LSD::RELOAD -- Leo Simons' old weblogLeo Simons' old weblog. The new one is at www.leosimons.com. Mostly about java / open source / apache.My first encounter with solaris...- April 25, 2005 Don't get me wrong. I've used solaris before. When other people had set it up nice and cosily on a server somewhere with most of the GNU tools on there. So I figured I'd try Solaris 10 on my local desktop machine. Threw out the windows partition, inserted install disk, rebooted. Followed on screen instructions. Started Java Desktop System. Started terminal (Launch Applications Utilities Terminal). Type bash. Type usermod -s binbash root. It all works :-D. Well, except for sound. And I...http://www.jroller.com/lsd/entry/my_first_encounter_with_solaris Pay me to support Apache Infrastructure Nope.- April 21, 2005 At the apache infra-thon (coverage) it became clear to its full extent exactly how much infrastructural work is lying around at Apache just waiting to be done. Soon after, looking at my bank account figures online, I found out I might need to get a summer job to "make ends meet". That's a first. The math ain't hard. I figured that someone should pay me to work on apache infrastructure full time for a month or two during the summer. Win-win situation. After all, I'm an Apache member (no...http://www.jroller.com/lsd/entry/pay_me_to_support_apache Howto: modular and decoupled web applications using mod_include- April 5, 2005 Most web applications that have a portal-liek setup have to generate lots of small bits of content and aggregate all that into complete pages dynamically. When working with PHP, include() and require() are often used to mix and match bits of content. When working with other kinds of webapp technology, especially when using some kind of template engine (like Jakarta Velocity), that technology will have its own mechanism for include(). The problem here is that, usually, you're including bits of..http://www.jroller.com/lsd/entry/howto_modular_and_decoupled_web Campuswiki- April 4, 2005 Wikis seem to be slowly getting more and more mainstream. We've already seen "the masses" adopt blogging, and now I'm slowly seeing more and more wikis pop up around me. The latest is Campuswiki Which is for and about our university. Runs on a student's machine at home, of course. They're just getting started. It's interesting to watch. It would be very interesting to see some of our university its internal services pick up on the idea -- a lot of them really need to make some more...http://www.jroller.com/lsd/entry/campuswiki Howto: use mod_rewrite for fancy urls with any web application or cgi script- April 3, 2005 Taking a deeper look at the much-hyped Rails, it seems one of the things people really like about it is the fact that it automatically rewrites URLs such as homeview into apphomerbaction=view. I found it does so using a ruby (F)CGI script. I also found out that it doesn't support the reverse process, so you need to configure Rails to know about your webapp layout. We can increase perfomance over using some CGI script a whole lot by resorting to mod_rewrite. In addition, by using mod_rewrite,...http://www.jroller.com/lsd/entry/howto_use_mod_rewrite_for |