http://eclecti.ca Like The Internet...but smaller Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:19:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://eclecti.ca/2010/06/m3talinks-for-jun-22nd/ http://eclecti.ca/2010/06/m3talinks-for-jun-22nd/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:00:00 +0000 Sean http://eclecti.ca/2010/06/m3talinks-for-jun-22nd/ Today’s M3talinks for Jun 22nd

• Mensch — A coding font – The latest MacOS release (10.6, or “Snow Leopard”) comes with a new monospace font. It’s called “Menlo” and it’s a slightly modified form of the standard Linux font (with appropriately weightly Linux name) “DejaVu Sans Serif Mono”, which is itself an updated form of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. Apple’s modifications are a definite improvement to my eyes, mostly because they thicken up some of the wispier glyphs from DejaVu, like the underline and period. There’s a great comparison over here.<br />
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  One thing that bothered me, though, is that they turned the zero into a 1980s-style “slashed circle”. Unhip, daddy-o! I couldn’t limit my tweaking to the zero glyph, so in the end I made about a dozen changes. Bitstream released these fonts with a very open license that only requires that you change the name if you change anything about the font, so I'm releasing my changes with the same license, as the font “Mensch”.
• Puppet Drupal recipes | Bitfield Consulting – Drupal, Puppet. Puppet, meet Drupal<br />
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  Puppet and Drupal make a great combination. Drupal is an amazing tool for quickly constructing attractive, functional web sites. It lets you manage large numbers of web sites from a single installation, and (via add-on modules) provides almost any CMS or blog feature you could want.<br />
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  However, like any powerful tool, Drupal takes some learning. It also needs a certain amount of discipline to manage Drupal servers without getting into a chaotic mess. The Drupal sysadmin can end up trying to navigate a spaghetti of ad-hoc symlinks and face problems upgrading, maintaining, monitoring and backing up a large Drupal installation. Aegir can help with this (I’ll look at Aegir vs. Puppet in a future article) but first we need to get Drupal itself under control.<br />
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  Fortunately, Puppet can help you tame Drupal and use the power of configuration management to bring your Drupal sites under control.
• Puppet Drupal recipes | Bitfield Consulting – Drupal, Puppet. Puppet, meet Drupal<br />
  <br />
  Puppet and Drupal make a great combination. Drupal is an amazing tool for quickly constructing attractive, functional web sites. It lets you manage large numbers of web sites from a single installation, and (via add-on modules) provides almost any CMS or blog feature you could want.<br />
  <br />
  However, like any powerful tool, Drupal takes some learning. It also needs a certain amount of discipline to manage Drupal servers without getting into a chaotic mess. The Drupal sysadmin can end up trying to navigate a spaghetti of ad-hoc symlinks and face problems upgrading, maintaining, monitoring and backing up a large Drupal installation. Aegir can help with this (I’ll look at Aegir vs. Puppet in a future article) but first we need to get Drupal itself under control.<br />
  <br />
  Fortunately, Puppet can help you tame Drupal and use the power of configuration management to bring your Drupal sites under control.
• Puppet Training – Mike McGrath's slidedeck and audio for his Intro to Puppet workshop.

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