To get Trac 0.11 working on top of the BitNami Trac Stack for Windows, you need to do the following:

* Launch the command line console (Start Menu -> Run -> type cmd) * Change directory to your Trac installation. * Load the environment variables by typing “scripts\setenv.bat” * Change directory to python\Scripts * You can install trac 0.11 by typing “easy_install http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/trac/branches/0.11-stable” from the console * Stop the servers using the Start Menu shortcut * Copy the folders DLLs and Lib from python\ to apache2\bin * Restart the servers * The last step is typing from python\Scripts ‘trac-admin… more

After a long waiting period of about 2 years, this April phpBB3 vas released. This version offers a new default theme, enhances the administration control panel with a modular design and provides support for a great variety of databases. phpBB2 will remain actively maintained by the community, due to its widespread adoption.

Here in BitNami you can find easy to install versions of phpBB3 and phpBB2. You can easily compare both versions by yourself by downloading and installing the latest BitNami phpBB Stacks from http://bitnami.org/stack/phpbb. After installing the BitNami phpBB Stack you will have a running version of… more

It’s been hard work, but we are glad to announce that the BitNami Trac Stack (http://www.bitnami.org/product/trac) finally supports Microsoft Windows :)

Quoting from the Trac website (http://trac.edgewall.org),

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission is to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team’s established development process and policies.

It provides an interface to Subversion, an integrated Wiki and convenient reporting facilities.

Trac allows wiki… more

The BitNami Project has been created to help spread the adoption of freely available, high quality, open source web applications. BitNami aims to make it easier than ever to discover, download and install open source software such as document and content management systems, wiki, blogging software and more collaborative software.

More and more people are adopting open source software not only due to the minor cost but also because of the possibilities of customization the open source software offers. An important area of open source software development is focused on web applications. Web applications are used to provide multi-user… more

We would like to present you today Silas’s howto. It may be very helpful for bunch of you. It is based on this post.

Thanks Silas once again.


“Thought I would make this a new topic. It collates information relating to getting a good development environment running on a windows box (for free):

After following these steps you should have an Aptana RadRails intstalltion, which RubyStack’s Ruby, Rails, ImageMagick and other libraries, and provides visual debugging.

# Download and Install: * RubyStack – http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack * Aptana Studio – http://www.aptana.com/studio/download # Configure: * Aptana ** Open Aptana,... more

If you have read the previous post about installing services on Linux (What, you haven’t? Do it now!), you will have a rough idea on how init and the rc.d scripts work. On OSX, launchd is the tool that replaces them both. launchd is invoked by the kernel while booting the system and takes care of managing the processes, just as init does. To interact with launchd there is a tool called launchctl, which will be used in this tutorial.

The daemon scripts are located at /Library/LaunchDaemons. Only the system administrator has the permissions to write there, so… more

Allow me to give you a little introduction on the subject prior to the proper howto. The Linux boot process can be split up in three steps:

* Loading the kernel * Device detection and configuration * Granting control to ‘init’

The ‘init’ program is a daemon that spawns all other processes in the system. It is responsibe for loading the system using initialization scripts, which are usually found at /etc/init.d. There are two ways for init to operate, BSD and SystemV. Typically, Linux systems use SystemV, though there are distributions like Arch Linux or Slackware that use… more

QtCentre together with the sponsors – Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Integrated Computer Solutions Inc., Trolltech ASA, BitRock, Thorsen Consulting, Apress and basysKom GmbH – just launched the second edition of the Qt Programming contest, the only programming contest focused on the Qt/Qtopia community. They haven’t announced the prizes yet, but last year, they gave away pretty cool stuff – Macbooks, Green Phones, electronics and more.

The categories are:

# Collaboration — an application or tool that helps users work together and interact. This can be collaborative editors, front-ends for a version control that are not just useful for developers,... more

We’re happy to announce the release of JRubyStack for Linux, Windows and OS X. JRuby is a 100% Java implementation of the Ruby programming language. It is Ruby for the JVM. JRuby provides a complete set of core “builtin” classes and syntax for the Ruby language, as well as most of the Ruby Standard Libraries.

The BitNami JRubyStack includes ready-to-run versions of JRuby, Rails, Java, Tomcat, GlassFish gem, MySQL and Subversion. With JRubyStack you can… more