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How to install Diaspora on CentOS 7

axil — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 00:00:00 +0200

The tutorial isn't really hosted on my blog but on DigitalOcean's community page, but I thought I could give some background regarding this decision.

Introduction

Last November, Nikos, Pierros and me, decided to run a Diaspora pod to accomodate the needs of the Greek community and also increase the number …

GitLab Cookbook review

axil — Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0200

I'm happy to see more books written for GitLab and I'm even more happy when those books come from people that are active contributors.

A year ago I wrote about the GitLab repository management book. This time it is written by a fellow teammate of the GitLab core team, Jeroen …

Redesigning the looks of this blog

axil — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0200

It's been a long time since last I showed some love for the UI of this blog, and after a day of modifications I'm pretty excited about the outcome :w00t:

So, what has changed?

UI redesign
New plugins used
Source code

UI redesign

I like …

IsItFedoraRuby new design

axil — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

The past week I tried to do something about the looks of isitfedoraruby. It was fun using bootstrap (my first time) and I think the outcome is cool. I tried to use Fedora like colors and the font is Liberation Sans, same as Fedora pkgdb.

You can check the overall …

Custom GitLab login page

axil — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

With the release of GitLab 7.1, the login page now looks like the default Enterprise Edition. Although in EE customizing the page should be easier to configure, we can do the same with Community Edition following some simple steps. If you are familiar with haml and bootstrap this should …

isitfedoraruby gsoc midterm sum up

axil — Sun, 13 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

This sums up my past month involvement with the project. A lot of reading in between...

Changelog
Rails/Ruby style guide
Tests
Bugs fixed
Enhancements
- Show more info in fedorarpm show page
- Rake tasks

Changelog

I added a changelog so …

Rails development tools

axil — Tue, 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0300

During the past two months I have been reading constantly about Rails and how I could get more productive when writing code and testing my apps. There is a ton of information about those matters on the web and I'll try to include as many articles as I could find …

Rubocop to the rescue!

axil — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

I decided to drop the GSoC related titles and focus on the things that I work during the week. That means I'll probably blog more often :p

This week I mostly focused on cleaning the code of fedoraruby and conforming to the ruby/rails community guidelines.

The gem that helps …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 3

axil — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

Testing, testing, testing. Diving into BDD for the first time can be a little tedious but you sure learn a lot. In the ruby/rails world there is a ton of excellent tools to help you test your app. Some more popular than the others. I'm no exception so I …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 2

axil — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0300

Here's what I've been doing last week.

Previous week

Architecture analysis

Getting to know an app from the ground up takes some time, especially if that's a framework you are not too familiar with. Luckilly, I found the railroady gem that helped me visualize how the app is structured, you …

GSoC-2014 isitfedoraruby - Week 1

axil — Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 +0300

In case you haven't heard, I have been accepted again this year for Google Summer of Code :) This time I will be working on enhancing a Rails app that provides information about the state of rubygem packaging in Fedora.

isitfedoraruby is a project that was crafted in GSoC 2012 by …

GitLab on CentOS asks for password when using git push via ssh

axil — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0300

Seems there is an issue floating around when a user tries to push on their GitLab CentOS installation. There are two ways one can push to a git repo. Using their username:password through http and using their ssh key without the need of a password. For example:

git push …

GitLab repository management book review

axil — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0200

I remember when I was trying to install GitLab 2.0 with no prior knowledge of the rails framework and ruby in general, just copy pasting commands. It seemed fun and when the login screen showed for the first time, it felt really great! And then I remember searching for …

Coming soon book review - GitLab repository management

axil — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 00:00:00 +0200

If you don't already know it, Jonathan M. Hethey has recently published a book about GitLab on packtpub. I am in the process of reviewing it, so wait for a new post very soon :)

I'll attach the preface so you can get a glimpse of what the book covers.

In …

GSoC - Weekly update 11 and 12

axil — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0300

So far, I managed to deploy GitLab on a Fedora 19 machine using only packaged gems either from the official repos or a custom one I have created.

Below you will find some more info as well as the url of the testing environment. You can use/test it and …

GitLab gem install benchmarking with bundler 1.4

axil — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0300

It appears that the new bundler 1.4.0 will support parallel gem installation. Thanks to thoughtbot's post that brought that to my attention :)

Now, since I've been dealing daily with GitLab for the past four months, I thought it would be a good candidate for testing.

I tried it …

GSoC - Weekly update 9 and 10

axil — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0300

I've been busy the past two weeks with some personal stuff so I got a little behind. Here's what happened in the GitLab front.

Finish packaging remaining gems
GitLab deploy
Coordinate packaging with Debian
TODO

Finish packaging remaining gems

Now, all (hopefully) runtime dependencies are packaged and pushed in my …

SELinux policy for nginx and GitLab unix socket in Fedora 19

axil — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0300

The installation of GitLab in Fedora 19 went fine. I followed the official installation guide with some deviations where necessary, mostly taken from the CentOS guide in gitlab-recipes. I setup nginx using the ssl config, and poked some holes in iptables. For systemd services I used these files.

So, everything …

GSoC - Weekly update 7 and 8

axil — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0300

The past week or so, I have been trying to package every gem GitLab needs, in Fedora 19. This is something I should have done from the start, but better late than never. Now that I have quite learnt the rubygem packaging process, I follow a certain workflow that gets …

GSoC - Weekly update 6

axil — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Here is what I have been doing the past week.

Packages
Update to GitLab 5.4

Packages

charlock_holmes

Pending review

This one gave me some headaches as it is a gem with c extensions and as it turned out I didn't ship the soname in the …

GSoC - Weekly update 5

axil — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

I can't believe that a month has already passed! I keep learning new things, mostly on packaging, and the cool fact is that many of them are through my Review Requests. The discussion between the reviewer and the reviewee can sometimes be very productive leading to learning new things I …

I got approved as a packager, now what?

axil — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

This must have been the most intense week in terms of learning how the build system/process work in Fedora. I finally got approved as a packager and that means more responsibility from my side. Unfortunately, the instrusctions in the wiki are sometimes sparsed into different places and one has …

GSoC - Weekly update 3 and 4

axil — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Here is what I have been doing the last two weeks.

Work on packages
Gems and their versions in json format
Version table in wiki
Init repository
Rubygem packaging article
TODO next week

Work on packages

I ran gem2rpm on all gems and saved their specs …

GSoC - Weekly update 2

axil — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Unfortunately this week hasn't been very productive due to lack of time. I managed to package 5-6 more gems, but I haven't submit them in Bugzilla yet. As always, the most difficult and time consuming task is to make all the test suites provided with each gem pass. And believe …

GSoC - Weekly update 1

axil — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0300

It's been over a week that GSoC started and here is a weekly report of what achieved so far.

Weekly process

Workflow

Trello board - This is a web app in which you can manage your workflow by adding tasks that are to be completed. I set it up to remind …

Connect to Transmission through an ssh encrypted session

axil — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Use case: You have a remote machine with high bandwidth and you want to turn it in a torrent server.

Prerequisites
Transgui

Prerequisites

All you have to install in the remote server, is transmission-daemon which is pretty much included in every well known distribution. After it successfuly installs, run transmission-daemon …

Accepted for GSoC 2013

axil — Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Sooo, I am happy to announce that I got accepted to this year's Google Summer of Code! Couldn't be more happy right now :)

For those that have no idea, here is my proposal on Fedora's wiki (my user). I have in mind to make a follow post on how I …

Codeschool offers 2-day hall pass to all courses

axil — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Code School is an online learning platform that teaches a variety of programming and web design skills. Courses range from beginner to advanced levels and you get to earn rewards and badges as you learn.

Courses cover a variety of technologies including among others Git, Ruby, Backbone.js, Sass, Rails …

Nominated for Space Apps Challenge 2013

axil — Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Update: The Popeye on Mars project came first in "Best Mission Concept" category. Congrats guys!

During the weekend of 20th and 21st of April we gathered at hackerpace.gr and started hacking for NASA's space apps challenge. From their webpage:

The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration …

"A brief guide in vim"

axil — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Ένα πολύ ωραίο thread σχετικά με τον vim editor βρίσκεται εδώ, όπου το μέλος imitheos έχει παραθέσει πολλά χρήσιμα tips. Στο παρόν post θα προσπαθήσω να τα συγκεντρώσω όλα μαζί. Όπως θα διαπιστώσετε είναι ΠΑΡΑ πολλά, οπότε grab a cup of coffee, open vim and start practicing!

Οι συχνότερες λειτουργίες …

"Ένας σύντομος οδηγός για τον vim"

axil — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Οι συχνότερες λειτουργίες …

Bringing GitLab to Fedora

axil — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0300

Update: I just got a confirmation mail that my proposal got accepted! Read here.

So, I decided to write some info regarding my involvement for this year's Google Summer of Code. I have been using/testing GitLab since version 2.0 (almost a year now) and I am thrilled to …