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ciew, the stuff that runs http://hemmaland.ath.cx/wiki/ is now released. yay! someone interested in testing it?

did you code this? I vaguely remember you talking about it in #bsd when you first started.

if so, awesome! how was the coding process? it looks pretty slick.

yeah, i coded that. coding process?

I mean was it difficult, did you have fun, did you learn a lot, etc.

some things were pretty difficult until i "got it", like handling POSTs. it was definitely fun, and it's a really useful tool when i work together with other people on stuff related to school. i guess i refreshed my ruby and webdesign knowledge in the process as well.

started using rack. it has made it a lot easier to hack. doing a partial rewrite now, and have plans for yet another design.

i like it. the hierarchy took me a while to understand, though. for example, /hacking/ shows ciew, as does /hacking/ciew/. so i guess because ciew is underlined on /hacking/, it is the default article displayed.

it picks the first file alphabetically when you specify a directory

0.2 is getting closer and closer. try to break the site at http://hemmaland.ath.cx , i been bug reports :)

i guess this thread is best

* i'd tone down the weight on 'heading 1'
* i love the drop cap. pink is a bit arresting though

i guess that's all. looks great though.

yeah, the pink was a little distracting. better now?

i want to make a cool header and/or footer to get some color in there

i liked the coloured drop cap, just not pink. red? too cliche?

i don't think red would go with the pink links.

lots of development happing now. 0.2 might be pretty close :)

ciew-0.2-rc1 is out! test it now: http://ciew.org/f/hacking/ciew/ciew-0.2-rc1.tar.gz

changelog!

bah, i'm tired. been up all night hacking :\

ciew has probably changed more from 0.1 to 0.2-rc1 than i can remember. it's over half a year's worth of changes

some time ago:
* using rack instead of cgi. this makes it a lot easier to set up as you can only run thin instead of some large webserver like apache. even nester could set it up! you can still use those servers because rack supports all kinds of backends like cgi and fastcgi
* redcloth instead of bluecloth. this means that ciew supports textile AND markdown, and not just markdown. you can even use textile and markdown inside the same article! if you like markdown you should still use bluecloth though, because redcloth sucks at interpreting it. mmm, cloth...

what i did tonight:
* haml instead of erb. they're both templating languages. erb is like php. it's inline and makes your templates look horribly messy. haml makes your templates look like python. clean and beautiful. http://haml.hamptoncatlin.com/

todo:
* use sass as well. sass does for css what haml does for html. css templating! no more going around changing colors all over the place
* make everything lowercase

now i'll go to bed. i'm long overdue. it's 10 am here

oh yeah, lots of stylesheets have been made for ciew

hatin in changelogs = not cool :P

you asked for it :)

utf-8 and a new design!

ciew.org

does it look good in ie, chrome, opera, firefox and every other browser?

i don't appreciate this aum business

"that's too bad"

Google Code now supports Mercurial, so you can now get the whole repository at http://code.google.com/p/ciew/