A site I’m working on has quite a few search forms. Basically, for each of the node types, we want to give the user an easy option to restrict search to only that type, ie events, blog posts, as well as a few custom content types. Sometimes the node types will be presented [...]
Context is a great module, but the settings page is a little misleading. You can set a context to operate when a node tagged with a term. You can set as a reaction that one of your menu items is made active. However, when you navigate to the page for that node [...]
I followed this excellent screencast on setting up Phusion Passenger and all was running well. I can now develop multiple Rails apps simultaneously without starting/stopping my WebBrick server, which I love. But how to view these apps from my networked PC’s? All it took was an entry in the hosts file, which [...]
One of the sites I’m working on has health related information, which is very important to keep private. In particular, after the user logs out, we have to make its pages unavailable via the Back button. it took some work to convince all browsers we meant it, but here’s what works for Safari [...]
A blog has seemed like a good idea for a long time. Now I’m getting started.
Getting it up and running with Typo hosted by HostingRails was a snap. I was a little concerned that fastcgi would be a problem, since the Typo install page didn’t mention it up front. Down the page was info on how [...]
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