Site update
I try to avoid posting anything other than Ruby on Rails related posts but I thought I'd better mention the changes I've just uploaded to this site.
Essentially I've simplified the site such that it is now purely for my Ruby on Rails code snippets and articles. Gone is the portfolio section (it was significantly out of date anyway), gone are my del.icio.us links, the ajax search and the tags.
These 'features' were all good and well for me to experiment with for learning Rails but they were unnecessary bloat for this site. I want it to be as fast and as simple as possible.
I felt the tags and search weren't needed as looking at the Google analytics setup the majority of users come straight from Google searches direct to articles. In fact this site is averaging around 4,000 visitors a month at the moment, of which about 3,500 are coming from Google.
Eventually I will get round to implementing caching to make page loads as quick as possible.
One major change is with the comments - you can now use textile markup. I've noticed an increase of comments recently, so hopefully this will encourage even more.
I just hope the snippets of code are useful for those who stop by. Oh and I hope you like the new look & feel.
About
Paul is a web developer for Kyanmedia web agency. He's lucky enough to write in Ruby on Rails full-time and uses this site to post snippets of code.
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5 comments made
Slick! weblog looks and feels really clean. I’m jealous… Is your weblog running on mephisto, typo, or some kind of blogging app? Or is it straight up “homemade”..?
;-)
cheers
Thanks Sal! It’s all homemade from scratch. I used it as a starting point to learn Rails.
It’s not exactly ‘feature filled’ but it does the job for me.
I was wondering how are u implementing the syntax coloring of code snippets? I am planning to implementing something like that also (like pastie’s)
Hi Navjeet,
I am using Dan Webb’s unobtrusive javascript code highlighter. You can grab it from his svn repository at: http://svn.danwebb.net/external/CodeHighlighter/trunk/
Really like the very simple blog, have you thought about posting the code?
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