FotS: Fruit of the Shed Wiki - Site News

The Fruit of the Shed is now available on its new/original address https://fruitoftheshed.com

Getting Access
Anyone can read and search all the articles/pages.
Any shedders who would like to contribute can get write access via sending me a PM on here. If you have a full name and an email in your TBS profile then just say you want access and I will use those details, otherwise nominate the name and email to use in the PM. Your username will be your TBS username and the system will send you an email with the password once I create your account.

The Namespaces/Categories
All the original content should have been migrated, there has been some slight rearrangements of the original namespaces.

MMBasic
The MMBasic namespace remains for code snippets and general coding.

MMBasic Original
The original mainly Maximite library is now split off to MMBasic Original.

MMBasic Hardware
This namespace MMBasic Hardware Backpacks Firmware Manuals Games etc. is created to reference information for each port of MMBasic. Manuals,Firmware,Hardware, Backpacks,Adaptors, Games. etc

Wiki 101
Read this for tips on creating content.

Other Namespaces remain as in the original FotS.

Some Recent/Future Articles

Three Output States from One Pin (references Peter's post around using 1 pin to control both Touch CS and SD Card CS.

The recent post on a method of interfacing a rotary encoder could be made into an article with some more general info on rotary encoders.
Bounce Proof Rotary encoder


Hosting and Backup and Disaster Recovery stategy
The Fruit of the Shed has been migrated to DokuWiki on a hosted service on VentraIP.
Backup Levels:
Application:
Dokuwiki keeps a record of recent changes and pages can be recovered or reverted to previous revisions by any user with edit permissions.

VentraIP Acronis backup maintains :
a)2 hourly backups for the current day
b)daily backups for last week
c)weekly backups for last month

Nightly backup to My Dropbox maintains 3 full backups:
a)last day
b)last week
c)last month
This is synced to my PC and synology NAS. The backup directory in dropbox does not seem to be able to be shared with others,however a copy in another directory seems to be shareable. I have a scheduled task to copy the files each day.  Sharing this directory will allow the backup to be available to others.The three backup files are currently around 220MBtyes in total.

If anyone has Dropbox and wants to become a custodian of a last line of defense copy of the system I will share the folder with the three backups from my Dropbox.
 
DokuWiki is fully file system based and runs under PHP. All the content lives in two directories  data/pages, and data/media. If you have these two directories and the administration manual (which I am yet to write) you could rebuild the system from scratch. You would need to add the users and security manually.

DokuWiki seems to be widely used and still current with good documentation so hopefully it a good choice.

fruitoftheshed.com is registered to Nov 2030.
Hosting on VentraIP is valid until Nov 2027.

So hopefully FruitofTheShed will be around for some time to come.

Regards
Gerry

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You are doing a great job Gerry. Thanks.

Geoff

I agree with Geoffg  

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cheers Gerry, very happy

Thanks very much for this. Andrew (and others) put a lot of helpful information on this site, and much good code.

Delighted to see that this resource has been saved.
Well done.  

The FotS stopped loading in Firefox while I was out for a coffee. Just a flash on the screen and a couple of lines at the top. Looks like its caused by latest update to AdBlock Ultimate. Looks like it thinks the whole page is an add. If you use it and have a problem you need to disable it for FotS to make it work.

It's currently working fine for me, using Brave. Looks like Firefox has got a bit over-zealous.

  Mixtel90 said  

It's currently working fine for me, using Brave. Looks like Firefox has got a bit over-zealous.

Fine on duckduckgo and no ads.