David Goodwin’s blog
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WordPress – I’m impressed with your upgrade procedure
Previously I used Drupal on this website, and it was always a pain to migrate from one version to the next – there were a number of hoops to hump through, things would often break, modules would need reinstalling and then after upgrading you’d find that some random bit of functionality no longer works (e.g.…
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Varnish + Zope – Multiple zope instances behind a single varnish cache
I run multiple Zope instances on one server. Each Zope instance listens on a different port (localhost:100xx). Historically I’ve just used Apache as a front end which forwards requests to the Zope instance. Unfortunately there are periods of the year when one site gets a deluge of requests (for example; when hosting a school site,…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-10
Snowing. B61. 2/10 # Feast lodge, bromsgrove: Don't bother. Food better at Johns mega balti. Take away fail. How can you screw up naan bread ffs? # Entered the Shakespeare marathon (April 28ish). #Stratford #running #marathon # I sometimes wish my toddler was a camel. Then he might not wake at 5am to demand food.…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-03
RT @4eversleepless Safe Danger 3: "Ice". If you enjoy it, please re-tweet etc. Happy New Year! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkK8IwbGZak # I am a mince pie seeking missile. # Patch, The Jack Russell illustrated his fine breeding and training by catching a partridge. Was it road kill or canine skill? # I must be getting out of shape…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-27
I appear to be tweaking. # And we're back home. As I'm sure everyone will be fascinated to know. Joy. (who stole all the #uksnow ?!?) # Operation keep @thegingerdog awake with coke taste test: regular – ok, diet – yuck, diet citrus – horse semen would prob taste better. # No tcx078l you may…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-20
Xmas SMS sent to annoy lots of people. Now to find food in gatwick. # Waiting in duty free. Nothing seems like a bargain or any cheaper. # It's a world of fun, when you're a toddler http://twitpic.com/u5na1 # Stupid car frozen on the inside too…. Hurry up holiday. Don't be closed gatwick. # Snow.…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-13
/me hopes tonight is peaceful and uninterrupted. # The toddler lost the battle. Now what do I so with no earphones on the sofa with him asleep on me? # Rowan isn't too keen on the idea of sleeping :-/ # Interesting 2 days training the devs behind the BBC's glow javascript library in php…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-06
Mcvities light chocolate digestives are rubbish. Biscuit too hard. #sundaylunchfail # The instore asda radio started telling me about @asda today. Is Twitter too mainstream? Does it matter? Might as well 'subscribe' for now. # Aiming a virtual kick at a London data centre. # Stupid m6 and m1. All crawling # Arrived in milton…
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wapiti – web application vulnerability scanner (super quick review/intro)
Today, I finally looked at Wapiti, which is a web application vulnerability scanner. It operates on a black box basis (i.e. it doesn’t see the underlying PHP/ASP/Java source code), and effectively tries to ‘break’ any forms on a page. In order to get it to do anything useful, you’ll probably need to provide it with…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29
Perhaps I should clean the car more often – latest 'find' a delicious ripe Banana skin http://twitpic.com/rg16o # Webbs 'garden centre' – where you buy christmas tat which people don't want # New mobile carrier – http://giffgaff.com/ – free in-network calls? # ASUS EeePC 900 – broken screen – extra battery+memory / spare parts? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170413079158…
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