Looking for the perfect Mephisto TagCloud plugin
posted: September 27th, 2007 · by: Sven
I mean, really … aren’t there any more important things on earth than a tagcloud plugin for your favorite rockstar blogging engine? Most probably! But then again, on my blog I really love to use stuff that pays some attention to details. Somehow a piece of great code can save my day.
The Mephisto community has come up with at least four different tagcloud plugins yet and none of them seems to meet the usual, basic requirements. There’s one plugin though that - with just some additional love - could pretty much make its way to the perfect Mephisto TagCloud plugin.
Read the rest of this entryInverse Captcha Anti-Comment-Spam Technique: Now A Regular Mephisto Plugin
posted: September 25th, 2007 · by: Sven
After I had revamped my initial experimental approach to the “Inverse Captcha” anti-spam technique as a regular Mephisto Plugin lately I have promised to explain how you can use it to get rid of your blog comment spam.
This plugin is getting a bunch of additional attention these days, especially after it was linked to in Quarks’ Ruby on Rails Security Guide. So, some additional information is past due. There you go.
Read the rest of this entryDisable Globalize::ViewTranslation SQL logging
posted: September 16th, 2007 · by: Sven
Sometimes you just want less noise in your log files, especially when your Globalize setup runs pretty fine and you don’t need it to tell you about every single move it makes: Globalize can be just too chatty then.
Joost Hietbrink thought this, too, and sent me the following code snippet. So you don’t need to suffer from Globalize’s chattiness any more :-)
Read the rest of this entryJavascript/CSS asset bundling a prominent feature in Rails 2.0
posted: September 12th, 2007 · by: Sven
Hey, I just noticed that bundled Javascript and CSS assets will be supported natively in Rails 2.0! David even selected this feature as one of those prominent Rails 2.0 features that he presented during his keynote at the RailsConf Chicago 2007 on May 18th.
Read the rest of this entryHow to use the Bundled assets plugin with Rails' built-in tag helpers
posted: September 7th, 2007 · by: Sven
Nick Pearson has posted a great tip in the comments on how he uses the Bundled Assets plugin with Rails’ built-in Javascript and stylesheet helpers.
I myself have always been using this plugin with just hardcoded Javascript/CSS include tags … so I haven’t been aware that it’s that easy to do!
The original article is pretty long already and I guess it makes sense to post this tip as an article on its own. So here we go …
Read the rest of this entryUpgraded to Mephisto Edge: various plugin fixes and updates
posted: September 5th, 2007 · by: Sven
Ok. I’ve upgraded my blog to Mephisto Edge.
It’s been something like nine months since the last official 0.7.3 Noh-Varr release and in Rails time that’s a pretty long time. There’s a lot been happening in Rails Edge and it just made sense to catch up with these things a bit.
So I decided to invest the time to upgrade, do some fixes and cleanup and generally bring my blog setup in a better shape again. If you’re running Mephisto and consider an upgrade, some of the following observations and notes might be of interest for you.
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