Matteo Collina's Blog

A static Blog!

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:15:34 +0200

When I decided to open up a new blog I needed a place to share my thoughts about technology. I cried for some pages where to publish the solutions about the programming problems I face everyday. I needed a blogging software which doesn’t require maintenance, so I discarded all modern dynamic blogging software, like Wordpress. In the same time I met Webgen, a powerful static site generator: the idea behind this blog was born.

Bringing the Ruby On Rails I18n framework to Webgen.

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:15:34 +0200

The first Webgen extension I want to talk about is the I18nTag, a class built for providing support to template internationalization just like Ruby On Rails handle it. Webgen itself has some basic support for localizing the content of a page, but it doesn’t really support lookup based localization of templates.

Automagick Image Manipulation in Webgen.

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:15:34 +0100

One of the most useful feature of modern web applications is that they automatically resize and generates the thumbnails of the uploaded images. I personally hate wasting time and so I decided to add auto-resizing and auto-thumbnailing to my blog, which if you can’t remember is static and powered by Webgen.