Whew! It's been a hectic couple of weeks, but things are starting to settle down. I'm moving to Austin TX in a couple weeks and I'm excited to be starting a Drupal-based business.
Today Ubuntu released it's new version Ubuntu 10.10 which I'm also excited to try out, and got me thinking about the next version of Quickstart.
What would make Quickstart more useful to you?
I'm interested in Aegir, and want to fix the current install script.
I enjoyed making the Youtube videos on how to use Quickstart's features but havn't gotten alot of feedback on them. Were they helpful? (The audio level is a bit low, so I might re-upload them if needed.) So far, the feedback I've gotten is mostly from students learning about php.
Anyways, what do yall use it for?
Cheers,
Mike
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I didn't know about that
I didn't know about those Youtube videos, I will check them out.
I'm using still the 0.6 version, but I will update soon. I'm using Quickstart as LAMP and drush, but developing in Windows (I put the files in the shared folder), so it makes everything more complex at debugging and configuring, permissions, etc... so probably I will jump to develop also inside of the Virtualbox soon or later.
Good luck with your new business!
I just discoverd quickstart
I just discovered it. I downloaded the vmand imported it. Will fire it up tonight to check it out.
But if you plan to upgrade it, I'm thinking of these improvements:
- installed aegir
- drush_make (if it is not yet installed)
- memcached
- varnish
Where can I find the youtube videos? I didn't know about these.
Thanks for this vm !
Great work!
YouTube videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/drupalquickstart
Richard Sheppard
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/richardsheppard
Templates for Eclipse and idea for lightweight editor
Hi Michael,
I found a template file for Eclipse, I think it can be quite useful (though it is not complete). It's right here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/39938#comment-129728 . I haven't had time to check if there's a way to install it into Eclipse by a cli script, so I don't really know if it's possible to include it in the VM.
On the other hand, I've been thinking how much I like to work on a very simple text editor like Notepad++ (native on Windows) and I think it would be great to have something like that available, along with the proper IDEs. Notepad++ is very cool since it's very lightweight, has a built-in FTP client to work "directly" on a server and it's highly customizable. If I get some time to look around, I'll try to find a good Linux replacement for Notepad++.
Lighweight editor is already in!
Just looked around for a good replacement for Notepad++ and found that... Gedit is very powerful! it's just a matter of performing a bit of configuration and the editor is ready for some nice coding :)
This is the code to put in a script for setting gedit up properly:
sudo apt-get install gedit-plugins
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/auto_indent/auto_indent 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/bracket_matching/bracket_matching 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/current_line/highlight_current_line 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/line_numbers/display_line_numbers 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/right_margin/display_right_margin 1
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/tabs/insert_spaces 1
gconftool-2 --type int --set /apps/gedit-2/preferences/editor/tabs/tabs_size 2
The first line just installs a few plugins that can be very useful; the other lines just perform some simple configuration for the editor. I didn't include configuration for plugins, since I think it's better for everyone to decide which ones to use and how.
I also checked out the need for performing small tweaks remotely and found that Nautilus has a very cool, built-in way of working with remote file systems! To be able to work from Gedit it's just a matter of creating a bookmark on Nautilus and then browsing to it in the integrated file browser that gedit has (F9).
Nice! Added issue
Hi Jedhi,
I added this as an issue here - http://drupal.org/node/953618
Thanks for the script notes, that makes it super easy to add.
Mike
Great Job Michael
Just let me say that this project is fantastic!
You made a great job. You make mi life easier since I discovered Quickstart.
Congrat. !!!
KarimB - Read the blog Le blog en français
:-D
Hi Karim,
Thanks :-) I'm glad you find it useful. Go open source!
Mike