[Systers-dev] System Administration for Developers

[Sarah Mei]

I've been thinking about doing a screencast on how to set up a Rails
development environment on Windows. I could call it "So You Have To
Work on Windows...". :)

Motivation: Rails is Linux- and OS X-focused. Some stuff that's dead
simple on those is horribly complex on Windows. If only they hadn't
dropped POSIX support, sigh.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Jennifer Redman<jenred at gmail.com> wrote:
> Permissions on unix systems

Particularly, vs. Windows ACLs would be interesting.

> Basic Apache configuration

How to set up Apache for web applications. PHP, Ruby, Java, Python, Perl...

> How to get Postfix working
> Source Control in a unix environment

Setting up an svn server (vs being a client) - including setting up
Apache to serve svn requests (always the hardest part, IMO)

> Command line tips and tricks
> An introduction to System Logs
> NFS and Samba
> SSH tips
>
> Anyone have any additional suggestions or areas that they find confusing
> about system administration that might help with their development process
> that we could include in the list?  Anyone one to help out with some
> podcasts?  Maybe with some Windows sysadmin tricks for developers?