Archive for February, 2007

Blog moved to Mephisto

Friday, February 16th, 2007

Our blog is now using Mephisto (0.7.2). I had a few problems getting the conversion to behave. I have tested the comments and everything seems to be working fine.

For those that are interested, I had a few issues converting our blog from Typo. Here are some tips on how to convert it.

  • The typo conversion does not import the sections / categories. I had to add the categories manually and re-allocate all the articles to the categories.
  • All of the user were converted, but the admin user was allocated to all the articles.
  • The layout system can be a bit of a pain, especially working on the home page. Some times you need to delete the index.html to see the changes.
  • The wiki is ok as a resource, the google group is better.
  • Here is a snippet of our layout.liquid template that contains code for the sidebar to display monthly archive, category archive and last 5 comments.
  • Recent Comments

    {{ site | latest_comments:5 | assign_to:"comments" }}

      {% for comment in comments %}
    • {{ comment.author }} on {{comment | link_to_article: article.comment }}
    • {% endfor %}

    Categories

      {% for section in site.sections %}

    • {{ section.name }} ({{section.articles_count }})
    • {% endfor %}

{% if section.months.size > 0 %}

{% endif %}

Mind the bus part ii

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

We’ve just added over 5700 Auckland bus stops to ZoomIn. Now you can search for bus stops in and around Auckland eg. Mount Albert, Mission Bay or Henderson.

A big thanks to Auckland Regional Transport Authority and Maxx team for helping us get this content online.

Fixing broken windows: moving our blog to mephisto

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007


My patience with Typo has run out, it has some crazy javascript bugs and its development activity seems to have slowed. I’m moving across to mephisto software which seems to be behave much better than Typo. The transfer should be completed in a couple of days.

Does anyone have any good / bad experiences with mephisto ?

Improvements and suggestions for Rankr

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

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We’ve been thinking about how to improve Rankr and we thought we’d open up what we are doing for feedback and suggestions. Here is a list of what we are working on now:

Improvements / Suggestions

  • Add sparklines graphs to “list” / search results
  • Create a dynamic image to show current ranking of website

Bug fixes in progress:

  • Get RSS Feeds to work properly.
  • Improve flash graphs to show top ranking at the top of the graph.

Ideas

If you have any feedback, ideas, or suggestions, please let us know.

Browser stats update redux

Saturday, February 10th, 2007


IE 7.0 has already over taken total firefox usage. How soon before it passes IE 6?

Browser stats: 9/02/07

IE 6 53.00%
IE 7 20.24%
Firefox 1.x<t /> 8.62%
Firefox 2.x 11.01%
Safari 4.06%
Rest 3.07%

Browser stats: 5/11/06

IE 6 72.86%
IE 7 3.98%
Firefox 1.x<t /> 13.13%
Firefox 2.x 3.66%
Safari 3.88%
Rest 2.49%

Browser stats 19/10/06

IE 6 75.0%
IE 7 2.4%
Firefox 1.x<t /> 15.0%
Firefox 2.x 0.5%
Safari 3.7%
Rest 3.4%