Archive for April, 2008

New Releases for 4/15/08

Published by Kimbro Staken on April 14, 2008 under Application Updates, New Applications

This is a summary of recent activity in the JumpBox Open Collection.

News

  • Get JumpBox updates on Twitter. Along with this email and our blog you can also get updates on new JumpBox releases by following us on Twitter. Twitter will usually be the first place to find out about new JumpBox releases.
  • Google recently announced the Google App Engine scalable hosting service and we found it quite interesting so we put together a free JumpBox for Google App Engine Development. If you’re a developer and are wondering what it’s like to develop for Google App Engine, the JumpBox is a great way to play around with it.

Have questions, comments or suggestions, please let us know how we can help.

Updated Production JumpBoxes

  • JumpBox for Wordpress new version 1.0.8 (Download)Updated to Wordpress 2.5 - This is a fairly significant update to Wordpress that brings a heavily refined administration interface.
  • JumpBox for OTRS new version 1.0.2 (Download)Updated to OTRS 2.2.6 - Minor bugfix release.
  • JumpBox for Moin Moin new version 1.0.1 (Download)Updated to Moin Moin 1.6.2 - Minor bugfix release.

New Beta JumpBoxes added to the Proving Grounds

  • JumpBox for LAMP Deployment 0.9 (Download)This JumpBox provides a simple way to deploy PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby web applications. It’s great for staging, local deployment and for a jump start on deploying apps where no dedicated JumpBox exists. We have lots of interesting plans for this, this initial release is fairly basic.
  • JumpBox for Movable Type version 0.9 (Download)Initial release with Movable Type 4.1, based on the JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta.
  • JumpBox for SugarCRM 5 version 0.9 (Download)Initial release with SugarCRM 5.0.0b, based on the JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta.

Updated Beta JumpBoxes in the Proving Grounds

  • JumpBox for Drupal 6 version 0.9.1 (Download)Fixed a bug with the setting of Time Zones in Drupal.
  • JumpBox for Redmine 0.6.3 (Download)Fixed some critical issues that prevented subversion from working.

Coming Soon

Some updates that are almost ready for release.

  • The JumpBox for SilverStripe will be updated to the JumpBox Platform 1.1 beta and a new version of SilverStripe. This will make this JumpBox much more usable.

That’s all for this week. Thanks for supporting JumpBox.

Kimbro Staken

A fun JumpBox to play with the Google App Engine SDK

Published by Kimbro Staken on April 10, 2008 under New Applications

Google recently announced a new cloud based application deployment system called Google App Engine. We found this to be a pretty interesting system and since the SDK they released is Open Source we decided to put together a JumpBox for it.

It’s a great solution if you want to play with the Google App Engine SDK without really installing it on your system. It’s also perfect as an integration point for a small team working together on a Google App Engine project.

Google made it possible to build applications for App Engine using several different mechanisms and the JumpBox comes with CGI, Google Webapp and Django environments setup and ready for development. It’s also a really great way to just kick the tires of the different frameworks before committing to development.

Also, since this is a JumpBox our backup system is included which allows you to backup your source code and development data to network shares or Amazon S3.

The JumpBox for Google App Engine Development is just something we put together because it looked interesting, if people find it useful we’ll continue developing it and tracking Google’s SDK releases. I think there are a lot of things we could add to it to make it a really useful tool for developing apps. If you have any suggestions definitely let me know.

Get more information and download the JumpBox

Nagios & MySQL Betas available and Proving Grounds now public

Published by Sean Tierney on April 2, 2008 under Announcements, New Applications

We have two new beta JumpBoxes available in the Proving Grounds:

Nagios is a network monitoring system that watches your network and notifies you of any problems. The JumpBox makes it really easy to get it running. Due to the nature of Nagios, configuration still requires additional work, but the JumpBox gives you a good jump start on the process.
MySQL is the worlds most popular Open Source database. It’s a core component of many systems and the JumpBox for MySQL provides a very quick way to get a MySQL instance complete with PHPMyAdmin running.

Both are based on the JumpBox platform 1.1 Beta and include all the great new enhancements described here.

The other exciting news is that we’ve opened the Proving Grounds up to the public. You’ll notice there’s now a link at the upper right corner of this site which takes you to our testing community. The Proving Grounds is the place where we make pre-release JumpBoxes available for testing before moving them to production status. We’ve got a ton of interesting candidates in the pipeline so be sure to check out the Proving Grounds for the latest and greatest.