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Plone and Drupal: Different Approaches, Different Results

paul.nowak wrote: Matt, thanks for the comments. I made an error on the version of Plone. It's 2.5 Plone running on Zope 2.9x. In regards to the additional products, we have a skin installed and we have a product that we had custom developed for us that connects to a PostgreSQL database. We've looked at slow PostgreSQL queries causing problems and have not been able to find an issue. We've also tested for the case where the PostgreSQL server is down and have not been able to create an issue. We therefor...

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has Shark Week jumped the shark?

The Discovery Channel thought I’d be interested enough in “Shark Week” to open an email from them about it. Apparently I was, but only in a meta way. Twenty-four years after Jaws, do we still find sharks so threatening that they ge

Posted: Aug. 1, 2009 05:58 PM

Tenenbaum trial bloggage

Marc Bourgeois is doing some excellent blogging of the RIAA v. Tenenbaum trial. Fascinating. Tags: tenenbaum riaa joel copyright copyleft nesson law

Posted: Jul. 31, 2009 09:04 AM

Annals of No One Cares But Me: Big pixel drivers

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, I had a peculiar interest in two topics just about no one should or does care about: Drivers for unexpected output devices, and bigpixels. These interests were piqued by my place of employment. I worked at Inter

Posted: Jul. 30, 2009 10:11 AM

Office hours for non-academics

Academics hold office hours — set periods when they can be found in their on-campus offices, available to talk — because they are not required to be on campus except for when they teach. Since more of the workforce is adopting that work-wherever-

Posted: Jul. 29, 2009 12:24 PM

Annals of openness in peril

1. The court has rejected Charlie Nesson’s basic defense of Joel Tenenbaum’s sharing of music files. The case is going to jury which may levy the same sort of insanely excessive fines as in the Jammie Thomas-Rassert trial. I hope Charlie

Posted: Jul. 28, 2009 11:02 AM

The Guardian on miscellaneous bookshelves

The Guardian has fun article on schemes for arranging the books on your shelf, with an interesting set of comments. (It makes me want to send the entire thread a copy of Everything Is Miscellaneous.) [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous dewey the

Posted: Jul. 26, 2009 03:15 PM

A tip to the TSA

Here’s an except from a message Gary Stock sent to a mailing list (used with permission): Works: http://www.tsa.gov/ Fails: http://tsa.gov/ Network Timeout The server at tsa.gov is taking too long to respond. (Don’t you suppo

Posted: Jul. 26, 2009 03:12 PM

Deval Patrick plummets, and responds with talking points

According to a Boston Globe poll, the popularity of Mass. Gov Deval Patrick has plummeted. Too bad. I think he’s been doing a good job in an economic and political environment withing which success can only be measured by degrees of failure. (T

Posted: Jul. 26, 2009 11:52 AM

Dan Gillmor’s early blogs found

Scott Rosenberg posts the happy news that Rudolf Ammann has found Dan Gillmor’s missing early bloggage for the San Jose Mercury News. Scott includes a link to Dan’s first post, in 1999. Here are some snippets: I’ve been thinki

Posted: Jul. 25, 2009 07:22 PM

AP to digitally monitor copyright

The AP has announced it is going to use an automated system to monitor the use of AP content on the Web, looking for copyright violations. The empire is fighting back. From the press release: The Associated Press Board of Directors today directed Th

Posted: Jul. 25, 2009 11:54 AM