…to successfully import the comments, so those will be gone forever. Most were spammy anyway, and any comments posted at least within the last year or two use Disqus, and those are still around.
I'd like to get my usual theme working again, but alas, that is very low priority right now. Perhaps a new look is warranted anyway. However, at least, I can move away from the default theme. Gotta read more docs...
Let me know if anything is out of the ordinary.
Thanks!
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): More Jekyll, Less Hyde
- Paul Gross's Blog: Migrated blog from Mephisto to WordPress
- thechrisoshow: Is your Mephisto Blog not accepting new comments?
- : New company site and blog launched
- nanoRAILS: ANN: git-rails
- pingles: New Repository URL for Mephisto Flickr Plugin
I was trying something out with this blog to speed up the loading of the pages. What I was measuring didn't really make a large difference in the page load time, but I did notice a huge amount of time spent loading all of the social pieces of the page - Disqus , Twitter and Google Plus . Since I'm not using JQuery on this blog, I don't have an easy $(document).ready() way to run all these pieces after the page has loaded, yet just putting the script into the page causes …
- CRAZ8: Monitor your systems after making changes
- Comments on: blog: Link dump for June 17th
- upstream agile - software: Diplom thesis: a distributed application with CouchDB and Javascript
- Opscode Blog: Chef 0.10.4 Released
- Transcending Frontiers: This Week On The Web #7
- RubyFlow - Search for jruby: RubyConf India 2011 - May 28th and 29th in Bangalore
…above you can see there are 15 comments on the viral video (The D logo is the commenting system I use Disqus). This is significantly more than I would generally get on a podcast episode or blog post so the engagement is very high.
I know there are people who have seen the videos who wouldn't have seen any of my other content (I had a comment from Youtube guru Gideon Shalwick for example).
They've also enabled me to show a different side of myself and I really think they have …
- ZURB: Back to a Desktop Future?
- braindump: Music discovery tools
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: The Social Networks
- Coding Horror: Should All Web Traffic Be Encrypted?
- Sam Ruby: Building Dart
- Synthesis: January Challenge Complete
…commas and apostrophes
{exp:viget:entry_count} - Single Tag
Get the number of entries from a channel
{exp:viget:newsletter_links} - Tag Pair
Add the color attribute to links in the HTML email
{exp:viget:comment_notification} - Single Tag
Send email after DISQUS comment is submitted
I'd be happy to go into more detail about the code behind any of the templates or custom addons if anyone has questions.
Switch the old viget.com to use Disqus comments
Recreate the old viget.com locally
Upgrade to EE 2.4
Create new channel structure
Migrate the blogs from 5 weblogs, to 1 channel with a category for each of the 4 blogs (we dropped 1 blog)
Build all the templates
Add all the new content
Right before launch, manually insert the new blog posts (since we were using Disqus and it was tied to the entry ID)
Why Disqus?
A couple of reasons:
We liked the social integration.
- SKORKS: Algorithms, A Dropbox Challenge And Dynamic Programming
- Giles Bowkett: Two Notes About Game Of Thrones
- Videos related to 'Ruby on Rails - Part 1: Hello World': The Matrix In C++
- carpeaqua by Justin Williams: From iPhone to Android
- Coding with Honour: Inception isn't science fiction (spoilers!)
- # Hash: Fixing MRI, a dozen steps at a time.
On this page, we insert the html and javascript provided by Disqus and we set the variable disqus_shortname .
Then, using the disqus_config function we set two callbacks for Disqus so that after the complete loading or aftere a new comment is inserted, the iframe that contains this page be appropriately resized
NOTE: resizing iframe "container" is only possible because the two page "index" and "comments" are on the same domain. If not, in fact, access to …
- Giles Bowkett: Blog Comment Similarity Detector (Free Code For Disqus)
- Dima Sabanin: Updated the blog
- Zerosum Dirt(nap): More Jekyll, Less Hyde
- Rails Rumble: Zencoder Rocks Y-Combinator
- Heroku: Python and Django on Heroku
- JJinuxLand: PyCon: Disqus: Serving 400 million people with Python
Juvia - Open source commenting system (like Disqus) implemented in Rails 3 and designed to be friendly to AJAX pages.
redmon - Sinatra dashboard for redis.
gemnasium-parser - Parse gemfiles and gemspecs using regular expressions, to avoid the danger of executing rogue code.
AWS Free Usage Tier now Includes Microsoft Windows on EC2 - Yes, you can run a Windows server up to 750 hours per month, for free.
- John Resig: Next Steps in 2011
- Heroku: Clojure on Heroku
- Trevor Turk: Links for 12-3-10
- OnRails.org: RailsConf 2011 - Thank you!
- RubyLearning Blog: Why don't you use and review these useful Ruby Gems?
- Global Nerdy: Upcoming Tech Events in Ottawa, Vancouver and Toronto
Disqus and the loop
In Wordpress, almost everything is a loop. If you'd like to display a list of posts somewhere (for whatever reason), a loop is executed. The advantage (vs. a straight SQL query) range from all kinds all things like caching to convenience. When said hook is used different actions (plugin hooks) and filters are run. So even when the objective is to just collect data (and not even display it) — for example for an Ajax request/response — all these things happen …
- Kalzumeus Software: Getting A New Product Off The Ground: Part Two
- Trevor Turk: New WordPress theme: Simplest
- New Relic: Measuring WordPress Performance with New Relic RPM: Applying a Controller Model
- SKORKS: How To Fix The WP-Syntax Special Character Escaping Issue
- How Software is Built: Interview with James Vasile - Software Freedom Law Center
- Zach Inglis: Why Tumblr Sucks
…The truth is: Python boasts a solid track record in web stacks and systems work (e.g. Disqus and Mozilla's add-on functionality), and it has plenty of muscle for complex enterprise-level software systems and other robust use cases. That's why we're seeing Python become increasingly important for developing web sites and services, especially on the popular Django framework .
More and more corporations are relying on it for a diverse array of vital applications. …
- jimmy.thinking: PyCon 2010: Python in the browser
- AkitaOnRails.com - English: QCon Special - Leah Culver (Pownce)
- processi: scripting languages for testing
- JJinuxLand: Scala: Lift vs. Play! For Web Development
- Hackido: Recent Update to Gedit Find in Files
- SD Ruby Podcast: Episode 070: Processing Real-world HTML
And of course, internet startups: Reddit, Youtube, Disqus, Dropbox, and countless others use Python to build their businesses.
Conclusion
We anticipate that Python will be one of the most-used languages on the Heroku platform, and are overjoyed to welcome our Python brothers and sisters into the fold.
Special thanks to all the members of the Python community that helped with alpha testing, feedback, and patches on Heroku's Python support, including: David Cramer …
- Trevor Turk: Pygments
- DevChix: PyArkansas: Small town, big tech!
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Writing a Hoptoad Notifier: Contacting the Toad
- JJinuxLand: Python: Python IDEs Panel
- Zen and the Art of Programming: Free Python screencast about solving mazes
- New Relic: Did someone say they wanted New Relic for Python? The public beta is here...