December 2009
4 posts
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Etherpad; Opensourced
Etherpad is a lovely app which is bought by google and was opensourced 10 days before. Now, just to add a drop of water to the ocean.
A small how-to on deploying Etherpad
The package
Etherpad source from http://code.google.com/p/etherpad
Some minor fixes and changes, here and there
File Imports [gist]
File exports to DOC/PDF/ODT using Oo.org [gist]
How to compile, run and test
Grab the...
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Zimbra and EC2
Zimbra offers an awesome Open Source collaboration suite. EC2 is an awesome compute cloud service. The points I learned and did while deploying Zimbra on EC2.
Zimbra on Ubuntu is supported on Hardy (8.04), but not newer. Install only if you want an adventure. I didn’t want an adventure, and I love Hardy.
Hardy EBS backed image was not available on Amazon (by today) So, I did this, and got...
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EBS backed EC2 - Life made easy
After Amazon launched EC2 back in 2006, they’ve been adding new features in regular intervals. On EC2, for starters, one thing that confuses a lot is the lack of persistent storage - in simple words, you lose all changes made and data once you reboot. There were options like S3 and EBS though to over come this problem. But, much configuration is needed, need for regular backups, booting was...
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Migration of blog to Tumblr
After two years of my last migration from blogspot to wordpress, Here I am, after 3 years of blogging, migrated to third service. This time, moving out of self-hosted wordpress to a nice hosted solution Tumblr. You might haven’t seen many differences other than theme becoming extremely minimalistic.
Well, there are the changes.
Now, the service is no longer wordpress, its Tumblr :D
All...