Tag Archives: typo

Using Vimpress

February 28, 2009

I’m regaining some functionality I haven’t had for a long time today. Back in the old days, I used to use [Flog](http://www.ralree.com/2006/09/02/changing-up-the-flogging/”) to post to Typo, but that all went away with Mephisto (I couldn’t get XMLRPC to work properly). So, I’m trying [Vimpress](http://friggeri.net/blog/2007/07/13/vimpress). Hopefully, I won’t need to hack together Ultimate Tag Warrior into WordPress 2.8 to get tagging from vim to work. ##Update It looks like it’s working, as a matter of fact. I installed the [Markdown for [...]

More Madness converting to Mephisto

February 23, 2007

I changed all my typo:code tags to filter:code today: Article.find(:all).each {|a|a.body.gsub!(‘typo:code’, ‘filter:code’);a.save};

How I converted Typo to Mephisto

February 22, 2007

I had some difficulty along the way, and I have some fixes for those of you who are having trouble converting. I found that Mephisto is actually very friendly to the ./script/console hacker. Also, though it took a while to actually get a response, I ended up getting direct help from technoweenie in #mephisto@irc.freenode.net, which was a big help. So, here’s the situation: My current host is Site5. I have gems set up in my home directory, and I have [...]

Everybody hates pumpkins

February 19, 2007

So, it turns out that when I changed my theme to a ‘harvest gold’ background, I got a lot of flak about it: 20:43:29 <+plaidrules> hardwarehank: wow dude, your blog css is hideous It led me to embrace the night with this new emoesque theme. I hope you like it. I’m going to have to start looking the part in real life, as well as posting pictures of myself with swoopy to the left-like hair dyed black, and some awesome [...]

Fighting Spam on Typo with Logic

February 5, 2007

I realized that spam bots are stupid, and spammers are generally not the best programmers, so a while back I made a system to fight the intolerable spam plaguing us. I noted today that Robby on Rails was having this same problem, and I figured I might as well share what has worked for me. First, I added this line to my views/articles/_comment_box.rhtml: # <td><p><label for="comment_body">Your message</label></p></td> # <td valign="top" colspan="2"> # <%= text_area "comment", "body" %> # </td> # [...]

XKCD Typo Sidebar

January 28, 2007

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 [...]

Ultimate Hosting Review: Site5

January 21, 2007

So, I am currently hosting this blog on Site5’s $5 Deal. I paid $120 for 2 years of hosting with 55GB HD Space and 5TB/month transfer allowance. So far, I am very happy with it, and I’m going to share some gory details with you. The deal on the site looked to good to be true, and I thought it might be. So far, I haven’t noticed any deviances or misconceptions at all though. Here’s what it looks like when [...]

Google Adsense Typo Sidebar

January 20, 2007

Well, I made the transition to Site5 Hosting today. They have an amazing deal – $5/month for 2 years gets you 5 TB/month transfer and 55 GB HD Space. It’s a very Rails-Friendly environment, too! I got Typo up and running today which was transfered from the college webserver it’s been on for a year. They give you shell access, unlimited databases…it’s insane. And I also transferred my domain there – $8.88/year is a little expensive, but that’s OK. They [...]

Timeline Typo Integration

January 5, 2007

So, I made it so the Timeline project and javascript libs can now use my custom Typo RSS feed to make pretty timelines. Just did some very simple (but troublesome to debug) modifications of the Timeline and Typo codebases. Trouble was for a while that this… <?xml ….. ?> …is apparently not parsable in the Timeline libs. And it throws some unclosed parenthetical exception. That took me a long time to figure out. Lame. Anyway, you can see the result [...]

RubyURL myflog

November 5, 2006

I added some functionality to myflog today. Now it prints a RubyURL for you if you set the following in your .flogrc file: rubyurl: true Read the earlier posts to know what I’m talking about.

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