Se ha lanzado recientemente la versión 1.6 de Tracks, así que hemos actualizado nuestra stack, y de paso echado un vistazo a esta magnífica aplicación que implementa la metodología ‘Getting Things Done’, de David Allen.

Debajo de este párrafo encontraréis cómo instalar fácilmente Tracks usando el instalador de BitNami (muchas gracias a Javier Martínez por el vídeo). El segundo screencast es una traducción realizada por nosotros del vídeo oficial de Tracks, disponible en la página de la aplicación, y realizado por Bsag, creadora y desarrolladora de Tracks, a la que también tenemos que agradecer… more

One of the best features of BitNami Stacks is that they are easy to install. This allows users to quickly and easily deploy their favorite open source software regardless of the operating system they are running. BitNami Modules take simplicity a step further by enabling you to easily plug-in additional applications that will automatically run on top of the BitNami platform.

With BitNami Stacks, you get everything that you need to run for each application you install – each stack is a complete, independent runtime. In many cases, a BitNami Stack may be just what you need. In others,... more

A new version of BitNami RubyStack has been released!

This version includes ready to run versions of two popular projects for Rails developers:

* Git, an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency * Nginx, a lightweight HTTP and proxy server server (currently only included in OS X and Linux stacks)

In addition to the above, with this new version you can enjoy new and updated gems, right out of the box, including:

* thin: is a web server that brings together mongrel parser, event machine and rack…. more

Recently we have released a new BitNami featured stack that makes it easier than ever to have your own customized web application. The most important feature of this great software are the customization possibilities that it offers.

eZ Publish is not just a CMS software, it is a framework to develop web applications. The base features allow you to easily create a site according to your needs, from a personal homepage to an e-commerce site.

The BitNami eZPublish Stack besides bundling eZ Publish software, provides you with the whole environment you will need to… more

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