Congrats Greg! The site looks great, and I'm sure people will be interested to hear about your experiences. Thanks for sharing, Bruno
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:52 PM, GregL <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Levi! > > On Jan 2, 10:46 pm, Levi Rosol <[email protected]> wrote: > > congrats on the launch! > > > > -- > > Levi Rosol > > Twitter: @LeviRosol > > > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:38 PM, GregL <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I just relaunched my 4 year old sitehttp://www.shelfcentered.com, > > > which now includes CE integration and all the great features that > > > brings. I will continue to work on tightening the integration between > > > old and new areas of the site, and I'll also be working towards > > > Facebook integration, so I'm sure I'll continue to occasionally darken > > > this newsgroup's doorway. > > > > > Many thanks to Bruno and the others here to helped me along the way. I > > > overcame the following during the 3 months (of VERY part-time work) > > > that this project took me: > > > > > - stupid mistakes installing CE > > > - learning HAML > > > - migrating existing user accounts into CE's tables, including logic > > > to add salt when users next log in > > > - integrating my own existing activity model into CE's > > > - changing CE's behavior to require login for most areas, without > > > editing CE code, and while excluding RSS from this logic > > > - dealing with the implications of breaking CE's tests (mostly due to > > > the previous point) > > > - problems with desert's asset-directory-copying behavior in my > > > subversion-controlled site > > > - overcoming Dreamhost's RAM limits, which kicked in when CE entered > > > the picture (hint: don't run TWO rails sites off the same username) > > > - adapting CE's awesome clippings workflow to another purpose, greatly > > > upgrading a functionality my users use heavily > > > > > I would be happy to present the more interesting experiences for the > > > CE Users Conference, should that come to pass. > > > > > I am absolutely thrilled that I have gained all this functionality > > > while being able to elegantly patch over any behavior I care to > > > change. I now have a forum, blogs, photo uploading, profiles, an email > > > notification infrastructure, and a much nicer-looking (and better > > > thought-out) site than I could have ever mustered. I learned a ton > > > more about rails along the way too. > > > > > Greg > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > > "CommunityEngine" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<communityengine%[email protected]> > <communityengine%2Bunsubscribe@ googlegroups.com> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CommunityEngine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<communityengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en.
