Note that I’m talking about using these tools in some kind of professional way, and more specifically, I’m talking about using Excel as a database, and using VPS hosting to host “professional” web sites. By “professional”, I mean something other than your personal blog, picture gallery, or other relatively inconsequential site. Excel is not a…
Category: LinuxLaboratory
Why should I pay for this AWS design decision?
I was writing a utility in Python (using boto) to test/play with Amazon’s SQS service. As boto isn’t particularly well documented where SQS specifically is concerned, I also plan to post some examples (either here or on Linuxlaboratory.org, or both). When I had some trouble getting a message that was sent to a queue, I…
A simple nanny script in Python
I have a support issue with a provider of mine, but was able to reverse engineer the problem and put in a stop-gap measure to keep it from ruining my weekend. The issue is a misconfigured daemon supplied by the provider, and occasionally, this daemon just goes away. I don’t know much about the daemon,…
LinuxLaboratory Overhaul and Relaunch Complete
So it’s all done. LinuxLaboratory.org now runs on Drupal, it runs on a new hosting service, and so far I’m very happy with both. The hosting service is a little more modern than my old one, is slightly faster, gives me access to far more resources than I’m likely to ever use, and costs about…
New LinuxLaboratory.org Site Live
By now, DNS has propagated, and everyone should be able to see the new drupal-ized LinuxLaboratory.org (LLO for short). http://www.linuxlaboratory.org Just about all of the old content that is still relevant has been moved over, and some new content, and a good number of useful downloads have also been added. I’ve also added another site…
More CMS Requirements Than I Thought
I thought my needs were simple. When I started LinuxLaboratory.org, it was full of features. User forums, news categories, icons and emoticons everywhere, downloads, interviews… it was really all-singing and all-dancing. It was also too much for one guy to manage. I decided to trim the fat and get back to basics. LinuxLaboratory.org started as…
Yet another LinuxLaboratory overhaul in the works.
Well, it’s that time again. Time to suck it up and come to terms with yet another “conent management solution” that doesn’t fit the bill as far as Linuxlaboratory.org is concerned. The latest system is MediaWiki, and it’s not working out. There’s about a million things built into MediaWiki that I don’t use, and then…