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Graham Ashton
Personal blog · effectif.comprogramming
Graham Ashton writes Effectif Development, a personal blog at effectif.com about programming. Since 2008, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Nesta is a Ruby-based lightweight Content Management System”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Graham Ashton's site for its Nesta CMS page, a Sinatra-based, Git-managed CMS that takes Markdown, Textile or HAML files. Commenters suggest it for simple custom sites.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Notes on the use of dynamic scripting languages for agile web development, covering Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and version control with git. Written by Graham Ashton.
Most-linked posts?
- Nesta is a Ruby-based lightweight Content Management System3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-05-18
What Hacker News says?
It's probably worth checking out NestaCSM ( http://effectif.com/nesta ) if you're interested in doing this. Sinatra in front, but all your posts are managed by Git and can be Markdown/Textile/HAML (or anything supported by Tilt iirc). Push it to Heroku if you want easy/free hosting. Takes care of publishing an RSS feed, tags/categorisation, and a bunch of other nifty things beyond just generating a static site. Exam…
Comment linking /nesta
on “Using git to manage a website”Submitted RubyManor Roundup as a story · 16 points
HN discussionNOSQL = Not Only SQL - I don't think you should ever expect it to completely replace SQL since they're good at different things. I've played with a bunch of NOSQL engines (including CouchDB, MongoDB, App Engine, Solr, Xapian and Tokyo) and while I really like them and would use them for a bunch of problems, for most of my projects the ability to create arbitrarily complex queries using joins is essential for rapidly…
Comment linking /ruby/manor/denormalising-your-rails-application
on “Ask HN: What's the current state of NoSQL ?”Submitted Is Apple suitable for the freelancer? as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI would go with something like Nesta, it's a simple CMS built on Sinatra that makes it easy to do very custom things (like you might need to for conversion rates, etc). http://effectif.com/nesta I am re-doing a couple of my marketing sites to run on Nesta after trying Wordpress and just plain old Sinatra and not being completely happy with either.
Comment linking /nesta
on “Ask HN: Custom code for sales/marketing site or CMS?”Submitted Fed up of typing `bundle exec`? Automate it with bundler-exec. as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHave you had a look at NestaCMS? Markdown, textile, or HAML support. Text files as your interface/storage. http://effectif.com/nesta
Comment linking /nesta
on “I'm thinking of writing a CMS for semi-technical folks”Submitted MongoDB schema design from Mongo UK conference as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Rails with Rack::Test as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Sinatra with Vlad as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Ack with CoffeeScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ditch your smart phone, regain sanity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pair programming: Be a better navigator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Nesta is a Ruby-based lightweight Content Management System as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoDB administration talk from Mongo UK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 12 talks from Ruby Manor as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Write ups of all the Ruby Manor talks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Sharing CSS between Rails and PHP as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Achieve more by keeping yourself inspired as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using ctags to navigate your bundled gems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted MongoDB Replication and Replica Sets (write-up of talk by Dwight Merriman) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmarking Ruby exception handling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Merb with Vlad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted RubyManor Roundup (part 2) as a story · 1 points
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