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I need to pause for a bit and just bask in the goodness that is a Ruby conference happening on this side of the country. The fact that Ruby East is just 17 minutes away from where I live (according to Google Maps) is almost too much to bear.
I just thought it might be worth mentioning to anybody who gives a hoot that I’ll be attending tomorrow. Maybe I’ll see you there.
After receiving a deluge of comments that I’d prefer to never see again, I’ve ratcheted up the filters so that I’m pretty sure a dozen Our Fathers won’t even get through. I apologize for the inconvenience, and I’m working to get things settled as soon as possible.
Update: I’ve implemented a moderation system for comments that the system considers spam. That way you can post a comment and even if the server doesn’t like the look of it, I have the final say. -Pat
I had some mongrel issues recently while testing my new plug-in, Bells, a collection of Capistrano 2 tasks to aid with the deployment/maintenance of web applications. I apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused.
After grappling with my server for about 3 hours, I was finally able to identify the root of the problem, which was the RedCloth requirement found in the acts_as_textiled plug-in. By commenting it out of the init.rb file, I was able to finally deploy the app, and restart mongrel.
Looks like things are back to normal for now though. Sorry again for the annoyance.
Why am I strutting around like a Ruby programmer at a Java convention? Because I just saw the kind of thing that makes any web developer gloat.
First I’ll put on my web author hat. The readership of this blog has skyrocketed in the past week. I’ve been working hard to create good content, and as long as you’re interested, I have no plans of letting up. Look forward to some really interesting posts from some guest contributors in the coming weeks, as well as more of the type of content that brought you here in the first place.
The one thing I’d like to see is some more participation from you. I went through the trouble of creating a comments feature for this blog, so use it! I’d love to hear some feedback.
Now let me switch gears and speak as the developer of this blog. A quick look at my Mint stats shows me that 73% of you are using Firefox and 13% of you use Safari. That means only 6% of you use the bane of my existence. You guys are hip enough to use the right browsers, which makes my life infinitely easier. Instead of worrying about PNG compatibility, I can focus on creating the best content possible. Thanks!
So again, thanks reading the blog, and thanks for using a modern browser to do so. And to my subscribers, I’m going to have a special treat for you. I just have to figure out what it is. If you have any suggestions, you know where leave them.
Looks like things are starting off on the right foot for this blog. Since traffic has increased recently, I thought it might be worthwhile to bring a few earlier posts to your attention. Here are a few things you may have missed:
When I first started developing using Rails, so many things came relatively easily. A few things didn’t. So now that I feel much more comfortable with the ins and outs of Rails, I thought I’d give a little bit back to the community. Meet FooToDo.
As I mentioned in the original FooToDo announcement post, you can grab the source code for FooToDo using Subversion and checking out the following url:
svn co http://svn.nakadev.com/projects/footodo
I’m working on creating an actual website for FooToDo (any help would be appreciated, and duly noted), once that’s done, I’ll be able to make the source code for FooToDo much more easily obtainable.
Using some helpful code from Geoffrey Grosenbach, I created a Capistrano recipe to deploy Mint alongside a Ruby on Rails app. You can find it here.
In the same vein as that post, soon I’ll be posting a Capistrano recipe I created to deploy any PHP project. Look for it soon.
An ongoing feature of devthatweb is the Modern Web Idioms series, in which I detail some of the new design patterns emerging and becoming popular in the current web environment. So far, I’ve written about the growing popularity of custom made image buttons and the evolution of the behavior of links. If you have any topic ideas, please share them in the comments. I’d love to know what you think.
So that’s a taste of what’s been happening around here recently, and we’re only getting started. Keep checking back, or subscribe to the feed to get the freshest content as soon as it hits the front page. I appreciate your interest, and hope to hear from you soon. Keep dev’ing that web!