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Posted by R.J. Steinert on October 20, 2008 at 3:33pm
Last updated by senpai on Mon, 2008-10-20 16:18

Ubuntu 8.10 will be released in 10 days at which time I will start building a VMware image with the following specs:

-LAMP
-Eclipse PDT
--Subclipse
--Configured for Debugging with XDebug
-Firefox with Firebug

I would be happy to share this image with the Drupal community so any feature suggestions are welcome. If you would like to help out please contact me. Setting up LAMP on Ubuntu is a pretty straight forward process but I am no expert on the matter.

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Hardy 8.04 Virtualbox image available

Posted by mike stewart on October 20, 2008 at 4:34pm
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Awesome news! I think this is a geat way to get Noobs using FOSS to develop FOSS. if nothing else it provides a debugging environment plug-and-play on any platform.

I built an similar image in Virtualbox (which has a smaller footprint than VMware) using Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and gave a presentation on it at DrupalCampLA 2008.

The the image of course (like VMware) works on any platform, Windows, Mac, *nix. I think anything with a JAVA JRE stack.

my setup includes:

  • LAMP - using xampp - for a cleaner / easier interface for noobs, and includes phpmyadmin
  • Inkscape (great for web development if you hate photoshop/gimp - but like fireworks. similarly intuitive, but limited bitmap)
  • Geany (great GTK based minimal IDE - but overhead of a notepad application)
  • EclipsePHP 3.4
  • Xdebug configured for remote debugging
  • Firefox with Firebug, FirePHP, FireFTP
  • Drupal 5, 6, HEAD virtual development environments
  • Ubuntu 8.04 vanilla - minus openoffice, & evolution email - in order to make image smaller.

contact me if you'd like a copy

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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }

The contact forms haven't

Posted by R.J. Steinert on October 21, 2008 at 5:53pm
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The contact forms haven't been working for me for the past two days (You cannot contact more than 3 users per hour. Please try again later. ?? :-/... Yet I haven't contacted anyone... ??). I sent an e-mail to the one listed on your homepage.

Easy Download: Virtualbox Drupal development with php debbugging

Posted by mike stewart on November 1, 2008 at 5:15am
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Last week I ftp'd my drupal dev setup on virtualbox VDI image for R.J.

Today I finally setup a torrent: drubuntu-ladrupal-v1.7z.4479567.TPB.torrent

  • you'll need virtualbox, which is also open source. (pickup on the theme yet? ;-)
  • Then setup the VDI as a hard drive.
  • Login usr/pwd is: ladrupal
  • (um, ya, LADrupal rocks! ;-)

LADrupal Rocks, but I'm thinkin' Sun might rock even more!

Before year end I plan to build a setup that is even a smaller image. perhaps jeos -> with xfce. whatever I decide it'll be based on Netbeans support for Drupal. Did you even know Netbeans did PHP? It's similar to eclipse, but perhaps a smaller footprint. And did you know Netbeans does Drupal? Plus it's open source!!! Hmm, seems Sun is giving Drupal a lot of FOSS love! As soon as I build it... I'll share. might even have to do a version on open solaris... which has some crazy benefits. more on that another time.

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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }

problems unzipping on a Mac OS X solved

Posted by chrowe on March 30, 2009 at 10:17pm
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OS X does not support .7z files out of the box

7zX v1.7.1 worked for me. http://sixtyfive.xmghosting.com/products/7zx/

The Unarchiver v1.6.1 did not work. When I try to open it I get the error "Could not extract the file "LADrupal_Ubuntu_804_HardDisk1.vdi": Unknown data format" http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html

Chris Rowe - ole.org
Austin, TX

Ladrupal / Drubuntu copy

Posted by myke on December 17, 2008 at 5:14am
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I'd like a copy of it, but the torrent doesn't seem to have anyone seeding it presently..

-Myke

-Myke

if the torrent isn't being seeded please contact me directly.

Posted by mike stewart on January 5, 2009 at 4:49am
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if the torrent isn't being seeded please contact me directly. number of people seeding seems to vary. i suspect most people don't seed it because it means they need to keep an extra gig of space on their system just to seed. it unpacks into about 4gb.

I have fios - so depending on your download speed, the single torrent is actually pretty quick.

I am also working on a smaller, faster version. it'll have an optimized kernel and likely based on jeos with xfce as front end. so far its about 25% the size with both phpeclipse and netbeans IDE's, and lightning quick! I hope to talk about it, and give it away here: http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-takeout-free-development-desi...

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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }

Aaargh! I totally dropped

Posted by R.J. Steinert on January 20, 2009 at 2:53am
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Aaargh! I totally dropped the ball on this. The news industry/recession has thrown me for a loop. Mike, I'm interested see what you come up with on VirtualBox! All I can think of is how I wish I had this resource when I was in school/starting to develop php applications. Maybe Sun will want to throw down some bandwidth for the distribution of your image...

On a side note I'm using

Posted by R.J. Steinert on January 20, 2009 at 2:57am
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On a side note I'm using Netbeans on Ubuntu 8.10 all the time now. Still haven't configured this Javascript Debugger correctly. I suppose I'm still addicted to FireBug. Cool code completion for the jQuery library though.

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