Capistrano - Deployment

Capistrano is an open source tool for running scripts on multiple servers; its main use is deploying web applications. It automates the process of making a new version of an application available on one or more web servers, including supporting tasks such as changing databases.

http://capistranorb.com/

Financial ERP - In-house web-based system

Team

• 2 developers
• 2 outsourcing developers
• 1 QA

Responsibilities:

• Manage the whole SDLC
• Gather user requirements
• Create and prioritize requested features
• System design
• Implementation
• Code reviews
• Deployment
  
• User demo
  
• UAT
• Maintenance
• Bug fix
  

Development details:

• Ruby on Rails
• Macvim
• Pivotal Tracker - Agile development
  
• Unfuddle - Git source control
  
• Apache
• Capistrano
• JQuery, CSS
• Phusion Passenger
• Selenium
• Chef solo
  
• Shell scripts
• PostgreSQL
• & more gems...
  

Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming.
Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
to develop can be produced in a matter of days.

http://rubyonrails.org/

Nginx

Nginx (pronounced engine-x) is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Igor Sysoev started development of Nginx in 2002, with the first public release in 2004. Nginx now hosts nearly 12.18% (22.2M) of active sites across all domains. Nginx is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

http://wiki.nginx.org/Main

Unfuddle

Software Project Management

https://unfuddle.com/

Pivotal Tracker

Build better software, faster.
Collaborative, lightweight agile project management tool, brought to you by the experts in agile software development.

    Increase Visibility and Collaboration

    Bring everyone, even distributed teams into the same virtual room. Enable a more efficient way to agree on priorities and stay aligned with the entire team.
    Plan Based on Realistic Estimates

    Stay on target with Tracker's continuous, automatic prediction of milestone completion dates, based on your team's performance.

    Deliver on Customer Feedback

    Get the right product to the market sooner, based on continuous feedback and prioritization. Respond to changing needs and new requirements easily.
    Transform How You Build Software

    Supercharge your agile project teams with focused, real time collaboration. Accelerate agile adoption with a simple, proven process.

http://www.pivotaltracker.com/

PostgreSQL

The world's most advanced open source database.

http://www.postgresql.org/

Allow uploading large files on IIS 7.0

Solve the Uploadify IO Error.

In IIS 7.0, the default upload limit is 30M.

%windir%/system32/inetsrv/config/applicationhost.config

<system.webServer>
<security>
<requestFiltering >
<requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="1073741824" ></requestLimits>
</requestFiltering>
</security>
</system.webServer>

Configure IIS 7.0 for Restful web application

When deploys a Restful web application to IIS 7.0 on Windows server 2008, it would certainly returns 404 when trying to access any restful service in the application.

This is because by default the restful request is handled by "StaticFile" handler in IIS.

The quickest way to solve the problem is change the settings in "StaticFile". (Screenshot #1)
- Select the "Executable" be "...\v4.0...\aspnet_isapi.dll"
- Un-check the "Check if file exists" option.

In addtion to that, make sure the application is running on v4.0 classic (Screenshot #3) or you may see a log in Screenshot #2

ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and that gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET MVC includes many features that enable fast, TDD-friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that use the latest web standards.

http://www.asp.net/mvc

Apache Hadoop - Distributed computing

What Is Apache Hadoop?
The Apache™ Hadoop® project develops open-source software for reliable, scalable, distributed computing.

The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-avaiability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-availabile service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.

http://hadoop.apache.org/

Amazon web service - Cloud services

Amazon Web Services offers a complete set of infrastructure and application services that enable you to run virtually everything in the cloud: from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and mobile apps.

One of the key benefits of cloud computing is the opportunity to replace up-front capital infrastructure expenses with low variable costs that scale with your business.

http://aws.amazon.com/