[scripts-announce] Technical talk && Brief 1am outage

[Jeff Arnold]

1. As part of the "SIPB Cluedump Series", I will be talking about how 
scripts.mit.edu works on Monday at 8:30 PM in 3-133.  This talk is 
intended for programmers and will go into detail about the internals of 
scripts.mit.edu (for example, we will go through the scripts.mit.edu 
OpenAFS code modifications in detail).  It will not be a gentle 
introduction to creating websites using scripts.mit.edu, so I recommend 
that you avoid it unless you are interested in technical details about how 
scripts.mit.edu works.

2. There will be a brief scripts.mit.edu outage tonight starting at 
1:00am.  The outage should last no more than about 5 minutes.

We are still working on various hardware and software improvements in 
order to increase reliability in response to our multi-hour outage in 
July.  We will send more information about these improvements once they 
are ready.

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Title: Technical overview of scripts.mit.edu
Speaker: Jeff Arnold [jbarnold at mit.edu]
Date: Mon Oct 02 20:30:00 EDT 2006
Location: 3-133
Abstract:

The scripts.mit.edu web script service allows individuals and groups to 
put CGI scripts (perl, php, python, ruby, scheme, etc) on the web using 
nothing more than an Athena account.  Integrating this functionality with 
Athena presented certain challenges that had to be overcome before the 
service could be launched.

In this talk, Jeff Arnold will describe the design and implementation of 
the SIPB script services.  This talk is intended to be a technical 
overview of the internals of the services rather than a gentle 
introduction to the services (for documentation intended for potential new 
users, see http://scripts.mit.edu).

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SIPB's Fall schedule of technical talks is on the web at 
http://web.mit.edu/cluedumps (which redirects to a scripts.mit.edu 
website, of course).

If you would like to receive announcements about SIPB talks this Fall, you 
should add yourself to the Moira list cluedump-announce at mit.edu or e-mail 
cluedumps at mit.edu.

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Jeff Arnold
jbarnold at mit.edu