Rails based Trac alternative Collaboa back in active development
Posted on October 27, 2006
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The Collaboa project is back in effect and I’m seriously glad to hear it. I’ve been setting up the sugarstats VPS and of course I wanted to go with the popular kid on the blog Trac. But after some difficulty installing it and getting it to work with Nginx, I took another look at it and really just found well… I don’t like it at all :-
The design isn’t so great and the wiki is a bit lacking IMHO. So what I did was look for some better alternatives as I would rather have separate apps that work very well at what they do than one app that isn’t as great in those areas.
I’ve settled on DokuWiki as a dedicated wiki and I’m loving it so far. Its a PHP app but was simple to setup as a PHP Vhost in Nginx by passing it through a php-cgi instance.
For a nice, simple ticketing system and revisioning repo browser I came across Collaboa. The design I like and I just really find it straight-forward and simple to use. It has pretty much all the functionality of Trac minus the wiki which was barebones anyway, plus is built with Rails! I was somewhat concerned with the development efforts though as the last blog post was almost a year old! But when looking into the trunk of their code I was seeing commits only days old. Well they’ve announced that someone has started active development on it again (althought just a bit for now). I have the latest trunk version installed and its very stable and very quick as well off a single mongrel instance.
So if you’re looking for a Rails based ticketing/repo browsing app or a Trac alternative, give Collaboa a try.
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Posted on October 27, 2006
Filed Under CSS/XHTML, Daily Thoughts, Design, Marketing, PHP/MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Web
Ruby CGI DoS Exploit - Mongrel Hot Fix
Posted on October 26, 2006
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There is a denial of service vulnerability for Ruby applications that either use cgi.rb, or run on Mongrel or Litespeed. Rails is affected, details below:
“There has been an exploitable bug in the Ruby CGI library named cgi.rb which allows:Anyone on the Internet to…
Send a single HTTP request to…
Any Ruby program (NOT just Mongrel) using…
cgi.rb multipart parsing with…
A malformed MIME body that…
Causes the Ruby process to go into a 99% CPU infinite loop killing it.”
Zed Shaw has release a temporary hotfix for Mongrel:
THE FIXEveryone using Mongrel can get the fix immediately by installing the latest pre-release version 0.3.14:
sudo gem install mongrel—source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases
You can find the full details here: http://rubyforge.org/
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Posted on October 26, 2006
Filed Under Daily Thoughts, Ranting, Ruby on Rails, Security, Tech, Web
Find out every bit of publically available info on your domain name
Posted on October 13, 2006
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This is a great post I found on the SEOmoz blog. Its amazing how much info you can find on any given domain with just a little searching.
I’ve gotten into a lot of SEM and SEO stuff in the past few months and many of these statistics are what I use to base my decisions on. This type of info is invaluable for your website marketing:
- Technical Data
- Ownership/Hosting Data
- Statistics/Popularity Data
- Search Engine Indexing Data
- Link Data
- Social Tagging Data
- Third-Party Trust Metrics
- Important Directory & Site Listings
- Press & Media Mentions
The list can go on even longer too. check out the full article here: A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available
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Posted on October 13, 2006
Filed Under Analytics, Business, CSS/XHTML, Daily Thoughts, General, Marketing, PHP/MySQL, Productivity, Quotes, Ruby on Rails, SEO, Security, Startup, SugarStats, Tech, Web
Removing 80% of the Caffine from your tea…
Posted on October 13, 2006
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Yes, I can hear some of you already saying: “Why the hell would I want to do this?”. Well to some who love to enjoy tea but don’t want the caffine and don’t have caffine-free alternatives around, this is a great solution:
I found this on LifeHacker:
“Approximately 80% of the caffeine in tea is released during the first 30-seconds of steeping, therefore to remove most of the caffeine from any tea simply:1) Pour boiling water over the tea leaves
2) Allow the leaves to steep for 30 seconds
3) Pour out the brew, saving the steeped leaves
4) Re-steep the same leaves with more boiling water for the recommended steeping times.”
And personally I find tea (especially Organic Sencha Green) much better the 2nd time around so I end up saving my tea bags usually anyway.
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Posted on October 13, 2006
Filed Under Daily Thoughts, Entertainment, General, Health & Food, Quotes, Recipies
AjaxTerm - Ajax Terminal
Posted on October 9, 2006
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This is an awesome little app that lets you have a web based ajax console terminal for your server. The guys over at slicehost.com have integrated it into their Rails-based VPS management system and it looks quite slick.
Check it out here: http://antony.lesuisse.org/qweb/trac/wiki/AjaxTerm
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Posted on October 9, 2006
Filed Under Business, CSS/XHTML, Daily Thoughts, Hardware, Hosting, Productivity, Tech, Web
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