On every page load StackTack will fetch the latest information for that question, keeping the data always up-to-date, shifting the burden off of the blog authors back to the original content authors.

To demonstrate how easy it is to get OMG! Ubuntu! running I’ve recorded the latest deployment on shelr.tv where I created a new environment, bootstrapped it, deployed, then re-pointed the IP address in AWS. What you see in the terminal cast is what’s running OMG! Ubuntu! right now. Compared to traditional deployments, the process is effortless. This terminal cast outlines the deployment of OMG! Ubuntu! from nothing to a running blog. Since it takes about 10 minutes to do the first deploy (imagine having to pull down about 5-10 GB worth of assets, database dumps, etc then import those in to MySQL), I decided to cut there and create this additional short video on how to scale out the deployment.

It’s a fantastic thing. Sure we’ve been rushing around trying all these different methods, but at the end of the day that time was well invested. Now deployments for OMG! Ubuntu! (and WordPress) are easy. In minutes you have a battle ready, tried and true blogging software deployed to the cloud.

Here’s a sample of events and projects that have submitted ads for this Quarter.

Are you looking for outreach? Looking to advertise your Local Team? It’s easy, just create a 220×250 image of your event and post it in this meta thread following the described format. Once the post gets at least six upvotes from the community, the ad will automagically be added to the rotation of existing network ads. (Users withing to vote on ads will need at least 15 reputation to cast an upvote)

Want to support these events and ads on your own blog? Then check out George Edison’s Stack Ad, which will let you run these ads on your own blog!

We can improve Ask Ubuntu by just pointing the user to bug filing advice and promptly closing the question. - Martin Pool

To combat this we’ve mobilized the community to weed out, flag, and close these buggy questions which means a lot of questions will end up closed as off-topic. This isn’t a bad thing – in fact it’s quite a good thing. With each question getting a sign post saying “This is a bug, report your bug to Launchpad” any future users who stumble on to these questions from search engines will now know where to look, instead of finding disappointment in an answer-less ”question”.

We need more help! If you happen to come across a question on Ask Ubuntu that’s a duplicate of an existing bug report, or clearly should be submitted as a bug report, click the “flag” button at the bottom of the post and let us know! The sooner we prune and notify users these are actually bugs the quicker we can get them logged against the appropriate Launchpad project/package. The result will be a more fluid experience for new users and future users (since all these bugs will be fixed!). If you have questions about whether a question is a bug you can join the Ask Ubuntu chat or ask on the Ask Ubuntu Meta site.

• What to do about questions that describe bugs?
• What are some of Ask Ubuntu’s problems, if any?

Since the last election we:

• had over 32,000 questions have been asked
• have seen more than 35,000 additional users join the community
• do over fifteen times as much daily traffic

Once the lens is installed you can use it to answer queries you have while you use Ubuntu. For instance, if you have a question about how to find you Public IP address or how to configure Unity, just type the question or subject matter into the lens and a list of questions, tags, answers, and actions will appear. If you can’t find the answer you’re looking for you can opt to Ask the Question on the site in order to get an answer.

In addition to searching Ask Ubuntu, you can also search for subject matter in other areas. The lens will allow you to filter from one of the man Stack Exchange Q&A sites which cover a wide variety of subject matter from Server Administration, Cooking, Gaming, WordPress, Andriod, Parenting, and many many more.

• How can I configure Unity?
• Do I need to have ‘antivirus software’ installed?
• What are Unity’s keyboard and mouse shortcuts?

There are plenty of other great questions in our catalog of over 30,000. Check out our most linked questions, highest scored questions, and of course our list of unanswered questions (for any that you might be able to help us with)!

 

In length I’m a developer, systems admin, open source evangelical. One of three community elect moderators of Ask Ubuntu, a Juju Charmer, Entrepreneur, Sailor, Cyclist, Gamer, and I like cats. I look forward to reading more about the community’s happenings and contributing to the stream of consciousness that is the Planet!

mkdir -p ~/Projects/charms/oneiric
charm get mysql ~/Projects/charms/oneiric/mysql
charm get phpmyadmin ~/Projects/charms/oneiric/phpmyadmin
juju bootstrap
juju deploy --repository ~/Projects/charms local:mysql
juju deploy --repository ~/Projects/charms local:phpmyadmin
juju add-relation phpmyadmin mysql
juju set phpmyadmin password="password" # Replace password with your actually password
juju expose phpmyadmin

For switching to use the latest upstream, execute the following:

juju set phpmyadmin use_upstream=true

Setting this value to false will revert the installation back to the one provided via the Ubuntu Archives. There are a few other features to this charm which are documented in the readme file.