So we’ve been hard at work on the feather plugin bits of late. We added a really sweet formatting feature so you can select if you want markdown or textile for your comments, and a bunch of other places on the admin side as well.
Tagging is in play now too, which is really one of the last must have features for feather before we open it up. I’m going to work on page caching all the public facing pages, later on today, and El has theme support on his agenda.
We’re both extremely pleased with Merb so far. It’s a really tight little framework. There are some things that are not that mature yet, but it’s really coming along.
I guess the only major complaint I have at the moment is the destructive migrations in DataMapper, but as we all know, Merb is ORM agnostic, so that’s not a fault on Merb’s behalf whatsoever.
El’s planning to get his new feather instance up shortly. We’re going to have a few other friends test in the next week or two, then open up our git repo! This is very exciting for us!
Merb ftw!
Sounds very cool… I’d like to check it out once you get it on git. Been looking for a clean and simple Ruby-powered blog and come up lacking. Also been meaning to look more into Merb, so it could be good motivation to do that. :)
By the way, I’m getting some funky focus behavior in the nightly WebKit build on this field. Once I click on this text area it jumps the focus up to a different text box. Strange.
Zach,
Thanks so much for the comment. We have some really cool stuff in store too that I think a lot of other blogs don’t do. But yeah, we’re keeping the core stuff as lean and mean as possible.
We’d love to have you try it out in a week or so if you’re game. We have a basic RSS importer up and running so it’ll pull in your old posts and comments.
Pertaining to the focus of the fields on this form: we actually discovered that recently in Safari only. I take it you’re using Safari? We’re going to get that resolved as soon as possible. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and hope to hear more from you soon.
I like the idea of the RSS importer… makes the transition a lot easier. At the very least, yeah, I’d love to give it a test drive to see what it’s capable of. I think there’s a real market for those of us that don’t need every bell and whistle and that’s just easy to expand and develop plugins at will.
Yup, using Safari (well, the WebKit nightlies on OS X).
As another quick point… I just posted and it lists the post date as "tomorrow". I’m no time travel expert, so that seems a bit far-fetched. :)
> "I’m no time travel expert, so that seems a bit far-fetched."
LOL! Ah, that’s actually based on my timezone. We’re definitely going to have to change that Thanks again Zach.
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