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Mephisto for the Masses - Installation howto

I’ve recently taken a fancy to Mephisto, a blogging-platform written in Rails. I have nothing against Wordpress, but being in Ruby and using Liquid for themes, Mephisto is far easier (and more fun) to tweak and configure, especially when I want to migrate my sites away from the “blog look” and make them more dynamic. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mephisto for the Masses - Installation howto", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/10/mephisto-for-the-masses-installation-howto/" });

Easily Installing Vim 7.2 From Source

Vim 7.2 beta was released last month, and 7.2 is now stable. First check to see if your distro offers a package, and if not, follow these simple instructions on how to install it from source, from the vim7.2 subversion branch. cd /tmp/ svn co https://vim.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vim/branches/vim7.2 cd vim7.2/ ./configure --with-features=huge --enable-gui=gnome2 --enable-cscope --enable-pythoninterp make Now you can use sudo make install [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Easily Installing Vim 7.2 From Source", url: "http://biodegradablegeek.com/2008/08/easily-installing-vim-72-edge-from-source/" });