Not long ago I asked a question about whether or not it made sense
for a VCS backed static site to have a lite web admin interface.
It seems as though someone has already worked on this —
Spinto is a WYSIWYG web interface for
Jekyll backed websites.
I haven't checked out Spinto yet but
I plan to. Curious to see how it looks and feels.
More and more I think that something like this should be available
to augment the individual file based workflow of most file based
static site generators I've looked into.
This morning, I decided it was time. There's too much of a backlog
of new stuff to talk about and evangelize.
You can find it here.
Super excited about this. Hoping for some interesting discussion
and some cool ideas to come out of this.
How in the hell did Rails make it this far without properly
implementing PATCH?
How can something seemingly so specific be so widely interpreted
by so many people? Love this opinion piece.
Would it defeat the purpose of a VCS based static site generator to build a
web API to add and edit posts? (think: bookmarklet publishing)
This is a question I have been asking myself for awhile. As much as I like the
idea of a static site generator, having a nice bookmarklet to publish quotes
and found content makes blogging about such things so much nicer.
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What I'm hoping is that we can develop good ways of connecting writing,
on a consensual basis. I'd like to team up with people whose writing
complements mine.
I dig Dave Winer. I'm not sure at what point I
started following his blog but sometime last year I realized I was
starting to get a lot out of his feed. Reading his content has been a
huge inspiration to start producing my own. Now if only there was a way to
connect this post to his so that he'd know I had joined the conversation.
This weekend we have been busy hacking on Composer in our
office together with Nils Adermann
and Volker Dusch. We
wanted to push the project forward a bit faster than the
odd free evenings usually allow, and I would now like to
introduce the changes we made.
Both Composer and Packagist
got big updates this morning. Things really seem to be coming together nicely.
I am happy that I have been able to help contribute to these projects.
I have been following the Symfony2 camp
for almost a year now. I finally had the opportunity to start
a new project with the full-stack framework. So far I
am quite pleased.
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The fight
is over. Neither Jekyll
nor Octopress were victorious. I've
landed on something entirely different to power srcmvn.com.
It is named Sculpin.
Sculpin is my creation. I've been working on it since the
end of 2011 and am very excited to have been able to
convert my Octopress site over to the new system.
It still has a very long road ahead of it but it is already
powering a couple of sites. This site can now be added to
the list.
After testing the excellent Pivotal Lab's Continuous Integration Monitor we decided to use it long-term. This meant we needed to find a way to run the software on boot (Upstart) under its own environment (RVM) and get nginx to reverse proxy the site. This turned out to be a little more difficult than I had hoped but in the end it all was all good.
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I recently had an opportunity to try out Silex for a small project. I'm enjoying it so far, which is a good sign that I'll enjoy working with Symfony as Silex is heavily based on Symfony Components. One thing that I found to be missing out of the box was a way to log Doctrine DBAL queries.
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Time to start blogging about code again.
I have some older content that will stay on Posterous for the foreseeable future.