Monthly Archives: October 2009

My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 3

In Part 1 of this series we discussed getting an initial Zenoss environment checked out and running on a Mac OS X or Ubuntu system. In Part 2 we discussed how to configure Eclipse to use the Zenoss source. In this part, we’ll discuss how to handle day-to-day operations such as branch management and working

My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 2

In Part 1 of this series we discussed getting an initial Zenoss environment checked out and running on a Mac OS X or Ubuntu system. In this part, we’ll discuss configuring Eclipse to use this environment. Mac OS X Prerequisites Install Eclipse Classic 3.5.x Mac Cocoa 32-bit. Ubuntu Prerequisites Install the Sun Java JDK. Why?

My Zenoss Development Environment – Part 1

Over the past 18 months the developers at Zenoss have used a variety of development environments and methods to productively work with Zenoss, but there are a lot of best practices that have emerged out of this diversity. I develop Zenoss primarily on Mac OS X, with some work done on Ubuntu when necessary. I