Radiant 0.5 release

I ever mentioned John W. Long’s Radiant, a simplified and elegant CMS on my previous post before a few month. Now I really have to give him a thumb-up. John fulfilled and whip up his outstanding project into Version 0.5. Radiant is a really simple, chic, and usable Rails CMS app. As its author said, it is for small team member communicating their data and thoughts, but rather than a blog engine. I think his bang-up job is a practical way for novices to learn Rails app and the app’s core worthy to attend is Radius, a tag-based template which pouring all the magic into this alittle CMS.

One hour before, I installed Radiant, which is really neat and beautiful gadget. The premise before you dancing with her is make sure that you have installed ruby, rails, ri, irb. Of course.

When setting up Radiant, if you have 404 error, type:

sudo chmod -R 755 radiant

If your brower says it can’t find table ‘config’ in production database in mysql, type:

script/setup_database development

and

script/server development

That is a bit different with its README document, because you are now in developer mood. I am not sure whether needing to add

host: localhost

in respective section in ‘database.yml’.

Now give it a glimpse.

Update: I successfully set up FastCGI on my apache2 before a couple of days, and I got a error of some thing like

Errno::EACCES: Permission denied -

in radiant/cache folder during running radiant on apache2 at frist time. Then chmod -R 777 cache in the root folder, and all that will be smoothly coast into right place.

Harsh times!

A little too occupied for me to maintain two blogs at the same time. Yesterday my other personal blog, Upstairs, Downstairs debuted. I tend to write some kind of my inner thoughts at that intimate nest. If so, I might have no plenty times to update this blog. Learning takes times, thinking takes times, writing takes times as well. Posting one entry that contains 200 literals is more likely to cost me 10 minute, needless to say the constant suffering under web proxy during transport. But combination of two blog sharing two radically different themes is even more ridiculous, and I don't like to mash them up.

Anyway, wasting time equals guilty. Harsh circumstance.

Am I getting a frigging nuts? I am terriblely nervous.

Hey! Bitter-sweet Newsvine.

Half year previously I received my first Newsvine invite from a passionate foreign folk when I drop in his site( found in ma.ganolia)
. But after a short pleasant surprise, I constantly had felt Newsvine sucks to be itself. They boosted that they will be a new overwhelming digg or slashdot by the user-contributed-info features. I didn’t perceive any real validity for me. Because I note most of news are posted by people who hired in A.P. or other big press and few people contributes news themself. I can get wrapped in ‘NewYork Times’ and ‘Business Week’ , etc. Newsvine versus NewYork Times. I can’t feature them by content really. Why do I still choose to dive into Newsvine’s sphere.

But just now I change my opinion a bit. What a intriguing interface, damn!

I don’t know when Newsvine somehow creeps in this fancy. It’s nearly being like a awesome CMS.

Watch out the right corner beside the portrait. That point out your ‘Vineacity’ of current state. Hopefully I can flesh out some branches on my obsolete trunk, if I am not in pretty occupy:wink:.