For the new site, I’m going to be using Markdown to handle the formatting of all of my content. I created a simple helper to make things easy:
def markdown(str) RDiscount.new(str).to_html end
(Note: I’m using the RDiscount library instead of BlueCloth, for reasons discussed here)
However, what if I wanted to add a “Read more” link at [...]
I put together a quick video showing where I’m at with the new design and backend for KyleSlattery.com. Take a look, and let me know what you think!
While building the Viddler Facebook application, I needed to create a pagination tool that worked just like Facebook’s. After looking at their HTML and their logic of what pages to display, I came up with one, which I’m releasing for anyone to use. The function takes 5 arguments, in the following order:
$base_path: The [...]
Sometimes, I wonder how I ever get anything productive done up here.
