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Typo 4.0 upgrade!

Kyle Heon — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:30:00 +0000

So the Typo team has released the long overdue Typo 4.0 upgrade. This latest version includes countless bug fixes and feature additions. Read about it here if you are interested.

Also with this upgrade I’ve rolled out a new focus area on the article detail page. I was inspired by the awesome Hemingway theme but wasn’t able to pull off exactly what I wanted with Typo (as easily as I’d have liked). What I would like to be able to do is easily flag sidebars per page type (list, archives, detail, etc). Speaking of the Hemingway theme, I’ve it out but couldn’t get it to display quite to my liking, plus with sidebars enabled it threw a Rails Application Error that I haven’t tracked down. I’m new to Ruby and Rails and can’t figure out how the sidebar code works.

Typo 4 on the horizon

Kyle Heon — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:45:00 +0000

The Typo team has been working hard for the past couple of weeks to get to that, thus far, elusive 4.0 release. With any luck it should be out in the next couple of weeks (maybe sooner). I’m keeping my development copy of this site updated on a pretty regular basis. One of the big things this new release offers is a HUGE memory leak bug fix. That alone will be worth the effort. Another nice feature coming is better comment spam protection. I don’t get many comments on this site and therefore don’t have a comment spam problem but I’m sure there are others that do.

I’ve also been making some small but cool design changes over the past few months which I’ll roll into a 4.0 upgrade release when the time comes.

Another quick site update

Kyle Heon — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 02:55:00 +0000

Just posted another small update to the website that includes the latest from Typo’s trunk (with an issue free migration, yippee!).

The big (well big in terms of what is being posted) thing tonight is a new randomizing header image. Currently it should cycle through two, but over time I’m going to add more. The tricky part with that is in getting Typo to NOT cache things so that the image will actually randomize.

Thanks to this tip from Scott Laird I’ve modified the way article caching works. Going to keep an eye on this and see if there are ways to find tune things so that I can improve performance while still allowing for the image randomization.

Move Complete

Kyle Heon — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:46:00 +0000

Well after many nights of struggling I have finally managed to get my site setup on Textdrive using lighttpd and FastCGI.

This new site looks much like it did last time only now it’s powered by Typo which is the premiere Rails blog engine.

Everything from my old Textpattern site should have been copied over, including the comments.

I have high hopes to really start in on some Rails development now that I have a host that supports it. My number one focus is going to actually build out my photography section. I don’t consider myself an expert photographer but I do feel I’m somewhere between novice and expert.