Recent Posts by znmeb

Topic: Stacks suggestions / New stacks I'd like to see

I’m doing a lot of work with “open data” and “data journalism”. There are quite a few server tools out there that would make great stacks, or could be combined into one stack:

1. Ushahidi
2. SwiftRiver
3. ScraperWiki
4. Rapache

I’m building openSUSE based appliances for data journalism, but they’re desktops, not servers. I’ve thought about putting the server components in, but the appliances I make now are pretty big as is, and a server-only stack would be much smaller. And I onlt have tools for making openSUSE appliances, not Ubuntu appliances or installers for MacOS X or Windows. Bitnami would be a logical place for these to get made.

Topic: Moodle / How closely do you track the upstream Moodle source?

I’m a Moodle user. Right now, my Moodle sites are hosted on a “standard” hosting service, but I’m thinking about migrating to a “cloud-based” platform and using something like RightScale and BitNami’s Moodle stack. One of the issues I have with the standard hosting is that Moodle publishes frequent updates, and some of these are must-have security updates. The hosting service doesn’t always track these, and I have to manually jump through a lot of hoops to upgrade once they do pick up the updates.

So … when Moodle (or any other of your platforms, for that matter) releases an update, especially a security update, how long does it take for BitNami to rebuild the stack? Is there a “registration/notification” service a stack user could subscribe to?

Topic: Stacks suggestions / I'd like JRubyStack with PostgreSQL instead of MySQL

I posted this in the RubyStack / JRubyStack forum, but I’ll repeat it here. I would like a RubyStack / JRubyStack with PostgreSQL as the database instead of MySQL.

Topic: Stacks suggestions / Phusion Passenger™ for windows ???

I would further add that if one wants to run a “Rails stack” on Windows, the current JRubyStack is probably the best bet for efficiency. That is certainly the path I am taking in my Windows / Rails development, at least until the Rails / Merb merger is done and Ruby 1.9.1 is fully integrated with it.

Topic: RubyStack & JRubyStack / How difficult is it to replace MySQL with PostgreSQL in RubyStack and jRubyStack?

I’m interested in using RubyStack or jRubyStack (most likely jRubyStack), but I want to use PostgreSQL instead of MySQL. So:

1. Would BitNami have such a stack on their roadmap already? If not, who else would want it?
2. How difficult would it be for me to swap out MySQL and swap in PostgreSQL?