I'm currently using Google Sites to publicly document my dev workflows and commands. However, Google Sites does not have a source code syntax highlighting system in place. Is there a free alternative to Google Sites with syntax highlighting? The solution I'm looking for need to meet the following requirements:
Free hosted service
At least 100 MB of space for free users like Google Sites
Has a nice editor with the whole web 2.0 feel and look
just googled for you ... maybe http://bitbucket.org will work for you. they have a free plan with 1gig, 1 Private repository, unlimited public repositories, Wiki, Issue tracker, Code Highlighting (see for supported languages) http://pygments.org/languages/)
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What is a better mBaaS that supports offline sync and caching?
I am evaluating several mBaaS solutions for my hybrid mobile app under development. I looked at Kinvey, Kii, buddy, and Telerik BackEnd platform. I have also came across some open source solutions like openmobster and dreamfactory. I am looking to store data in sql-lite on mobile app and then sync it back with an online data store. Kinvey has this support, but their pricing model (per user) is not suitable in my scenario. I can see that openmobster does this but, how is what I need to understand? Can I host in on Azure VM or something? Also please suggest if there is any other solution commercial/open source capable of doing offline sync and caching with push notifications and data storage?
DreamFactory could be a good fit for your scenario. It is open source and comes with a full 30 days of free support. After which it's only like $25/month for a developer account - and this isn't even a requirement to use its product. It's specifically a support package.
To address your question a little more in-depth... I don't believe DreamFactory supports offline syncing at the moment, though they plan to very soon. In regards to sql-lite, DreamFactory's (DSP) product has a built in sql-lite driver to connect to that DB. However, it hasn't been tested enough for them to say it is a fully supported RDBMS. One of the beautiful things about DreamFactory is you're able to host the DSP (DreamFactory Service Platform) on Azure and Amazon EC2 instances (cloud solutions), host locally on your own server, or even use its own free hosted edition!
I would definitely take a little time to look into DF. It doesn't seem to me like you have much to lose. Especially, considering it's a free open-source product!
Feel free to ask me any questions you may have about DreamFactory!
-Mark
We have a (AJAX heavy) web application hosted in cloud across servers and we need to monitor the availability of this service. Requires logging in to the application with a username-password, perform some searches as that user etc.
Since we plan to use Nagios for some other monitoring tasks, we decided to use Nagios for web application monitoring too.
I came across three such solutions:
Webinject: I don't feel like using this. Project not under active development. It was last released in Jan 2006. I can't see any support/help available. Also I suspect how will it behave with Ajax.
Cucumber-Nagios:
I tried using this. It involves many Ruby components and found that you have to have in-depth knowledge of Ruby platform to make all these components work together. I am not a Ruby guy and having tough time making all these components work together. Also even this project is not under active development and I don't see support/help options available. I posted a bug 4 days back and don't see any response yet.
Selenium plugin for Nagios: Haven't tried it yet. Will try now.
Any more solutions available?
Also, since I don't see any good actively developed solutions for monitoring web applications using Nagios, I suspect if it's really a good approach to use Nagios for this? If not, what alternatives do I have? In short what is the best approach to monitor web applications availability?
Edit 1: We can't afford the Nagios XI paid version and will prefer open source solutions.
If not, what alternatives do I have?
Although Nagios was one of options that we've considered, we've chosen OpenNMS for monitoring purposes. Rationale for our decision is that OpenNMS is highly reliable and configurable free open-source tool and additionally, most of our applications are Java-based; OpenNMS offers integration with JMX. However, bear in mind that if you're demanding very complex tests for your Web site maybe it's better to look elsewhere. OpenNMS can be set to check for HTTP status codes etc., but if you're looking for complex scenarios take a look at:
Apache JMeter (we're using it mainly during the testing phase)
Selenium (can be well used even in production phase)
I'm not the only one with this question, but haven't found a lot of information in my research so far, so help me out.
We are a small IT crowd in an organization. We're looking to build a small, private service that would emulate a heroku/gae workflow. The basics of this: deploy an app as a git repository, and have it scale in a 'cloud' environment. Basically, a platform as a service (Paas).
Pretend we are amateur PM's, programmers, and sysadmins tasked with this. What would you recommend? We know generally what is needed: some sort of routing, database, caching, authentication, etc. What other tools do we need?
We would prefer tools along a ruby/python/haskell/erlang dimension, on a linux/bsd stack, with postgres databases(couchdb or cassandra in the future). We are not touching anything in the ms/.net area, nothing on the JVM (We've looked at Steamcannon, but no; Scala and Clojure tools are not entirely out of the question). We have a basic grasp of bootstrapping a cloud (e.g. Eucalyptus) to build on. We have an understanding of the basics in server admin, and the physical infrastructure limitations aren't a factor right now.
We're not looking into why gaerokuyardspace is the best choice, a list of such services, why we should ditch our plans for one of these services, or an argument against this plan. For this situation the decision has been made that the cost to build privately is more attractive than the cost of deploying elsewhere. We already know why and how for these services. We're looking to emulate and build upon these for private needs.
A short list of tools to be expanded:
Beehive
Steamcannon
Gitosis/Gitolite
?
Basically, I'd like to generate a list of tools for building heroku/gae like service on a small, private, definitely experimental/toy level.
I don't know that it will meet all of your stated needs today, but you should take a look at Cloud Foundry from VMware. You can check the FAQ for the commercial project or look in to the Open Source version that you can host and manage yourself.
Some combination of Cloud Foundry (above) gitolite, and fabric
will probably do well for you. Any such solution will take some time to get right.
(Disclaimer: I'm a lead developer on the AppScale project)
AppScale is pretty much right up your alley, especially if you're looking to run Google App Engine apps in your own private cloud. It's open source, so grab it and extend it if there are other types of apps you want to support (and definitely commit it back to us if you do).
My friend asked me if it is possible to build a web site like Microsoft shared point for his planning startup company. He want to share doc with his employees. I think the reason he asked is Microsoft is too expensive. I have no idea right now for this. Anybody knows anything about this? thanks,
EDIT:
Because docs shared are sensitive (contains SSN and other sensitive data), security should be good enough.
If he just wants to share file he could try Box.net or dropbox. Box.net also have simple workflows with tasks.
I use Google Docs quite often and it is very useful. You can also setup a wiki and attach docs as needed.
Microsoft SharePoint Foundation is free and comes with a host of features.
Tell your friend to sign up for Microsoft BizSpark. This is a free program from Microsoft specifically for startups and will give them access to a whole suite of software for free for 3 years (with a $100 charge at the end). This includes SharePoint.
I would recommend a combination of Google Sites and Google Docs. It's free, it's easy, and it eliminates the need to maintain the hardware and other infrastructure associated with a site, much less something as heavy-weight as Sharepoint.
I need to create a flowchart to show Developer computers, Development server, Development DB,
QA Server, QA DB, Staging Server, Staging DB, Production Server and Production DB as part of creating a process so that developers follow the same during the development to staging to production development cycle.
Could you please direct me to the right URL or resource.
Thanks in advance
If you're looking for inspiration, figure A in this post looks similar to what you're trying to do, albeit simplified slightly: http://blog.sysbliss.com/uncategorized/release-management-with-atlassian-bamboo-and-jira.html
I have used Microsoft Visio in the past for my flowcharts and it meets the basic needs.
Most of the standard components - servers etc are all there and you can usually find and download free stencils from the net for more specific needs
A process flow like you are talking about should be easily manageable using the standard stecils itself.
There seem to be a lot of online sites that provide this kind of service free lately.
You can check out this link. I have not used any of these before so cannot vouch for them though i did try out flowchart.com and it seemed pretty ok
You are looking for a tool to make network diagrams.
These are some candidates I found looking for Network Diagram at Google:
SmartDraw, A friend recommended it to me some time ago
Gliffy looks promising
To make a flowchart from source code is so complicated, but I found an code to flowchart converter software, it can create flowchart from source code automatically, I got this software from http://flowchart-creator.com. It is free to download and free to try.