Jan 6
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Steve Krug is a thought-leader for doing usability “on the cheap.” This presentation at the Business of Software 2008 is a nice overview on the “least you can do about usability” He posits that anyone can do usability just, “not as well as me”An intere
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[ Read More → ]I recently read Jakob’s Nielsen’s Alertbox article from Dec. 5, 2005 titled Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online and I started to think about how I watch/listen to video online. Looking at his eye-tracking screenshots and the accompanying video, we see that users do not spend all their time fixated on the video. There is equal [...]
[ Read More → ]This post is a continuation of Setting Up Radiant CMS 0.8.1 on Dreamhost
Adding Extensions
Drag Order
Drag Order enables you to modify the order of pages by dragging them within the Radiant Admin
Source: http://github.com/bright4/radiant-drag-order/
Make sure you are in your application’s vendor extensions directory
[USERNAME@deathlok ~/rails/test_app]$ cd vendor/extensions/
Get the latest version of drag_order from the GitHub repository
[USERNAME@deathlok ~/rails/test_app/vendor/extensions]$ git [...]
[ Read More → ]Tags: cms, dreamhost, radiant, radiantcms, rubyonrails
I am working on a couple client projects leveraging the Radiant Content Management System (http://www.radiantcms.org) and I thought it would be interesting to document the process I am going through to setup the production environment.
The base environment is the following:
Dreamhost Shared Hosting running mod_passenger on the domain (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger)
Rails v2.3.4 (http://www.rubyonrails.org
The requirements for the project are
Radiant [...]
[ Read More → ]Tags: cms, dreamhost, radiant, radiantcms, rubyonrails
2007 has started off with confusing weather, due to an almost complete lack of snow. But due to the excellent scientific knowledge of many great individuals, cold weather now allows our mountains to make their own snow. Therefore, even though yesterday was our first official snow day in Connecticut, I have been able to get [...]
[ Read More → ]Hello all,
After 30 days of backpacking through Europe, my trip sadly comes to an end. Once through with this email I will be heading off to Heathrow Airport to catch my last Air India flight back to the US. I will be home today (friday) around 4pm, but NYC traffic will be fun, putting [...]
Couchettes are an interesting apparatus. About 6 feet long and 2 feet wide, they are designed to hold a human being, asleep, for a 9 hour train ride….Comfortable? I think not….But for some reason (exhaustion) I slept quite nice…
Arriving in Rome Sunday morning I met Brett at Hostel Allessandro, right behind the train station and [...]
I am writing to you all from Nice, France After 3 days in Paris and 3 days in Marseille. I am off to Rome this evening on an overnight train to meet Brett and Ackman to finish the rest of my trip with them
On my way to Paris I had a stop over is Glasgow [...]
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[ Read More → ]I figured while I am uploading my pictures from my trip so far, I would update everyone to what’s happened since I met Jannette in Dublin…
After staying up for over 24 hours, I arrived in Dublin and Jannette quickly found me (surprising considering we had not established a place to meet). We headed off to [...]
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