I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy - Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, 1960

We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief.

President Ronald Reagan - Speech to Temple Hillel, 1984

We stick to the spec and keep the metadata files “toolkit-agnostic”, by storing Maqetta-specific widget metadata elsewhere. Ideally, another product that implemented the OAM spec could make use of our metadata files.

Lately, though, we’ve started to transition to using the AMD loader for Dojo 1.7; and we found that the existing OAM files didn’t really work that well with AMD.

For that reason, we had to deviate from the OAM spec and add extensions to support AMD and other module specs. Read on here for a detailed explanation of the changes and some examples.

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

Isaac Asimov

It’s that time of the year again, time to kick Cancer’s * ass by growing some ridiculous facial hair! For those of you who aren’t familiar with Movember, at the beginning of the November, dude’s shave their face, completely. Then, grow a mustache through the end of the month. And as always, comport yourself like a true gentleman.

You can check out my progress throughout the month on my Movember.com space. There, you can also donate to the cause and help improve men’s health.

* testicular and prostate!

Having a full beard leading up to Movember gives you the opportunity to experiment and plan the ‘stache you are going to grow. I tried a few different styles, but my two favorites were The Bronco:

and The Fuzzy Caterpillar:

I don’t think The Fuzzy Caterpillar works well for me – I just don’t have the clothes for it. But I’m digging The Bronco…

Required Software

I followed the Octopress installation and setup docs as best I could. But if you are trying to setup on GoDaddy, you’ll immediately discover that the GoDaddy Linux servers are missing some essential software – in particular, rsync and git.

First, let’s check what version the server is running and which CPU architecture (32 or 64 bit):

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cat /etc/redhat-release   # OS version
uname -a                  # CPU arch (amongst other things)

At the time I ran this command, the returned values were CentOS release 5.5 (Final) and 64-bit (i386 or i686) for the CPU arch.

I then searched online for appropriate RPMS for rsync and git and installed them in my home directory on the GoDaddy server. First with rsync:

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# on GoDaddy server

# get rsync RPM
curl -O http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/rsync-3.0.6-4.el5.i386.rpm

# unpack RPM locally
#  You may want to do this in a temporary folder, so that the unpacking doesn't
#  litter the $HOME dir.
rpm2cpio rsync-3.0.6-4.el5.i386.rpm | cpio -id

# copy rsync app to local bin dir
cp usr/bin/rsync ~/bin

Then with git (if you choose to also host your remote git repository):

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curl -O http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm
rpm2cpio ../git-1.7.4.1-1.el5.i386.rpm | cpio -id
cp usr/bin/git* ~/bin/

Note: The URLs above may no longer be valid for the hosting system you use. Make sure you have the right one.

However, it’s still not 100% perfect, since the apps we added aren’t in the path when using a non-interactive session to the GoDaddy server. We need to tell the local app where to look for any of its dependencies on the server. For example, to do a clone of a git repository on that server, it would look something like this:

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# The -u option tells git where to find the necessary app on the server.
git clone -u bin/git-upload-pack myexample.com:git/octopress.git

# rsync has a similar option
rsync --rsync-path=bin/rsync foo/ baz/

Octopress Configuration

In general, I followed the documentation, especially Deploying with Rsync.

In the Rakefile, I had to change how rsync was invoked, in order to specify the necessary --rsync-path:

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 desc "Deploy website via rsync"
 task :rsync do
   puts "## Deploying website via Rsync"
-  ok_failed system("rsync -avze 'ssh -p #{ssh_port}' --delete #{public_dir}/ #{ssh_user}:#{document_root}")
+  ok_failed system("rsync --rsync-path=bin/rsync -avze 'ssh -p #{ssh_port}' --delete #{public_dir}/ #{ssh_user}:#{document_root}")
 end

 desc "deploy public directory to github pages"

Setup Git Repository

I decided to host my own version control repository, again on the GoDaddy server. I followed the instructions here to first set up my remote repository and then to update the git config. One thing different is that I didn’t input the pwd URL as the new repo URL (git config branch.master.remote origin) – instead, I have myexample.com:git/octopress.git, where “myexample.com” is an entry in .ssh/config:

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Host myexample.com
User myusername
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/identity

The main reason I created this config file is because my GoDaddy username is different than my local username, and i got tired of always doing ssh -i ~/.ssh/identity myusername@myexample.com. With that config, I can now just type ssh example.com. It’s also useful for the Octopress scripts.

Now, after creating the repository on the server, running any git commands locally won’t work, complaining that it can’t find git-upload-pack. You can fix that by specify that executables location on the server:

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# clone
git clone -u bin/git-upload-pack myexample.com:git/octopress.git

# pull
git pull --upload-pack bin/git-upload-pack

An easier way is to add these to the .git/config file, under the heading for the GoDaddy server:

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[remote "origin"]
	url = myexample.com:git/octopress.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
	receivepack = bin/git-receive-pack
  uploadpack = bin/git-upload-pack

With that, it should all work.

References

Here are some sites that helped me with this task:

Subversion on GoDaddy shared hosting

Using Git on Godaddy’s Ssh-Enabled Virtual Webhosts