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Dumps: Packaging web apps using Phing and Debhelper

2010-11-07T15:22:00.000-08:00

Minutes ago I added a sample application, foobar drupal site, that is:
- build with drush_make Drush plugin
- packaged as debian package, using Debhelper
- "duck tapped" everything with Phing

Source code here: https://github.com/cbalan/bg-sandbox/tree/master/drupal-phing-deb/

The cool thing about this is build/generic-build.xml's debian-package target that basically allows you to package anything by just overriding properties or adding new files (ie. links conffiles, install, etc)

Currently, I'm using this approach to package all sorts of apps, from basic php scripts, custom php extensions, drupal/magento sites to java apps.

Dumps: Magento URL Rewrites

2010-08-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

If you'll ever need to get something like:

 /path/product/12321.html to point to /path/product/view/id/12321/type/html/
 /path/product/12321.json to point to /path/product/view/id/12321/type/json/

you can add this in your Magento extension config.xml:

...
<global>
  <rewrite>
    <Namespace_Module>
      <from><![CDATA[#^/path/product/(\d+)\.(json|html)$#]]></from>
      <to><![CDATA[/path/product/view/id/$1/type/$2/]]></to>
    </Namespace_Module>
  </rewrite>
...

Dumps: Install Drupal 6.x site from cli

2010-07-27T00:52:00.000-07:00

Problem: Install Drupal 6.x site from cli.

Solution: The following bash script is being translated into a drush command available here: http://drupal.org/project/drush_site_install6

Moto: Got new bike !

2009-09-28T06:41:00.000-07:00

My bike: Yamaha Dragstar 650 cc (2000)
Helmet: Shoei XR 1000

Bike: Sinaia - 2000(gondola lift) - Piatra Arsa - Cuibul Dorului - Sinaia

2009-09-28T06:22:00.001-07:00

Route: http://www.bikemap.net/route/194716
Pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ditav/sets/72157622347056439/ (Thank you Dita)

Time: ~4h 30' - with long breaks

Dumps: Fun with pipes

2009-09-22T01:51:00.000-07:00

Problem: Checking out who accessed some webapp. Log file format:

[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] cbalan "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200
[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] robocop "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200
[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] cbalan "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200
[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] cbalan "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200
[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] bad_monkey "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200
[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] cbalan "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200
[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] webrat "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200
[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] webrat "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200
[21/Sep/2009:10:31:21 -0400] cbalan "GET /webapp/some_url HTTP/1.1" 200

Solution:

#bash> cat /var/log/apache2/webapp_log | cut -f 3 -d ' ' | sort | uniq

Bike: Route around Campina/Romania

2009-09-04T13:14:00.000-07:00

For this weekend(9/5) I'm planning to do this route: http://www.bikemap.net/route/252473
Updates tomorrow.

BTW, awesome site: http://www.bikemap.net/

Update: Some pictures here: http://picasaweb.google.com/catalin.balan/20090905Breby#

Dumps: Patching Testlink-1.8.3 & LDAP & fallback to MD5

2009-09-04T13:09:00.000-07:00

Patch for Testlink-1.8.3 that allows LDAP users auto-creation & local MD5 fallback.
Patch availabel here: http://testlink-dev.googlegroups.com/web/testlink-1.8.3-autocreate_ldap_users.patch

Bike: Checking out old fort arround Bucharest

2009-08-24T04:41:00.000-07:00

Photos here: http://picasaweb.google.com/undergraver/2009_08_22_Bateria45#
Map: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=44.535491&lon=26.1457443&z=15&l=0&m=b
My Bike: Cube Ltd comb

Music: Jam session

2009-08-24T04:33:00.000-07:00

I'm on guitar...

Dumps: apache-continuum, postgres and ec2 using RightScripts (RightScale)

2009-08-24T03:35:00.000-07:00

If you'll ever need to setup apache-continuum to connect to a postgres db on ubuntu running on amazon ec2 using RightScale, check out this approach.

Packages required: openjdk-6-jre libpg-java maven2