Git Over HTTP (git-http-backend)

I found really annoying that all Git guides I found talked about using Git over SSH, thats because I googled until I found that Git now comes with git-http-backend, which lets you to configure your webserver to serve git over HTTP/HTTPS.

ChiliProject 1.4.0 + Ruby Enterprise + Passenger + Apache2

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:

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Spidermonkey – Execute javascript from console

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.

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Installing TRAC with mod_wsgi using virtualenv

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.

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Vlogin – Roundcube Plugin

I just released the first version of my Vlogin Plugin for Roundcube. This plugin is based on the Vlogin for Squirrelmail.

For now the only implemented function is that you can login using only “user” and roundcube will authenticate against IMAP using the domain extracted from the webmail URL.

You can get download the plugin from the Vlogin sourceforge project page.