Andy Kopciuch's Blog
Thursday, September 28, 2006
  Pantheon, Installations & Nova Scotia
"pantheon" ... we finally settled on a name. Aaron and I had a few hack sessions, lots of online conversations, T. has done massive work on documentation, and Aaron came up with the name "pantheon". I was not opposed, and we now have the domain and mail lists ... yet to build a site, but cmon ... it's been a busy month.

I have to admit that my contribution as of late to the project has not been on the scale that aseigo the commit king was. I did do some pretty major things. I did the leg work for integrating the new WYSIWYG editor. fkceditor . So I spoent several hours reading javascript and testing things, writing a plugin, figuring out how to integrate it smoothly, and allow for upgrading, and customization. I'm sure it will change ... but Aaron made some changes as well, and I think with a few things wrapped, and our simple changes we ended up with some really cool things.

Aaron went on to write the CMS Object insertion dialog. It's pretty swift ... nicely done ... CMS Object images ... the whole 9. I frantically finished the internal documents, and pages linking the night before he went to Dublin for Akademy. The whole goal was to release in Oct, and have a beta ready for him to show of our new toys to some people he meets with. So I was fairly happy, and we'll see what happens next.

I've been have a hard time finding time to code for my own personal things ... although I do really enjoy it. Life and work seems to get in the way. We had a project for a new client. I got a low level HP server. Couldn't install it ... the SATA RAID controller is unsupported in lunix ... well people have "made" it work. Proprietary closed source drivers available for RHEL, and SLES ... so I just told Gregg get me a new card. Some Adaptec card ... the RAID doesn't work ... but I didn't care as it's jsut a BIOS software RAID, and the Linux SW RAID is faster ... so as long as I could read the hard disks ... I was a happy camper. Set up the box ... Marc installed the MyBooks stuff. and we installed on site. I made a total of 3 trips out to Linden. I was quite happy with the project. There were no major problems once I could build the box. Things are good.

Yesterday in sort of a "we've been told" kinda way ... we had to move an entire rack to a different floor in a building. It was so bad ... although I did get stuck in the elevator with it. It kept getting stuck on the slots of the doors, and then the alarm would go off ... so down a floor, and back up and give it another go. We did scare the crap out of some ladies on the 11th floor. I guess it could be kind of alarming to walk into an 8 foot computer rack when you are not expecting it. We did get to clean up some cables, and power cords / supplies. Thigns went quite smooth there as well. Took total time of about 3 hours start to finish.

On a personal note. My sister has moved to Wolfville Nova Scotia to attend Acadia University. She's having an interesting time ... but I have talked to her a few times. I've forgotten already again ... but I believe she is doing her masters in sociology ... go Diana! Maybe I'll go see her next summer ... maybe.
 
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