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Laconica 0.6.3 on Identi.ca
Posted 4 years 25 weeks ago

 Last night's upgrade of Identi.ca to the newest version of Laconica went well (although it started about an hour and a half later than expected). The site is operating well, although not all new features were enabled. An overview of some of the newest stuff:

  • User profiles now have a 'nudge' link (right under the avatar) so you can tell a friend that they're missed.
  •  Twitter friend sync.
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Identi.ca upgrade at 11PM EST Sun 23 Nov 2008
Posted 4 years 26 weeks ago

(Update:  We had a couple of cool features and optimizations that we really want to see go out in a pack, so we postponed our upgrade from Thursday night to Sunday night.)

Identi.ca will be down for about 10-20 minutes tonight, 20 Nov 2008, at about 11PM EST, for a software upgrade. We're trying to do a code drop once a week at this point, on Thursday nights.

Last week's upgrade was a big mess; hopefully tonight's goes much more smoothly.

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Welcoming new employees at Control Yourself
Posted 4 years 28 weeks ago

We have not one but three new employees at Control Yourself, and I'd like to take a moment to introduce them.

Aric Gardner is our new system administrator. He's a young, self-taught Linux user, active in the local LUG community. He's working hard to get our ad hoc collection of servers on different providers more stable and reliable, and providing an upgrade path to scale our server load as needed in the future. He started last week and already has our servers well-monitored and documented.

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Identi.ca in the news
Posted 4 years 32 weeks ago

Two new media references worth reading in the last week:

Definitely both worth adding to our clippings file.

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Sysadmin Job in Montreal
Posted 4 years 32 weeks ago

Control Yourself, Inc.

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Laconica 0.6.1 delayed until Sunday night
Posted 4 years 33 weeks ago

Brief notice: Laconica 0.6.1's release (a minor release with some bugfixes, optimizations and API enhancements) will be delayed until Sunday, 5 Oct at midnight EDT. This should allow us to incorporate any optimizations that are made during Codefest 2.2.

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OpenMicroBlogging meeting on Monday, 8 October 2008, 21:00 UTC
Posted 4 years 33 weeks ago

We'll be having a meeting of all parties interested in OpenMicroBlogging on Jabber IM on Monday, 8 October. The meeting room is openmicroblogging@conference.jabber.org.

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Podcast coverage roundup
Posted 4 years 33 weeks ago

It's been a while since we had a roundup of coverage of Identi.ca. I wanted to specifically link to podcast episodes where I've been talking about Identi.ca and Laconi.ca.

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Identi.ca upgrade at 12:01AM on October 4th, 2008
Posted 4 years 33 weeks ago

I'll be upgrading identi.ca to the latest version of the Laconica software just after midnight on Friday. The next version, 0.6.1, features better support for commands in posts (like "d nickname direct message" sends a direct message to "nickname"); has API support for direct messages and faves; and has considerably extended memcached support, for faster response.

At the same time I'll be reconfiguring storage of PHP sessions to use memcached (another optimization), which means that users who are online before the upgrade may need to re-login after it.

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Codefest 2.2 this weekend
Posted 4 years 33 weeks ago

I'll be participating in the Montreal Codefest 2.2 this weekend, October 4 and 5. Codefest is a weekend hacking event where people who love to code get together in a room with good wifi and easily-accessible coffee, beer, and food and just hack like crazy. I've done two other such events here in Montreal, and they were great. A big chunk of Laconica was written at Codefest 2.1.

Interested people are invited to participate either locally (if you're in town) or remotely on the #laconica channel on freenode.net.

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