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Nifty trick for simpler testing of provisioning in Vagrant

Submitted by ergonlogic on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 17:55

I'm a huge fan of Vagrant and have been using it pretty extensively lately. In particular, I'm using it to develop, test and debug a number of Puppet modules. Obviously I keep these modules under version control, for which I strongly prefer Git. The problem I was coming across was that, in order to run git commands, I have to be in the appropriate module's sub-directory, but to run 'vagrant provision' I needed to be in the root of the vagrant project.

Adventures in Irssi

Submitted by ergonlogic on Tue, 11/22/2011 - 02:58

Irssi is a great terminal-based IRC client. I'd been meaning to switch to it for awhile, but couldn't be bothered until my ZNC bouncer's config got wiped out, and I would have had to poke around Pidgin to get it working again anyway. So instead I took the plunge and I've been using Irssi for about 3 months now with basically just default settings. I haven't regretted it for a minute.

Setting up a proper dev environment with VirtualBox and Vagrant

Submitted by ergonlogic on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 14:53

For awhile now, I've been meaning to experiment with Puppet to get my server (and maybe even desktop!) config management under control. Since I've called in sick today (I guess I'll just have to miss that budget meeting...), I figure this is a fine opportunity to invest in some skill-building.

Note that I'm not a sysadmin or developer by training; but thankfully, I have the privilege to work with several incredibly competent ones at Koumbit Networks.

Sanitizing .dotfiles with make

Submitted by ergonlogic on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 01:35

I recently decided to put my various config files (dotfiles) in git, so as to make them more easily portable (and shareable): https://github.com/ergonlogic/.dotfiles

I'm relatively new to quite a few of these program (irssi, mutt, awesome) so I'm finding myself spending a lot of time figuring out how to configure them to my liking. I'd say I'm only about 60% of the way there, but it's still miles better than the alternatives (pidgin, thunderbird, gnome).

Triaging Ubercart Modules for OpenAtria.com

Submitted by ergonlogic on Thu, 09/01/2011 - 10:32

I'm in the process of putting OpenAtria.com online. The basics of the Aegir SaaS implementation are in place, but there's lots of place for enhancing Ubercart with some contrib modules. I've just performed a thorough read through the 386 e-commerce modules liusted on drupal.org as of this morning. I'll categorize them here, and then look to prioritize some.

Discounts/coupons/pricing:
http://drupal.org/project/uc_coupon
http://drupal.org/project/uc_discounts_alt
http://drupal.org/project/uc_discount
http://drupal.org/project/uc_multi_coupon

Migrating a site from one Aegir to another

Submitted by ergonlogic on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 01:20

I've recently begun to develop locally on my laptop, in a Virtualbox running Aegir. This is great for developing Aegir itself, as well as testing installs and such. Not to mention standard Drupal site builds, such as this very site.