Anu Sonia over at Packt publishing was kind enough to provide us with a review copy of Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets
This book is a practical guide for a Liferay administrator providing step-by-step instructions on how to use the most important Liferay features such as user management, roles, blogs, wikis, communities, themes, and so on. It contains numerous examples and straightforward explanations which will be very helpful for beginners. The book follows a well defined structure that makes it easy to find the information that you are searching for.
Although the book explains how to deploy Liferay… more

The last couple of weeks have been very busy ones here at BitNami. Not only did we update a bunch of already supported applications, such as WordPress, Joomla!, phpBB and Drupal, but we have created three new infrastructure stacks around PHP and PostgreSQL with (L|W|M)APPStack and added a new application to our ecosystem with BitNami JasperServer Stack.

Today, we are pleased to announce a SugarCRM Stack, which will join our growing stacks collection. As it is one of the most voted stacks in the poll, we think… more

We have put a lot of effort in building BitNami from the ground up, and it is a great satisfaction learning that it is useful to others.
We got mentioned in the past in LifeHacker and it seems the editors continue to use our MediaWiki stack themselves
Mike Gunderloy over at OSTATIC reported on our modularization efforts as did John Conroy at CMSWire . Ross McKillop created a detailed step-by-step guide complete with screenshots on how to install WordPress on Vista and Mike Jennings comments on his experience getting started with BitNami
Users at RealSoftware forums discovered… more

We are happy to announce the release of a new set of Infrastructure Stacks: LAPPStack, MAPPStack and WAPPStack. These stacks provide an easy to install distribution of Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP and supporting libraries. The user-friendly installer allows users to quickly install and configure a PHP-PostgreSQL platform on Linux, Windows and OS X.

At BitNami, we always try to provide you with top open source applications that can be useful for you. In this case, we’re glad to announce the release of the BitNami JasperServer Stack, which bundles JasperSoft’s JasperServer (http://www.jaspersoft.com/JasperSoft_JasperServer.html) and its needed dependencies (Apache Tomcat, Java and MySQL) in yet another easy to use installer for Windows, Linux and OS X.

JasperServer is one of the most popular open source applications to create and interact with reports. Quoting from their website,

Recently a new version of Tracks was released (download). This was a good reason for us to take a closer look at this great application that implements David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology.

Managing your tasks and time isn’t always that easy, therefore getting things done results to be even more difficult. Tracks tries to help you organize better and do things properly.

With the support of Bsag (the creator and developer of Tracks) we have put together a short introduction on how to install and use Tracks. This way you can get started with this… more

Se ha lanzado recientemente la versión 1.6 de Tracks, así que hemos actualizado nuestra stack, y de paso echado un vistazo a esta magnífica aplicación que implementa la metodología ‘Getting Things Done’, de David Allen.

Debajo de este párrafo encontraréis cómo instalar fácilmente Tracks usando el instalador de BitNami (muchas gracias a Javier Martínez por el vídeo). El segundo screencast es una traducción realizada por nosotros del vídeo oficial de Tracks, disponible en la página de la aplicación, y realizado por Bsag, creadora y desarrolladora de Tracks, a la que también tenemos que agradecer… more

One of the best features of BitNami Stacks is that they are easy to install. This allows users to quickly and easily deploy their favorite open source software regardless of the operating system they are running. BitNami Modules take simplicity a step further by enabling you to easily plug-in additional applications that will automatically run on top of the BitNami platform.

With BitNami Stacks, you get everything that you need to run for each application you install – each stack is a complete, independent runtime. In many cases, a BitNami Stack may be just what you need. In others,... more

A new version of BitNami RubyStack has been released!

This version includes ready to run versions of two popular projects for Rails developers:

* Git, an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency * Nginx, a lightweight HTTP and proxy server server (currently only included in OS X and Linux stacks)

In addition to the above, with this new version you can enjoy new and updated gems, right out of the box, including:

* thin: is a web server that brings together mongrel parser, event machine and rack…. more

Recently we have released a new BitNami featured stack that makes it easier than ever to have your own customized web application. The most important feature of this great software are the customization possibilities that it offers.

eZ Publish is not just a CMS software, it is a framework to develop web applications. The base features allow you to easily create a site according to your needs, from a personal homepage to an e-commerce site.

The BitNami eZPublish Stack besides bundling eZ Publish software, provides you with the whole environment you will need to… more