Typo Theme Contest Closes
Those of you who still haven't found what you're looking for - in terms of Typo themes, that is - should check out Typo Garden to browse through some of the entries. There are already too many for me to count, and Geoffrey mentions that he's got 34 more coming! Wow.
In other Typo related news, stop by Scott's blog and wish him good luck in his new job with Google.
Subversion Externals and Typo blogs
I've been running Typo as my blog engine for some time now, and keep my blog under version control with Subversion. I have some minor modifications and configuration changes in my copy, but I strive to keep in tune with the Typo subversion trunk. So my question is: is there any way to set it up so that when I do an update that the core of my blog gets updated to the latest Typo code, but that my themes, modifications and configuration remain under my own version control? I assume there's some way to do it with svn:externals, but I'm not very experienced with that.
Originally, I had minor modifications to the core Typo code in the views to customize some HTML output which may have made this more difficult (resorting to SVK perhaps?), but now that themes can override views, I'll likely only have configuration (i.e. database.yml) and themes differing from the Typo core.
Breaking the Golden Rule
I know, I'm breaking the golden rule and blogging about blogging. So sue me. Anyhow, I just wanted to let the feed readers know that today they should actually view the page in their browser. The Typo theme contest that Geoffrey announced earlier has started receiving some nice submissions, so far they have 4 new themes for Typo. I've swapped over to using the theme titled: Laughing at You (with some minor edits).
For other themes that aren't contest entries you can always check Typo's Trac Tickets. Last count I saw 7 themes there...
And for people who want to make their own Typo themes, contest or no, there's a nice tutorial up on Nuby on Rails about creating Typo themes.