They asked Resolve Digital to create the Hotpot Jackpot site and gave us a challenge: Design, build, test and launch a micro site for this major Google promotion— in 48 hours.
We got the brief on Tuesday morning: Create a campaign landing page for residents of the Portland metro area to register for the Hotpot Jackpot contest and submit their “Best Ever” review;...
OK, so we didn't win this year's New Zealand Open Source awards but the gala was fun and we met some very nice people. While we were sitting around drowning our sorrow with caffeine and dunking our disappointment with Japanese donuts, we found out we've just been nominated for a SMAC award!
The SMACs are chosen by industry professionals and awarded to the best website and design practitioners in the North East of England. We figure, if you go far enough, New Zealand actually IS northeast of...
If you're new to Refinery CMS then you should be reading "An Overview of Refinery - a Rails CMS" written by yours truly which features in Issue #7 of Rails Magazine. The article covers topics like:
The article also includes a list of useful resources and links.
If you're just starting out or deciding on a Rails CMS to use,...
Resolve Digital has been featured in the New Zealand Herald newspaper through its nomination in the New Zealand Open Source Awards.
See the full article here:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10683183
As part of our support for previous versions of Refinery CMS, we have released version 0.9.7.14 to fix some issues that were present in 0.9.7.13. This has been done using some contributions that were made to the Rails 3 versions of Refinery CMS that we were able to move back into Rails 2 as well.
This fixes an important bug where the user is not able to insert images into the visual editor.
To use this new version simply update the version of Refinery CMS you are using in your Gemfile...
Resolve Digital (the folks who created Refinery CMS) is a finalist in the Open Source Contributor category for the New Zealand Open Source Awards. Thanks for your nominations and of course, thanks to all the developers who contribute to making Refinery CMS better and better.
The New Zealand Open Source Awards recognise and promote the contributions of New Zealanders directly to open source projects and exemplary use of open source by New Zealand organisations.
The 2010 Awards will...
Want to use Heroku and Refinery? Refinery now has a special option when creating your Refinery application that makes getting Refinery up and running on Heroku an absolute breeze.
The refinerycms command now has a new --heroku option that automates most of the process of deploying to Heroku.
The Rails 3 final gem has just come out yesterday and I would like to announce that Refinery CMS 0.9.8 officially supports it! This makes Refinery CMS the first popular Rails CMS to support Rails 3. Woohoo!
Alex Coles (myabc) did a lot of the ground work to get Refinery up and running on Rails 3. His efforts were picked up on Refinery CMS Day where the community got together to see just how far we could get in 24 hours.
The transition to Rails 3 has been interesting. It...
The community asked for it and here it is. Refinery has been translated into 10 languages. Here's the list included in this release:
I'm stunned at the diversity of the Refinery community and would like to thank everyone who contributed translations.
The dev team is looking to further the number of supported languages. Please let us know if you can help us out.
We didn't set out to create a hosted CMS, but that's what we just did.
Five years ago we needed a CMS that our small business clients could actually use, so we made one. We called it M-Tools, and all our client sites were built with it. M-Tools was extremely rudimentary, but had the key advantage of simplicity. It allowed us to build custom sites without burdening our clients with a complex CMS interface.
As our client work continued to evolve, so did M-Tools. We steadily made...