Maxwell Heidegger wrote:
very cool, indeed.
Is this site built with RoR? Could not tell from netcraft as it reports:
This is a Nitro site.
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James Britt wrote:
Alan Garrison wrote:
[obligatory] Anyone have any idea when www.ruby-lang.org will get the facelift that was designed a while ago [/obligatory]
Trust me, this always takes longer than you expect. Especially when it's something that gets done "when you have free time."
Sure -- Is it just a time-to-deploy issue or is there additional work that needs to be done for this? (As far as being able for others to volunteer some time/code)
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Martin DeMello wrote:
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James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
And thanks, all, for the compliments. Real thanks for the look should go to Dan Ritz of 30 Second Rule, though.
Thanks to both of you, then
Very nice work.
There are a few issues I'm working to correct, but if you find stuff (broken links, awkward layout, general weirdness) please let me know.
Not so much nitpicking as whining, but it'd be nice if the boxes around
the various categories remained after zapping the background colour.
Zapping? As in using a Firefox thingy to clear colors?
If I edit the CSS (though Firefox) and remove the background color, I still see the boxes. But not if I do a 'zap colors'. That seems to make sense, though.
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Alan Garrison wrote:
James Britt wrote:
Alan Garrison wrote:
[obligatory] Anyone have any idea when www.ruby-lang.org will get the facelift that was designed a while ago [/obligatory]
Trust me, this always takes longer than you expect. Especially when it's something that gets done "when you have free time."
Sure -- Is it just a time-to-deploy issue or is there additional work that needs to be done for this? (As far as being able for others to volunteer some time/code)
Most of the immediate work is tracking down broken links. The site had become, on the server, a fair mess of files and folders and sym links, and swapping out pages was far less clean than it should have been.
I will probably write something to crawl the site and give me a link status report that doesn't bury me in the obvious.
Longer-term I need to add a smarter search facility and a version of the API docs that allow for user comments; I've started working with RDog ( Nitro/Og application), so if you have knowledge of Nitro/Og/RDog (or are interested in learning about these things) then I could use a hand on some things.
Thanks,
James Britt
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Just FYI, I'm currently reading Higher-Order Perl and one of the examples was a simple robot framework. The example in the book used it to find broken links, among other things.
I mention this because I have it mostly ported. The version in the book obeys /robots.txt and mine doesn't yet, but that's the only difference at this point. (The used a Perl module to handle the robot file I can find a Ruby equivalent for. See this Friday's Ruby Quiz... :D)
Anyway, if it will help, it's all yours. It'll be on my blog[1] in a couple of days, but you can email me privately if you want it before then...
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On Jan 25, 2006, at 5:21 PM, James Britt wrote:
Most of the immediate work is tracking down broken links. The site had become, on the server, a fair mess of files and folders and sym links, and swapping out pages was far less clean than it should have been.
I will probably write something to crawl the site and give me a link status report that doesn't bury me in the obvious.
James Britt wrote:
I will probably write something to crawl the site and give
me a link status report that doesn't bury me in the obvious.
For about the same amount of effort, you could install
Swish-e and get both link checking and full-text search.
-r
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Yeah, there's a little javascript bookmarklet[1] I use to remove background
colours from a page, since I find them hard to read. Most pages degrade
surprisingly gracefully; ruby-doc almost does, apart from the box issue.
Maybe have an alternate stylesheet without the background colours, then?
I know I'm not the only person who dislikes them.
martin
[1] from Bookmarklets for Zapping Annoyances
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James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
Martin DeMello wrote:
> James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com> wrote:
>
> Not so much nitpicking as whining, but it'd be nice if the boxes around
> the various categories remained after zapping the background colour.Zapping? As in using a Firefox thingy to clear colors?
If I edit the CSS (though Firefox) and remove the background color, I
still see the boxes. But not if I do a 'zap colors'. That seems to
make sense, though.
I'm coming to this late, so maybe you already discussed this, but I
notice that the API Wiki links don't work (Internal server error). Is
that the TODO you're referring to above (user comments)?
Very nice job on the new site, btw
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On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 08:21 +0900, James Britt wrote:
Longer-term I need to add a smarter search facility and a version of the
API docs that allow for user comments; I've started working with RDog (
Nitro/Og application), so if you have knowledge of Nitro/Og/RDog (or are
interested in learning about these things) then I could use a hand on
some things.
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James Edward Gray II wrote:
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Anyway, if it will help, it's all yours. It'll be on my blog[1] in a couple of days, but you can email me privately if you want it before then...
Thanks. You realize, of course, that all geeks feel compelled to first write the code themselves.
"It'll be easy! A two-liner! Maybe one."
I mean, so long as there's coffee in the house.
James Britt
Rich Morin wrote:
James Britt wrote:
I will probably write something to crawl the site and give
me a link status report that doesn't bury me in the obvious.For about the same amount of effort, you could install
Swish-e and get both link checking and full-text search.
Yeah, but there's this strong compulsion to eat my own dog food. Or Ruby's, at least. I'd like to first see if I can get what I want using only Ruby.
James