Today I was messing around with Trac, installing it and doing some basic configuration. While my dev machine gets updated, I want to share my process of installing Trac.

What is Trac?

As said on the Trac homepage:

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects.

It’s free, it’s open source, it comes under the BSD license and it’s really awesome. You can write a wiki with it, have a ticket system, connect it with SVN, so you can browse the sources from the browser and see all the commit messages, when was something changed, added… It can support one project, it can support multiple projects. It can be viewable/editable by anyone, or you can close it down for your little team…

Trac is big. It has lots of plug-ins, so you can extend and customize your Trac. I haven’t played with them yet, but as soon as I will, you’ll get notified ;)

It’s written in Python. It can run on it’s own server, or it can run under Apache (where there are also several options). It can use SQlite, PostrgeSQL or MySQL databases. Currently it can connect only to SVN.

I’ll show you how to setup a basic Trac 0.11-dot-something-dot-something. It will run under Apache with mod_wsgi, use a SQlite database, connect to the SVN repository and require user authentication.

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This boots are made for pogo dancing!

I saw this photowalking activity over at Swizec‘s place. Today was a surprisingly nice day, so I figured to use it and try this photowalking. Listened to music, wandered around my hometown and just took some random photos… The best of them are here.

All I can say is this: this was freakin’ relaxing! It felt damn good to do something… Different.

Cheers!

Really, it is. No code in this post. Not a single line.

It’s ~10PM and I’m having my coffee #3. Not healthy, not at all. I once decided to have at most 2 coffees a day. For the past couple of days I’m breaking that decision, too much work gathered (damn you Holidays!), and I’m catching up now… I even drank energy drinks last night. Was up until 3AM, buzzin’… Working mainly on my graduate work, a desktop application, written in Python and QT, which is communicating with a web service. It’s fun to learn new things…

I was struggling with a character encoding problem for almost a day, which is now sorted out, luckily. Damn Unicode characters. Or the lack of support for them. Anyhow, if you’re interested in reading up on character sets and encoding, read this article, The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!), a very good read. Made me realize a thing or two. Can’t wait the Unicode Support in PHP.

In 2 weeks I’m starting to work as a full-time developer. Oh the joy of a regular paycheck. And, of course, the chance to learn new things; never enough learning.

In the next 2-3 months I’ll attend (as an author, of course) a couple of conferences, the first one will be in March, YuInfo 2009. I have 24 hours to finish my part of the paper for it. Guess what’s the topic of the paper? Connecting Python desktop applications with a web service. Yea, my graduate work :)

The second one will be in April, E-trgovina 2009, the topic is not yet decided, but we’ll come up with something. Btw, “we” are, my buddy Bojan, our professor from the College, Zlatko, and me. A nice little gang of developers.

We’ll also start a new blog, soon — hopefully this week. It’ll be cool and fun and nice and everything. That’s all you need to know for now. Stay tuned.

I finished my coffee, so it’s time to go back to the code.

Cheers!

P.S.: What I’m really trying to do with this post, is to brake my habit to write only about code. So, expect a bit more of “personal” posts around here.

Just a quick one: FeedBurner & Google moved my feeds from http://feeds.feedburner.com/robertbasic/blog/ to http://feeds2.feedburner.com/robertbasic/blog/. The FAQ says that my old feed address will work “as long as this service exists”, but I would like to ask you, when you get to the time of extreme boredom and you have nothing else to do, to change the feed address in the readers :) Pretty please :)

Cheers!

I just found this site, Ubuntu Administrator, a nice place full of articles, how-tos, tips & tricks about Ubuntu in general, and things like networking or security on Ubuntu systems. A great place for all geeks 8)

Now, if you’ll excuse me, my console is waiting! Happy hacking!