MGSF Development Blog
Another change | Jun 28th 2007
Theme change that is. I’d like to say that this is the last one, but it’s hard to say.
Anyway, I’m going to finish coding the view pages tomorrow for the Articles, do a bit of virtual housekeeping (the stylesheets are a mess right now) and then get started on a User Authentication system. There are a few premade ones available, so I’ll check those out first. If they integrate well, then I’ll take the shortcut, but I don’t think it’ll be too hard. If that goes quickly, I’ll start working on a simple forum – just threads and posts for now.
Finally, one feature I left out of the last post is a style-switcher, and I plan to port (eventually) every skin I’ve made to be available. I know a lot of people were fond of the green one especially. So once those are all done, that’ll make five skins by my count, which will hopefully suit everybody’s tastes 
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Testing this out, it works right?
great for you! Keep up with the doing of stuff that which you came to be done with finished.
Comment by Yackemflaber — Thursday, June 28th, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
What program/s are you using to code and adapt samples from? Also, what host/s are you considering?
Comment by krypton_ls — Friday, June 29th, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
I use TextMate for all of my code editing. It’s a really slick text editor for the Mac and supports my language of choice: Ruby, on the Rails Framework. All of the code is my own, though I reference RailsCasts.com and RailsForum.com if I’m stuck on how to most efficiently program something.
The host I’d like to use is SliceHost. Rails runs best on either a Virtual Private Server or a full-blown Dedicated Server. Slicehost VPS’s are very reasonably priced (on the order of 50% cheaper than most) because they coded all of their own server management software. They’re also extremely knowledgeable about Rails in a production environment, which is currently very rare.
If I must go with shared hosting, I would choose A Small Orange, though that is a distant second choice.
Comment by Brian — Saturday, June 30th, 2007 @ 2:49 pm
Isn’t the ASO hosting company founded or started by some of the people from IF?
Comment by krypton_ls — Monday, July 2nd, 2007 @ 5:18 am
I’m not sure. I do know that one of their Admins is part of the support staff there.
Comment by Brian — Monday, July 2nd, 2007 @ 7:12 am