I decided today that I wanted to track my calories burned per day on a nice line graph. I did it, and I think I will continue. The total is automatically calculated by the PHP data source. This was made using my Mephisto Plugin for Open Flash Charts.
Today I found a nice ping list for WordPress. I decided to put it into my copy of the Mephisto Post Pinger plugin. I’m not sure if it works yet, but this post will give it a good test.
So I made this awesome filter for Mephisto that allows you to easily embed flash videos in your post. May require tweaking if using a non-standard URL root. It’s as simple as this: <macro:flash>/assets/2007/8/13/party.flv</macro:flash> Or, you can make it complicated: <macro:flash width=”640″ height=”480″>/assets/2007/8/13/party.flv</macro:flash> Which ends up like this: Installation Install it from your mephisto directory: ./script/plugin install -x https://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/repos/hank/code/rails/mephisto/filtered_column_flash_video Voila! Firebreathing!
OK – a little history. I wanted to write this extension some time ago, but couldn’t figure out how to make it work. Apparently, someone has spent the time to find out, and now I have to tear apart the code to find out how they did this. Anyway, this allows you to sign and encrypt any text in Firefox using GPG. It rocks. You can use the options dialog to select the private key to use. It also has [...]
I wanted to be able to click a link in my email to see the comment it talked about. So, I modified Luke Redpath’s Comment Notification Plugin to give that to me. First, I had to do some script/console action: >> s = Site.find_first => #<Site:0xb747e014 @attributes={“current_theme_path”=>”wibbish-mephisto”,#… #… >> s.host=’www.ralree.info’ => “www.ralree.info” >> s.save => true >> quit Next, I did a small model modification: # app/models/article.rb, in the public section def full_external_link ["http://", site.host, full_permalink].join(“”) end And a slight [...]
I wanted some places to get pinged when I posted. I used the mephisto_post_ping plugin, I simply changed the directory structure and class definition around: Directory Structure ./lib/article_ping_observer.rb ./lib/mephisto_plugins/post_ping.rb ./lib/config.rb ./README ./init.rb File Changes init.rb # $Id$ require ‘mephisto_plugins/post_ping’ ActiveRecord::Base.observers << :article_ping_observer plugin.rb module Mephisto module Plugins class PostPinger < Mephisto::Plugin author ‘Mark Guzman’ version ‘$Rev: 82 $’.gsub( "Rev: ", "" ) notes "Send Weblogs Pings when articles are published" homepage "http://hasno.info/2006/11/11/mephisto-plugins" class Schema < ActiveRecord::Migration def self.install end def [...]
So, I figured I might as well provide a quick tutorial on how to make Mephisto Plugins currently. Many of the old plugins are broken, so there needs to be a resurgence of plugin development. Here’s the basic structure of the Tag Cloud plugin: mephisto_tag_cloud – init.rb README – lib – mephisto_plugins – tag_cloud.rb As you can see, the structure is very simple. Here’s my code for init.rb Liquid::Template.register_filter(MephistoPlugins::TagCloud) That’s it! No require or anything! Next, I edited lib/mephisto_plugins/tag_cloud.rb: module [...]
Because the French one disappeared off the face of the earth, I took it upon myself to make a tag cloud Liquid plugin. Here’s the scoop. I downloaded Rick’s MeasureMap Plugin and went to town converting it. Add this to your sidebar in your liquid template of choice: {% for tag in site.tags %} {{ tag | size_tag }} {% endfor %} And you should have some awesome tag_cloud action. You can specify an upper limit as well: {{ tag [...]
I made a sweet sidebar today that I’ve been wanting to make for a long time. I usually forget to head over to XKCD, so I wanted a way to have the newest images staring me in the face all the time. Now, thanks to the magic of RSS, they’re right in front of me. They are lightboxed, so I have the newest comics and their captions available to me without even leaving my own site. How homey. To get [...]
I’ve been using Graticule for geocoding in a Rails project at work, and I decided I needed to make some changes. So, I turned the Graticule gem into a plugin. It’s available here: ./script/plugin install -x https://modzer0.cs.uaf.edu/repos/hank/code/ruby/graticule_plugin It’s as simple as that. Then just jam this into your environment and change it accordingly: GEOCODERS = [ Graticule.service(:google).new('google_key'), Graticule.service(:yahoo).new('yahoo_key'), Graticule::GeocoderUsGeocoder.new, Graticule::MetaCartaGeocoder.new ] Then you can just perform looping on GEOCODERS to do your queries on every site. There’s also some other [...]
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