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Hey Folks,

It's in the works! But it's not ready in October.

We're working fulltime to pay the bills, and it's been difficult to find time to put into Quickstart.

Travis and Roma have been hugely helpful in moving the project forward. We wouldn't be anywhere close to done if it wasn't for their help.

The switch to Puppet, while critical to success, has been a big learning curve for me, and we haven't found anyone with the time to help.

I am wondering what tuning and configuration do you do to make your environment faster?

Here is my experience:

1. Got more memory utilization from installing PAE on 32 bit Linux.
2. Installed APC, tuned MySQL and got about 50-100% performance boost. See my blog post for more details: http://vmirgorod.name/blog/boosted-lamp-drupal-devs
3. Realized that new NetBeans 7.1.2 is working much faster then Komodo IDE, Zend Studio or Eclipse. People says that 7.2 RC are even more faster. Checkout here http://www.netbeans.com/downloads/index.html

Just wanted to share this little gem I found with the other Netbeans users out there:

http://www.amaxus.com/cms-blog/coding-standards-netbeans-php-codesniffer

It's a plugin for Netbeans that allows you to run Php_CodeSniffer from within Netbeans. I've been using it today with the DrupalCS standards library (http://drupal.org/project/drupalcs ) and it works pretty well. There's a couple little glitches, but it ends up catching about 99% of the stuff.

Also there's another version in development here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmdnb/

At a recent LA Drupal Meeting, Mike mentioned he uses IDE geany on Ubuntu. I've started using and like it. (Apart from the strange way to save a Project, and the need to support many Projects.)

So, I'm publicly posting asking Mike, on any member, for plugin recommendations. These are what I'm staring at now:

geany-plugin-doc
geany-plugins - set of plugins for Geany
geany-plugins-addons - miscellaneous plugins for Geany
geany-plugins-shiftcolumn

Are these 'must have' or just so-so? Any others? Any not in the Ubuntu repos?

I have just released a module for Netbeans to aid in Drupal Development. The module is available on Github (full source included).

The module is just starting out as I re-teach myself Java. I have put together documentation on it here. I do have future features planned on the module as I get the time, but right now it really does help with development. You can also customize the module through a custom template system.

Hurray!

Quickstart 1.0 is ready. This is a bug fix and software refresh over Quickstart 9.1.

General:
* i386 and amd64 versions:
- amd64 for speed, but requires 64bit OS and modern CPU (bittorrent)
- i386 for compatibility (bittorrent)
* Share websites folder for access over windows networking

Software Updates:
* Ubuntu 11.04
* Netbeans 7.0
* Eclipse Helios SR2
* Drush 4.4

Hi.

Codelobster latest version 3.7.1 supports Drupal 7.

Here is the full list of all its features for Drupal:

• Ability to create project automatically installing CMS Drupal
• Autocomplete, help and tooltips for module's hooks
• Autocomplete and tooltips for Drupal's function theme
• Autocomplete for Drupal's forms
• Drupal search - for menu path and menu function
• Wizard for creating new modules
• Help on Drupal API

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.

Hello,

For your coding pleasure, we present: Quickstart 0.8 (bittorrent link).

Quickstart is a downloadable virtual machine, containing a pre-configured Ubuntu Linux PHP development environment. Develop and debug LAMP natively, on any computer, without hassle.

QS 0.8 includes updates and bug fixes to QS 0.7. If you're already using QS 0.7, below is a script that will make the bug fixes.

QS 0.8 was also used to make the HOWTO videos on the Quickstart YouTube channel: step debugging, performance profiling, simple email debugging, etc.

What's next for the project? Not quite sure, but I'd love some feedback on how it's being used, and what features or HOWTO videos would be useful.

I hope you find it useful, and thanks for whatever you do for open source,

Mike