Posted by Chris Anderton on December 19th, 2007 @ 12:45 – 1 comment
Updated on December 19th, 2007 @ 12:49
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We wanted to give Defensio a whirl as we'd read good things about it - up until now we'd used the Akismet feature that comes available with Mephisto as default.
As usual, a quick google took place but no plugins were showing in the usual places (the Mephisto Wiki and Newsgroup).
So, rather than wait for someone else to do it then I went ahead and made it happen!
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Posted by Rob Anderton on November 19th, 2007 @ 15:47 – 2 comments
Updated on June 10th, 2008 @ 12:16
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I decided this morning that I’d take the time to put together a few of the patches for Mephisto that I wrote while creating this site. They’ve been tested with edge Mephisto (I grabbed revision 3037 from svn) and Rails 2.0 RC1. When I first tried to run the tests I got this error: alias_method: undefined method failure.message for class Spec::Watchers::Have (NoMethodError). This turned out to be an incompatibility between RSpec and Rails 2.0 and simply updating the RSpec plugins to their edge versions fixed the problem.
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Posted by Rob Anderton on November 17th, 2007 @ 15:46 – 0 comments
Updated on December 19th, 2007 @ 11:05
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On Thursday we moved our feeds over to FeedBurner so that we can spy on monitor how people are using them. We decided to use the MyBrand service so that the feeds come from feeds.thewebfellas.com instead of feeds.feedburner.com – Chris had to do some of his DNS magic to give us the CNAME record that makes it work.
I was pleased to find that thewebfellas was available as a feed name and that it was OK to use forward-slashes in the names which made it easier to organise them. Chris also had to configure our server with some URL rewriting rules to redirect requests for our feeds to FeedBurner (based on rules from this page on the Mephisto wiki).
For most people I would guess that the following feeds would be the most useful:
Because of the way Mephisto works we also have feeds for each section of our site and they will be updated whenever we change the content in those sections. This may turn out to be a few feeds too many and I’m hoping the FeedBurner statistics will help us decide whether or not to keep them.
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