Simple dynamic site generator with standardised templating tools: certainly looks nice for building those early-stage prototypes before you need a full backend.

"The template used for a custom post view is decided by the ‘get_single_template()’ function in the wp-includes/theme.php file.  And it basically tells locate_template() to look for single-’post_type’.php or single.php. So the simplest way to customise the way a custom post is displayed is to add a template file to your theme with the name single-xxxxxx.php" Oh. That makes life simpler.

"nanoc is a tool that runs on your local computer and compiles Markdown, Textile, Haml, etc. documents into static web pages, ready for uploading to any web host." Easily build static sites with a teeny bit of templating.

How to customize the templates in Billable. They're just XHTML, you know.

Some cracking comments about the needs of templating systems, and the development thereof. In particular: “Refactoring CSS is about making it more manageable, not shorter”

(By yielding default content to a view).

"It seems like, in current Rails, there’s not a very helpful helper around to give you select boxes which allow multiple items to be selected. So I present you with one."

To go with paginating_find: a nice set of helpers for rendering the pagination links way faster. Again, will be trying this out soon.

A nice trick for wrangling content_for, something I'm doing a lot of at work at the moment.

Dirt simple indeed. More importantly, it actually serves the CSS as text/css , which is usually the kicker for me.

Essentially: writing idiomatic template helpers. Good stuff.