June 2006
6 posts
Rails Conf 4 down (and a little late)
I may be a little late writing this one up, but that’s cool. It means I have that much more to link to. On Saturday, I showed up for breakfast and then listened to Obie Fernandez talk about Thought Works, a huge development company, and his experiences using Rails. Thought Works’ clients tend to be larger companies than the average Rails application is currently serving. They also used Rails to...
Jun 29th
RailsConf - 2 Down, 2 to Go
Rails Conf started in on Thursday morning with a 9 to 5 session called “Guidebook”, giving a tourists’ guide to ruby, rails, and the conference. Dave Thomas and Mike Clark hosted this all day introductory session. They proved that they are more than just geeks and authors. They are teachers. They know the topic. Even more importantly, they know how to communicate the topic. At 18:55 I grabbed...
Jun 24th
v0.6
I have updated my quicktime plugin, walk_qt, to version 0.6. I fixed the file number issue that was plaguing it. You should now be able to completely manage your movies with the “files” tab and then specify the file number in the custom field called “video” that you’ve created when installing the plugin. The javascript embeds should validate now, thanks to Daniel Nadeau. Everything else should...
Jun 14th
txp visitors
Because of my involvement in Textpattern’s forums and writing at least one plugin for Textpattern, we have seen visitors from these textpattern related site account for a little over 28% of all visitors to visicswire.
Jun 14th
Sidework
I have updated my siteframe php Class again. It now cleanly handles more warning and errors. I also added in the ability to assign classes to the body tag easily. The demonstration index page inside of the archive you download has all the relevant help to get you started. Grab your choice of archive and version from the links here: PHP5 Version – Zip PHP5 Version – Tgz PHP4 Version –...
Jun 14th
RPC for Textpattern
It’s quite awesome. Kusor just released the support files for XML-RPC from textpattern. What this means is that you can now use programs like Mars Edit, Ecto, and Zoundry to edit and manage posts from your computer. Then, when you’re ready, you can click to publish them to your site. Right now, this is kind of a kludge, as most of these applications support many other CMSes, Textpattern not...
Jun 4th