Felocity

Okay, I warn you, this is hardly an easy task. If you're reading this, you would really like to run Mint(Mint Home Page) on something that is not MySQL. This is designed to walk you through getting Mint running on ADODB with the default Pepper. Fair warning though, this is not for the faint of heart, and this is certainly not for people who simply want a little Mint.

Some really really big disclaimers: No, I can't release the Mint code, I can only tell you what to look for and what to change. Shaun Inman put a lot of work into Mint, and it would be so incredibly wrong to post a hacked up Mint. It's also not fair to Mint. While we're rattling off disclaimers, I really encourage you to back up your Mint, make several copies of your data, and lightening proof your computer. I really can't be responsible for this working/not working. If this isn't working, please don't bug Shaun... he has his hands full with Mint in it's native form. Do this at your own risk!…

Of important note, Mint(Mint: A fresh look at your website) is out, and it's $30. It's also the best damn easy-breezy stat package out there. I speak as a big fan of bbclone, the new big bad Inman stat program is actually a dainty, quick, pleasing piece of software. And it could probably wipe the floor with bbclone when it comes to the statistical information I want. Within minutes of sending away my cash, I was neck deep in functions.php, home of the Mint() object.

I picked up Mint for my personal site (felocity.org) because I wanted to see what the guts of it looked like. Seeing someone's source code, seeing how they built something is easily worth the cost, and Shaun doesn't disappoint. His comments rival those on his website, and this makes me very happy. I've been reading through his plugin in order to see what the interface looks like, and it seems very straightforward. I already feel that programmer itch-- functionality I'd love to have such as internal referral tracking and metrics for locating a consistently popular page (longer lasting mints?). The Pepper API is making it look really easy. I'll have to loose myself this next weekend in a text editor and see what comes of it all.…