I was getting frustrated with the idea of updating my sitemap.xml every time I created a new article on this blog. So I started mulling through the Mephisto Wiki and found a Mephisto Google Sitemap Plugin from Stephen Caudill which works great! I would have left a comment on his site, but it appears that […]

Here’s a little freebie.
I’ve written a javascript that will take any faq page—properly formatted—and give it a little DHTML *umph* (oh, that’s right, we’re calling it AJAX these days). Basically it automatically converts all of the terms (questions) into links and collapses all of the defintions (answers) to be hidden until their term has been […]

After much trial and error, and frustration, I have finally come up with what I believe is the best possible way to do multiple select combo boxes in Rails. It’s not so much that there aren’t examples on the web, it’s just that every example is so different. I’ve used what I feel is […]

RubyWeaver is an IDE for Ruby and Rails in Dreamweaver. This extension originally came from RidingTheClutch.com which seems to have mysteriously disappeared, along with it’s original author Rob Cameron whom I have tried to contact with regards to RubyWeaver, but with no avail. I’ve taken the liberty to make this extension available once again to […]

I don’t know if it’s because the Lucid theme for Mephisto was ported from Typo, but it was displaying the timestamp on my entries as UTC instead of MST, which is what I told Mephisto my time zone is in the Settings. Apparently Lucid uses JavaScript to convert the timestamp into a more descriptive time […]