I’ve been involved in building out an rpmbuild system using Koji as our build server. One cool feature is being able to keep all of your sources in git, like patches, specs, etc. One bummer with that is the tar files with actual source code. Well fedora came up with a way to reference that via a sources file.

Took some digging into the internals to see exactly how that worked. Finally I ran across this post, http://www.linux-archive.org/discussion-fedora-build-system-buildsys-lists-fedoraproject-org/461285-private-koji-instance-private-scm-make-sources-private-lookaside.html, on a mailing list by Jesse Keating, one of Red Hats employees who has a big hand in how that all works.

I’m studying for the RHCA exam 423, and one of my tasks is to setup TLS for Directory Server. I know RedHat like to follow standards, and am guessing that I will have to use a CA signed cert when setting this up. So in the name of doing things right, I’m going to setup a little CA that I can work with.

I’ve decided to take the first of 5 exams to get my Red Hat Certified Architect Certification. The first exam I am going for is the EX423, Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication Expertise Exam, which focuses a lot on LDAP.

According to the exam objectives they will be focusing primarily on implementing authentication with Red Hat Directory Server, which is an add-on that is available with a RHEL subscription. Fortunately, like the OS itself, there is an open source version that ships with Fedora, 389 Directory Server.

So I was in Vegas a few weeks ago, and really wanted to tether via my iPhone, but quickly found out that’s a no go. I saw an app out there, Tether, that would let me do this, but Apple pulled from the store the day it was released.

So, I jailbroke my phone.

Sparrow was released a few days ago. Unfortunately this came without push because Apple rejected that version. Something about duplicating native features. How lame.

A super nice developer out there, Kim Streich, has released Sparrow Push, which is available to jailbroken phones in the Cydia store. Yay!

Now I have this section in my settings that gives me push.

Loving Hyde so far. I did however want to replicate the tagcloud that I had on wordpress, which resized the tag text based on frequency of occurrence.

I look through the code and docs, and determine this is not something that is baked in just yet. I know jquery has a nice tag cloud plugin, but it requires that a count be fed to a rel=”” tag in your list. I’ve been meaning to learn more about hyde’s inner workings, so I ventured in with a mission of integrating the jquery tagcloud plugin, with my Hyde site.