tag:www.donmullen.net,2008:mephisto/ Mephisto Drax 2008-06-09T02:52:57Z don tag:www.donmullen.net,2008-06-09:4 2008-06-09T02:46:00Z 2008-06-09T02:52:57Z <p>After looking at some of the templates available to mephisto, I decided on one that I can live with for now. I found that many of the templates that are publicly available need various amounts of code correction in order to be viable. Many of the nicer mephisto blogs that I have seen have rolled their own templates, and clearly that is something I will consider in the future.</p> Even the the mephisto documentation is currently unavailable (<a href="http://www.stikipad.com/">stikipad</a> has been down now for a few days), I did manage to add two of <a href="http://www.danwebb.net/">dan webb’s</a> plugins to the standard mephisto install: <ul> <li><a href="http://svn.danwebb.net/external/rails/plugins/mephisto_delicious/trunk/">del.icio.us feed</a></li> <li><a href="http://svn.danwebb.net/external/rails/plugins/filtered_column_code_highlighter/trunk/">codehighlighter</a></li> </ul> <p>The del.icio.us plugin makes use of the del.icio.us web api in order to pull your recent bookmarks and provides a liquid filter to display them.</p> For some reason, I kept getting authentication errors when passing the login parameters through the liquid filter. I had to add the following line to config/initializers/custom.rb in order to get the feed to work: <pre><code class="ruby">Delicious.authenticate :username =&gt; 'del.icio.us.login', :password =&gt; 'del.icio.us.password'</code></pre> <p>In addition, del.icio.us would not return my feeds until I changed the ‘User-Agent’ parameter. I didn’t take the time to investigate why this was necessary.</p> <p>Dan’s codehighlighter, a mephisto plugin that includes a client-side javascript to format code (see sample above), came in a little easier, although I had to search the web for a sample <span class="caps">CSS</span> file. The formating is somewhat limited, and I may investigate adding the <a href="http://www.punneng.net/jazzy/">Mephisto Jazzy Filter</a> which is based on <a href="http://ultraviolet.rubyforge.org/">Ultraviolet</a> and uses <a href="http://macromates.com/">Textmate</a> syntax files.</p> <p>Finally, I added a blog roll of all the <a href="http://www.thinkrelevance.com">relevance</a> crew.</p> Next up: <ul> <li>better <a href="feed://www.donmullen.net/feed/atom.xml">feed</a> visibility (it works now after a minor fix to the mephisto trunk—I had to take out some language support that is work-in-progress)</li> <li>current reading list (mostly development process books)</li> <li>adding search (it didn’t come with the template I picked)</li> </ul> don tag:www.donmullen.net,2008-06-06:1 2008-06-06T17:09:00Z 2008-06-09T02:48:44Z <p>Just installed <a href="http://mephistoblog.com/">mephisto</a> to run my blog. Thanks to <a href="http://aaronbedra.com/">Aaron</a> for helping me get up and running.</p> <p>Now all I need is to pick and tweak a <a href="http://mephisto-themes.nanorails.com/gallery">theme</a>.</p>