I’ve developed in a few different environments, including multi-tier ones with middle tier Java app servers and stuff, but it always seemed pretty straightforward to serve something directly from disk. And in the case of PHP, everything is served from disk. There’s no middleware to speak of, so you can throw a robots.txt file in…
Category: Sysadmin
The Neverending Search for “Free” Wi-Fi
So, I’m a freelancer. I work a lot on remote machines as a system administrator, a troubleshooter of LAMP stacks and web applications, etc. I also do a little bit of web development (but not design. I’m a horrible designer). I work from home a lot. I used to work outside of the home a…
My Django Project Update: RSS Feed, “Home” Link, and more.
In continuing the rebuild of LinuxLaboratory.org using Django, I’m happy to say that things have moved fairly smoothly. I’m using a good mix at this point of stuff from the 2nd edition of “Practical Django Projects”, the Django documentation, blog posts, and docs from other apps I’m making use of. RSS I said in one…
Django, Pygments, Templates, Code Sharing, and Design
Welcome to the latest update! I spent a total of about an hour on the “Social Code Sharing” application in the 2nd edition of “Practical Django Projects”, and I’m not completely finished with it, but I’ve got syntax highlighting and the basics covered. I can add, edit, and delete snippets, list snippets, and show a…
Django RSS Feed Finally Working
Ok, so now LinuxLaboratory has the following features working: comments (along with comment moderation and akismet support), a WYSIWYG editor for my posts markdown support for comments email notification of errors and new comments a full-blown administration interface that lets me deal with any apps, users, or content on my site, some cheesy CSS (hey,…
LinuxLaboratory => Django – Now with Comments, Akismet, and 404.html
I stayed up a little late last night, because I wanted to get comments working on Linuxlaboratory.org. Comments *are* working, and I *do* get email notification of new comments, which is nice. Akismet is installed, and is no longer throwing errors, but to be honest, I’m not quite sure how to test it. I tried…
“Practial Django Projects”, Custom Template Tags, and Updates on LinuxLaboratory
Hi all, If you’ve not been following along, I’ve picked up the 2nd edition of Practical Django Projects, and am using it to help me reinvent LinuxLaboratory.org (LLO). Though LLO is really a documentation site where I republish articles I’ve written for Linux.com, O’Reilly, and others over the past 10 years, I started out by…
LinuxLaboratory.org Django Update
Hi all, So, I’ve begun down the road of reinventing LinuxLaboratory.org using Django. For the moment, I’m mostly starting out using the blog application from the newly released second edition of “Practical Django Projects”, and there’s no CSS or fancy design going on yet, but I have a nice admin interface for creating posts, managing…
Awk Idioms: Shorten your pipelines, consolidate your tool set
I was lurking around on twitter during my lunch hour (yes, even freelancers need a lunch hour), and @bitprophet tweeted thusly: Get syslog-owned log names from syslog.conf: grep -v “^#” syslog.conf | awk ‘{print $2}’ | egrep -v “^(\*|\|)” | sed “/^$/ d” | sed “s/^-//” Followed by this: (Interested to see if anyone can…
LinuxLaboratory woes, Drupal -> Django?
Ugh… So, today I tried browsing to one of my sites, linuxlaboratory.org, and found a 403 “Forbidden” error. Calling support, they said it was a “billing issue”. Well, I pay my bills, and I haven’t received any new credit cards, so I’m not sure what that’s about. Further, they haven’t contacted me in any way…