I was a happy Trac user, but after seeing Redmine, I realized that Trac has many missing features and that you must do a lot of things with plugins, Redmine has this features out-of-box. After working a bit with Redmine I discovered ChiliProject, which is a fork of Redmine, and its actually compatible with Redmine Themes and Plugins.
Here is a comparison of Redmine/ChiliProject and Trac features:
It’s important to know how Memcached organizes the available memory and how Objects are saved to understand “strange” effects.
Memcached has Pages that have a size of 1Mb (in newer version you can configure them from 1Mb to 128Mb), these Pages are divided in Chunks. The size of the Chunks is created dynamically after start, depending on the size of the Objects you are saving. Memcached tries to save a Object in a Chunk were the basted space is minimal (An 49Kb Object will be saved in an 50Kb Chunk)
SpiderMonkey is the code-name for the Mozilla’s C implementation of JavaScript. This is useful to test part of our JavaScript from the console or in scripts.
In Debian we have a package called spidermonkey-bin.
This guide is for installing Trac as a user using virtualenv for a isolated Python environment so that the whole installation runs under a specific user.
First of all we need to install needed packages
apt-get install libapache2-mod-wsgi python-virtualenv python-setuptools
Once we have installed the required packages proceed to create the Python environment
mkdir /usr/local/trac cd /usr/local/trac virtualenv python
We now have the isolated Python environment locate under /usr/local/trac/python.
To make possible to use easy_install with repositories we need to upgrade easy_install. I use this to install Trac plugins directly from SVN.
/usr/local/trac/python/bin/easy_install -U trunk
We now can install trac 0.12 using the 0.12b1 SVN Tag (http://svn.edgewall.com/repos/trac/tags/trac-0.12b1 or Trac==0.12b1) or directly from SVN Trunk:
/usr/local/trac/python/bin/easy_install http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/trac/trunk
This will download and install the latest trunk version for Trac.
I recently have began to use Netbeans because I’m sad that Eclipse is every time slower and it frozes every time when you are doing something to fast.
Netbeans is not perfect, and there are some features that need to be polished (Ex.: SVN Support, Time Tracking like Mylyn), but the PHP/HTML/CSS/JS Support is excellent, in my opinion better than the Eclipse PDF support.
These is my netbeans_default_options for Netbeans for MacOSX (under Windows you can leave out the –laf switch, it’s for changing the look and feel):
