Perrys blog

I’ve been Googling for a solution on how to get Trac and Joomla! to work together without too much work. The best thing would be a Joomla! Trac bridge, but I’ve not succeeded  in finding something like that. I’ve found some partly information about how to get Joomla! authenticated users to be accepted by Trac as authenticated but nothing about how to get Joomla! and Trac to share their user database. So I started poking around with different Trac settings and I suddenly found that Mandriva Linux had a package named trac-mysql which makes Trac capable of connecting to a MySQL database instead of a SQLite database so I started to search for a way to migrate from SQLite to MySQL and I got several hits on Google but as all you guys searching for things regarding Trac on Google is almost 99% pointless since it will show a hit for every Trac powered site in the world which is open for web crawlers. But after a couple of misses on the first page of hits I found one: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SqLiteToMySql on Tracs own homepage :$ Why didn’t I just start searching there you can ask, but I thought I had read every possible page both in my local Trac setup and Tracs main page which wasn’t correct. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been experimenting with Google Apps for a month now on brumoen.net, and I’ve also helped Thomas over at JoomProd.com setting up Google Apps for joomprod.com, bebecalin.net and mariage33.com with great success. So now both of us are using Google Apps to handle our mail services. A lot easier and resource saving for our servers. The great thing about Google Apps is that you are allowed to setup 100 user accounts with the free plan, they have a pay plan and a plan for non-profit organizations and schools as well. Read the rest of this entry »