So I have been working on an Instant Messaging App for Android called Dodo with my friend Spencer Griffin for the past while. We are pleased to announce that it is now available on the Android Market.

The app is no longer available on the market. Information about the app is below.

Previously I outlined my development server setup, and now I thought that I would outline the setup for my client development environment. I use Eclipse for my primary IDE because of all the functionality you can add through different plugins and extensions. You can set it up so that you can do almost everything in your development process within Eclipse, and it is also platform independent, so you can use it on Linux, MacOSX or Windows. You can check out a lot of the available extensions with the new Eclipse Marketplace.

Previously I covered setting up a Linux Development Server and how to increase Trac Functionality. This Post I would like to focus on customizing the look of Trac in order to blend it into your site. Pidgin is a good example.

This is part 2 of setting up a Linux Development Server like I have done. Recently I wrote a post on setting up a Linux Server to use in development environments which you can read here. This time I would like to highlight a few of the changes that I have made to Trac to add additional functionality to it. Most of these settings can be changed through the Trac Admin page, especially the Plugin part, which is accessed from being logged in, and then Admin->Plugins. Mine looks like the following.

You can install plugins from the right-hand form on this page, and manage installed plugins from the center section.

I have a development server set up so that I can back up my code and colloborate with others on code, similar to Google Code, but self hosted. It is set up using apache as the webserver, SVN for the code repository, and Trac for the wiki, source management frontend. Trac is extremely expandable and customizable and is used by a number of projects such as Pidgin. I will highlight my trac modifications in my next post.

In this post I will highlight installing and setting up all of the needed components on a Debian system.