Archive for February, 2010
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Feb 27
SCALE 8x
Feb 22
Being my first Linux conference, overall I had a really good time. Seeing and talking to a lot of famous Open Source figures was pretty kool.
I only managed to see four different talks.
My favorite talk was Jono Bacon’s talk on the evolution of the Free Software/Open Source movement to what now will be fun and rapid development using a new development approach. Essentially, Cononical has developed a Python software development framework called Quickly (reminds me of Ruby on Rails, though I haven’t hacked much on it to even compare its similarities) That makes it real easy to package (.deb only) and publish.
BSD for Linux users:
This talk was mainly focused on the difference and advantages of using the BSD’ s (NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD) compared to Linux. Now more then I ever, I’m thinking of delaying a DNS BIND server on my local network running on OpenBSD.
Basic Introduction to KDE:
As the name implies, it was definitely, an introduction to KDE 4. Although I prefer using Gnome, the
Python for non programmers:
Also, as the name implies, this was a definite introduction to Python. Although I’m not big on Python, I definitely felt like an advance Python hacker by being on this talk.
Even though I only attended the Saturday event, I really enjoyed SCALE. It definitely felt like a community conference and it didn’t felt corporate what so ever.
mod_ruby and eRuby
Feb 16
I finally had some time to install mod_ruby and eRuby on my server.
Prerequisites:
httpd-devel ruby ruby-devel eruby
yum install httpd-devel ruby ruby-devel eruby
Installing mod_ruby was pretty confusing, as module default compilation is intended for Apache 1.3
If you’re running Apache 2.0 or higher, I managed to successfully compiled mod_ruby as the following:
./configure.rb –with-apr-includes=/usr/include/apr-1
make
make install
After the install, then its a matter of just adding the custom ruby http conf file to httpd conf.d directory.
SAMPLE:
AddType text/html .rhtml
LoadModule ruby_module modules/mod_ruby.so
RubyRequire apache/ruby-run
#RubyRequire apache/ruby-debug
RubyRequire apache/eruby-run
#RubyRequire apache/eruby-debug
# Execute *.rbx files as Ruby scripts
Options ExecCGI
SetHandler ruby-object
RubyHandler Apache::RubyRun.instance
#RubyHandler Apache::RubyDebug.instance
# Handle *.rhtml files as eRuby files
SetHandler ruby-object
RubyHandler Apache::ERubyRun.instance
RubyHandler Apache::ERubyDebug.instance
Now I can embed Ruby code on standard html pages serving and running natively using Apache and eRuby. 
Hence, perlninja.pl
References:
http://www.modruby.net/en/
http://www.ptwit.ac.th/seksan/blog/?p=59
WordPress Upgrade
Feb 15
WordPress upgrade went real smooth. At a glance, WordPress 1.4 and 2.9 seem to be worlds apart.
I may not be a perl ninja (just yet) but the domain name kicks ass.
perlninja.pl