Today we are announcing a very important update for the Forest Sangha website.
Users are now able to order, free of charge, a selection of publications provided by the forest sangha group of monasteries.
We will be reimplementing the original functionaliy of ordering books and audio discs at a later date.
For more information see our projects page. […]
We are pround to announce the completion of our latest project, Forest Sangha!
During the past four months we have been working with the monastic community to redesdign and rebuild their site.
We will be reimplementing the original functionaliy of ordering books and audio discs at a later date.
For more information see our projects page. […]
We are pround to announce the completion of our latest project, Aruna Ratanagiri!
During the past three months we have been working with the monastery to redesdign and rebuild their site.
The completed site has been built on RefineryCMS and incorporates various services and APIs to bring together a clean and simplified administration experience.
For more information see our projects page. […]
We have recently updated the design of our site to fully support mobile and tablet devices.
This means that your surfing experience will be much more enjoyable when you are on the move! If you spot any problems with the new design, then please be sure to let us know.
On another note, we are currently in the beginnings of a new community project.
We cannot disclose too much at this time, however, we hope to give you some sneak
previews of the design further down the line. If you are a charity owner in the need
of our free services or would like a reasonably priced website for your business,
then drop us an email to info@affinity-tech.com.
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Following the release of v1 of the eBook Gem, which has just had a minor revision update to 1.0.3, we have now updated the our eBook Generator frontend to support this new functionality.
If you have any ideas for us on what features you would like to see, please leave your opinions in the comments below. We would love to hear them! […]
We are proud to announce a much needed update to our eBook Gem. The version number has been bumped up to 1.0 to signify that the codebase is a lot more mature, and also brings in incompatibilities over previous versions due to the changes in codebase.
The codebase is now covered by a test suite which should mean that it is stable enough to use in a production environment.
Amongst the changes, the gem now takes an Ebook Object rather than an id to generate the file.
It also returns the path of the file generated for your convenience.
EbookGenerator.generate_ebook(ebook_object)
There is now support to generate Kindle .mobi eBooks, but this requires the
Kindlegen command line tool
to be placed in the Rails app /bin folder first. To generate a Kindle .mobi file instead of an .ePub
requires the passing of kindle as a second argument:
EbookGenerator.generate_ebook(ebook_object, 'kindle')
The Gem has also been completely reorganised so that it is now a Rails plugin with built in generators to generate the Ebook and Section models and relevant migrations:
$ rails g ebook_generator
Additionally, the models have been redesigned so as not to rely on Postgres or Friendly_id, this is to give you the freedom to choose your flavour of database and how to generate your own slugs.
We would love to hear your thoughts on the gem and can even fork us on github.
We will also be updating our eBook generator frontend to use the new features introduced in this version. Expect an update in the following days. […]
Affinity Tech now has their own twitter account. You can follow us @affinity_tech and keep up to date with the latest news. If you know of any startup not-for-profit organisations looking for a free website, then please get in touch. We just might be able to help them! […]
Our eBook Gem will be receiving an update soon!
After the release of the Yellow River Soup Kitchen site, we have been hard at work to bring you a much needed update to our eBook Gem. In the upcoming release you can expect to find:
On another note, yellowrivercharity.com is currently unavailable whilst they are in the process of transferring their domain. They would like to apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused. Thank you for your understanding. […]
We are very pleased to announce that we are currently developing a new website for the Yellow River Soup Kitchen.
Once completed, the new website will be donated to the charity, potentially saving them money each year. Money which could be used to further support those in need.
The Yellow River Soup Kitchen is a not for profit NGO, registered in the UK. A secular organisation that is open to everybody, it is wholly run by volunteers for volunteers and as such has no overheads of any description. Their objective is to organise or source a variety of projects, with the aim of bringing together two specific groups of people; namely those with a desire to serve and those that are in need. Hence, providing an opportunity, a vehicle, support and empowerment, to enable volunteers to channel their energies for the benefit of others whilst at the same time achieving personal growth and development. Facilitating the opportunity to cultivate a small change inside, potentially manifesting in a larger change outside. […]
We have surpassed the 1000 download mark.
This week we passed 1000 downloads for our eBook Generator Gem. It is very promising to see the interest in such a gem, especially in it’s early stage of development. We have high hopes for this gem and have many features planned in the pipe-line. If you would like to use this gem, fork it, or just provide us with feedback then please see our github page. […]
We have just redesigned our site. Although we are still putting the finishing touches in place, we hope you like what we have done so far.
If you have any comments that you would like to make about the design (all praise and criticism welcome) then please do so in the comments below, which brings me on to my next point.
As you can see below we have now implemented comments using the disqus platform, a very easy and simple implementation indeed. Last but not least, we have also just upgraded the site to Jekyll 2.0.0 which introduces some nice additions such as support for SASS and TurboLinks. […]
affinity tech now has its own blog!
We have just added functionality to keep you all updated on any developments happening here at affinity tech. We will then collate this information on a monthly basis and email it to our supporters who have signed up to our newsletter.
We have just released version 0.0.5 of our eBook Gem. News on this will be communicated in our next blog post. […]