I went to 5 sessions today, and I was pleasantly surprised by most of them. CouchDB CouchDB is a distributed non-relational database written in Erlang. It is unique in that its main query interface is simply HTTP REST, and for every UPDATE, it simply creates a new version of the row. Additionally, you can request [...]
If you don’t already know about Pradipta’s Rolodex, read up here Here’s the epic apology email from THE MAN HIMSELF!: Hi All, First of all I just wanted to say I apologize for the emails I sent. As of today I promise to stop the Email marketing campaigns. And I do believe it was a [...]
Ziya is pretty cool, and the documentation is slowly starting to surface. I was annoyed that I couldn’t find a good example paste of how to make a line chart. Then I watched the screencast. It’s the first example he does, so I’m posting it here so those who can’t watch it can actually find [...]
So, I found this today, and it is awesome. I wanted it in Bluecloth so I could use it in Mephisto. Here’s how. First, I needed to make it so I could still do normal images, but turn on coolness if I want. Here’s the goal I came up with for the grammar: [](imageurl.jpg “Scrolly [...]
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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: [...]
Well, I was over at Debian Package of the Day when I noticed an article on KLone. It’s a little application framework that allows you to do XHTML templating in C! Then, you can compile it and send it off to any Linux machine (with a few dependencies of course) to run it. I got [...]
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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 => [...]
