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What follows is the obligatory “I switched blogging software” post wherein the writer posts nothing interesting or relevant but instead just asserts what the title already tells us.

I will take this opportunity, however, to mention various things I’ve been meaning to write about.

• I’ll be speaking a RailsConf in May, in Portland
• My friend Cloves will be speaking at the RuPy Conference in April, in Poland
• Hampton will be speaking at ETech in March, in San Diego (and RailsConf with me, and at the MySQL conference sometime in the future)
• My book is almost done
• Rick Olson’s rewrite of acts_as_attachment, attachment_fu supports Amazon’s S3 as a storage backend
• I wrote the S3 backend for attachment_fu
• Haml is about to turn 1.5
• I think I’m getting a cold
• Unpspace posted a video of Ryan’s talk for the FOSS
• RubyInside linked to the aforementioned video
• Lucas Carlson’s Ruby Cookbook is amazing
• Rob Orsini’s Rails Cookbook is equally awesome
• JuneBug is a really nice camping-powered wiki that I’ve been using lately

That’s about it. The main thing is that I switched my blog to Mephisto. And it was easy. And Mephisto is so much better than typo it hurts. I hereby issue a heartfelt “good job” to everyone involved in Mephisto.

DeLynn Berry has just finished porting the improved hatom goodness of Scribbish to the Mephisto version. Oh, and this new version makes use of some new features in Mephisto 0.7, so make sure you’re up to date. Thanks, DeLynn. I hereby proclaim you the official maintainer of the Mephisto branch.

The hAtom specification has changed a bit since I implemented it in Scribbish. It was very much in draft-form at that time, and has now matured to verion 0.1. This morning I updated the typo version of Scribbish in SVN to use the new 0.1 API. I’ll work on the Mephisto version later on tonight. Now you can actually use an hAtom parser, like the Almost Universal Microformats Parser to extract content from a Scribbish-powered blog.

Here’s the parser’s output for QuotedPrintable.

Mephisto is the new hot blogging engine for Ruby on Rails. And now, thanks to DeLynn Berry Scribbish is the newest addition to the already sweet list of Mephisto themes available.

The Scribbish page has been updated—go ahead and download it.

If you’re interested in the bleeding edge, we’ve created a ‘mephisto’ branch in the svn repository:
svn://visioni.st/themes/scribbish/branches/mephisto