Handel Framework

Close, but no Bob Seger.

Last week, Marcus Ramberg, one of the Catalyst core developers, expressed interest in demoing Handel integration into Catalyst at his presentation at YAPC::EU. After a few furious days of hacking, I managed to toss together a scaffold for Catalyst that created all of the necessary Handel->Catalyst naughty bits.

Unfortunately, he ran out of time and didn’t get around to Handel, or the demo before it. Such is life. At least we’re mentioned in the slides.
Many thanks to the Catalyst folk for all the help so far and answering the silly questions time and time again. I’m flattered that they took the time to even consider Handel, let alone put it into their YAPC presentation.

When I installed the wiki, I made the decision to turn on white-list edits (edit requires login) and disable account creation by non sysops. This was intentionally tight to keep out spam until I had more time to finish setting up the server and the website.

Today, presumably after posting this sites url on #catalyst, I got this comment about someone wanting to help but didn’t want to be bother with waiting on me to create a login. Fair enough.

Not being one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I’ve changed the wiki configuration. Anyone can now create account and edit wiki content. Anonymous editing is still forbidden. IF things get out of hand, I’ll probably reverse this decision.

Sure it’s empty. Sure it’s read-only unless you have a Sysop approved account. Either way, the Handel Wiki is now online. Hopefully it can become all things how-to over time.

Want to get started adding to the wiki? Just request an account and get started today!

Why stop with a blog right? I’ve moved the subversion repository to the new web server. You may now browse the Handel source at your leasure and checkout code until the cows come home.

Rather split out Handel and create a no repo, including trying to keep the property history, I decided it was better just to move my entire repository. Now people can access or stuff I’m tinkering with as well.

Welcome to the Handel website. Hopefully this will be one of many posts on the Handel blog. I’m still working on getting the wiki and the rest of the site in place as well as getting the Subversion repository online.

Stay tuned.