Varnish Drupal module first impressions
Yesterday I took the plunge and installed Josh Koenig‘s Varnish module on two of my larger production sites. So far, I’m very happy. It’s worked well. More importantly, it’s allowed me to greatly...
View ArticleVarnish config – default.vcl
I’ve received some requests for a copy of my Varnish config. I’ll post it here with the following caveats: This is very much a work in progress. There may be some show-stopping bugs that could really...
View ArticleOregon Signs State-wide Google Apps for K-12 Agreement
This is very exciting! Oregon has become the first state in the nation to sign an agreement with Google to provide Google Apps for Education to the entire public school system:...
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Google Code-In 2010
The OSU OSL has been accepted as a Google Code-In mentoring organization! Yeah, I’m just a wee bit excited. It’s not often a project lets me wear both my ORVSD and OSL “hats”, but today’s announcement...
View ArticleOpen Source Misogyny
We have a very large problem in the open source community: we are the epitome of a hostile misogynistic work environment. If you’ve missed the latest example, read the comments on “A hell of a time”...
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Drupal 7 & Varnish
I thought I’d put a quick post here in the hope that I save someone a bit of frustration. I was testing a new Drupal 7 site and I noticed that while the static files (JS, CSS, images, etc.) were all...
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DrupalCon Chicago
Whew! What an amazing week! DrupalCon Chicago is – sadly – now past, and we’ve started looking forward to London and Denver. Now that I’ve had time to return home and get some much-needed sleep, it’s...
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Google Summer of Code 2011
I am delighted to announce that the OSU Open Source Lab has once again been selected as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code. This year Google has selected 175 organizations in the...
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Facebook in Prineville, a slightly different view
On Friday, Facebook’s Senior Open Programs Manager, David Recordon, took a group of us from the OSL on a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of the new Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon. It was...
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Large Moodle downloads die prematurely when served through Varnish
Varnish and Moodle, to be blunt, hate each other. So much so that for my Moodle 1.9.x sites, I simply instruct Varnish to return(pass) without even trying to cache anything on a Moodle site. Today,...
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