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The kernel of my home office: The outsourcing question
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The kernel of my home office. Tuesday, December 17, 2013. I run a web development business, and am always engaged in a question about how many of my supporting services should be contracted out or done myself. And for what I don't do myself, who I can trust to deliver that service reliably to my clients. And what to do when that service fails. This is not an academic debate this week for me. Which I can mostly only blame myself for, but at least I suffered for it correspondingly with lack of sleep. Thank...
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The kernel of my home office: CiviCRM and Accounting in 4.3
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The kernel of my home office. Tuesday, April 15, 2014. CiviCRM and Accounting in 4.3. The 43 version of CiviCRM that first came out in April 2013 addresses a key problem with CiviCRM for large organizations: namely, accounting integration. So what exactly does that mean, and how does it work? The most useful documentation I've found so far is here:. Http:/ wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRM/CiviAccounts Specifications - Financial Items. My key insight was:. Implementing a system like this over top o...
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The kernel of my home office: June 2013
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The kernel of my home office. Friday, June 21, 2013. Drupal and file permissions challenges when using selinux. Twice now I've run into this class of problem and so I'm documenting it here for my future self and anyone else with a similar problem. Most recently, a server I manage was generating a rather baffling error, seemlingly randomly. It seemed to be mostly when editing, but not uniquely. After doing a stack trace, I discovered this about file management in Drupal:. All that is well and good unless ...
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The kernel of my home office: Lily, is it time to make some garlic bread?
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The kernel of my home office. Monday, September 08, 2014. Lily, is it time to make some garlic bread? Lily is my daughter, born a couple of days after my previous post, now almost 5 months old. Posted by Alan Dixon. Lily, is it time to make some garlic bread? I am adixon on drupal.org. Drupal and CiviCRM Consulting. View my complete profile.
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The kernel of my home office: Transport layer security on the Internet
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The kernel of my home office. Thursday, March 13, 2014. Transport layer security on the Internet. Yesterday I posted this:. Https:/ www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/a-new-open-transport-layer-security. And sent the link off to some friends and family. They had some good things to say, and some of that helped me clean it up a bit. But the feedback and discussions I had also helped me to step back a bit from the specifics of that proposal and think more generally about the problem. It's not...
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The kernel of my home office: Lily's New Hat
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The kernel of my home office. Tuesday, December 09, 2014. My cousin Vikki has been helping us for the past month and is leaving to head back home in a couple of days. We had her over for dinner last night and she brought Lily a new hat! Posted by Alan Dixon. I am adixon on drupal.org. Drupal and CiviCRM Consulting. View my complete profile.
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The kernel of my home office: Me and varnish win against a DDOS attack.
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The kernel of my home office. Saturday, October 19, 2013. Me and varnish win against a DDOS attack. This past month one of my servers experienced her first DDOS. A distributed denial of service attack. A denial of service. In any case, I also thought a bit about why Varnish wasn't being useful here. Varnish is my reverse-proxy protective bubble. If (req.http.host "example.com" & req.request = "POST") {. Posted by Alan Dixon. Me and varnish win against a DDOS attack. I am adixon on drupal.org.
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The kernel of my home office: August 2013
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The kernel of my home office. Wednesday, August 07, 2013. Confused by online payment processing? In the old days during "polite" conversation, it was considered rude to talk about sex, politics, religion and money. You might think we're done with taboos, we're not (and I'll leave Steven Pinker to make the general argument about that, as he does so well in The Better Angels of Our Nature). What You Need To Know. Phase 1: The Form. Phase 2: The Transaction Processing or The Payment Gateway. Http:/ en.w...
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The kernel of my home office: Blame or Responsibility? Point the finger!
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The kernel of my home office. Saturday, June 08, 2013. Would you rather get blamed, or held responsible for something? When something bad happens, I notice that there often replies about the importance of taking responsibility and frequent rebuttals about not pointing the finger or blaming. But hold on, what exactly is the difference? But what I'd really like is to stop seeing comments with the subtext "it's wrong to blame". We make mistakes, and people with a lot of power need to be careful when ass...
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The kernel of my home office: December 2013
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The kernel of my home office. Tuesday, December 17, 2013. I run a web development business, and am always engaged in a question about how many of my supporting services should be contracted out or done myself. And for what I don't do myself, who I can trust to deliver that service reliably to my clients. And what to do when that service fails. This is not an academic debate this week for me. Which I can mostly only blame myself for, but at least I suffered for it correspondingly with lack of sleep. Thank...