Welcome to Bearstech's forge

Here you will find various software and documentations developped by ​Bearstech and released as ​free software.

Documentation, White Papers

• Dotclear vs Wordpress : blog scalability comparative benches
• HTTP Server bench : various benches on web hosting technologies, used for production tuning and estimations at Bearstech
• Debian LAMP Howto (Etch, long explanations) : notes on a LAMP5 setup on Debian Etch
• Debian LAMP Howto (Lenny, concis) : LAMP5 simple et rapide sur Debian Lenny (français)
• Debian RoR environment setup: setup an isolated RoR environment with its gems and all easily

Software

• RoR Farming : A toolset to manage a massive RoR hosting platform
• OpenMoko GPS : Tiny GPS output parser in Python + GTK+ for the OpenMoko platform
• BearMail : A mail platform (IMAP, SMTP/POP, webmail, etc) for users and adminsys
• BearStat : An attempt to retrieve more useful informations from web server log files
• BearChat : An AJAX webchat which scales easily to thousands of participants. Written in 170 lines of PHP and 70 lines of JS
• Geo-data (France) : A simple but complete and accurate administrative SQL database for regions, departments and cities (33,000 entries) in France. Includes a complete PHP sample API.
• SaveBox : A backup robot, running on GNU/Linux, saving Windows users' ass