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Stupid Asterisk Tricks - CallerID Name Randomizer

Earlier this week I decided to finally add paging support to the phone system. It's really handy to be able to yell at everyone through the speakers on their phones every once in a while. One of our techs wanted the CallerID to be a bit more obvious when it's a page so that he'd know not to answer the phone with a, "Hello?"

Varnish, Plone and nginx

Because it's dumb to hit a Plone instance for the same unchanging information time and time again, it's a smart idea to put a caching proxy in front of any Plone instance. Traditionally Squid was used, but Squid is a nasty beast. Some recent apps have appeared since I last played with Plone several years ago, in particular Varnish. The only problem, it can't serve content on its own. It must proxy to other servers. Fortunately Varnish is extremely flexible and makes it dead simple to get the desired result with the help of an additional lightweight web server. This should work with any other app server, be it Zope or a burly Java monstrosity.

Words of Wisdom from Space (Coyote)

These are the collected tweets of Nina Matsumoto, more frequently known as space coyote. For up-to-the-minute action, check out her twitter page. As the stuttery nature of multi-tweet statements is rather bothersome, I've added some punctuation and squished together tweets where needed.