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Debian, lighttpd and phpmyadmin

Short recipe for getting lighttpd and phpmyadmin to work on Debian.

Lighttpd is quite easy to build for debian. Once you’ve built that apt-get install php4-cgi phpmyadmin. During the install process for php4-cgi, some apache packages might get added. I suggest you remove them, they aren’t needed: sudo apt-get remove apache2-utils apache-common libapache-mod-php4 –purge.

Next step is to edit /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. Add “mod_alias”, to server.modules and alias.url = ( “/phpmyadmin/” => “/usr/share/phpmyadmin/”)

Finally, add or uncomment the following, making sure to note the bin-path.
fastcgi.server = ( “.php” => ( “localhost” => ( “socket” => “/tmp/php-fastcgi.socket”, “bin-path” => “/usr/bin/php4-cgi”) ) ).

You’ll need to access phpmyadmin via http://server.name/phpmyadmin/index.php. For some reason it doesn’t work without the index.php. Haven’t figured that bit out yet. (server.indexfiles is set appropriately.)

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Num Sum

This is a clever use of Rails+DHTML: Num Sum, for example.

I’m quite interested in this as I need to write some internal data analysis programs that I think would work well with data presentation similar to this.

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Backpack

Backpack from 37signals is nearing release. Jason has posted a final preview of its features called Backpack The Backpack Manifesto.

Looking at the feature list is seems like a good solution to my blog enter Organising your mail. Particularly the focus on email interfaces. I look forward to trying it out when it gets released generally and seeing how well it mets my personal and business needs.

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WinXP Windows Update and Proxies

A troubleshooting item from Squid on getting WinXP WindowsUpdate to work with proxies instead of ignoring the user’s setting:

The problem was that WU did not go through the proxy and tries to establish direct HTTP connections to Update-servers. Even when I set the proxy in IE again, it didn’t help . It isn’t Squid’s problem that Windows Update doesn’t work, but it is in Windows itself. The solution is to use the ‘proxycfg’ tool shipped with Windows XP. With this tool you can set the proxy for WinHTTP.


Commands:
C:\> proxycfg -p wu-proxy.lan:8080
# Set Proxy to use with Windows Update to wu-proxy.lan, port 8080
c:\> proxycfg -u
# Set proxy to Internet Explorer settings.

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Steven Johnson’s Tool For Thought

A research work flow look at DevonThink an interesting OSX application: Tool For Thought.

One of the things I’ve wondered about tools like this with Related or See Also search mechanism, is extending their use by Bayesian word analysis. Similar to what is done with spam detection, but as a way of finding related groupings of concepts. Extending this further and allowing local library of tagged information to sync with remote libraries. You might find ways to grow more interesting search tools that look for concepts rather than keywords.

Of course being a professional write its easier for Steven to take notes and key then into his research tool. Seeding his locally tagged concept space. Some times I think it would be nice with one of the various paper books I was reading, of me to use point at a passage, vocalise some notes and have it store itself automatically some where.

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Rolling with Ruby on Rails

Nice straight forward development walk-thru for a recipe webapp with Ruby on Rails. It would be further interesting if the author continued with in a similar comparison walk-thru to the web-application at PyWebBlog.

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ScrapBook

Firefox is just getting more and more clever stuff: ScrapBook.


ScrapBook is a Mozilla / Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:

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akregator

Start using akregator a RSS/Atom feed reader, after noting an article on LWN. Its very clean, use to easy and integrates well with KDE.

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Python Web development

Very comprehensive list with mini-reviews of python web development environments.

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Why used a Content Management System

Couple of useful articles about the need for a Content Management System from the managers and developers points of view.

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