Vancouver Django Meetup
The first monthly meeting of the new Vancouver Django group took place today. Good times and Django lore abounded. Want to come to the next one? Check out the Meetup page.
The first monthly meeting of the new Vancouver Django group took place today. Good times and Django lore abounded. Want to come to the next one? Check out the Meetup page.
#!/bin/bash wget -q http://<your site>/user -O /tmp/apache_test.html if [ -s /tmp/apache_test.html ]; then echo > /dev/null else /etc/rc.d/init.d/mysqld restart /usr/sbin/apachectl restart fi
I just committed a Drupal input filter for Haml to Drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/haml. It depends on phpHaml, which in turn depends on PHP 5.
While setting up an automated rsync over SSH, I learned about the useful keychain utility which makes using ssh-agent easier for passwordless authentication. Although the links to the project's source code were dead, "yum install keychain" conveniently installed it in Centos.
I've posted the slides from today's Sphinx talk at Vancouver Drupal Camp.
Ianiv of NowPublic pointed out that while Sphinx is quick to search, its updating speed is less than that of Xapian, another C++-based search engine. Nonethess, Sphinx is going to dramatically increase speed and search quality for the vast majority of sites.
I'll be doing a talk this Friday at the sold-out Drupal Camp Vancouver on the fast and elegant Sphinx search engine. Sphinx is open source, straightforward, and used by folks like NowPublic and The Pirate Bay to provide scalable search.
Last weekend, I configured my Macbook to dual-boot, via rEFIt, Ubuntu Hardy Heron beta and MacOS Leopard. I'd previously been frustrated when attempting to run Gutsy, but Hardy is a vast improvement: other than some minor glitches, everything important works well.
One thing I found a bit confusing, however, was setting up the snazzy Compiz Fusion rotating desktop cube, so I thought I'd document it because the process is a bit weird.
Click here to view/download a PDF of my presentation for Open Web Vancouver 2008.
After nearly a year of organizing, Open Web Vancouver 2008 went off amazingly. Over two days, we managed to feature over 30 talks in three rooms. Over 300 open web enthusiasts attended and the crowd seemed fun and diverse, with a lot more women attending than I've seen at past conferences. Gerald Baurer managed to organize a SocialCamp track that provided a forum for Vancouver startups and online ventures to show their stuff.