http://www.fluidblog.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:23:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This post will walk you through setting up replication for a MySQL database which has existing data. Why Replication? Backups. As part of a backup strategy, replication avoids shutting down the master if backups are made from the slave. Scale-out. Replication can allow the distribution of reads over multiple replication slaves. Reliability. Replication can ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/18 Brian Reindel wrote a review of syntax highlighters for blog code samples. One of the comments on his post caught my attention. Dan wrote that he uses vim and vividchalk for his blog. I love it when I learn about an existing solution using familiar tools. I gave ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/15 After struggling with Typo for several months, I've switched this blog to WordPress. In one sentence, here's why. You won't be seeing a "How-to install WordPress" post on this blog in the style of Installing Typo on Fedora 6 slice from Slicehost because installing WordPress is just plain simple, and ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/14 Introduction For backing up the database we won't benefit from the snapback technique because the data will change often enough that a compressed archive will be more efficient then hard links (see analysis in Website Backup Strategies). Because the script archives and compresses the dump files, rsync will treat them as changed even ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/13 Web Accessible Files In Part II Revision Control I mentioned my preference for git over other revision control systems. One reason is that git is guaranteed to give you back what you put into it because it computes sha1 and notices things like disk corruption. Recall, I mentioned in ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/12 The second part of this series will take a look at revision control strategies for the core Drupal source. CVS Drupal is maintained in cvs. So cvs seems like a natural option. Pro Drupal Development covers this quite well in Chapter 21 "Development Best Practices". There is a very short paragraph in ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/11 Introduction In previous posts, I've covered installation of Rails and Drupal, and also some rudimentary security. But running a successful site requires a strategy for upgrades and backups. In this post I'm going to introduce some initial concepts for a web site backup strategy that will also touch on upgrades. ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/10 In this post I'm going to walk you through the steps to create a Drupal based web site from the ground up starting with a newly minted Fedora 6 slice from Slicehost. Secure the Slice The first steps are exactly the same as my previous post, Securing a new Fedora 6 ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/9 It seems there is no shortage of blog posts about how to hire great workers. Most focus on the interview technique. If you are looking for a job, you should read as many of these blog posts as you can. Here are two of the best ones ... Marc Andreesen Joel Spolsky In ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/8 I recently needed to change a Drupal installation from www.example.com to subdomain.example.com. Here's how I did it. There is probably a shorter way, but these steps leave the current site untouched until you are sure the new one works. Get ready Clear Drupal cache Dump current Drupal database to a backup ... http://www.fluidblog.com/archives/7