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Why you should fix the bug
Or “how I tried to save Apple $11,000,000”:
Avoids $1,000 in costs versus waiting until your customers catch the bug in the field, causing the team to remedy the problems, rush out a patch release, and/or go to heroic lengths to manage a PR problem.
Speed matters
Performance is huge. We think of it as a feature. Speed is the best feature your product can have.
Last year Google introduced these performance enhancements to Picasa to make flipping through photos faster, and the usage more than doubled. When a site gets twice as fast, it often gets more than twice as much usage.
How to install MediaWiki on a subdomain
Here is how to set up MediaWiki on a subdomain and use pretty/short URLs. This was tested on July 1, 2010 with MediaWiki 1.15.4, PHP 5.2.8, MySQL 5.0.90 and Apache 2.2.11.
This assumes you are in a shared hosting situation, and do not have root access and cannot edit the Apache configuration files directly.
Your setup
Suppose you have a site, www.ilikefish.com. Its DocumentRoot is /var/www/ilikefish.com. You then create a subdomain, wiki.ilikefish.com, with a DocumentRoot of /var/www/ilikefish.com/wiki.
Configuring Apache
- In
/var/www/ilikefish.com/.htaccess, set up a redirect
RedirectMatch /wiki/(.*) http://wiki.ilikefish.com/$1
- In
/var/www/ilikefish.com/wiki/.htaccess, set up rewrite rules:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
Configuring MediaWiki
- In
LocalSettings.php, set the following variables:
$wgScriptPath = "";
$wgArticlePath = "/$1";
$wgUsePathInfo = true;
$wgLogo = "/my_fish_logo.png";
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";
I saved six cents
Thanks, Bonktown.
how to delete .svn directories
find . -name .svn -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -fr
Finding Forrester (he’s not at JCCSF)
One of my favourite scenes from Finding Forrester is when Jamal corrects Professor Crawford:
Prof. Robert Crawford: [to Jamal] Perhaps your skills do reach farther than basketball.
Jamal: “Further”
Prof. Robert Crawford: What?
Claire Spence: [whispered to Jamal] Don’t…
Jamal: [to Crawford] You said that my skills reached “farther” than basketball. “Farther” relates to distance, “further” is a definition of degree. You should have said “further”.
Prof. Robert Crawford: Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace?
Jamal: Not any more than you challenged Coleridge.
The JCCSF’s new tagline is “Your Membership Goes Farther.”
You can see it on their yelp page and on their bus ads:
Where, exactly, does the JCC’s membership take you?
