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Typo upgrade

I have upgraded to Typo 5.4.1. Partly because of security issues, partly because of new features and improvements.

It took me a while, mostly because of stupid Ruby deployment nonsense that makes me even more tired of Ruby as a language for production usage, than I already was. Oh well.

One of the most important new features [...]

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Another Typo upgrade

I just upgraded the blog to Typo 5.2. I had a couple of issues, but things worked reasonably ok. Just in case this helps anyone, these are the issues I ran into:

I had to install a ridiculous amount of dependencies, sometimes to go from version 1.1.1 to 1.1.3 of some module. I really wonder if [...]

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Problems with comments

Today, my good friend “Esberrito” warned me that comments were not working in the blog. I hadn’t realised earlier, but I had them enabled so they should have appeared all the time.
I investigated a bit, and it turns out that there’s some bug (apparently related to saving a post as draft, then publishing) that makes [...]

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Irrepressible information

I just remembered something really cool that I had on my previous blog: a small box that shows information that “someone doesn’t want people to read”. It’s part of a brilliant campaign called “Irrepressible info” by Amnesty International. Many of you know that I’m very Amnesty-friendly (“supporter” might be too strong a word, since I’m [...]

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Spam adventures

Today I have had a gigantic e-mail spam attack. And by “gigantic” I mean something like one every couple of seconds. It seems to have stopped by now, though (maybe until tomorrow, sigh). However, there is some small tip that I used in the meantime, and I have found it helps me filtering spam so [...]

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Sucky Typo update

The other day I was talking about upgrading Typo. The update itself went well, true, and the site was up and running without too much downtime, but then I started using it again… and I have noticed two things so far (both about writing posts) that I really dislike:
First, the good old editor is not [...]

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Typo upgrade

Hey there!
I have just upgraded Typo. It was slightly traumatic, because at first the blog broke horribly and I couldn’t see anything other than errors 500. To be fair, the change was quite big, because it included also an upgrade to Rails 2 (I was using some older Typo that used Rails 1.2.x), so everything [...]

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Welcome!

After http://www.zingzang.org, I’m opening a new blog, this time in some sort of English ;-)
The current plan is to write (mostly) about technical things in this blog, and leave the rest to CincoReyes.
Hopefully, I’ll go back to doing some Debian work, and will also resume Haberdasher development (“Haberdasher” is the new project name for PatchSever; [...]

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