Trac

So here we are again this time to talk about "Trac" an integrated SCM and project management tool. I love this tool even though at first glance it could result a bit simplistic. The philosophy is quite clear and if you make a good usage of the tool you will be implementing plenty of recognized good practices on the software engineering even without notice it. Here you can find the original site with a lot of information, tutorials, etc.. As usual,...

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MySQL on the Cloud

On this post we are going to install and configure an Instance of MySQL on our remote server. Here http://www.guia-ubuntu.org/index.php?title=MySQL you can find a post talking about this same topic.First of all we have to install the MySQL Server packages:sudo apt-get install mysql-serverDuring the installation you will be asked to introduce the root password.In order to allow connection from any client, edit /etc/mysql/my.cnf and modify bind-address...

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Mercurial with Apache... on the Cloud!!

And here we go with our third tutorial explaining how to deploy and enjoy applications 'In the cloud'. This time we will take advantage of our previous post where we configured Apache to serve securely and authenticated information across the Internet and we will deploy a distributed source code management system 'Mercurial'. You can find a lot of information about what is and what is  Mercurial used for in the official web page http://mercurial.selenic.com/A....

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Apache on the Cloud

I will explain step by step how to configure Apache within a Ubuntu server running in the Cloud. In my previous post I explained how to configure the Amazon Web Service in order to have an Ubuntu Server running 7x24. At the end of this tutorial we will have a public html page visible to everybody.A. Connect into your remote instance and install Apachessh -i Ubuntu_10_04_32.pem ubuntu@ec2-46-137-60-179.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.comsudo apt-get update...

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Ubuntu on the Cloud

It has been a long time since the last post but I hope that this interesting post will compensate the wait. Today we are going to talk about something that has become very trendy in the last years 'The cloud'. The first question is quite obvious... What is the Cloud? Based on Wikipedia's definition: 'Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided...

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Virtualization with VirtualBox

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } VirtualBox is an open source software virtualization system. For those not really familiarized with virtualization technologies I will say that basically it is a program that allows you to run an operative system inside another operative system. For instance you could run a Windows XP inside our brand new Ubuntu 10.04 (See fig.1). Of course you may wonder why the hell would you even want to have a Windows XP running...

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C Development Tools

C Development ToolsLife changed for C and C++ Developers with the arrival of CDT for Eclipse. Eclipse is one of the most famous IDEs (Integrated development environments) based in plugin approach architecture allowing to program in different technologies and languages under the same graphical framework.CDT is an open source plugin that enhance Eclipse with the needed features to develop in C and C++ both large and small projects. It brings all the...

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