Hi,

we'd need more customization options for the email notifier. I see on the documentation that TC 5.1 is going to leverage a different templating engine but no additional information is provided.

Our requirements are as following:

• edit the templates from the Web UI, since not every member of the team will have physical access to the TC server.
• reference system properties, environment variables and parameters from the notification template

Is anything of this planned already or should I create an issue on youtrack?

works, but it's not what i'd like... a hotkey that temporarily and magically inserts ":type" behind every declaration would be nice.

Hi,

I was trying to make PhpStorm shortcuts behave like ReSharper's. I've been using ReSharper for severeal years now and I like PhpStorm. Now I'd like to use the same shortcuts, of course. So, I'd like to use "Ctrl+R, R" for renaming a variable and so on. I did not find a keymap "ReSharper" but only the keymap "Visual Studio".

The problem is that the keymap "Visual Studio" is different from the real Visual Studio with ReSharper.

Some examples:

* "Visual Studio" has "Refactor Rename" as Shift+F6, while real ReSharper uses "Ctrl+R, R".

* "Surround with..." command can be invoked with "Ctlr+Alt+T" in the KeyMap "Visual Studio" while in ReSharper the shortcut is "Ctrl+E, U".

I'd really love to have ReSharpers keymap.

Thanks,

Felix

L'hébergement virtuel proposant des "tranches" de serveur devient de plus en plus populaire. Vous trouverez un peu partout des offres comparables à celles proposées par Gandi ou Slicehost et, de mon point de vue, elles représentent l'avenir de l'hébergement de sites web.

En regardant les offres de près, le premier réflexe est généralement d'être effrayé par les tarifs. Surtout en France, où certaines sociétés laissent croire qu'on peut fournir un hébergement de qualité pour 2 EUR par mois.

Pour une somme allant de 14 à 20 EUR par mois, vous pourrez trouver un hébergement disposant de 256 Mo de RAM, un puissance CPU raisonnable et une flexibilité que vous ne trouverez pas ailleurs. Et vous serez administrateur de votre machine ce qui n'est pas le dernier des avantages.

Il y a de cela 8 ans, j'avais un vieux PC dans ma cuisine, avec 192 Mo de RAM, un CPU poussif et un débit montant de 128 kbits/s. Ça ne m'empêchait pas de faire tourner un serveur web, un serveur de mail. Les début de dotclear.net se sont faits sur cette machine, à côté du frigo.

Du coup, je me suis dit, qu'il n'y avait aucune raison de ne pas faire fonctionner correctement un serveur web avec 256 Mo de RAM, un meilleur CPU et une bande passante bien plus confortable.

Afin de tester mon idée, j'ai créé une machine virtuelle avec vmware et une image Ubuntu server. Cette liste propose un grand nombre d'images de VM prêtes à l'emploi, ça vous fera gagner du temps si vous voulez faire des essais.

Au démarrage la machine virtuelle n'utilise que 16% de ses 256 Mo de mémoire. (Avec uniquement un serveur SSH).

Sur Ubuntu, la configuration par défaut de MySQL est réputée pour consommer un peu trop de ressources. Nous pouvons améliorer ceci en modifiant un peu le fichier /etc/mysql/my.cnf. Faites en sorte d'avoir ces lignes dans le fichier :

Si vous n'avez pas l'intention d'installer Dotclear ou plus généralement, ne comptez pas utiliser InnoDB, désactivez le en ajoutant la ligne :

Cette configuration me donne une utilisation de mémoire d'environ 30 Mo. Ça dépendra, bien sûr, de vos applications.

De l'ensemble LAMP, nous voulons conserver Linux, MySQL et PHP. Nous allons remplacer Apache par un autre serveur : Nginx. Nginx (on dit Engine X) est ce qu'on pourrait appeler la nouvelle génération de serveurs web. Il peut remplacer Apache dans de nombreuses circonstances. Je vous laisse lire la présentation du serveur ainsi que ce billet.

Pour installer Nginx, apt, yum ou votre gestionnaire de paquet feront l'affaire. Assurez vous simplement d'avoir une version 0.7.x. Nous verrons ensuite comment le configurer.

Nginx, contrairement à Apache, ne propose pas d'équivalent à mod_php. Vous ne pouvez pas non plus utiliser PHP simplement en CGI (tant mieux). Vous allez devoir utiliser FastCGI et indiquer à Nginx comment y accéder.

Pour faire simple, nous allons installer spawn-fcgi et écrire un script pour lancer nos processus PHP. Sur Ubuntu/Debian :

Le script permettant de lancer les processus PHP est le suivant, vous devez le créer dans /etc/init.d/php5-fcgi :

Pour activer votre script (avec Ubuntu ou Debian) :

Maintenant vos processus PHP se lanceront au démarrage. Un petit mot sur deux paramètres importants. Les processus PHP en CGI ont une tendance connue à planter de manière régulière. C'est à ceci que sert à la variable PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS que nous avons mis à 500. Tous les 500 cycles, chaque processus PHP sera relancé. Enfin, PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN=2 indique de lancer deux processus PHP. Vous pouvez en mettre plus mais n'oubliez pas que plus il y en a plus vous consommerez de mémoire.

Une fois en production, vous pourriez constater que c'est un peu lent. L'installation du paquet php5-xcache améliore grandement les performances de PHP. Consultez le site de Xcache pour en savoir plus. J'ai doublé la taille du cache (xcache.size dans /etc/php5/conf.d/xcache.ini) mais ne perdez pas de vue que cette taille est appliquée à chaque processus PHP (soit 2 fois 32M dans mon cas).

Maintenant, vous pouvez lancer votre processus à l'aide de /etc/init.d/php5-fcgi start.

Notez également que PHP FPM peut remplacer spawn-fcgi. J'en ai lu le plus grand bien mais ne l'ai pas testé.

Vous avez bien entendu installé Nginx avec un classique apt-get install nginx.

Nginx pour Ubuntu ou Debian fourni un fichier de configuration pour FastCGI. Nous allons le compléter. Le fichier est /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params et doit contenir ceci :

Les derniers paramètres permettent d'utiliser PHP en mode PATH_INFO (à condition de bien configurer Nginx). Le tout dernier paramètre est le plus important, c'est celui qui va dire à PHP quel script exécuter.

Maintenant, testons ceci. Créez un fichier /var/www/nginx-default/test.php dans lequel vous pouvez par exemple mettre un appel à phpinfo() ou ce que vous voulez.

Ensuite, modifiez le fichier /etc/nginx/site-enabled/default (il peut se trouver ailleurs si vous n'êtes pas sur Ubuntu/Debian). Vous pouvez aussi créer un nouveau fichier, vous faites comme vous voulez.

Relancez le serveur avec /etc/init.d/nginx restart et rendez vous sur votre nouveau site pour pointer sur le fichier test.php. Votre script doit s'exécuter.

Ça ne marche pas ? Vous obtenez le très informatif "No input file specified" ? Quelque chose est mal configuré. Ça peut être un problème de permission. Commencez par essayer d'enlever la partie se chargeant d'interpréter PHP et de charger votre script. Vous pouvez également utiliser strace pour repérer quelle valeur de SCRIPT_FILENAME est passée à PHP.

Dotclear, avec la configuration que nous venons de voir, s'installe très bien. Vous pourrez même l'utiliser en PATH_INFO avec une URL du genre /index.php/...

Peut-on faire mieux ? Yes we can.

Avec Apache, vous aviez la possibilité d'utiliser Mod Rewrite pour lui dire quelque chose comme : "Si ce n'est pas un fichier ou un répertoire transforme l'URL vers tel script". Nginx propose des options de rewrite du même type avec une limite de taille ; on ne peut pas imbriquer les tests. On peut donc tester si l'URL demandée pointe vers un fichier, ou vers un répertoire mais pas les deux. C'est gênant. On peut s'en sortir en écrivant une configuration très complexe et difficile à maintenir. Sinon on peut se rappeler que Nginx n'est pas Apache et qu'il existe peut-être un autre moyen.

Nginx fournit une directive appelée try_files qui va faire exactement ce que nous ferions avec Apache rewrite en testant si le fichier et le répertoire n'existe pas.

Donc, pour votre Dotclear à la racine pointant vers /dotclear/index.php, voici la recette :

La même chose est possible pour Wordpress, Drupal et consort.

Ma configuration est une machine virtuelle VMWare avec 256 Mo de RAM utilisant un seul core de CPU sur un MacBook Pro. C'est sans doute un peu plus que ce dont dispose une part d'hébergement mais ça donne une idée.

Voici quelques chiffres :

C'est tout à fait honorable pour du PHP avec aussi peu de ressources. L'autre aspect intéressant est que même avec 50 visiteurs au même moment, vos fichiers statiques sont servis en moins d'une demie-seconde. Et contrairement à Apache, l'utilisation mémoire n'augmente pas avec le nombre de requêtes simultanées.

La conclusion est que, oui, avec 256 Mo de RAM, vous pouvez disposer d'un serveur web tout à fait performant et vous disposez même d'une marge de manoeuvre permettant d'installer un serveur SMTP et IMAP.

N'étant pas non plus un expert sur le sujet, n'hésitez pas à signaler les erreurs. Et si vous avez des astuces concernant PostgreSQL avec une telle configuration, ça m'intéresse.

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For many people, Twitter offers a larger, more diverse stream of constantly flowing data than they've ever had to deal with before in their life. Depending on how many people you follow and how much they tweet, the information can become unmanageable. To that end, we have user lists, third-party clients, Twitter tools and search.

And today, it looks like Twitter has begun working on making this last option - search - more useful for its users by offering the ability to percolate popular search results to the top of the page.

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Jennifer Van Grove at Mashable noticed an update in the Twitter API Google Group this morning that alerts us of a soon-to-come search feature - popular tweets.

From the post on Google Groups:

Basically, the API will now offer a variable named "result_type" that can will return either "popular" or "recent". Programs will be able to use the variable to either return search results with popular tweets at the top as default, show only popular results or show only recent results.

Also added to the Twitter API this week are two other variables for the retweet API.

The second will return just the ids of those retweeters for the cases where
that's all you care about.

Perhaps these have some sort of implication in how tweets will be deemed popular, but even if not, it could be useful in watching the trickle-down spread of a tweet.

As the climate continues to change, some studies suggest that warmer temperatures may help plants bloom earlier and longer. However, that may not be the whole story. An article published in Science details how different plants respond to different indicators of changing seasons, and why that might ultimately shift the balance of some ecosystems.

Phenology, the study of how nature responds to cyclical changes, indicates that non-tropical plants need their environment to fulfill three criteria before they'll start blooming: the degree of winter chilling, photoperiod (the length of the day relative to the night), and temperature. Plant typically handles these cues hierarchically, first registering that the winter chilling period has ended, then taking into account the photoperiod, and then the ambient temperature.

While most plants and trees, including those that typically dominate mature forests, use all three variables, others do not take the photoperiod into account. The other two blooming criteria, chilling and temperature, can happen earlier in the year as the climate warms up. This would allow photoperiod-insensitive plants to bloom sooner, possibly getting the drop on the other flora that have to wait around for days to get sufficiently long before they can start their reproductive cycles and restart their growth cycles. The two classes of plants may end up with different access to resources, including pollinators.

While this may shift the dynamics of photoperiod sensitive and insensitive trees, there are a number of other factors that contribute to plant prosperity that climate doesn't affect, such as mineralization of the soil. Still, it's important to note that, when it comes to plants, there won't be a single, consistent response to climate change.

Science, 2010. DOI: 10.1126/science.1186473  (About DOIs).

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i like inferred types and prefer not to explicitly write them down to make it easier to change the return type of some method. but at some point, i'd like to push a button/hotkey and let idea tell me which type i actually have here. currently, i do this via select, then introduce variable, and idea tells me the type. is there a better way? alt/ctrl+mouseover didn't work

The e-book war between Amazon.com and Apple is
getting uglier. Dennis Johnson cites a report in Publishers Marketplace (subscription required) that alleges that Amazon.com is telling publishers that if they switch to an agency model (ala Macmillan) , they will lose Amazon as a platform for both e-books and print.

This battle, which in many ways mirrors similar struggles between record labels and online music stores, underscores some of the challenges that moving into widespread digital distribution for a formerly non-digital product can bring.

Recently, Macmillian’s CEO John Sargent explained the agency model, as it relates to e-book sales, in his blog:

“Starting at the end of March, we will move from the ‘retail model’ of selling e-books (publishers sell to retailers, who then sell to readers at a price that the retailer determines) to the ‘agency model’ (publishers set the price, and retailers take a commission on the sale to readers).”

In other words, Macmillan wants to be able to control how much digital books are sold for on a per-book basis. Much like music publishers fought (and eventually won) the right to sell certain digital tracks or digital albums for more (or less, in some cases) than the $0.99 per track/$9.99 per album standard, publishers want that same control.

Amazon disagrees. And while it did acquiesce to Macmillan’s position at the end of January, it apparently has no plans of making those same concessions for future publishers.

In the Publishers Marketplace report, Michael Cader writes:

“At least one independent publisher of scale was told categorically by Amazon in a recent phone call initiated by the retailer that Amazon would not negotiate agency selling terms with any other publishers outside of the five initial Apple partners. This publisher was told that if they switched to an agency model for e-books, Amazon would stop selling their entire list, in print and digital form. In conversation, Amazon is said to have reiterated that as matter of policy they are declining to negotiate an agency model with any publisher outside of the five who have already announced agreements with Apple’s iBookstore.”

In other words, the agreements that have been made with the five publishers signed to work with Apple — Macmillan, Harper Collins, Penguin, Hachette, and Simon & Schuster — will not be passed on to smaller publishers.

It seems even the agreement with the other four publishers outside of Macmillan (known as Agency Four) isn’t set in stone.

Cader also writes:

“The indications are that if the Agency Four have not finalized new digital sales agreements with Amazon prior to the launch of Apple’s iPad, they could face delisting from direct sale at Amazon, as Macmillan did.”

Translation: If those publishers don’t finalize a new digital agreement with Amazon before the launch of the iPad, they risk being removed from Amazon.com

Because it is both the biggest seller of e-books and print books, Amazon has enormous power in the publishing industry. However, it’s unclear how long it will be able to play hardball with publishers, especially as formidable competitors like Apple (with iTunes) and Google emerge.

Apple, interestingly, held a reverse stance with music executives for many years before finally changing course in January of 2009 with the introduction of variable pricing. However, one reason Apple was able to exert so much influence over record labels pricing was because until Amazon launched its service (again, Amazon took the reverse approach with music, letting publishers set variable pricing for tracks and albums), there was no real competitor in the digital music space.

Amazon isn’t quite as lucky. First, e-books have been around for years and are available in a variety of formats from a variety of different storefronts. In fact, Amazon sold digital books long before it introduced the Kindle.

The e-book market has evolved much more quickly than the digital music space, which leaves less wiggle room for retailers, like Amazon, to exert pressure.

However, make no mistake, for smaller publishers, the risk of losing listings on Amazon.com is still probably a big enough threat to have an effect.

We’ll keep following this situation as it develops.

[via John Gruber]

Tags: amazon, apple, business, ebook price war, ebooks, ipad, Kindle, Macmillan

Gero Langisch ist musikbesessen, war schon Chef eines Labels, hat während der letzten re:publica moderiert, ist Mitarbeiter von MotorFM ... und was fast alle seiner Bekannten bereits wissen, wird nun auch im Netz manifestiert: Gero pokert leidenschaftlich gerne.

Das Pokerspiel ist das vielleicht amerikanischste aller Spiele. Kein Westernsaloon ohne die Gruppe abseits sitzender Männer, Ernest Hemingway soll angeblich einmal das Manuskript zu The Killers am Tisch verspielt haben, John F. Kennedy musste sich bei seinem Bruder Nachhilfe im Bluffen holen und die Neuerfindung James Bonds geschah nicht zuletzt am Pokertisch. Durch die epidemische Verbreitung des Onlinepokers spielt man inzwischen überall auf der Welt die fünf Karten, mit denen es, so die Verheißung, für jeden Außenseiter etwas zu holen gibt. Dabei ist Poker, sagen seine aktiven Spieler, mehr als ein gut gegebenes Blatt. Poker ist Statistik, ist Strategie, ist Psychologie und ein ganz klein wenig Glück. Wie man den prozentualen Anteil des Zufalls am Spielausgang durch geschicktes Lesen und Täuschen des Gegenübers senken kann, erzählt und zeigt Gero Langisch im neuen Selbstauslöser.

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Following the Congressional Budget Office's score of the health care reform reconciliation package, Fox News has attempted to portray the nonpartisan CBO as untrustworthy and unreliable. By contrast, after the CBO gave a "favorable" score to the GOP health care plan, Fox praised the office as "nonpartisan" and advanced false GOP claims about the CBO's findings.

 Beck mocks CBO score of health care reform: "Well, that's a party in my pants." On the March 18 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck, Beck asked, "How would the CBO numbers even make any difference? You know, 'Only 900 and' -- what is it -- '$954 billion.' Ooh. Well, that's a party in my pants. Thank you for sending that one by. How does that make a difference?"

 Doocy: "[C]an you really rely on the numbers that the Congressional Budget Office comes out with?" On the March 19 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy claimed, "Democrats say it will reduce the deficit by more than $100 billion over the first decade." After guest host Dana Perino responded by saying, "Well, but there are other members who say that it actually will cost $2.4 trillion over the 10 years once you add it all up," Doocy asked, "Because, can you really rely on the numbers that the Congressional Budget Office comes out with?"

 Perino: "[C]an we trust these numbers?" Introducing an interview with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) on the same edition of Fox & Friends, Perino said, "Nine hundred and forty billion dollars over the next decade. That's the preliminary price tag for the Democrats' health care bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office. It also says the plan will cut the federal deficit by $130 billion in that time, but can we trust these numbers?" Weiner said the score "came out really better than we thought it would. It was a great savings number, and so the deficit hawks now have things that they can point at and say, 'You know what? This really does save money." Perino then asked him, "But do you think ... that those numbers can be trusted later on?"

 Johnson Jr.: "I don't expect or anticipate that their numbers are real." On the same edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade said that the "average person" would say, "[I]f a plan costs $940 billion, tell me how I'm saving 130 billion. So it doesn't make any sense." Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. then noted that Perino had asked, "Do we really trust these numbers?" and claimed that "if you read carefully the latest CBO things, they say, 'Well, we don't usually project out another 10 years.' And there's so many variables and so many wiggle words that I don't expect or anticipate that their numbers are real." He later said, "I think we're being spun."

 Hannity calls CBO score "budgetary gimmicks and tricks." On the March 18 edition of Fox News' Hannity, host Sean Hannity called the CBO score of the health care bill reflected "budgetary gimmicks and tricks" and said that it is "[f]lat-out dishonest" that the score didn't contain separate legislation that cancels scheduled cuts in Medicare payments to doctors. After guest Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) claimed "the only way that [Democrats] pay for those additions is to reduce seniors' health care benefits on their Medicaid or raise taxes," Hannity responded, "[W]hy would the CBO not highlight this to give a truly educational, informational, you know, scoring of this to the American people?"

 Hemmer asks Juan Williams "do you believe" the CBO long-range forecast. On the March 18 edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom, Fox News contributor Juan Williams called the CBO score a "deal-maker" because it will "reassure those independents and, by extension, those Democrats that have been on the fence because they are deficit hawks" because of the deficit reduction. Co-host Bill Hemmer then said to Williams, "That's 20 years out. You've lived in Washington a long time. Do you believe that?"

 Fox Nation headline: "CBO Score Called a 'Lie.' " On March 18, Fox Nation posted a National Review article under the headline "CBO Score Called a 'Lie.' " From Fox Nation:

 Fox's Shively touted "favorable" CBO report on GOP health care bill and advanced false GOP claim that GOP plan would lower premiums more than Democrats' plan. On the November 5, 2009, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, contributor Caroline Shively adopted the GOP spin by reporting, "Now, on the other side of the aisle, Republicans have gotten favorable reports from the Congressional Budget Office on the cost of their health care bill. GOP lawmakers say that means premiums for millions of families will be almost $5,000 lower under their plan, compared to the cheapest plan in the Democrats' exchange." In fact, the $5,000 difference Shively cited ignored premium caps in the House Democrats' plan. As Media Matters for America has noted, because the Democrats' health care bill provides premium caps on a sliding scale based on income, the lowest amount that a family would have to pay in premiums is significantly less than the GOP alternative.

America's Newsroom attributes Republican talking point to CBO. On the November 5 edition of America's Newsroom, host Martha McCallum claimed, "The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office is saying that the Republican bill ... will carry lower costs for Americans. The CBO estimates that health insurance premiums would be nearly $5,000 cheaper under the Republican reforms than the Democratic ones." In fact, the CBO never made that claim. The comparison was based on calculations done by Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee. From America's Newsroom:

Fox & Friends report obscures that GOP plan wouldn't cover uninsured, wouldn't significantly lower premiums, would reduce deficit less than Democrats' plan. Shively's Fox & Friends report ignored that the GOP plan would not cover most uninsured Americans. Shively also did not report that the CBO estimates indicate that House Democrats' bill lowers the deficit more than the GOP's proposal.