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drupal
website

Another batch of changes to the TurnKey website

Liraz Siri - Mon, 2011/06/20 - 09:25 - 5 comments

These past few weeks I've been having too much fun offline with my development clone of the TurnKey website, ticking items off of my todo list. Today I finally got around to the complex, tedious, and unfortunately uninteresting task of updating the online version of the website. Ah, a necessary evil I suppose.

On to the changes...

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news
security
ubuntu

Important security notice: Your TurnKey system may no longer be receiving automatic security updates

Liraz Siri - Thu, 2011/06/16 - 20:37 - 5 comments

I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is that if your TurnKey installation is older than 2 weeks you may no longer be receiving security updates.

The good news is that you are reading this and there is a very easy fix. Either reboot your system, or log in and restart the cron service:

/etc/init.d/cron start

Until you start recron, security updates and other scheduler related services (e.g., daily backups) will not work.

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development
python
gotcha

Python property gotcha

Liraz Siri - Tue, 2011/06/14 - 11:14 - 6 comments

If you like using a single getter/setter function for your properties, watch out if using None for the default. If you do that you won't be able to set your property to None!

Example code and workaround...

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development
git
tip

Use the stash, Luke (git-stash)

Alon Swartz - Mon, 2011/06/06 - 12:22 - 5 comments

I was in the middle of developing a new feature for the TurnKey Hub when I received a bug report that needed to be fixed.

What to do? Throw away my current changes? Checkout a clean branch? Of course not! Just stash my changes away, fix the bug, and get my changes back so I can continue development.

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