MediaWiki/Sphinx : setup a full text indexer

12 August 2013 in Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux, Web

You certainly know and have used the default MediaWiki search. It’s quite good but it’s not an optimal search. I wanted to have better one for my wiki that’s why I added Google search some years ago. I didn’t want to setup Apache Lucene or Apache Solar as both are in Java. I always heard good feedback about Sphinx, that’s why I decided to add it at work and to my wiki as well.

WordPress 3.6 : videos embedded at last !

10 August 2013 in Hi-Tech, Web

The 3.6 version of WordPress is out and finally bring a killer feature that I was waiting for more than 3 years now. This feature is embedding videos without requesting additional extension and specific tags, it’s a built-in HTML5 media player. It was already possible to add videos but they weren’t playable directly on the page, it was a link. As I manage the blog of my daughter, this is a really good news.

PuPHPet : speed up your Vagrant deployment

6 August 2013 in Databases, Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux, Mac, Puppet, Red Hat, SQL, Virtualization, Web

Vagrant is a fast solution build on top of VirtualBox. I already talked about it in a previous post. The thing is, you could do really more with Vagrant by adding Puppet manifests or Chef recipes in your Vagrant configuration file. For those who don’t often use one of those 2 softwares, it quickly could transform into a nightmare when they want to deploy softwares in addition of the OS.

Book : Working with MediaWiki

19 July 2013 in Books, Hi-Tech, Web

As you may know, I’m a MediaWiki’s fan. I manage and use it since 2006 and you can see what I do with on my wiki. I’ve always learned by myself, how to do things on MediaWiki as my needs were classical and for a single user. Some weeks ago, I’ve made a big upgrade for the last company I’ve worked for (Linagora) and I wanted to implement interesting features for a multi users usage.

Bye bye Fever, welcome TinyTiny RSS

5 July 2013 in Hi-Tech, Web

I tested some months ago TinyTiny RSS but it wasn’t exactly what I expected from an RSS reader. That’s why, when Google announced their Reader’s end, I wanted to quickly find a reader that can fit my needs and have enough time to test it. Fever answered most of them, instead of the mobile client. When I was on iPhone Reeder was nearly perfect, but not really Android with Meltdown.

Mediawiki : install and upgrade with Git

27 June 2013 in Hi-Tech, Web

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.

MediaWiki DeleteHistory and GoogleSearch updated !

25 June 2013 in Developement, Hi-Tech, Web

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 :-)