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Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

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Re: Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

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Post by brickcap »

diminoten wrote: post #40

Just deployed it for an internal work blog (just happened to see this particular post at the right time), and I love new projects so I'll use it for awhile and see what I see. Obviously it'd be "nice" to have some better contributor management, and instead of forcing me to manipulate the URL to do stuff it'd be "nice" to just click buttons, but frankly I don't care much about any of that. Real feature request: Langua…

It is already built into specter. Use the urls

/feed/rss and /feed/atom

So all you got to do is add an anchor tag that points to these urls.

Settings can be set in the preferences file.

Regarding syntax highlighting...

Can you not use javascript libraries to do this? I have got no idea how to go about implementing this..

Re: Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

#42

Post by nevinera »

brickcap wrote: post #38
nevinera wrote: post #36

I set it up just now, and it was very easy to get moving. I'm no ops master, but it only took a few minutes, and it's a bit nicer than the homerolled solution I had been using. My writeup is on my new blog at http://nevinera.net/trying-out-specter

I have a question... >Specter takes the elegant/lazy approach of not using sessions at all - access to edit and create pages is entirely via url, and permission to actually perform those changes is granted by including a 'secret' (a password) in the form. It's not the most secure form of defense (I'm not using ssl, so a wireless sniffer could easily determine my password, for example), but its sufficient for a nonpro…

It looks like the actual best answer is to use ssl - apparently most apps transmit their password in the clear, and just rely on ssl to keep it from being observed. I'll amend my post.

Re: Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

#43

Post by brickcap »

nevinera wrote: post #42
brickcap wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a question... >Specter takes the elegant/lazy approach of not using sessions at all - access to edit and create pages is entirely via url, and permission to actually perform those changes is granted by including a 'secret' (a password) in the form. It's not the most secure form of defense (I'm not using ssl, so a wireless sniffer could easily determine my password, for example), but its sufficient for a nonpro…

It looks like the actual best answer is to use ssl - apparently most apps transmit their password in the clear, and just rely on ssl to keep it from being observed. I'll amend my post.

Ah thanks for letting me know. I had opened an issue to change my implementation but I guess I will leave it now. Thanks once again.

Re: Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

#44

Post by __--__ »

brickcap wrote: post #28
alec wrote: post #16

Uninteresting: "Use my blog platform! It has the power of node!" Interesting: "I wrote something new in a way or with tools that I had not used before. Here's what worked, here's what didn't, and here's what I learned." Unfortunately, this is the former. I'd be interested in reading the latter if you wrote something up about your experience with this.

Sorry about that. There is only so much that I can write on a project page. It has to grab attention. I wrote in detail about specter and what I learnt building it on my blog, if you care to read you can go on the link below. http://www.staticshin.com/tag/specter

Kudos, man. That's probably the best response to a middle brow dismissal I've seen to date. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. :)

Re: Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

#45

Post by diminoten »

brickcap wrote: post #41
diminoten wrote: post #40

Just deployed it for an internal work blog (just happened to see this particular post at the right time), and I love new projects so I'll use it for awhile and see what I see. Obviously it'd be "nice" to have some better contributor management, and instead of forcing me to manipulate the URL to do stuff it'd be "nice" to just click buttons, but frankly I don't care much about any of that. Real feature request: Langua…

It is already built into specter. Use the urls /feed/rss and /feed/atom So all you got to do is add an anchor tag that points to these urls. Settings can be set in the preferences file. Regarding syntax highlighting... Can you not use javascript libraries to do this? I have got no idea how to go about implementing this..

Ah, noticed the feed paths after I posted, thanks.

As for syntax highlighting yeah, I'm sure it's just a matter of a library, but you know, it's your project! Sometimes people are looking for stuff to add, just wanted to point out a place I'd find useful. :)

Re: Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

#46

Post by brickcap »

diminoten wrote: post #45
brickcap wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is already built into specter. Use the urls /feed/rss and /feed/atom So all you got to do is add an anchor tag that points to these urls. Settings can be set in the preferences file. Regarding syntax highlighting... Can you not use javascript libraries to do this? I have got no idea how to go about implementing this..

Ah, noticed the feed paths after I posted, thanks. As for syntax highlighting yeah, I'm sure it's just a matter of a library, but you know, it's your project! Sometimes people are looking for stuff to add, just wanted to point out a place I'd find useful. :)

No problem man. I will look to add syntax highlighting by default in specter.

Anyway I updated the pages to have the feeds into them by default so it does not cause any confusion.

Re: Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

#47

Post by jonsterling »

brickcap wrote: post #34
jonsterling wrote: post #33

This looks rather neat. FYI, the type rendering in the screenshots is really terrible—I'd suggest re-rendering in something different.

You mean the the themes? Well I just added them to demonstrate that all you need to is change the css from boostrap to bootswatch in order to change the theme. http://bootswatch.com/

Nah nah, the themes are probably fine. It looks like you're rendering them on a browser from the 2001 (the text rendering is really choppy)...

Re: Specter – A minimal, elegant and free Markdown-enabled blogging platform

#49

Post by brickcap »

jonsterling wrote: post #47
brickcap wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the the themes? Well I just added them to demonstrate that all you need to is change the css from boostrap to bootswatch in order to change the theme. http://bootswatch.com/

Nah nah, the themes are probably fine. It looks like you're rendering them on a browser from the 2001 (the text rendering is really choppy)...

Ah I get it. Yeah I will redo them.
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