Archive for April, 2004
Installing Gentoo
April 30th, 2004 • 1 comment Linux
I’m a source fanatic, I like compiling everything from scratch, squeeze every last drop of performance, GCC has tons of tweaks a person can use, architecture-specific optimizations, loops unrolling, math extras and many many other features. What’s good about compiling is that you get to always link against the latest libraries the system has, you can static-link, dynamic-link, build partial packages, complete binaries, pack up a full-fledged application server in a just a few megabytes… things you won’t find in any pre-compiled packages
Not to mention, I also have some bad memories with RPM, you always have to find something that’s compiled against your version of libraries, or something evil might happen, like you might have to recompile!
Migrating MT
April 21st, 2004 • MoveableType
This time, I’m moving to mod_perl for sure.
First, because I just can’t stand having a /cgi-bin at the end of every program’s URL, one thing I like about PHP is the ability to have friendly links in a URL, now with mod_perl that’s possible with Perl scripts. Second, because mod_perl is much faster than CGI, it takes way too much time to fork a script into memory.
Luckily, MoveableType can run under mod_perl without problems (apparently), so now I can have a /search, /trackback, /etc. URLS, much cleaner than /cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/entry-id.
Can’t wait to be done with the site redesign, hopefully then I can move permanently to mod_perl
I’ve been quoted
April 19th, 2004 • General
Maybe I noticed a bit late, but honestly, I feel flattered that my post about XFN has been quoted on Tantek Çelik’s website.
No that’s not something big for a regular blogger, which obviously I’m not, and I know that that’s how the Web works, but still, I can’t get rid of that happy feeling :)
Of Documentation
April 18th, 2004 • General, Rants
I was trying to install Kwiki, it’s a nice piece of software, modular, extensible, clean design, it seemed to had everything I’d need.
Well, almost everything! Kwiki’s documentation is just horrible, it’s default pages tell you nothing about what do and how to do it, they say the site has more than documentation than the shipped pages, but then again, maybe it doesn’t.
CIA Open Source Notification System
April 15th, 2004 • General
Quote from original site:
CIA is a system for tracking open-source projects in real-time. People all over the world are constantly collaborating and creating software, creating a constant flow of new code and new ideas.
Sounds promising, doesn’t it? Well, I checked out the site, and I pretty much liked what I saw. Basically, here’s how things go:
- You ask for a unique key that identifies your project
- Add your key to ~/.cia_key
- Download client scripts for your SCM (CVS, SVN, etc.)
- Integrate scripts into post-commit hooks
- View results on CIA
- Voila!
Pretty simple; and the best thing is, IMHO, is that it’s 8push-based rather than pull. Why does that matter? You get to notify CIA whenever you have something to say, CIA doesn’t *pull data from your project’s site unless you tell it too, not much overhead.
Probably I’ll implement CIA notification into Codeflakes’ subversion repository at some stage. For now, check out CIA’s web site: http://cia.navi.cx/.