Month: January 2012

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Blitz – Recommended for Drupal Testing

In the spirit of continuous integration and making load testing a fun sport, our paid plans have just two simple dimensions: How much you want to scale out and how long you want to rush. We do not impose any limits on how many times you run the load tests.You can easily increase your concurrency from 250 to 750 users on the free plan simply by inviting your friends to blitz. Well add +25 referral credits to both of you when your friend signs up!

via Blitz – Making load and performance testing a fun sport.

GIve it a try at http://blitz.io/gcb7uX6lS5oXx.

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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-31

  • Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong | GeekDad | http://t.co/d1oQO2bl http://t.co/AyTS1dal #
  • On tap: Classcaster plugins for MOOC, CALIcon website config, A2J backups, Elangdell remixing. #
  • Protip: When writing down your username, please write down the CORRECT username. I'm really not adding characters just to mess with you. #
  • @sglassmeyer Currently very sunny, but cold in the ATL. #
  • Fun with #WordPress plugins! Apparently mixing and matching old WPMU and new WPMS controls is a no-no. Go figure. #

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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-27

  • Thing about ebooks is that I'll bet the print version of your fav casebook didn't require a code review before release. Just sayin'. #
  • On tap: more A2J server config, Classcaster migrations, code and conversion review for eLangdell, case law remixing. #
  • Very useful: #Drupal can support both full domains (some.dom.ain) and sub-folders (some.dom.ain/folder) in a single multi-site install. #
  • Law School Innovation: CALI Offering Free Open Online Course on Digital Law Practice http://t.co/FvuYSQcQ #
  • Nifty. Daughter's McGraw/Hill online HS Science textbook DOSE NOT WORK in OSX. #
  • Digital Textbooks Go Straight From Scientists to Students | Wired Science | http://t.co/d1oQO2bl http://t.co/ZzLpbBq7 #

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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-26

  • On tap: AP bug fixes, new A2J server, more Classcaster migrations, test quiz plugins for MOOC, CALIcon website setup. #
  • Noah Millman » Textbook Cases http://t.co/hDfv5XYS [Another good article on why iBooks2+Author ain't all that.] #
  • AutoPublish bug fixes out for testing. Which appears to be leading to more bugs to fix, of course. #
  • AutoPublish bugs squashed. Code goes live this afternoon. New A2J server up and running, awaiting configuration after lunch. #
  • AutoPublish fix is live. Students can now resume AP Lessons just like regular Lessons. Work continues on config for A2J server. #
  • @tomboonedotcom We like it. It only does a few annoying things, but it generally produces solid EPUBs that can be finalized with Sigil. #
  • @sglassmeyer Actually @CALIorg is 30 this year. Been doing ebooks since at least 94-95, see http://t.co/lhRcbcIN and #eLangdell is 6 y.o. #
  • @sglassmeyer And foosball and a chocolate fountain. #
  • See where @CALIorg #eLangdell project started with @johnpmayer plenary at CALIcon06 http://t.co/ewyebdCr Worth the 45 minutes. #
  • Amazon Web Services Blog: The AWS Storage Gateway – Integrate Your Existing On-Premises Applications with AWS Cloud… http://t.co/WPD2leQD #

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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-25

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Twitter Updates for 2012-01-24

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Scripting News: Code nodetypes in World Outline

http://scripting.com/stories/2012/01/23/codeNodetypesInWorldOutlin.html

As you might imagine, outlines play a big role in the World Outline. And when you can make an outline behave and look like an outline, well that’s strictly good. In December I finally invested in making outline objects work just like outlines. That meant rolling up my sleeves and making no apologies for my Javascript coding. And it came out nice. Then I rested on that front for a while, let it burn in and dug some new holes over the holidays. Now on my todo list is to roll up the outline rendering tool so it’s used to render other forms of outlines. And in my world, scripts are outlines. So what the hell, let’s make it so that script code renders as an outline. There are good reasons to do this. For one it makes the code more readable. And I have lots of code. And I want to send pointers to code to Frontier newbies who are coming up now (yay!) and I didn’t want to send them pointers to flat text. That would seem to miss the point. Yes? Yes!

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Turbocharging Solr Index Replication with BitTorrent « Code as Craft

http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2012/01/23/solr-bittorrent-index-replication/

Search at Etsy has grown significantly over the years. In January of 2009 we started using Solr for search. We used the standard master-slave configuration for our search servers with replication.

All of the changes to the search index are written to the master server. The slaves are read-only copies of master which serve production traffic. The search index is replicated by copying files from the master server to the slave servers. The slave servers poll the master server for updates, and when there are changes to the search index the slave servers will download the changes via HTTP. Our search indexes have grown from 2 GB to over 28 GB over the past 2 years, and copying the index from the master to the slave nodes became a problem.

Brilliant use of BitTorrent to solve a difficult problem.