Archive for 2006/9
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Duck and Cover
-- Sept. 27, 2006, 12:36 a.m.
I wrote our blogging software because...well, that's what I do. I had a request for enclosure support (i.e. podcasting) and figured, hey... why not? Through the mighty power of Django, I was able to add this feature in less time than it took me to decide to do it. Here's my test podcast. Everyone should have already seen this, but ...
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Accidental Astroturfing
-- Sept. 26, 2006, 10:59 a.m.
Noelani Sallings is running for the Santa Clara Unified School District Board of Education (and will apparently need a wider-than-standard aspect ratio for her business cards when she gets the job). She needs a lot of help getting her message out, so I thought I'd help her out by creating some ads using Google Adwords. I wouldn't say the adwords ...
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Outsourcing IT?
-- Sept. 18, 2006, 9:27 p.m.
I'm slowly considering outsourcing more of my home IT infrastructure. It's just not interesting to me anymore, and there are services out there that can do it better. Take my mail, for instance. I just don't have the energy to track all the spam and maintain my infrastructure anymore. A long time ago, when my mail server was a sun4c ...
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Lighttpd on an Old IRIX
-- Sept. 8, 2006, 12:17 a.m.
I know way more about porting stuff to IRIX than anyone should. I finished getting lighttpd running on my oldest running computer. As horrible as it sounds, and probably is, this machine is still running the same install of the same OS it had when I bought it. Sure, I've applied patches when I've got around to it, but nothing ...
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Lighttpd and Django
-- Sept. 5, 2006, 11:19 p.m.
There was a discussion at work today about replacing Apache on an ebedded system with something a little lighter weight. Someone had recommended checking out Premium thttpd using FastCGI to communicate with our python web interface which was written directly against mod_python. Premium thttpd seems to be a commercialized version of thttpd with more configurability. Since I'd never heard of ...
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Django 0.95 Upgrade
-- Sept. 4, 2006, 9:44 p.m.
I've just completed upgrading four of my sites to Django 0.95. Man, that kind of sucked. It's part of the problem of being an early adopter, I suppose. A lot has changed as part of removing the magic. There is a sort of upgrade procedure, but I found it easier to just rewrite all of my applications from scratch and ...