I am constantly trying to update rubyrailways.com with useful features and enhancements (feedback is warmly welcome - even the present look was influenced by a lot of your comments). , This is the last set of updates:

• Ajaxified Comment Preview

  , is a handy WordPress plugin which can create a preview of the comment you are currently writing before you actually post it. , Check out any of the posts (e.g. , this one :-)) and scroll down to the ‘Leave a Reply’ section to see it in action (you don’t actually have to comment if you just would like to play around). ,

  , Markdown should work with the comments, , too. , For adding a comment which contains code, , I recommend to use the <pre> tag to preserve whitespace (unfortunately SyntHiHol (see next bullet) does not work here).

• SyntHiHol

  , is a code highlighter, , you can see it in action in my last post for example. , All you have to do to achieve these nicely highlighted code blocks is to write the code in a div with the attribute “lang” (possible values include ruby, , python, , java, , php, , c, , c++, , c#, , bash, , …. , nearly 70 languages!). , Cool, , isn’t it?

• Akismet

  , though I don’t think so there is anybody who does not know akismet, , for completeness, , sake, , it’s “a plugin which identifies and blocks comment and trackback spam on blogs with integration to various blogging systems”. , In the dark pre-akismet era I have received 10-15 spams a day on average. , Guess how much did I get since the installation? Exactly zero. , It sounds unbelievable but it’s true

  . , I have just checked - akismet caught 370 spam comments during its 1-month reign.
• Installed trac

  , a web-based software project management tool - well this is not of too much interest to the readers of this blog (yet) but maybe someone is interested in my experience. ,

  , Currently this site is hosted on dreamhost, , and fortunately I have found the DreamTrac script for trac installation on DH. , Well, , I think now, , after all the struggling I would be able to install trac with this script for the first try - but the current installation took me about 3 hours and 8 tries. ,

  , However, , this was not the biggest problem - after all I have managed to install and configure trac - it was much worse that the script (or trac configuration?) overwrote my .htaccess file in the home directory, , which caused the main site (https://rubyrailways.com ) to stop - and even worse, , it exposed my whole home directory to the world! Since I did not count with such side effects, , I have found and corrected this problem after a few hours only.

  , If this would not be enough, , ther is one ‘minor’ problem with trac on dreamhost: for me it is so slow that it is practically unusable (takes about 20-30 seconds, , sometimes more to load). , I don’t know what can be the problem - it’s fastcgi enabled, , and though not explicitly optimized, , I don’t think so it should look like this… , Any ideas?

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