Hackvalue - Tales from the trenches of specialized web hosting and development
Hackvalue is the corporate blog of Loco, a company that does lots of
interesting stuff gravitating around Free and Open Source software and
licensing, web development, and anything else that we find
interesting.
In this particular part of the blog all content is English,
but if you have no problems reading Dutch, then the Dutch part of this blog might also be interesting for
you. It caters to a slightly different crowd.
If you're wondering why we use
the name Hackvalue, please read the FAQ.
Filtering mail server side with Sieve, part 1
Tags: administration, mail, sieve
Armijn Hemel, August 31, 2010, 72 views.
Like us, you might receive a lot of mail and read it from different locations, using different mail programs, on different kinds of devices, including mobile. If not all mail is relevant at all times, you might want to look at server side filtering instead of client side filtering.
Next step MySQL: using views to improve performance
Tags: mysql, web, webdevelopment
Joor Loohuis, August 14, 2010, 170 views.
When developers start using MySQL as a storage backend, they quickly find out how to insert, update, delete, and retrieve data. But often enough, progress tends to stop there, and problems arise when an application needs to scale. This article demonstrates how creating views may be a life saver for an underperforming application.
Running your own microblogging service
Tags: social, virtual hosting, web
Armijn Hemel, July 28, 2010, 228 views.
Microblogging services such as Twitter and identi.ca have become very popular. Instead of registering with an existing service you can also quite easily run your own microblogging service, using Status.Net.
Integrating Subversion, Trac, and Mailman into a development environment: part 1, design
Tags: bash, development, forge, mailman, PHP, subversion, trac, webdevelopment
Joor Loohuis, July 1, 2010, 344 views.
Many software development projects are hosted in a 'forge', a web application that provides tools such as source code management, mailing lists, and a bug tracker. We were recently asked to provide such an environment, based on Trac, Mailman, and Subversion. We thought it might be informative to document our findings.
Migrating from mbox to maildir
Tags: administration, mail
Armijn Hemel, May 28, 2010, 436 views.
Two popular formats for storing mail on Unix machines are mbox and maildir. Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Converting from mbox to maildir is easy to do using some Python.