Thursday, March 22, 2012

Creating a content driven continuously tested and integrated source controlled website with NodeJS and Express

Creating a content driven, continuously tested and integrated source controlled website with NodeJS and Express.

The next set of blog entries will be dedicated to bringing online my pet project PortalGNU.com/org

Portal GNU will contain content dedicated to the open source movement.  The website will act as a blueprint for spawning your own personal NodeJS + Express + MongoDB driven website.

Before PortalGNU goes live, my blog will be dedicated to describing the process from github to travis-ci to amazon EC2.

Right now this is a work in progress.  More to come.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Server 8 Beta - Installing Core, Install GUI later

I'm beta testing server 8, which is in public beta (link)

This is the first time I've tried installing just the core, but it seems to make sense now.



It is an extremely quick way to get a box online and exposing RDP without the hassle of navigating a GUI.

To quickly get your hostname, networking, and RDP configured, simply run sysconfig.cmd



You may still use the GUI if you'd prefer.  The new windows 8 interface plays well with the apple trackpad.  I'll warn you though, this will take a while.  In order to later install the GUI tools, you simply open up powershell and issue the following:

Add-WindowsFeature Server-Gui-Shell



Finally you'll reboot.