Sep 04 2008

Deploying web applications with capistrano

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The Book “Deploying Rails Applications” gives an good overview and tutorials on the infrastructure needed for a successfull web project. The central tool is the domain specific language for deployment capistrano which is inspired by rake, written in Ruby by Jamis Buck and integrated with the Ruby on Rails framework.

I really liked reading this clear and progressive book by Ezra Zygmuntowicz, Bruce Tate, and Clinton Begin published by Pragmatic Programmers. The chosen analogy “moving into a new house” helps to understand why it is a good idea to automate server handling and web deployment. The main parts are

  1. “bootstrap subversion” chapter on version control
  2. hosting environments on shared and dedicated hosts.
  3. The chapter on capistrano is the only printed documentation on that tool by now.
    Capistrano offers default deployment “tasks” for Ruby on Rails, but can be adopted e.g. for PHP Projects or admin tasks like key deployment, installation/compilation of software. Commands get pushed to servers in bash syntax via SSH in parallel. The servers can be grouped in “roles” like “web”, “db”, “all” or “most fancy customer”.
  4. mongrel servers
  5. scaling, performance
  6. deployment on windows

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Sep 02 2008

Last Guy running on O’Reilly Radar

Published by Chris under enjoy, the web

Enjoy running around on O’Reilly Radar as “the last guy” in this browser game…

Like in real life: Make the crowd follow you && avoid the monsters && Have a lot of fun!

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Aug 19 2008

Code monkey or “Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog”

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The Song “Code Monkey” hit the geek charts in 2006, has a nice wikipedia entry and really rocks. The New York Time article Sex, Drugs and Updating Your Blog has all the details.

Even writer & performer Jonathan Coulton seems to like that one of the many fan videos. Enjoy this Music Video by Kagato@StudioHybrid.org giving pictures to the words & music which express the real reality of some members of our contemporary society :]

Code Monkey MP3 & Code Monkey Games

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Aug 14 2008

FrOSCon 2008 Open Source Conference

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (Minix OS) & Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP) will do Keynotes at the Free and Open Source Software Conference 2008 http://www.froscon.de 23.- 24.08.2008 in Bonn, Germany.

Talks of the remarkable conference schedule will be streamed by linux-magazin.de.

phpVikinger Derick Rethans will talk on 7 (or more) PHP Myths defused.

Press Announcement

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Aug 05 2008

Beauty Linux Netbook by Lenovo

Published by Chris under review

This Linux Netbook looks amazing!

  • Models “Ideapads S9″ and “S10″ cost about 320-360 EUR in .de
  • From Oktober in shops
  • 1GB RAM memory
  • 160 GByte-Harddisk or 4 GByte SSD (Solid State Drive)
  • Display is 1024 wide
  • Express Card Slot
  • Linux (Distro to be announced) or WinXP

Full News text in Linux Magazine Germany

This is the product picture you can see in the News http://www.linux-magazin.de/content/view/full/24797

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Aug 04 2008

How to write a thesis or technical paper

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I found a nice text called The Researcher’s Bible by Alan Bundy (not Al Bundy for sure). He wrote this document about reading & writing skills, finding a decent topic, common pitfalls.

This is a shorter one How to write an Informatics Paper.

Alan Bundy seems to know what he is talking about and was Head of the Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 1998-2001. Students like him, they wrote this Liber Amoricum:

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Aug 01 2008

Interview with Zend

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Interview with Zend about current “consolidation” and plans by Björn Schotte

Björn Schotte of php-magazine talked with Jürgen Langner, Global Marketing Director at Zend Technologies about recent sacked people in R&D and the current Zend roadmap.
Jürgen Langner said, that I is a goal of Zend to stand on own feet without more money by investors.
Interview Jürgen Langer on it-republik.de


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Jul 31 2008

Cheeeeers to Omnisio!

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Those men hit it: Aussies strike it rich with $15m Google buyout

Here is a little serenade for the Omnisio guys, 2 weeks old but still fair enough…

http://www.omnisio.com/liquid/dancing-liquid

Congratulations!

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Jul 30 2008

Oscon 2008 in 37 minutes

Published by Chris under business, event, the web

Gregg Pollack of RailsEnvy created an amazing Video of OSCON 2008 asking Speakers to sum up their point in 30s. Thats fast forward, guys, watch this Oscon in 37 minutes Freak show! The viddler.com video even has an index of speakers:

Keynoters Tim O’Reilly, Damien Conway, Tim Bray, Robert Lefkowitz, David Recordon, Nathan Torkington, and Danese Cooper….

Headliner Mark Shuttleworth on stage taken from Flickr

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Jul 30 2008

Web 2.0 TV Show tomorrow

Published by Chris under business, event, review, the web

Some guys from the HdM Stuttgart did a nice TV documentation on “the” Web 2.0:

The film was sponsored by dmc, Cisco & Otto, broadcasted in german TV on 3sat and ZDF. It will be “reloaded” tomorrow 31.07.2008 13.30h on ZDF-infokanal.

Have a lot of fun!

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