JIRA vs Redmine Comparison With Respect to Features and Specs

In this post, I will compare these two project issue tracker and team planner systems. Only, differences are detailed. Whole standard features which an issue tracker needs to perform is dismissed to see the exact discrepancies. Redmine and Jira supports many of the issue tracking requirements but you should decide one of them. This decision is a little bit tricky; using an opensource software or giving a licence fee.

First of all your requirements should be taken into account. The table below describes many of the features by comparing these systems. The feature details may help you to decide whether you need or not.

Upgrading Debian From Squeeze to Wheezy

Today PHP version 5.4 is needed some how on Debian Squeeze and after a little bit search on web I decided to update whole system to Debian Wheezy. By default, Debian Squeeze come up with PHP 5.3. Also it is possible to work with 5.4 on Squeeze but it needs much more effort to upgrade (I tried to compile PHP and failed). Anyway, Below procedure is successful to upgrade whole new Debian system.

Before starting, take your back-ups and your own risk :)

Opening a New Project at Redmine Working with Git

In this post the Git and Redmine is assumed to be installed and in use in your environment. Open a new project on Redmine and apply the following steps. I am using the Turn Key Virtual Appliance on Virtual Box. Though you can use following shell codes in other Redmine and Git integration environment by only changing directory paths.

Setting Up an Open Source Development Environment II

Before you read this I suggest you to read the first post of development environment. In that post development approach is detailed. Setting up the figured environment is a little bit challenging. There are lots of configuration, however I chose the shortest path (lazy way :) of configuring the open source tools.

First of all the starting point is gathering a virtual appliance of redmine.

How to resize Virtual Box .vdi Disk Size on Windows XP SP3

To increase open command promt and do the following.

cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox

VBoxManage list hdds

Find your .vdi path and run:

VBoxManage modifyhd “C:\VDI PATH\XX\XX.vdi” –resize 40960

And open your virtual machine. Windows XP is not supporting resize of the current disk in the disk management. Find a third party tool like partition magic. And increase the size of disk with unallocated partition.

Setting Up an Open Source Development Environment I

In this post, I will describe how to derive an agile development environment by using only open source tools with my choices. Further, I will explain how to configure this environment step by step. First of all, the most difficult part; selecting tools in the open source crowd. I preferred the most heard tools according to their futures and capabilities.

• Source Revision Control; SVN (subversion) or GIT
• Continuous Integration; Jenkins
• Issue Management; Redmine
• Agile Project Management; Backlogs extension for Redmine

Intent is to set up a slim, easily configurable, useful and agile development environment by considering quality issues.

XPATH definition without tag prefix

This problem is encountered when you search in the xml where you do not know the source behavior. I have come across in XSD search of Web Service WSDL. In particular tag prefix usage varies according to different web services. As an example;