This isn’t Typo

Thought I should mention that this site isn't using Typo anymore. It had been running on a very old, and heavily customized version which made it extremely hard to upgrade. I started looking at converting to new version with themes and felt like it was overkill. What was once little Typo has really grown into a non-trivial app.

Instead, I whipped up something really simple called Post. A short list of features..

All in 431 lines of code and 423 lines of test. Remember when this stuff was hard?

  • January 30, 2006
  • Dealing with ruby and rails

There are 9 comments

  1. About 12 hours later, Billy said...

    Checking this comment thang.

  2. About 18 hours later, mardoen said...

    I'm regularly thinking about doing the same; it's just so convenient to have many things already in place. I'm e.g. curious to see how all those new "custom" blogs are going to handle comment spam -- I've already seem software-agnostic bots on my site, and only expect them to increase.

  3. About 22 hours later, Carl Youngblood said...

    I'm still not as much of a rails pro as you. Care to share your code?

  4. About 23 hours later, Ryan Carver said...

    Care to share your code?

    Yeah, actually I would like to. I'm working on a couple more features now, then would want to extract the bits that make it specific to this site. I'm not promising anything yet, but please comment if interested.

  5. 1 day later, Jonathan Mark said...

    I was going down the list of Typo blogs on the Typo sites looking for the best looking one I could find.

    This is the first design that looks great. Ironically, it isn't Typo.

    When you release the code, are you going to add a moderation function to it, so that spam is never visible to readers?

    Or will that be an exercise for the student.

  6. 5 days later, Graham Arrowsmith said...

    Hey Ryan, I'd love to browse through your code for post. Still so much to learn ;)

  7. 19 days later, Ahmet Usal said...

    Actually I don't know what i say because really i like so much these proporties:

    Write using Markdown and embed Syntax highlighting

    Tagging (with acts_as_taggable)

    and best enjoyable thing:All in 431 lines of code and 423 lines of test...

    I like to see this code, i need simple, lightweight code, I don't want typo:) This will be very educational for like me newbei:)

  8. 125 days later, qwertyuiop said...

    I just stumbled upon this site and read this post, and I'm quite interested in the code. Do you still plan on sharing it? I've been looking for a small CMS for a while.

  9. 146 days later, Lee said...

    This is definitely cool.

    I'm working on a homebrew blog myself using acts_as_taggable and heavy ajax. Markdown is also a must

    Very nice job!