Robby on Rails: Category Typo

Using Gravatar

Robby Russell — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:18:00 -0500

In the past few days… a few people have asked how people include their picture when they post their comment.

The answer? They are using Gravatar, which many blogs will automatically try to find your avatar for and display next to your comments.

I’m also looking to modify typo to try look your icon up from flickr too.

Apache, Typo, and Feedburner

Robby Russell — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:51:00 -0500

A few weeks ago, I started using FeedBurner and posted a blog entry about how I configured Lighttpd to handle that so it didn’t disrupt everyone that subscribes to my RSS feed. This was working great… until the other day.. when I upgraded to Typo trunk. When I did this, I decided to start using mongrel::cluster and pound. Two days later… I’m noticing that my subscriber count has dropped over thousand people in a day… was it something that I said?

A ha! I was handling the redirect with Lighttpd and had replaced it with Pound.

So, I am now delegating this to Apache.

  # Redirect typo feeds to FeedBurner
  RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^FeedBurner.*$
  RewriteRule /xml/(atom|rss|rss20)/feed.xml$ http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobbyOnRails [R=temp,L]

...and all was well again.

UPDATE

The rewrite condition should be !^FeedBurner.*$ not !^FeedBurner$.

Typo upgraded to trunk

Robby Russell — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:16:00 -0500

I upgraded my blog to Typo trunk this evening. I hadn’t updated since late last year… so it was long overdue. I only had one issue with a migration from a while back.

old revision: 761

current revision: 1258.

I’m impressed that the upgrade worked so nicely… last year the migrations were a bit rough. :-)

UPDATE

I’m also now running this on mongrel with pound! I followed the configuration here.

PLANET ARGON: Official hosting sponsor of the Typo project

Robby Russell — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 23:34:00 -0600

We’re excited to announce that as of last week, the Typo development team and PLANET ARGON made an arrangement to relocate the current hosting of the Typo project to PLANET ARGON. This includes moving Subversion, Trac, downloads, mailing list(s), IRC bot, etc. There is also rumor that some energy will be going into creating a new home page for the project.

David Gibbons is currently working on migrating everything over for them and we are managing this process through our BaseCamp with the Typo team. He’ll be posting an update on his blog when this process is finished.

We’re honored that they chose PLANET ARGON to the official hosting sponsor of the Typo project. We were the first hosting provider to offer Typo hosting to customers back in April.

We look forward to helping Typo prepare for 2006…

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Random update…

I thought it would be amusing to see just how I fit into the history of Typo. Aside from PLANET ARGON being the first host to offer Typo hosting… I was one of the first few people to run Typo as a blog… or at least I tried… see ticket #8

I was also the first person to ever run Typo on PostgreSQL (ticket #9). ... like that would surprise anyone. ;-)

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During this period of moving from Tobias to PLANET ARGON, we are collecting email information for people so that when we help launch the new site for the project… you’ll all be notified.

TypoSphere.org (coming soon)

PLANET ARGON 2.0 Release Candidate

Robby Russell — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:00 -0500

We finally found a way to sneak in some extra time to finish up the first phase of our new website. Allison and I are excited to announce the launch of new PLANET ARGON website, www.planetargon.com.

What Powers It?

Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL!

What Has Changed?

For starters, we have a new design. Hopefully the information that you are seeking is easier to navigate to and the order process is a bit easier too. Aside from that, we’ve made just minor changes to our hosting offerings to reflect the needs of our customers. I’ll touch on that shortly.

ReEmphasize The Small Stuff

We first started offering Rails hosting to the public at the beginning of February. In just a week we’ll have nine full months of experience under our belts. Our customers have been a huge influence on the type of services we offer, and the level of support that comes with it. It was out of my own desire to have a web host that allowed for bleeding-edge technology that lead me to start my own hosting company… so that I could turn around and offer other developers, like myself, the same service, without the time commitment of managing your own server and the price tag that goes along with it.

Our Customers are Awesome!

No really, they are. We recently setup an RSS aggregator of some of our hosting customers that run blogs (many of them are running Typo). We call this site, Inhabitants of PLANET ARGON. (inhabitants.planetargon.com) Check it out!

More Space!

We’ve spent some time really looking over our hosting plans and wanted to give them a make-over that reflects the requests of our customers and potential customers. We’ve increased the disk space on the first three of our shared-hosting plans, and lowered the price on the fourth. Take a peek.

Some of our prices have gone up (with the increase in disk space), but our Level 1 plan still starts as low as $11.25/month. This can get you rolling on Rails using PostgreSQL and/or MySQL! :-)

Typo Hosting

We started offering affordable blog hosting last year. Then Typo took off, and none of the other blog software packages were being requested! We have dropped all the PHP blogging applications from our offerings and are now offering Typo Hosting exclusively. For $3/month, you can have your own pre-installed Typo blog!

FREE RAILS HOSTING!

Well, sort of. If you sign up by midnight (PST) on October 31st, you will receive 1 FREE Month for every 6 month account and 2* FREE Months* for every year! (Blogs too)

We’re Not Just a Hosting Company

PLANET ARGON was started as a web development and consulting company, and it still is!

Who Is Allison?

Allison is the Creative Director here at PLANET ARGON. Existing customers of ours know about her… but she’s kept a low profile up until now. She is a ninja in the ways of project management, clean design, and has been known to have a tab open in her browser to the Ruby on Rails API. Expect to hear more from (and about) her in the near future.

For more information, see: http://www.planetargon.com

Typo Theme Contest announced

Robby Russell — Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:33:00 -0500

Geoffrey Grosenbach has announced the Typo Theme Contest on TypoGarden.org, Yay!

PLANET ARGON has offered a year of Level 3 hosting for the winner. We also promised ten free blog hosting packages to the first ten people that submit new themes that meet the requirements of the content!

Good luck to all the players. :-)

(obviously… I could use a new theme too… I might have to participate!)

My Typo powered blog running on PostgreSQL and Lighttpd (now)

Robby Russell — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 08:05:00 -0500

Finally, was able to take a few minutes and got my blog running on lighttpd. Testing out a few configuration options before moving a few clients to it.

Apache w/fastcgi has been pretty stable for the most part. Initially through lighttpd, I’m not noticing a huge difference in speed. I haven’t tried to run any benchmarks yet… perhaps later.

In other news, I have been busy working on a few client projects, writing, and my gf and I finally got a dog. His name is Nigel. We adopted him a few days ago. :-)

odd behavior by typo

Robby Russell — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 07:50:53 -0500

For some reason, Typo seems to be doing something odd with my XML feeds because my RSS Reader is showing duplicates for entries (but this doesnt show up in Typo) and Planet Rails is showing dups now. It not always at the same time, so I am not sure how this is happening.

Any thoughts?

robbyonrails.com, now running typo 2

Robby Russell — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:52:48 -0500

I just upgraded. Few css changes, sql changes, and got to play with the admin interface finally. :-)

Test. test. test.. from BloGTK

Typo gets an admin area?

Robby Russell — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:25:26 -0500

The typo programmers have started working on an admin interface (which was bound to happen…).

I haven’t tried it yet, but the new blog hosting customers that have signed up with PLANET ARGON as of April 20th have got this feature. (I need to upgrade this Typo install..maybe later today)

It also appears that there is a logo being worked on for Typo. :-)

Cheap hosting for your Typo blog

Robby Russell — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:18:37 -0500

(shameless promotion)

I’ve been sick for the past week and I was just reminded that we added Typo to our Blog Hosting packages. So, for as little as $3/month you can have a Typo blog setup and running for you to share all your Ruby/Rails/whatever thoughts. We even install the latest stable version (or trunk if you would like). Of course, if you want to do more than just blog and post pictures, you can look at our Rails Hosting packages.

Upgraded Typo

Robby Russell — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:36:30 -0500

Typo from SVN Trunk… seems to be working good.

Tobi, thanks for the nice new features. :-)

Need to upgrade my typo install

Robby Russell — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:50:58 -0500

A few reasons why I need to upgrade Typo.

Perhaps something to suggest as a feature would be the concept of ‘themes’ or ‘styles’ for Typo. I’d hate to have to go in and change my css/images each time I want to upgrade. I wonder if Tobi has added my PostgreSQL patch to the tree yet. I know two people who are using it (the pgsql patch) currently. Curt Hibbs and myself.

Since I have started to use Typo (only a few weeks now), the list of people using it on the Typo page has gone from 2 listed to over 20.

Need to upgrade my typo install

Robby Russell — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:50:58 -0500

A few reasons why I need to upgrade Typo.

Since I have started to use Typo (only a few weeks now), the list of people using it on the Typo page has gone from 2 listed to over 20.

Updating the default template

Robby Russell — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:32:37 -0600

Playing around with the template a bit. (css and the header image..)

BloGTK and Typo

Robby Russell — Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:34:36 -0600

When you run BloGTK and Typo together, make sure you set the API to MoveableType in your Preferences.

..and a screenshot of me posting this entry.