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grep(1) for XML, using XPath (or CSS selectors) instead of regex(3).
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Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
I’m currently redeveloping our intranet site at work, rewriting it in Rails. I want to keep authentication as simple as possible, and since the current site is set up to authenticate against our LDAP server using mod_authnz_ldap, I want to keep that setup (and avoid having to build any authentication into the Rails app itself).
I quickly discovered that the REMOTE_USER environment variable, which for a CGI app would contain the username which was authenticated by Apache, doesn’t get passed via the proxying magic to Rails (when run via mongrel or the like). My Google-fu turned up this thread, which has a solution that sets an X-Forwarded-User header to the value of REMOTE_USER. That header gets passed on in the proxied request to the Rails app. Here’s the magic incantation:
RewriteCond %{LA-U:REMOTE_USER} (.+)
RewriteRule . - [E=RU:%1]
RequestHeader add X-Forwarded-User %{RU}e
It put me on the right track, but still wasn’t working. There’s two problems with the solution given there:
( Read the rest of this entry » )Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
Mercurial support for Vlad. Using it is as simple as passing :scm => :mercurial to Vlad when loading it up.
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Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
Dianne Pizey spoke again on Saturday to Fr. Kerwin Delicat, priest of St. Philippe-St. Jacques in Gressier, the partner congregation of St. John’s. She reports from the conversation:
The Labordes (Joseph Laborde is the lay leader of St. Philippe – St. Jacques) are all alive and uninjured. Jonas (the oldest son) escaped “by a miracle.” He was at the Episcopal University [in Port-au-Prince], on the roof, when the earthquake occurred. The building collapsed around him, killing many of his classmates and professors. Jonas found a small hole and crawled through “like a snake.”
The Labordes’ home is cracked but standing, but, like everyone in the area, they are living and sleeping outside [...] they are having three or four aftershocks a day. Joseph has led morning prayer outside, in front of the collapsed church.
Kerwin+ himself was reportedly in Port-au-Prince with his brothers, Carlo and Roosnel, when the earthquake occurred. They were stuck in the city overnight, but were able to return to Léogâne on the following day. Kerwin+ has celebrated Eucharist on the grounds at Sainte Croix—Dianne reports, “he thought nobody would come, but in fact 200 – 300 people came.”
With this report, we now know that no one with close ties to St. John’s, at least, was badly harmed, although their situation remains extremely difficult, and virtually everyone there has lost friends or family. We continue to pray for them, and the Minnesota parishes with partners are discussing how best to help our partner congregations as they begin to rebuild.
Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
From a press release from St. James.
On Friday, February 5, 2010, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., the Art for Haiti Relief Committee and St. James on the Parkway (directions) will host an ‘Exhibition and Art Sale for Haiti’.
The exhibit will display paintings, sculpture, and a variety of artifacts at a variety of prices. These works are for sale to help raise money for the vast needs of victims in Haiti. All proceeds go to victims of the Haitian earthquake for immediate life saving and sustaining uses.
As everyone now knows, this beautiful but poor country and people have suffered incredible destruction. Haitian history, too, has been rife with difficulties: slavery, colonialism, and natural disasters. Haiti’s people, by nature, are peaceful, honest, creative and family-loving, which makes their plight all the more close to the hearts of us who have an easier, safer life.
The artworks on display are primarily from Haiti, plus others from the Caribbean and from tribal cultures in Africa, North and South America, India and Oceania. These art pieces and artifacts are infused with essential life-loving and native esthetics, often pure, simple and vivid. Such works have sometimes been called Naive or Primitive Art; at their heart, they invoke warmth, hope, resilience, and joy.
( Read the rest of this entry » )Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
Since Sunday, several people have established contact with Fr. Kerwin Delicat, the Priest-in-Charge of several of the congregations with partner parishes here in Minnesota. We have received word via Kerwin+ and other sources about the Episcopal congregations in Bigonet and L’Acul, both partners of Twin Cities parishes, as well as in Jasmine.
Dianne Pizey spoke to Kerwin+ on Monday morning:
( Read the rest of this entry » )He told me what we already knew – Haiti is almost completely destroyed, the church has lost almost everything, every person he knows has lost at least one loved one, everyone is sleeping outside and they have nothing but the clothes on their back, everyone is crying [for] their loved ones. He didn’t lose any immediate family, but he lost three cousins in Port au Prince. He lost many, many parishioners from Ste. Croix in Léogâne, including three young people who had just started at the Episcopal University in Port au Prince.
At St. Philippe – St. Jacques, the church is completely destroyed, and the school is very badly damaged, just like all the other churches and schools. He said there were not many deaths there.
Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
The FSIL School of Nursing reports today that their facility is still standing following this morning’s magnitude 6.1 earthquake centered at Petit Goave (approximately 20mi west of Léogâne, 40mi west of Port-au-Prince).
This morning’s quake has widened and lengthened cracks in the walls of the School somewhat, but buildings are still in use.
More importantly, they are still serving patients in Léogâne.
Word arrived Tuesday evening that a truck with Dr. Chip Lambert and many supplies arrived at FSIL. Chip Lambert, M.D. is Director, Mission Service, Medical Benevolence Foundation, partnering with the Presbyterian Church USA. This morning we had word that “Chip is miraculously with Hilda doing great stuff after an heroic effort to pack and transport more than 3000 lbs of just what she needed…”
Dean Hilda Alcindor, students, and a visiting nurse faculty volunteer were mobilized within a half hour after the first quake. They have set up 10 first aid stations around the town of Léogâne. The Dean said that 5,000 Léogâne townspeople are being cared for in the yard of the school.
Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
If you’ll pardon me, I’ll break from my reporting of confirmed fact today to delve into the realm of analysis and opinion. I shouldn’t even grace this piece by economist Felix Salmon with a response, but it does bring up many of the misconceptions that might keep people from donating money to charities working in Haiti that is so direly needed. Salmon’s main point is that giving money that is earmarked for Haiti and Haiti alone can be too restrictive when charities come to use that money. It’s an ill time to make that observation, but he’s at least partially right.
What I find more disturbing, though, are the two subtext points he seems to be making:
Charities working in Haiti already have plenty of money to support their relief efforts there.
His given example is that Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières , or MSF), on their US donation page, is asking for unrestricted donations to their general Emergency Relief Fund. From this he extrapolates (falsely) that MSF “has already received enough money over the past three days to keep its Haiti mission running for the best part of the next decade.”
Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
Staff of the Children’s Nutrition Program (CNP) remaining in Haiti are working tirelessly to treat the injured in Léogâne, and to establish a supply chain for medical supplies. Kara Telesmanick reported via e-mail this morning:
CNP team is in a vehicle on the way to Leogane now to go set up too and jump in with what has been started. [...] Save [the Children] and CNP are working on getting camps set up and we’re addressing food and water issues.
and in another e-mail:
CNP is finalizing a partnership with Save the Children and we will work with FSIL and the Notre Dame Filariasis Program to help in Leogane. Anyone interested in donating to CNP can do so at http://www.cnphaiti.org/.
According to Suzi Parker, who runs the guesthouse at l’Hôpital Sainte Croix and has been in relatively regular e-mail communication with CNP staff, the hospital is helping Doctors Without Borders to set up surgical facilities in Léogâne:
( Read the rest of this entry » )Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.
We have confirmation this morning that Fr. Kerwin Delicat is okay! Joseph Vermeille reported to Terry Franzen:
I just talked to Rev. Yyan Francois who told [m]e that Rev. Kerwin Delicat is fine. We do not know Gressier [...]
He and others also report that Fr. Elie Charles, who was at Ste Croix when the first Minnesota-Haiti partnership began, and his wife are fine.
Several updates from around Haiti also came through yesterday, several of them via Lauren Stanley+. One that I missed yesterday:
( Read the rest of this entry » )John Talbird says: Just talked with Jean Jacques Deravil. He is at home. He, his wife, and daughter are safe.
Originally published at Kevin's random thoughts. You can comment here or there.