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Holiday development – a geeks way to unwind

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So as I was lucky enough to have a few days off over the break I felt it was time to haul my butt into gear and get some development work done. I have managed to get a good few productive days work in and have the following outputs to share with the world.

Firstly for you bloggers, if you have heard of bit.ly and other such URL shortening services, you might be curious to check out YOURLS, which is essentially a self hosted URL shortener. I will leave it to your own decision as to why that might tickle your fancy but I have written a plugin for YOURLS which provides a social toolbar on shortened URLS.

You can check out the YOURLS Social Bar page on my Technical Wiki for all the details, if you have any feature requests please let me know so that I can start working towards the next major release.

The second item I have been working on is how to get the Atlassian Crowd Authentication connector for Apache compiled on a CentOS System running cPanel. To be honest unless you use the Atlassian suite of products AND run a cPanel server this second one probably won’t interest any of you that much but hey, it is definitely an achievement that I am proud of. You can check the how-to out on my wiki –>  Compile Atlassian’s Crowd authenticator on CentOS server with cPanel.

So that has been my few days relaxation and enjoyment icon biggrin Holiday development a geeks way to unwind . Geeks and Open Source software FOR THE WIN icon biggrin Holiday development a geeks way to unwind .

Stuart

Atlassian is supporting Open Source Battlefield

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I am very happy to say that Atlassian has been kind enough to offer full licenses to me for my development site Open Source Battlefield.

After setting myself up with JIRA, Confluence, Greenhopper and Crowd, I applied to the sales team at Atlassian for a license based on the nature of software that will be released on Open Source Battlefield. The team got back to me in a couple of days and I can now happily say that the new site is up and running with all the bells and whistles.

So thank you very much to Atlassian for the following products and supporting my open source development initiatives. So now I can get on to all the documentation and coding I have backlogged in my brain which I will be doing in due course.

Stuart icon smile Atlassian is supporting Open Source Battlefield

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Trials and Tribulations of Installing New Software

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Over the last couple of weeks I have taken on the interesting task of installing the Atlassian Suite for my open source development site Open Source Battlefield. Particularly during the last week I have taken this up a level and powered through this with vigor and have essentially been banging my head against a brick wall.

Before I continue, the task I have set out to do is install the following:

  • Crowd – Atlassian’s Centralised User Management Software
  • JIRA – Atlassian’s Bug Tracking and Project Management Software
  • Greenhopper – Atlassian’s Agile Project Management Plugin for JIRA
  • and finally Confluence – Atlassian’s Wiki Software

I began my journey with the Atlassian “Here Be Dragon’s Quest” and I found it was an excellent starter to assist in getting my head around Tomcat and how I could set up Confluence, JIRA, GreenHopper, and Crowd. However due to a memory constraints on the server I wanted to roll the three applications into a single Tomcat instance on my server. For the average Tomcat admin this may seem like a simple task however for me… a person that has never touched Tomcat with a 10 foot pole, it wasn’t as easy as I was hoping.

In steps Scott Herdman a good mate of mine from uni who has been helping me greatly with this little project of mine as he has administered Tomcat and the Atlassian products before. (Oh and for the record he was the one who told me I should document my experiences for others to hopefully learn from (and granted… he is right it IS why I have this blog) so therefore he gets this free plug).

Scott has been answering questions on and off for me and the circle of my learning has gone something along the lines of:

Problem –> Read Error Logs –> Search Google –> Re-Read the Atlassian Guides –> Search Google Some More –> Read the Error Logs Again –> Beg Scott for some assistance –> and back round to the beginning for the next problem.

After many MANY trials of getting the Atlassian Suite up and running in a single Tomcat instance I decided that they have made the recommendation for them to be installed separately for a reason. Unfortunately it appears that due to conflicts in the libraries that are included with each application in order to get them to all run on the one Tomcat server would require a lot of tweaking and careful petting LOL of which I don’t have the time for.

So if you are starting out, and have little experience with Tomcat, I hope that I can save you some time and effort straight up… don’t try to roll your own Tomcat, just use the ones included with each application it will save you a good few weeks.

So this is why I have really not been around much. After my exams are over next week I will be back more and have a few interesting ideas for things I can post about but for the moment I am off to play with my swanky new Atlassian Suite. For reference I got it set up as Open Source Battlefield Home (Confluence) and Open Source Battlefield JIRA. Crowd is installed as well but really has no use of being included here LOL.

If anyone else has experiences with Atlassian I would love to hear your thoughts.

Stuart