Fargo 1.39

More powerful Render Page command

  • When you choose Render Page from the File menu, Fargo not only builds the parents and the bar cursor headline, it now builds any documents subordinate to the bar cursor headline.

  • This means, for example, I can build just the Content Management section of the Fargo Docs, without having to rebuild each page manually, or building the entire site. Both were time-consuming and annoying. Fixed.

Render icon in the left margin

  • The Render Page command is a biggie, and it deserves a little advertising in the left margin. I chose the Share icon from Font-awesome.

  • There were other possible choices, for example the world icon, to indicate that it's being published to the web.

  • I went with Share because that seemed closest to where this command is today, and where it's likely to go in the future.

Interesting story to go with this change

  • As you may recall, Dropbox went down just after I had made a change to the CMS on the 11th, and wasn't able to test it. I was going on a trip to New Orleans the next day, so I commented the change, just to be safe (it almost worked, but not quite). The fix was easy, and now the new version is deployed.

Last built: Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 6:48 AM

By Dave Winer, Friday, January 17, 2014 at 12:29 PM. It's even worse than it appears.