Rocket.Chat is an open-source communication platform offering a plethora of features, including persistent chat rooms (channels) organized by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. It is a serious open-source alternative to Slack. Many organizations and businesses choose Rocket.Chat for the control that self-hosting provides, as well as for its privacy and security benefits. Over the […]
نستخدم في سوريا وفي بلاد الشام عموماً وكذلك في العراق أسماءً لِشهور السنة الشمسية، وبالتحديد لشهور التقويم الغريغوري، مختلفة عن تلك المعتمدة في ما يسمى باللغة العربية المعيارية الحديثة والمنقولة عن اللغة اللاتينية مثل يناير، فبراير، مارس، أبريل. وبقصد إحاطة القارئ غير الملِمِّ بأسماء الشهور هذه، أنقل عن أبي منصور الأَزهري الذي عاش في العهد […]
As head of engineering professionally and as a contributor to Open Source projects, I am involved in several WebApp projects, where I put a large emphasis on code quality, smooth CI/CD pipelines as part of my dedication to DevOps principles. Some of the projects involves interactions with S3 storage via the Minio package for python. […]
In today’s digital landscape, PDF documents have become a ubiquitous medium for sharing information, ranging from professionally generated reports to scanned copies of vital documents. There are numerous scenarios, be it for privacy concerns, security protocols, or compliance with legal requirements, where redacting certain pieces of information from these PDFs becomes necessary. A common method […]
Many companies and organisation uses Google Workspace as the provider of their productivity and collaboration apps. The Gmail webmail service, Google drive, Google Documents, Google Meet, The calendar and many other apps are simple great tools for small and medium-sized organisations. Odoo is an open-source suite of business applications that assists companies in managing various […]
Motivation You are using uncomplicated firewall (ufw) and you realised that your docker web app is accessible via the internet regardless of the status of ufw, then this article is for you. I try here to answer two questions: Why does not ufw work for Docker containers? The answer is very simple, both ufw and […]
In a previous blog post, I presented a solution to use docker-compose to obtain and renew a Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate and configure NGINX to use it. The solution depended on using two docker-compose files, one for the initialisation and the second for operation, as well as a cron job, and a couple of very […]
RedNotebook by Jendrik Seipp is one of my favourite free open-source multi-platforms applications. It is a digital version of the good old lab notebook, that is usually red, and that is often used by scientists and researchers in labs around the world. It can be used to log experiment results, to take meeting notes, to […]
Docker and docker-compose provides an amazing way to quickly setup complicated applications that depends on several separate components running as services on a network. This is evident in the amount of time and effort docker-compose spare when deploying a certain web-app like Rocket.Chat, the open-source business communication platform that provides many features such as persistent […]
Rocket.Chat is an open-source business communication platform that provides many features such as persistent chat rooms (channels) organised by topic, private groups, and direct messaging. The platform can be self-hosted. In this blog post I will detail the steps I used to quickly and reliably deploy Rocket.Chat platform on a Linux machine running Docker. Rocket.Chat […]