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Nederland open in verbinding

Paul Verreth — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:59:00 +0100

De Nederlandse Tweede Kamer heeft een actieplan goedgekeurd dat bij alle overheidsdiensten de open documentstandaarden moet implementeren. Het plan zou niet op België zijn geïnspireerd, maar de gelijkenissen zijn treffend.

Aanbieding actieplan Nederland open in verbinding: actieplan voor het gebruik van open standaarden en open source software bij de (semi-) publieke sector

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Startup script for Radiant with Mongrel

Paul Verreth — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:54:00 +0200

Mongrel is IMHO the preferred (web)server for Ruby on Rails applications hence for Radiant.

Here you can find a startup script for Fedora linux, but of course also usable for Ubuntu, ...

#!/bin/bash
#
#    /etc/rc.d/init.d/radiant_cms
#
# Start mongrel & radiant
#
# chkconfig: - 65 35
# description: Mongrel & radiant
# processname: mongrel
# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

MONGREL=/usr/bin/mongrel_rails
RAILSDIR=/var/www/radiant
CONFFILE=mongrel_config

test -x $MONGREL || exit 0

RETVAL=0
prog="Mongrel for radiant" 

start() {
        echo -n $"Starting $prog: " 
    cd $RAILSDIR
    $MONGREL start -C $CONFFILE
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
}

stop() {
    echo -n $"Stopping $prog: " 
    cd $RAILSDIR
    $MONGREL stop
    RETVAL=$?
    echo
}

#
#    See how we were called.
#
case "$1" in
  start)
    start
    ;;
  stop)
    stop
    ;;
  restart)
    stop
    start
    RETVAL=$?
    ;;
  *)
    echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" 
    exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

mongrel_config

--- 
:cwd: /var/www/radiant
:includes: 
- mongrel
:debug: false
:log_file: log/mongrel.log
:config_script: 
:pid_file: log/mongrel.pid
:timeout: 0
:num_processors: 1024
:docroot: public
:config_file: 
:user: apache
:host: 0.0.0.0
:group: apache
:mime_map: 
:environment: production
:prefix: 
:port: 4000
:daemon: true

This file should be fairly self explaining:

/var/www/radiant is the radiant base directory.
host: 0.0.0.0 listens on every address, for safety better to use 127.0.0.1, and in combination with reverse proxying
port: 4000 for instance for reverse proxying, 80 for direct web serving.

mongrel with apache as a reverse proxy will be explained in a different article to come.

chkconfig

On fedora you can use chkconfig to activate the startup script. Please also read the chkconfig man page.

To be manageable by chkconfig, the script needs a special section, an example follows:

#!/bin/bash
#
#    /etc/rc.d/init.d/radiant_cms
#
# Start mongrel & radiant
#
# chkconfig: - 65 35
# description: Mongrel & radiant
# processname: mongrel

Active? And in wich runlevels?

chkconfig --list radiant_cms
service radiant_cms supports chkconfig, but is not referenced in any runlevel (run 'chkconfig --add radiant_cms')

So it is added, but not yet activated:

chkconfig --add radiant_cms
chkconfig --list radiant_cms
radiant_cms        0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off

And, to activate:

chkconfig radiant_cms on

chkconfig --list 
radiant_cms        0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on    4:on    5:on    6:off

Open dot dot dot

Paul Verreth — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:22:00 +0100

Open Source, Open Genomics, Open Content

Let There Be Light: Promoting OpenOffice.org with Sun

Paul Verreth — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:13:00 +0100

The OpenDocument Format (ODF) just keeps on getting stronger. It is now an official ISO standard; there are numerous applications that support it, with varying degrees of fidelity, including Google’s online word processor and spreadsheet; there’s an official Microsoft-funded plug-in for Microsoft Office that allows it to open and save ODF files, and a program that converts between ODF and the Chinese UOF XML office format; and the ODF community has largely sorted out issues of accessibility that threatened to de-rail its adoption by Massachusetts.

At the same time, Microsoft is clearly beginning to feel the pressure. Its attempts to ram its own XML format through as an ISO standard, and the unseemly haste with which its 6000 pages of documentation were approved as an ECMA standard, are an indication that it is playing catch-up in this sector, even if it remains the dominant player.

Read the rest of this Linux Journal article

Microsoft en Open Document Format

Paul Verreth — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:30:00 +0100

Wired: MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs

Over linux, unicode en utf8

Paul Verreth — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:12:00 +0100

Interessant artikel hierover.

(Gentoo)

Bizgres

Paul Verreth — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:37:00 +0100

Bizgres is een interessante ontwikkeling op gebied van open source databases.

Te lezen op hun website:

The Bizgres Project aims to make PostgreSQL the world’s most robust open source database for Business Intelligence. The Bizgres project is sponsored by multiple companies, led by GreenPlum.