Now featuring projects 7:56 AM, May 19th, 2008

Just a quick eoraptor / this blog pimping tonight. One of the features I've been planning to implement for a long time - projects - has now been implemented. It's basically a really easy way to have a structured project page with integrated logos etc. Nothing big but nice to have none the less. Plus, it puts me one step closer to open sourcing the site.

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Eoraptor Extracts - "Prepares.rb" 6:24 AM, Feb 8th, 2008

Just a simple one to start off today - This is a piece of code I've reused quite a few times and it's really saved me a lot of coding time retyping the same thing. In essence, prepares is a single drop in file for rails that adds a few niceties - basically preparing a model instance (via find) and storing it in an instance variable.

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Eoraptor's future 6:14 AM, Feb 3rd, 2008

Since its first inception a few months ago as a merb blogging platform (I'm now running on Rails 2.0), I've always had the aim of releasing Eoraptor (the software that powers this blog) under an open source license. The platform still has its kinks (as you are no doubt aware) but I'm planning on releasing it as open source once I've finished a couple of items off. Primarily,

  1. Spec's for the entire site - I've been pretty lazy so far in this regard
  2. Twitter / Tumblr / Pownce like integration - I'd ideally like a flow-of-thoughts style front page
  3. Finish off the projects section - it's currently part done but disabled on this blog.
  4. A settings page - to make it easier to administrate

I guess once all of them have been covered, I'll finally release it. For the moment, consider this more as a road map.

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Blog Relaunch 9:37 AM, Jan 12th, 2008

So, after the past version of the blog (which looked much the same), I decided to take the time to entirely rewrite the platform from scratch using Rails 2.0. And here it is, Eoraptor Generation 2

So, what is Eoraptor?

In essence, It's a tiny blog platform I wrote with Rails to get a feeling for 2.0. Everything is self contained and the UI is built with the idea that integration is everything - the admin UI is a part of the blog interface and it's really all about publishing it and it's done. Nothing more, nothing less.

Anyway, thats enough for the moment - check back soon for both some old comment, some new comment and a few of the trick's I've implement.

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