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Ella as a blog system (aka back to blogging)

For dogfooding reasons, I decided I'll make my personal site using CMS we're using at work – Ella.

And it may be my blog as well.

5 things we should learn from PHP

Personal Home Page came in the time everyone wanted one. In the late 90's, it became most popular language for the web.

PHP is first language for many people. However, who dares to touch another language, rarely looks back and think about PHP as some sort of hacky glue thingie noone likes.

Yet, there are lessons and gems hidden in PHP that are rarely found in other languages. We should learn them.

Sorting list of dictionaries

You have a list of dictionaries and want to sort it based on one of the dictionary keys?

SCM is not artifact repository

Slowly but steadily, at least professional developers agrees that You really need to have a version control system. Yes, one might endlessly argue which one, but it's not really so important (except when it is).

However, I still sense some confusion about what to store there. Because, especially in interpreted language world, one might confuse it with artifact repository. And I hate it.

"Invalid command WSGIScriptAlias" on Debian Lenny

When using Python applications with Apache2 and mod_wsgi, Debian sometime acts as if wsgi is not installed (althou it is).

Amarok, embedded MySQL and paludis: How to make it work

Amarok can use external MySQL server, but it may be annoying to set it up and also, You might like not to share Your collection outside Your home directory.