The state of the birchbark letters XML project
June 19th 2010I was hoping to delay this until I had the Subversion repository ready to distribute the first versions of the XML, but setting it up is taking a bit longer than I anticipated. I'm working on a proof-of-concept for the kinds of analysis that can be done using the name and date indices together... read more
Modernizing Research through Collaborative Reference Tools: The Medieval Slavic Linguistics Wiki
June 18th 2010As a way of setting an actual deadline for myself to make some progress on the Medieval Slavic wiki, I submitted an abstract to the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society, which follows... read more
NITLE 2010: Medieval Slavic wiki meets Project Bamboo
April 18th 2010For the NITLE Summit 2010 poster session, I combined my Medieval Slavic wiki with the work I've been doing as part of Project Bamboo. The abstract is below: Even in a time when digital information can be accessed... read more
Balkan & South Slavic Conference: presentation materials
April 16th 2010On April 17, 2010, we gave a talk on the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas at the Balkan and South Slavic Conference at the Ohio State University. You can download the slides here.... read more
Installing Cocoon on Ubuntu
April 14th 201010/11/10 -- This guide was written for Intrepid, and doesn't work on the latest Ubuntu releases. An updated and working version of the guide is available here. This guide was prepared with help from a guide written on the GSLIS wiki by Wendell Piez... read more
Bulgarian Dialect Atlas at the 17th Meeting of the Balkan and South Slavic
April 13th 2010Andy and I will be demoing the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas on April 17th at the 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference at the Ohio State University. The slides and handout will be posted after the talk. ... read more
Do It With Drupal: Drupal Under Pressure: Performance and Scalability
December 10th 2009* Browser | Apache | PHP | -SQL Queries | MySQL * Common pattern for optimization: inspect each layer, add little buckets of caches everywhere * "Fast track" through the different layers to get out requests more efficiently * On browser side... read more
Do It With Drupal: Drupal Under Fire: Website Security
December 10th 2009* Your site is vulnerable (really, it is) * GVS offers security review service for Drupal * Bad things: abusing resources, stealing data, altering data * Abusing resources: DDOS (extorting money from site owner)... read more
Do It With Drupal: Drupal In The Cloud
December 10th 2009Josh Koenig drupal.org/user/3313 josh - at - chapterthree.com getpantheon.com About the cloud * "Cloud" as new model for hosting * Traditional hosting = real estate (rack space) * Most real estate customers are renters... read more
Do It With Drupal: The Power of Features
December 9th 2009See also Features on drupal.org * Jeff Miccolis & Eric Gundersen - Development Seed, building a lot of products (things like Open Atrium) * Drupal is very configurable - but that's also a weakness: ... read more