Aaron Judd

From WWDC 2007

aaronjudd — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:52:00 GMT

Sorry-- I had this in my drafts from the WWDC 2007, and meant to publish it while I was attending the WWDC, but, um, I didn't. So here it is.. better late than never.
-Aaron

New visitors may not know that we are a "Apple Friendly" group of developers on this project.. which means that if everyone could have a Mac, they would, but in some cases it's not always practical. We have a few core members of the development team (Joao, Marcelo, and Rafael) who are in Brazil, where importing a Mac (or buying one local) can be even more expensive than the normal "high" prices one expects for Apple products. In spite of that, we are a focused on delivering Arcticfusion (and Coolerserver) first to the OS X Server environment, followed by Linux, and eventually Windows environments. This site, and the demo's you see are running on an Apple Intel OS X Server (10.4) as well.

As long time developers, and OS X Fans, we thought it natural for Webapplica, Inc to join the Apple Developer Community this past year, and this week I am attending my first WWDC conference. Hopefully, we are able to evangelize the Arcticfusion project, as well as gain some useful insight that might allow Arcticfusion some cool integration features when Leopard is released in October.

Technical Objectives:

Some of the items we are looking forward to learning more about are:

Caldav development - learn more to help us decide if caldav is, with Apple's support, stable enough to for us to build new calendaring, collaboration, and document management tools that depending on the new protocol

Community Objectives:

Evangelize, and learn more about other people's project and goings-on

http://www.ntractive.com - Elements application, seems to be offering many things that Arcticfusion strives towards, but closed source.

Links Part II

aaronjudd — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:51:00 GMT

Links Part II

Another collection of sites that I have found to be worthy of the
visit, and that I think relate to the Arcticfusion project, and that
are worth checking out, and maybe bookmarking.

Of course, I suggest you check them all out!

Blogs and News

Jive Software Blogs
Bnet
ZDNet Enterprise 2.0
GigaOm

Applications

Online Operating Sytem
Ghost

Lists

Squidoo
Office 2.0 DB
Elements SBM
Killer Startups Killer Startups

Rearranging and moving subversion

aaronjudd — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:43:00 GMT

Joao asked me to write up the process I used to move our subversion repositories, so here it is.

This was actually embarassingly easy, considering the potential for problems!

Our old subversion repository was running on a RHEL/CENTOS 3.4 linux installation, using a httpd webdav, and the filesystem version of SVN.
The new server is an Intel OS X Server (10.4).

The steps I took.

First, I re-arranged the older svn folders using Finder, connecting as a webdav client. I though this would make things easier, because I knew I wouldn't be setting up webdav once I installed on the OSX server. However, in the end it turned out to be unnecessary, and it would have been nice to have keep a pristine "old" backup of the svn prior to the move (by simply shutting down the old server). Instead, even though it worked out fine, the old box has some of the re-arrangments commited.

After I liked my new layout I installed the Subversion server on OSX.

I had actually installed SVN about a week earlier (just for the client), but hadn't done anything with it, so forgive this part!
I either installed this http://www.codingmonkeys.de/mbo/ or I installed this: http://downloads.open.collab.net/binaries.html

I think I might have actually installed both of them, in that order. In any case, in the future I think I would use the collab.net install - since it seems destined to become the more 'official' release for all platforms.

I then followed these instructions to the letter (don't forget to read part 1) http://wolfpaulus.com/journal/osx/minisvn2.html

I made the repositories in /usr/local/svn-repos/webapplica

Next on the old server I ran:

svnadmin dump /var/lib/polarion/data/svn/repo | ssh -C x1.webapplica.com /usr/local/bin/svnadmin load /usr/local/svn-repos/webapplica

This moved the entire repository over from the old server and commited into the new server.

I changed the passwd file and added our existing users (I think). This is the only part of the process that I think is lame - this should rely on some system user/password list I think. I also had to do this by hand rather than copying from the old server, because the old server was running polarion, which was handling the user access.

I opened up the port in our firewall, and tested - everything looked good.

Finally I installed fisheye - You can check that out here: http://webapplica.org:8081/

All done.

Because I decided against using the webdav server (for now), we are using the native svn server, so the repository access is really simple now:

svn://webapplica.org

Piece of cake - now all that is left is for you guys to put the code back in working shape after I re-arranged everthing (that's probably the harder job).

-Aaron

OSX Tip

aaronjudd — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:25:00 GMT

I am always amazed - it seems everyday I learn something totally new on OS X. Even better, after I learn the new thing - it almost always seems astoundingly simple and I wonder why I never tried it before. For instance:

You can drag applications, folders, aliases, scripts to the toolbar of Finder.

In my mind, this just added huge amounts of coolness because I am a big fan of creating shorcuts and custom folders.