Feedmarker Blog

Just a quick post to remind people that I’m still here! Development on Feedmarker has (obviously) been slow lately (due in large part to my new main project, Curbly.com), but I’m still making some time to tweaks things here and there and fix bugs. Now that the site is on it’s own dedicated server, making [...]

Feedmarker is back online, thanks my not-so-new friends at Slingshot Hosting (they’re also hosting Curbly.com, and doing a great job of it). We’re on a dedicated box, so look for better stability and faster download times from Feedmarker.com.

Check out the latest project I’ve been working on with my friend Ben: Acu.mn – All your local news in one place.Acu.mn is a local news aggregator that brings together all the news feeds for your area into one page. Right now we’re focused on the Twin Cities, but we’re adding cities all the time.

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Just wanted to let everyone know I’ve made some bugfixes and improvements to the Feedmarker codebase and pushed the new revision to Rubforge.Get it here.

Ever get tired of writing order by statements in SQL? Why can’t it be more Ruby-ish? Well, now it can:
>> puts Orderific.new(‘name, volume, publishers.name desc’).to_s

#=> name asc, volume asc, publishers.name descCheck it out at Snippets!

I’ll be making some of the Ruby on Rails plugins I’ve written available for checkout via SVN. I took some time today to set up the repository and add the first plugin, DecimalMigrations.DecimalMigrations allows you to use decimal numbers when naming your Rails migrations, which comes in handy when you have to go back and [...]

I’ve finally gotten around to setting up Feedmarker as a proper open-source project on RubyForge. Here’s the project url. The source code is in the SVN repository, which you can check out by doing:svn checkout svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/feedmarker/trunkI’ll warn you that the code has not been cleaned up, and installing it on your machine may be a [...]

I presented at RUM tonight about my experiences deploying two Rails apps (Feedmarker & Teacher!). Here are some links I accumulated while researching the presentation (and troubleshooting my apps):
http://railsexpress.de/blog/http://weblog.textdrive.com/article/175/rails-optimizing-resource-usagehttp://wiki.dreamhost.com/index.php/Ruby_on_Rails#Switching_to_FCGI_with_Dreamhosthttp://convergentarts.com/pages/fastcgihttp://duncandavidson.com/essay/2005/12/railsdeploymenthttp://work.alexyoung.org/archives/102/dreamhost-and-rails-500-errorshttp://work.alexyoung.org/archives/134/getting-started-with-rails-optimisationhttp://weblog.textdrive.com/article/175/rails-optimizing-resource-usage

Pascal over at nanoRails has a good walkthrough of how to include TextLinkAds in a Rails site, complete with caching. Also check out his copy of the Rails 1.1 Cheat Sheet.

The Whiny Nil is a blog about web development, creativity, and fun. In the next few weeks I’ll move most of the non-Feedmarker related stuff off of this blog and over to The Whiny Nil. I’ll continue posting here on the Feedmarker Blog, but I’ll try to limit the content a little more and stay [...]