Mephisto has been a hot topic as of late and we've seen some great things happen over the past couple weeks. Most notably, we've seen some really hot designs and some pretty cool plugins surfacing around the Mephistosphere. The Brits especially seem to be taking a liking to Mephisto.
Danwebb.net
Dan has a great looking Mephisto site which is sporting a host of Mephisto plugins he has created including Mephisto Del.icio.us, Mephisto Last.fm, Mephisto Upcoming, and finally his Unobtrusive Synatx Highlighter. Wow! Thats a lot of stuff and Dan has been kind enough to make it all available for the entire Mephisto community as simple Rails plugins.
Dan also tells us why he chose Mephisto over the host of other systems available, pointing out how easy it is to extend Mephisto among other things. Dan knows his stuff too. For those of you who don't know, Dan is the guy who hosts the @media conference.
UJSForRails and Luke Redpath
Luke (another bloody Brit) has been pumping out some beautiful Mephisto sites. Just as Dan showed us how extensible Mephisto is through plugins, Luke shows us how customizable the templates can be. It's a great example of a cross-breed site that uses both Mephisto's blogging features and it's site features.
Luke's personal site is also powered by Mephisto and is sporting a variation of the UJSForRails design. He has really blinged this one out with the Last.fm plugin!
I'll show you mine if you show me yours
If you've got a cool looking Mephisto site or have created some plugins which others just can't live without, we'd like to see them. Toss us a comment and show us what you've been doing with Mephisto.
Wow! The Last.fm plugin is worth the price of admission alone in my books. I'm already sold on Mephisto and am looking forward to the 0.6 release. I'll definitely need to load Dan's plugins up and give them a whirl.
Thanks for the mention, Justin. Much appreciated.
Scott: By all means, give them a go. They are all pretty freshly done and have varying amounts of documentation but I'll get to sorting out documentation and test coverage over the next couple of weeks so keep an eye on the SVN.
Cool. Any chance of baking in the Amazon integration that it looks like Luke Redpath either added or built for himself. That would be a really nice possibly optional add-on. Heck, I'd pay a few bucks easily to get that into the plugin.
Scott, the album artwork actually comes from Dan's lastfm plugin; lastfm uses amazon for artwork and you can get the URL's directly out of the lastfm feed. Here's the relevant code snippet:
I actually want to use the recent albums feed but that seems to be borked at the moment.
Gee, do you think something went wrong there? :) Try this:
http://pastie.caboo.se/10727
Luke -- that's some pretty dense code man.
Did you wrap that pastie in a macro:code tag? Add a lang? I should probably sanitize that output in the filtered column plugin.
I just wrapped it in pre and code tags, as it said I could use HTML. Hey ho.
hey all.
thanx Dan for this plugins.
i hate php scripts (wp,txp) like Dan. i love ruby and mephisto, but i think you need a forum (maybe beast ?).
good luck everyone. im watching you. (sorry for my bad english :) )
junkie: Here ya go...
Mephisto Forum...
Sorry, that comment about the Amazon integration was meant as a reply to Dan, not as an additon to Mephisto. Thanks for the code snippet. I'll have to give that a whirl.
Well, I finally stopped procrastinating and chose a blog CMS for my company website, and just tonight started a new blog with Mephisto - it was the Hemingway template that got me hooked, but I'm going to play around with it a bit. I'm a Brit too, so maybe there is something in the water over here. :-)
BTW, like the new release. Just as soon as I get some more free time, I'll be throwing you some patches for a few areas that could do with some light work if that's OK.
Cheers, Paul
Very good!