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Step inside the mind of the man with two brains, each one smaller than the other...
Plone 3.3.1
This version has been withdrawn from the BB test environment.
Due to some browser incompatibilities that we discovered with this Plone version and other software that we offer as part of our solution portfolio we have decided to postpone installation of the latest version of Plone across our server infrastructure.
Bah humbug!
Beetlebrow web site is all shiny and glimmering
I applied some varnish to the web site and now it really does sparkle.
Varnish is an open-source software caching and load-balancing service thats becoming more popular in linux environments. Its low footprint on machine resources means that more memory and cpu is left to run the applications which is obviously good as we don't need to install two separate services to do two different things. Also it leaves lower-level functions like paging and/or swapping to the operating system which sounds eminently sensible as there will be less room for confusion between the two with far less (and hopefully no) redundant i/os taking place. For example rereading blocks of memory from disk which had been paged out by the operating systems just to flag them as paged-out by the caching service and to write them out again is an obvious inefficient waste of time (and cpu). This is what may happen elsewhere (allegedly)! Varnish has been applied to this web site and will undergo a period of testing before being brushed all over our other sites too. Meanwhile for those who are interested, on our older servers we use the core-pairing of two other leading open-source performance services. Squid for caching and Pound for load balancing between servers (both virtual and physical). Apache is used everywhere for serving web requests...
Plone 3.3.1 has been installed on the test environment
A brand spanking new version of the mother of all CMS's has just hot our test server hotbed.
We'll give it a good thrashing...
Blog discussion - comments and replies
More functionality added to the BB Blog product. Comments and replies are now displayed in the blog proper and not just in the individual blog entry.
BB Blogs were great but now they're even better. Some whizzy plonista coding has been extrapolated from the depths of a plone python egg and placed lovingly into the bb blog product at the right place. This now means that comments and replies will be displayed in the blog proper and you don't have to view an individual blog entry to see if there is any discussion on it.
Hopefully you'll see a shiny new button beneath me that says discuss.
This is a good thing.
Hey ho, hey ho
A few days in the sun. Can't guarantee the sunshine but this camp site is well worth visiting.
So we all apparently fell for the Met Office's predictions back in February that we were to have a BBQ summer and so we flocked lemming fashion to the travel agents and booked our "Staycations" and now we're having a good old moan ever since someone left the tap running in July!
Actually it didn't quite happen that way. It was a short term booking at the behest of a few friends and the sun shone! Eweleaze farm comes thoroughly recommended. Open fires, a beach, vista views and great coastal walks with friendly pubs (the Smugglers' Inn is about 35 mins to the east) means that if you can fluke the weather you'll wonder why you ever need to go abroad. For those of you who know it, its similar but maybe not quite as spectacular as Three Cliffs Bay on the Gower peninsular with camping fields high up above the sea.
Right now its back to the grindstone to see whether the hits/views stats manager I wrote for our BBListings product is still strutting its stuff. We're using it on the next client web site production so its off to work I go...
Plone 3.2.3
Just when I thought it was all sorted and I could go back to my hammock they go and publish a new version!
The production version of Plone is now 3.2.3.
This is a minor bug fix version and has been applied to all BB web servers.
Enjoy.
Plone 3.2.2
Upgrade from Plone 3.2.1r3
As of today all BB web servers are now running the latest production version of Plone 3. Actually thats a porky as I forgot to post this so the truth is that we have be on this for 2 days before tomorrow.
All plone 3 sites have been upgraded and are in good health.
Hope we all remain that way!
Coming together
No, not for world peace unfortunately.
Its taking shape. This Blog thing is a great extension to BBWebPage. Everyone should have one or two.
Portfolio is nearly there too. Now you can see at a glance what we've been up to. You get a random selection tasters of it on our home page too. I really like it. Do you?
Blogger me!
You know the kind of bar where everyone's looking at you like you've just killed their chickens?
Welcome to my world.
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