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Railsbros Code has a new home @github

Posted by railsbros_dirk
on Saturday, March 08

Sometimes there is just not enough time to read all those feeds. But you try to read them later and sometimes you succeed and that happened to me last weekend while I'm was riding to Berlin. I read Dr Nics great Article about Git and decided that it this was something I should try out for myself. Of course I get myself the latest TextMate Rails 2.0 Bundle via Git as Dr Nic explained in his other post, but I wanted to have my own Git.

I asked Bumi from our friends at Railslove.com if he could spare one of those github invitations and I was very happy he could. Today I finally found some time to setup a railsbros account and port our SVN repository over to github. The address is http://github.com/railsbros/nostromo/tree/master and everything you found in our SVN you can now find over there. I'm really looking forward to play around with this a little bit and will for sure write about it.

Read you online Dirk

New Blog online

Posted by railsbros_dirk
on Saturday, November 10

Today I decided to change the hosting of our Blog - away from blogg.de to a self-hosted solution based on the Rails blogging application Mephisto. A small but powerful blogging application, totally adequate for our needs. I utilized the beautiful simple template Scribbish.

There were two main reasons for switching the technique of hosting this blog:

  1. Blogg.de isn't a very nice tool. The web interface is cluttered and so not Web 2.0 ;-). Using your own template is not straight forward the standard templates couldn't offer what I wanted. The Scribbish template is just perfect. Additionally we are able now to further enhance our blog with features like CodeHighlighter by Dan Webb which makes beautiful code listings possible.

  2. The second reason was that I was not able to get the Blogg.de API (if this really exists) to work with TextMate ... I know this reason sound crazy, but that's what I am, I like the idea of offline editing your blog posts (even if this would be possible with TextMate's 'Edit in TextMate ...' InputManager).

We hope you like the new more then the old. Enjoy and stay tuned.

Dirk