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Comment on NewOrleans.com by NewOrleans.com Runs Joomla | PSD-templates.org - Free Joomla, Wordpress and HTML CSS templates

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:04:23 +0000

[...] in 2006 the site was rebuilt in Joomla by a company called Silicon Chisel who gave a detailed rundown on the move. Not all of those pieces are still in place but the core of the site is still Joomla and I think [...]

Comment on NewOrleans.com by Silicon Chisel

Silicon Chisel — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:19:26 +0000

Thanks. The current site has been redone since I worked on it. The real gruntwork was converging about 6 different databases and data-sources into Joomla.

Comment on NewOrleans.com by John

John — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:10:38 +0000

Excellent work done. Joomla rocks!

Comment on Coda & Espresso by Silicon Chisel

Silicon Chisel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:08:05 +0000

Espresso is still a bit rough and I’m concerned that there’ve been no updates in a couple of months. FTP works fine for me – except sometimes when I’m working from a hotel room. I don’t think I’ve had an issue with MAMP, but I don’t remember for sure – I usually proof things in Firefox because of all the tools I have loaded in there.

That “save” button on the server settings annoys the hell out of me too.

Comment on Coda & Espresso by Tonio Loewald

Tonio Loewald — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:46:24 +0000

Interesting read, but I think you’re being too generous to Espresso.

I’ve been a Coda user from day one and I also got Espresso via MacHeist. Sadly, I’ve found Espresso virtually useless despite being very promising in many ways. Its CSS editor is nice, of course, but I have CSSEdit, which has the virtue of not having Espresso’s other non-functional features. FTP access remains twitchy (and I don’t know how many times I’ve typed in access details and then lost them because I forgot to click the save widget), while there’s zero support for obvious use cases like local hosting (there’s simply no way to convince Espresso to preview a file via MAMP, say). And finally Espresso’s autocomplete is horribly broken.

Espresso has taken a very clever approach to embracing existing defacto standards (it can use TextMate’s language bundles, for example). But somehow it just fails to be useful because every single thing it does seems not to work quite right — in pretty much exactly the way Coda does work right.

Comment on Coda & Espresso by Silicon Chisel

Silicon Chisel — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:19:55 +0000

From a developer’s standpoint, though, it’s a *nix environment. Cash, sed, awk, grep, ls, etc. are all there. I guess I should have said “*nix” instead of “Linux”. Ah well.

Comment on Coda & Espresso by Eno

Eno — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:30:14 +0000

Actually Mac OS X is not a Linux environment. It is more like FreeBSD than Linux. Since Linux and FreeBSD are both based on Unix, some of the commands are similar or the same, but they are completel different beasts under the hood.

Comment on Aces High Performance Charts by Silicon Chisel

Silicon Chisel — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:00:51 +0000

It’s basically a CSV-driven PHP script which pumps data into the SWF charts, I haven’t touched the code in years (meaning I’ll be damned if I can remember WTF I did) but you’re welcome to what I have.

Comment on Aces High Performance Charts by Lewis

Lewis — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:09:57 +0000

Is it possible to purchase an offline version of this program?

Comment on Engine Yard – Rails Hosting Nirvana by Silicon Chisel

Silicon Chisel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:05:00 +0000

Yes. We’re running one of their slices. I would be surprised if the Solo package worked as well, but I’m constantly impressed by what these guys put out, so for a smaller application it may work just fine.