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I 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

As 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

For the NITLE Summit 2010 poster session, I combined my Medieval Slavic wiki [http://www.medievalslavic.com] with the work I've been doing as part of Project Bamboo [http://www.projectbamboo.org]. The abstract is below... read more

On 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 [/assets/files/dombrowski_2010-04-17.pdf].... read more

10/11/10 -- 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 [/blog/2010/12/10/installing-cocoon-on-ubuntu-10-04-or-10-10]... read more

Andy and I will be demoing the Bulgarian Dialect Atlas on April 17th at the 17th Balkan and South Slavic Conference [http://bss17.osu.edu/program.html] at the Ohio State University. The slides [/assets/files/dombrowski2_2010_slides.pdf] and handout [/assets/files/dombrowski2_2010.pdf] will be posted after the talk... read more

* 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

* 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

Josh 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

See also Features [http://drupal.org/project/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