Recently I was in the process of moving my site to a much better hosting situation (more on that later). During the move I decided to upgrade from PostgreSQL-8.0 to PostgreSQL-8.3 as I was pretty far behind and I prefer to stay current. This sort of upgrade isn’t a big deal, and I’ve done it many times. So I did my usual process:
Install the desired version of PostgreSQL (in this case 8.
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This week has been full of all sorts of interesting things. I added the Urchin javascript to my blog and howto pages last week. The results have been pretty interesting. I was hoping that my howto documents were providing value to someone, and the stats seem to indicate this is true.
I have also been reading my shiny new Postgresql book. It’s really good and I can’t wait till the other two become available.
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I’ve been slacking lately, as there’s been a lot to do around the house and things. I’ve only managed to update a few things:
Added stats tracking to this blog (forgot I had turned on this one flag in Feb) Added stats tracking to the howto documents, curious how that will look Initial import of a Git howto (since I’m starting to love it) Added drop down style navigation to the howto index Cleaned up the keychain howto just a bit I also ordered a good regex book as I’m still not near good enough at them.
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Today I set out to get my own software running. This included dependencies like:
Apache Mod_python Postgresql Tsearch2 Psycopg2 elementtree Simplejson Matplotlib Apple I wasn’t difficult to install and configure things, though it obviously felt different than it does on Gentoo. Honestly things seemed less organized, though that’s likely because I know Gentoo so much better.
I have not been successful in getting mail-notification to work. Poking around it seems the imap ssl support is disabled, and people recommend installing from source.
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