Site changes, new feature, etc.
After quite some time with little on the outside but lots of busy action on the inside, the BSD Certification Group‘s BSD Associate (BSDA) certification is now available! The BSD Associate certification marks the entry level for professional, community-based BSD certification, and work will continue to offer a certification for BSD Professionals (BSDP) next.
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The previous post was based on a question from Martin Wilke, who was looking for a vuxml entry against phpMyAdmin. We eventually found it. It had the wrong dates but it was found. Martin corrected the problem with a followup commit. This incident prompted me to make a couple of changes to FreshPorts with respect
List the vulnerabilities for this port Read More »
The repo is now online: See http://cvs.freshports.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/. You can also get to a cvs server at the same hostname.
FreshPorts – cvs online Read More »
I am just back from OSCON. While there, I attempted to incorporate some CSS patches into FreshPorts…. I failed. It is time to Open Source FreshPorts. It uses PHP (website), Perl (message processing), and Python (cache). It’ll take me a while to get the infrastructure into place. I have servers suitable for this purpose. I
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Some of you may be noticing HTML in the daily outgoing messages. I apologise for that. You must have seen the various notices that appear at the top of each FreshPorts webpage. At present, they look like this: Absolute BSD – $25 shipped – order yours now I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer/sysadmin.
Stripping HTML from announcements Read More »
The news feeds now contain the committer’s email address.
Changes to News Feeds Read More »
I am pleased to announce a FreshPorts design contest. The prize? A trip to BSDCan 2007. Included are airfares, accommodation, and entry to BSDCan 2007, up to a value of CAD$1000. Take the existing FreshPorts website and give it a face lift. Improve it. Keep in mind that the basic information must remain the same.
FreshPorts design contest Read More »
Here is my latest contribution to fight spam: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html
Things change. They evolve. In previous versions of FreshPorts, to see the files for a particular commit, you went to /category/ports/files.php?message_id=Some.Message.ID. But no longer. Now you can see all the details at /commit.php?message_id=Some.Message.ID. That’s a shorter URL and eliminates some ugly URL parsing. commit.php now doubles up and shows you both the commit details and
Removing an icon from FreshPorts Read More »
There will be a PostgreSQL Conference in May 2007. I’ll definintely be there! I’m looking forward to this. It’s right after a BSD conference. There will be quite a few people attending both conferences. One trip, two conferences, a great time.
The PostgreSQL Conference Read More »