I added the UserVoice feedback system to the FCKeditor demo page today. So any bugs or ideas for the plugin can be stored in a central place. If you have found any issues recently (and can be bothered) it would be great if you could put them up there. I will copy over any ones I find going back over the comments. Ta.
May 022008
Apr 012008
I think this is great, very useful and gets YSlow off your back……
Key Features
- Merges and compresses javascript and css when running in production.
- Uses uncompressed originals when running in development.
- Handles caching correctly. (No querystring parameters – filename timestamps)
- Uses subversion revision numbers instead of timestamps if within a subversion controlled directory.
- Guarantees new version will get downloaded the next time you deploy.
Thank you Scott Becker
Apr 012008
After a couple of months of intense coding Robert Loch and I launched RecommendBox yesterday. Its a site based around requesting and giving recommendations to your friends. There were a few immediate issues!! IE 6 is not yet fully supported, but on the whole it went ok. Now, sleep…….
Mar 142008
Due to the incredible amount of spam it was getting I added a captcha today to the fckeditor demo using Captchator which is a pretty easy and quick way of doing it. It means you have to enter the text to create a new note but hopefully will mean things are a lot better.
I should point out that the spam was due to the site (i.e me and a false belief they wouldn’t find it) and nothing to do with the FCKeditor or the plugin.
Feb 062008
There is a new version of the Fckeditor plugin available. It is a very minor bug fix release to deal with the improper constantizing of model names as reported by a couple of people. Oh and I also checked it works with Rails 2. The demo is running on 2.0.2.
The plugin is available from Ruby Forge or by doing this:
ruby script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org//var/svn/fckeditorp/trunk/fckeditor
Jan 292008
Been messing around with Postfix / SASL / Courier and the dk and dkim milters recently (due to mail being dropped by various large ISP’s) and one of the most useful things I found were the reflector services for checking the signing:
I will probably document the issues I had setting it all up, as to be honest it was a pain…….
Dec 252007
If you have seen this sort of thing:
ActionView::TemplateError: Expected image.rb to define Image
or this:
SystemExit (exit):
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:70:in `exit'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:70:in `rootdir'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:84:in `directory'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:258:in `so_name'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:294:in `load_cache'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/RubyInline-3.6.5/lib/inline.rb:678:in `inline'
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/image_science-1.1.3/lib/image_science.rb:84
in your log files when using ImageScience you may well of been a bit confused and frustrated – I was.
Dec 202007
I was looking for a neat way to crop images last night and had originally planned to use the excellent jsCropper library from Dave Spurr, which I have used on projects before. When, during a bit of googling about I came across Kropper from Jonathon Wolke. It takes a slightly different approach to Cropper with the crop area staying put and the image moving under the crop area, but also includes a neat zooming feature and some pretty slick design. Another plus, from a Rails perspective, is that the code comes in an example Rails app!!! Makes it very easy to integrate.
Dec 042007
Its taken a long time (well about a year) and a lot of messing about with Skype, but the first site from the Cominded stable is open for invitations to join the beta. Yabb is a social utility based on conversation, “talk more, type less” being the motto. So go along and sign up, I look forward to chatting with you online.
It has to be said integrating with the Skype API is an experience, and not usually a particularly consistent one!! Anyway now we are out of stealth mode I guess it ok to start sharing some of the issues we came up against and how we solved them.
Oh and Nothing is doing quite well, 627 installs in 27 countries in 8 days. I know its not exactly explosive growth. But, its not in the directory and lets face it it does actually do nothing.
Dec 042007
Ben Smith who I work with over at Cominded has put up a good article on getting your site to work with the iPhone. Definitely worth a read (as is much of his blog), now all I need to do is find a way to get one – I knew I shouldn’t of been tempted by the N95 (its spent more time being fixed than anything else)!!!!
