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We’re currently running Apache2 on an old (and very stable) version of CentOS. It’s so ancient it didn’t come with Apache 2, so we’ve got it installed from source. Today we’re making the big move to running our Rails apps on Phusion Passenger (a.k.a mod_rails), but we ran into some problems with the [...]

Our new Trac install is working very well. Since it’s simpler than Gforge was, people seem much more interested in using it (even, if they’ll forgive my saying so, some members of the graphic design team).
We’ve run into a few minor problems, though. In situations where particularly long SVN commits have taken place, [...]

Last week, one of our internal servers developed symptoms of RAM / motherboard failure. The machine was running Debian 3.1 (Sarge) and acted as our main CVS repository, as well as having an install of Gforge 4.5.3 for project management. I really liked Gforge, but some of the other developers found the interface [...]

The basics of setting up an open-source Actionscript 2 development environment are detailed very well by Carlos Rovira [1] in his excellent article “Towards Open Source Flash Development.” After reading that post, you may be wondering, “Ok, Eclipse is Java-based, this setup should work on GNU/Linux…does it?”. Yep. But it’s not particularly straightforward.