Michiel Bijland » Projects http://michiel.bijland.net Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:41:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Getting into Gear http://michiel.bijland.net/2007/05/24/getting-into-gear/ http://michiel.bijland.net/2007/05/24/getting-into-gear/#comments Thu, 24 May 2007 06:14:55 +0000 Michiel Bijland http://michiel.bijland.net/2007/05/24/getting-into-gear/ The dust is settling and I feel quite at home in my new place and Joomla! 1.5 is getting closer and closer. It’s time to get busy again with some projects. Languages files are different and my last approach for multi languages support was not a very good one. So first in business I have nearly completed a translation program which fetches the current svn languages files and lets anybody submit a translation for any of my projects. It’s based on the roundcube translator but modified for Joomla! languages ini files.
Hope it’s ease of use and the integration with svn will draw some translators.

]]> http://michiel.bijland.net/2007/05/24/getting-into-gear/feed/ 1 Trac and Subversion server is up. http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/11/07/trac-and-subversion-server-is-up/ http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/11/07/trac-and-subversion-server-is-up/#comments Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:08:51 +0000 Michiel Bijland http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/11/07/trac-and-subversion-server-is-up/ After some pain stacking moments and some adjusting of our goals we got the trac/svn server working. We are not finished yet as we need a good access model and move all the documentation from the wiki into trac wiki pages.

The access model is going to be based on the vBulletin forum login and passwords, we are still debating on how to handle this correct way, but Brent will write the trac side and I will write forum site of identification process. For now the only once that can really do anything interesting are Brent and I.

Here are some of the details of our setup.
The server it self is a virtual server for easy snapshots and maintaince. It’s running debian as our base.
We use apache2 with mod_python and 3 virtual host.

  1. http://trac.4theweb.nl running track.
  2. http://svn.4theweb.nl running the subversion.
  3. default virtual host what needs to be worked out.

The beauty of this setup is, you always start with this base url and just append the project name on both svn and trac and you are there. “http://trac.4theweb.nl/joomlalib” or “http://svn.4theweb.nl/joomlalib” for example.

I’ll write up a some more when configuration is complete and I have worked with the setup in production but compared too the Joomla! forge it is more easy and way faster.

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]]> http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/10/26/virtual-server/feed/ 0 Trac, nice and simple! http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/10/16/trac-nice-and-simple/ http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/10/16/trac-nice-and-simple/#comments Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:28:53 +0000 Michiel Bijland http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/10/16/trac-nice-and-simple/ Brent showed me a nice little project manager called trac I first ignored as I had to adjust my server to run it and discarded it but he kept talking about, even introduced it at his work. So I finally decided to take a closer look.

Wooh, trac is a nice sleek program to manage your projects and after again working with the Joomla forge and waiting 10 sec every page impression. I’m sold.
I’m planning to divided my server in 2 virtual servers, and decicated one to our projects(Joomlalib,BSQ_sitestats,Gallery 2 bridge and ….). This will be faster and easier to maintain then using our current setup, we will merge our wiki into trac and clear another upgrade job.

Only one thing stands in our way, I have to go to the server to put in another disk before I can do this and time is limited at the moment.

]]> http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/10/16/trac-nice-and-simple/feed/ 6 Annoying things can make you work. http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/09/08/annoying-things-can-make-you-work/ http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/09/08/annoying-things-can-make-you-work/#comments Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:01:04 +0000 Michiel Bijland http://michiel.bijland.net/2006/09/15/annoying-things-can-make-you-work/ Last 2 weeks I noticed my Weekly backups I make from my sites started to grow rapidly. I mean with more the 10MB a week and not from the sites I expected. So investigation was in order. I found out that Gallery 2 was hording cache data into the database like mad man. The cache works great and speed bump was very good so I though this was the price to pay. Except Almost all the rows 98% where expired cache entries.This was perplexing but Gallery 2 didn’t cleaned there cache but left old cache entries sitting there until some visitor revisited that page I would get updated again but this rarely happens on a family album. Family album flow is typically: “Family event, post pictures, everybody checks them out, no visits in a very long time”. So why store that info for so long, I decided to write a patch and submit and has already made it into the svn. The patch updates every expired entry with a null value so it doesn’t take up any extra space but keeps rows intact for fast updating when revisiting the page. Yes just a update as this will only update 1 index instead of 5 when a insert has to be made. Hopefully some user will be pleasantly surprised with the patch.

Michiel

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