a cosmological pedestrian
Maybe you’ve heard already of the privacy aware, personally controlled, open source social network Diaspora. I’ve wanted to try Diaspora so I’ve setup my own seed of Diaspora, they are called pods. I don’t wanted to run Diaspora with thin so I decided to go with mod_passenger on apache2. I will describe what you need to do to set it up and get it running...
At the end of last year I’ve worked on Dogtag PKI, which is enterprise-class open source Certificate Authority. The project is written in serveral different laguages (C, C++ and Java), so I’ve used CMake as the new build system. I know CMake very well and use it since a long time. To be able to build the java project I needed Java support in CMake....
Last year I discovered Mozilla Weave (now Sync). Weave is a Firefox addon and they offer the server components to install your own weave server. It offers everything I would like to have for PIM. So lets start with some details… The Firefox Sync addon synchronizes the following things between your browsers/computers: bookmarks history forms prefs tabs passwords The data stored on the weave server...