As a short term way to deal with my Debian/Ubuntu PHP packages and virtual hosts issue, I have written a pretty crude Python script that I have called “adminstance“.
This script can currently install, update and remove an instance of a web package such as websvn:
vdv@studio:~/Documents/Dyomedea/code/adminstance$ ./adminstance
Usages:
adminstance -h|–help
print this message
adminstance -l|–list
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I am a big fan of the Debian packaging system and use it on my Ubuntu systems as much as I can as it greatly simplifies both the installation of new software and more important their maintenance and security updates.
There is unfortunately one downside that bites me so often that I am really surprised that [...]
The W3C has published the first Working Draft of HTML 5 the first work done on HTML since HTML 4.01 has been published in December 1999. Everyone agrees that this is a big step, but in which direction?
Sun has announced their intention to buy MySQL, the number one database for web applications used both by Google et Amazon but also powering most of personal blogs.
Sun has considered that being the M from “LAMP” (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) would be a good way step to be the “.” in “.com” as [...]
Yahoo! has released Yahoo! Mobile Developer Platform sous le nom de « Blueprint » and the news has been widely commented by XForms fans: Micah Dubinko states that “Yahoo! introduces mobile XForms” and Erik Bruchez “Yahoo! goes XForms”
The roadmap published by Yahoo! appears to be much more cautious and just says “Much of [...]
It’s been fun to use Syncato, but the lack of any kind of efficient anti spam is really overwhelming and I had to switch to something else to reopen the comments that I had to close with Syncato.
I am giving a try to WordPress which is in a way the complete opposite of Syncato: I [...]
Being already using LinkedIn and Video, I wasn’t really excited by joining yet another networking community, but a friend of mine kept saying that Facebook was different and more open and he convinced me to join insisting that his life would be easier if I joined a group he had created on this site.
You can’t [...]
I have started both to design web pages and to learn Java roughly ten years ago, back in 1996.
The first Web server I have ever used was a Netscape server. It came with built-in server side JavaScript and we were convinced that JavaScript would be a language of choice to develop server side Web applications.
Around [...]
Google kills their Search API. So what?
I have learned the news through David Megginson’s Quoderat under the title Beginning of the end for open web data APIs? but I don’t agree with his analysis even if it is shared by all the other posts I have read on the subject.
David writes: The replacement, Google AJAX [...]
Here is the talk I had prepared for the Web 2.0 panel a the XML 2006 conference. This has been a very interactive panel and even though I haven’t pronounce exactly the same sentences, the message is the same.
I had proposed a whole session titled “Why XML Experts Should Care About Web 2.0”. I have [...]