For several years, I manually managed my MediaWiki instance manually and always upgraded manually, getting diffs, patching files etc… Now it’s over, this method is simply not adapted to my needs. Now, as MediaWiki use git, I decided to maintain my instance with the git repository and extensions as well. I’ve wrote a documentation on that : Installation method Core + extensions Upgrade core + extensions  I hope this will help some of you that still manage it by the old way.

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I saw a little bit late that MediaWiki 1.21 was out. After a quick migration I discovered errors with my plugins because of deprecated and removed functions in this new version. I’ve updated them to recover the compatibility on MediaWiki with the latest version. You can find updated version here : DeleteHistory : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DeleteHistory GoogleSearch : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleSearch I hope you’ll enjoy it :-)

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I’ve recently played with pkgin under NetBSD and searched to make it work under FreeBSD. Anyway it’s not really compatible. I saw old unmaintained version, but no one worked for me as expected :-(. After a few searches, I found pkg2ng :-). That’s THE tool for FreeBSD. But unfortunately, as written in the wiki : As a consequence of the security incident on 11th November 2012, for the time being pre-compiled packages for pkgng are not available from any official FreeBSD repository.

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I recently gave a training on MariaDB/MySQL regarding performances tuning and High Availability. You can find here the slides I’ve made for it (french). Some subjects related in that document are replication master -> slave, master < -> master and Galera Cluster. You can download the PDF here or see it directly on SlideShare : I hope this will help some of you to get a better understanding on some advanced features.

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Selfoss is a self-hosted RSS reader solution. It could be compared to Tiny Tiny RSS or Feedly. I liked to test that nice solution. But I’m still staying with Fever, as there is no Android version working with Selfoss (only an old one exist, but doesn’t work) and the web interface is a little bit slow (compared to Fever). I hope this will be better in a short term as this is the most elegant Open Source version I’ve tested for now.

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