links for 2010-10-26

  • It turns out that running your own private cloud setup inside your firewall can be just as easy and –even better– completely free to run.

    The tools you use to accomplish this feat are all found on one simple platform: Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), which is found on Ubuntu Server. Using an Ubuntu Server 10.10 disc, I was able to install all of the software I needed within a half-hour's time: and a chunk of that time was downloading the software I needed, including Ubuntu.

links for 2010-10-21

  • Lightweight page view counter drawing on data collected by Google Analytics. Putting hardly any load on your Drupal installation. Working even on heavily cached websites. Highly customizable.

    Features

    * No burden on your server; the heavy work is done by Google Analytics
    * Provides a block but also an input filter for any page
    * Works for any Drupal path (nodes, views, user profiles, …)
    * Can extrapolate page view count for cached values
    * Can provide dynamic updates of the count even on cached pages
    * Themeable (id="google-analytics-counter")
    * Has a debug mode for experimentation

links for 2010-10-19

  • Syndicate Press is a WordPress plugin that lets you include RSS feeds directly in your WordPress posts or pages. This plugin provides a very easy-to-use administration page and includes great features such as feed caching, filters, and multiple display options. The plugin is highly configurable and works with your site's theme and it does not force arbitrary formatting of the RSS feed contents.

links for 2010-10-11