site tweaks June 8th, 2008
After looking at some of the templates available to mephisto, I decided on one that I can live with for now. I found that many of the templates that are publicly available need various amounts of code correction in order to be viable. Many of the nicer mephisto blogs that I have seen have rolled their own templates, and clearly that is something I will consider in the future.
Even the the mephisto documentation is currently unavailable (stikipad has been down now for a few days), I did manage to add two of dan webb’s plugins to the standard mephisto install:The del.icio.us plugin makes use of the del.icio.us web api in order to pull your recent bookmarks and provides a liquid filter to display them.
For some reason, I kept getting authentication errors when passing the login parameters through the liquid filter. I had to add the following line to config/initializers/custom.rb in order to get the feed to work:Delicious.authenticate :username => 'del.icio.us.login',
:password => 'del.icio.us.password'In addition, del.icio.us would not return my feeds until I changed the ‘User-Agent’ parameter. I didn’t take the time to investigate why this was necessary.
Dan’s codehighlighter, a mephisto plugin that includes a client-side javascript to format code (see sample above), came in a little easier, although I had to search the web for a sample CSS file. The formating is somewhat limited, and I may investigate adding the Mephisto Jazzy Filter which is based on Ultraviolet and uses Textmate syntax files.
Finally, I added a blog roll of all the relevance crew.
Next up:- better feed visibility (it works now after a minor fix to the mephisto trunk—I had to take out some language support that is work-in-progress)
- current reading list (mostly development process books)
- adding search (it didn’t come with the template I picked)
first post June 6th, 2008
Just installed mephisto to run my blog. Thanks to Aaron for helping me get up and running.
Now all I need is to pick and tweak a theme.