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Sep 28 / 2:22am

Website redesign and unification

There are still some rough edges, but by far the redesign and unification of zzamboni.org is done. With the same design you can now find my blogs (hosted by posterous.com), my project pages (hosted in github.com project repositories) and some static pages (hosted in my personal github.com pages repository, this includes the root, About and Code pages, as well as the static copy of my old blog BrT, which is the only one that retains its original design). The theme is a variation of Posterous' "Paramaibo".

I'm still playing with the design, and finishing some pages here and there. But overall things should be good, please let me know if you find anything broken.

Kudos to the Posterous and GitHub teams for building such useful, powerful and friendly tools and services.

Filed under  //  github   posterous   sitenews   web  
 
Aug 25 / 1:37am

cfengine Community Open Promise Body Library on GitHub

I have created a copy of the cfengine COPBL on GitHub , where I will use it as a playground for changes and additions. This is in no way endorsed by cfengine - it is just my personal copy. But if you use GitHub and want to use it, go ahead, I will try to keep it updated with respect to the original subversion repository , although it will include my changes too.

Visit the COPBL web page for more information.

Hopefully at some point the cfengine people themselves will host the COPBL at GitHub, then I should be able to remove my repository and just fork theirs.

Filed under  //  cfengine   copbl   github  
 
Aug 16 / 2:58pm

Updated server and service setup

(a friend asked me about my online setup, and I wrote the text below. Then I realized it would also make an interesting blog post, and I just copied and pasted it, with minimal editing, into an email to posterous. This is why I love posterous, it makes posting so easy)

For my setup, I have a hodgepodge of stuff all aggregated under the zzamboni.org domain. I wrote a blog post about my setup some time ago: http://blog.zzamboni.org/server-less-does-not-mean-service-less

Since then, the main things that have changed is that now my static content (e.g. http://zzamboni.org/brt/) is also served by github, instead of Google AppEngine + drydrop. Github used to offer hosting of custom domains only for paid accounts, but now it's available to free accounts as well, so I decided to simplify the setup and host them directly on github. I also just moved the grabcartoons web page to github as well (http://zzamboni.org/grabcartoons/). So now I have:

http://zzamboni.org/ and http://zzamboni.org/brt/ hosted by github from my zzamboni.github.com repository.
http://zzamboni.org/grabcartoons/ hosted by github from the grabcartoons repository.
http://zzamboni.org/things2thl/ hosted by github from the things2thl repository.
http://blog.zzamboni.org/ and http://posterous.zzamboni.org// (plus some other private blogs) hosted by posterous.com. This is my favorite site for blogging, since it's extremely easy to post by email, plus you can configure it to auto-post content to twitter, flicker, facebook, etc.
Email served by Google Apps.

I'm very happy with posterous.com and github.com. They are my two favorite services these days.

Filed under  //  github   google   sitenews