Yes, it looks different here, doesn’t it. That’s because I’ve flipped the switch, loosed the reins, unharnessed the wild boar and turned on Vanilla.rb. Here’s my work-in-progress tutorial: vanilla-rb-tutorial.

It’s going to be a bit broken around here for a while, but the idea there is to motivate me to fix things. You won’t be able to log in (since you can’t register), which means no creating or editing snips for you lot at the moment. You can, however, see what the raw contents of the snips are - just add .raw to the end of pretty much any URL

You can, of course, download vanilla an play about with it locally; the current authentication scheme is trival when you’ve access to the filesystem.

Some notable things that I need to consider in more detail:

• Feeds - an atom one is available at the moment, but it’s implementation is pretty crufty
• Commenting - (Ticket 5)
• Better internal parsing (Ticket 8)
• Muchos other stuff, including documentation about how other folks can use vanilla!

So - here we go!

Already, We Have Vanilla Goodness

After some furious bugfixing (thanks to the strictness of Firefox 3 for chastising me!), things are running quite smoothly here. I’ve written the starts of a conceptual vanilla-rb-tutorial, please do check that out.

I also limited the number of blog posts¹ that appear on the home page to 3, and added a link to the full blog that shows the most recent 10. Making this change with vanilla was utterly trivial – the start snip originally included the blog snip directly, but rather than do that, I can just use the underlying kind dynasnip to grab the 3 most recent blog snips and display them in place.

I really love how flexible vanilla makes the content it stores. I’m looking forward to playing around more!

¹ Oh, and just because I can, this blog post was written using textile, whereas the others use Markdown. All on the same page, naturally. Add .raw to the url for this post to see!

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