Monthly Archives: March 2008
packages.larrythecow.org
Well, it’s finally done, or at least a state where I can release it to the world. I’ve written a clone of the original packages.gentoo.org website, with the same postgres + portage backend that GPNL uses, and it’s now available … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
thanks, momma
This cartoon from left handed toons pretty much sums me up pretty nicely.
Filed under General
planet.larrythecow.org
I’ve just updated my apache config, and larrythecow.org and planetlarry.org now have a permanent redirect to http://planet.larrythecow.org/ There’s no need to update your RSS readers if it handles redirects okay, but eventually the content for the main domain name will … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Planet Larry
prepared statements and stored procedures
I’m still working on cleaning up the import scripts for GPNL, and I’m going to have to start using PHP’s PDO database layer to connect to an SQLite3 database at one point. I haven’t used it yet, but I had … Continue reading
Filed under Databases
nice mysql vs postgres summary
I was googling for a postgresql image I could use when I found this page, a nice short summary on the differences between MySQL and PostgreSQL with an emphasis on development policy. I should mention that I’m linking to it … Continue reading
Filed under Databases
preg_replace in php
I love working with regular expressions. I had to use a preg function tonight that I haven’t called up in a long time. Using preg_replace, you can match for patterns in a string and then have them set to variables, … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
openchrome in portage
Just another Gentoo PSA, portage now has the latest driver for the openChrome X11 drivers for VIA chipsets (x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome). These drivers are really nice because they support more chipsets than the standard VIA ones do. I shouldn’t get any credit … Continue reading
temporary backend breakage, lotgd restarted
One other thing I forgot, was that in moving around all the database stuff this weekend, I also took care of some maintenance on alan-one, the server that hosts spaceparanoids.org, nephi.org and planetlarry.org. I of course broke the recent scripture … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
new gpnl backend
Nothing new on the frontend, but the backend for GPNL has been almost completely replaced now with my updated changes. The difference in speed alone is pretty nice. Where it took about 30 to 45 minutes to import the entire … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo
random book of mormon chapter atom feeds
I got a poke yesterday on my original random book of mormon chapter post about creating some feeds so that people can pull them themselves. I’ve been meaning to do that for a long time, but always put it off … Continue reading
