing’s perfect, even SnipSnap. It occasionally crashes, and if you’re using filesystem snip storage, it may corrupt itself. (This has been discussed elsewhere.) When that happens, it will refuse to start: SnipSnap 1.0b1-uttoxeter Copyright […]

For the impatient: Patch for SnipSnap 1.0b1 SnipSnap 1.0b1 source Ant (needed to build SnipSnap) Patching FAQ I use used to use SnipSnap as the web server for this site, and I love it. However, nothing’s perfect, even SnipSnap. SnipSnap runs on top of Jetty, a Java web server and servlet container. Jetty is highly […]

SnipSnap, the server that runs used to run this site, supports themes. They change your SnipSnap-based site’s appearance, using CSS, images, and other files, without changing its content. There’s a tutorial on snipsnap.org. The snarfed.org theme is available for download. To try it out on your site, download snarfed_theme.snip, go to your SnipSnap’s setup page, […]

For the impatient: Download snarfed.jar Download the source SnipSnap macros SnipSnap web site In the course of setting up our web sites, snarfed.org and maulik.net, Maulik and I have written a number of macros for SnipSnap. To install and use these macros, download snarfed.jar, put it in your SnipSnap application’s WEB-INF/lib/ subdirectory, and restart SnipSnap. […]

This article is also posted on snipsnap.org. I don’t want your email address… SnipSnap, which runs used to run this site, lets visitors register so that they can log in, comment on existing pages, and create their own pages. The default registration page asks you for a username, a a password, and optionally, an email […]

For the impatient: Patch for SnipSnap 1.0b2-uttoxeter SnipSnap 1.0b2-uttoxeter source Ant (needed to build SnipSnap) Patching FAQ I originally used SnipSnap as the web server for this site, and I loved it. However, my single biggest gripe with SnipSnap is that it requires you to register before you can comment. I want to do everything […]

For the impatient: Patch for SnipSnap CVS HEAD Patch for SnipSnap 1.0b1 SnipSnap 1.0b1 source Ant (needed to build SnipSnap) Patching FAQ I originally used SnipSnap as the web server for this site, and I loved it. However, nothing’s perfect, even SnipSnap. SnipSnap 0.5.1a introduced a bug that showed all blog posts as “1” in […]

This article is also posted at snipsnap.org. It’s a {script}, {script} world I recently tried out SnipSnap’s {script} macro, which runs Python code inside SnipSnap. It uses Jython as an embedded, plug-and-play Python interpreter. It works great, and promised to turn SnipSnap into a lightweight webapp development paradise. Unfortunately, I can’t use it…but maybe you […]