http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix Random thoughts of a cubicular denizen at the OSU Open Source Lab Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:38:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been trying to figure out the effect of this line in my Varnish config: sub vcl_hash { if (req.http.Cookie) { set req.hash += req.http.Cookie; } } It seemed to make sense, but I was having a hard time wrapping my head around its ramifications. I was looking at some of ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/10/14/vcl_hash/ At DrupalCamp PDX this weekend, I was fortunate enough to have some very interesting (if tantalizingly-brief) discussions with Josh Koenig (joshk), Sam Boyer (sdboyer) and Damien Tournoud around sharing configs and best practices for scaling Drupal sites, especially using Varnish and Pressflow. OK. We've talked about it. ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/10/13/high-performance-varnishpressflowdrupal-community-of-practice/ It all started with an itch. It was a really painful itch that involved a Drupal site that was essentially down due to load. I scratched it with the help of a few incredibly helpful blog posts I found, so now it's my turn to add to them ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/10/12/pressflow-varnish-and-caching/ Get your Google Summer of Code proposal in now! They're due by noon tomorrow. Don't miss out on your chance to get paid to work on open source software for the summer! http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/04/01/24-hours-to-go/ It's that time of year again! Google has renewed the Summer of Code program for 2009. Google is going to pay students $4,500 to work on some of the coolest open source projects in the world. The OSU OSL has been accepted as a mentoring organization again for 2009. ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/03/24/google-summer-of-code-2009/ Are you going to the Open Source Bridge conference in Portland in June?  Hopefully I'll see you there.  I've submitted a proposal to talk about what we're doing here at the OSL to support the Oregon Virtual School District. http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/03/16/open-source-bridge/ Since I run a lot of Drupal and Moodle servers, it's a good idea to keep up to date on all the published vulnerabilities. I'd really prefer to have some tool that lets me know when a new vulnerability is found, so I don't have to keep checking back ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/02/23/dabbling-with-yahoo-pipes/ On Wednesday, Feb. 18th, the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation is coming to Portland to meet the Portland tech community. What: TrustTheVote! Intro in Portland, Oregon When: Feb 18, 2009, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m., Where: CubeSpace, 622 SE Grand Ave, Portland Come see what's new in the world of open digital voting! http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/02/12/open-voting-comes-to-portland/ A month ago I left the stone age of dumb mobile phones and finally got myself a smartphone. Given the choice between a Blackberry and an iPhone, I chose an iPhone. So far I love the phone, but as a heavy Google Apps user, I was unhappy with the options ... http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2009/02/10/iphones-and-google-sync/ Wow ... the past six months have been interesting in Moodle-land. As of this morning we're up to 10,850 users (both teachers and students), 1488 courses, and 173 Moodle instances. Clearly classes in Oregon's K-12 public schools have started. http://blogs.osuosl.org/gchaix/2008/09/12/moodle-starting-to-catch-on/