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Spring Surf meets Clojure

Carlo Sciolla — Sun, 23 May 2010 22:08:42 +0000

For those who missed it, some time ago the Alfresco guys donated their Surf Platform to SpringSource, giving birth to the now-called SpringSurf, which is thereby described as: a view composition framework for Spring MVC that plugs into your existing Spring applications. It provides a scriptable and content-centric approach to building web applications. I’m not

Handling Microsoft Windows NTP sync

Carlo Sciolla — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:25:06 +0000

This post should raise some eyebrows around, as I’m advocating Linux since ages and I’m not at all into Microsoft stuff for the 99.99% of my time. This story comes out of that (usually negligible) 0.01%. Why bother with NTP on MS Windows? The Alfresco implementation I’m working on has to integrate with a fully

Tales from an Icelandic volcano victim

Carlo Sciolla — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:37:32 +0000

Last weekend Eyjafjallajökull decided my long-planned trip to visit my dear family in Italy had to be exhausting. On Friday, April 16th at 2pm my flight to Milan, scheduled to leave Amsterdam Schiphol at 8pm, was eventually cancelled. It had to be the first step of a longer journey, which was planned to be as

Amsterdam Clojurians meeting #4 – Dojo style

Carlo Sciolla — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:19:18 +0000

Today the fourth meeting of the Amsterdam Clojure user group was held at the now usual Sourcesense offices venue in Amsterdam. It has been probably the most successful one until now: thanks to some newcomers we had the most participated event ever with 10 nerdy, awesome geeks sitting together to discuss about nerdy, awesome stuff

From the grounds up, your Maven powered Alfresco dev box

Carlo Sciolla — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:01:25 +0000

The target To start your Alfresco development experience, you need a development environment. Let’s say you’re more into this Maven and you’d rather leverage its capabilities instead of using the default ant based build system provided along with the SDK. In this tutorial, I’ll guide you through the process of setting up from scratch your

Alfresco ACL on WCM WebForms, an howto

Carlo Sciolla — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:54:10 +0000

When it comes to setting up an Alfresco WebProjects, you configure it to make use of a set of WebForms already available on the Alfresco repository. From that moment on, every user with write rights on the web project will be able to pick one web form and push some content through it into the

Are you good at Javascript? #1

Carlo Sciolla — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:34:46 +0000

I’m not, really. Still I’ve been debugging some JS code just to remember why I was not so excited in the past about the language: your code needs to cope with browser specific crap. Now, are you good at Javascript? If so, without running it, have a look at the following code: var array =

Google Chrome on Air™

Carlo Sciolla — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:06:59 +0000

Today I eventually made one big decision, dropping Firefox (call it Shiretoko, if you want) as my default browser and embracing Chrome. Why? Well, they’re right: Chome is fast. Really fast. It is not even a matter of how quick it’s able to render a web page or to execute JS code (though that’s also

Alfresco ECM moving forward on the Maven path

Carlo Sciolla — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:43:59 +0000

These days some milestones have been placed that are both consolidating past efforts and promising great improvements on maven based processes around Alfresco ECM. First and foremost, to prove the Alfresco commitment in mavenizing the product, have a look at their hosted Sonatype Nexus instance. Even if big changes are still due, you’ll be more

Home sweet home

Carlo Sciolla — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:48:32 +0000

Ok, the migration should be now complete and the DNS updated. Moving a wordpress instance is not that smooth thing I hoped, but I’ve found some useful tips that allowed me to do it quickly. Now, these pages are served by a Debian VPS from the US, more precisely: IP Address: 64.208.167.70 Location: UNITED STATES,

Migration days

Carlo Sciolla — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:52:21 +0000

These days I’ll migrate my blog on a different server. I really appreciated the hosting provided by Netsons, but I need some more now. I’m switching to a VPS service provided by FSCK. I’ll appreciate any feedback in case you experiment any downtime or strange behavior!

Multiple Eclipse instances, a smart way

Carlo Sciolla — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:35:15 +0000

I’m one of the many Java devs around the world that chose Eclipse as IDE platform. It happens to me that when I reuse the same Eclipse instance across various projects I almost always end up transforming my IDE in a fat elephant with a broken leg, with tons of plugins and extensions that have

(how to configure Alsa for your Asus P5K on) Linux Mint

Carlo Sciolla — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:16:41 +0000

As I proudly (by now, at least) announced on twitter, I’ve installed Linux Mint on my home desktop. I was having some troubles with my old and poorly mantained Mepis, and Mint seemed promising. For the records, I’ll probably never, NEVER use a non-deb based distro on my personal computers. Let’s say I’m religious about

Alfresco and LDAP sync lock my Admin no more!

Carlo Sciolla — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:24:52 +0000

On the custom Alfresco Enterprise project I’m working we use LDAP sync to import users from a Novell eDirectory server[1]. Now, it happened from time to time that the user Alfresco binds itself with, i.e. the LDAP admin user, got locked in eDirectory as a “Intrusion prevention” mechanism or something like that. The LDAP sysadmin

Deploy your site on Nexus™ OpenSource

Carlo Sciolla — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:56:45 +0000

These days I have to provide a documentation site to one customer, so I started playing around with the maven site plugin and I created a really beautiful set of pages that will be able to teach all the details of my project to a chimp. Now, it’s time to make it available for that

Quick fix for ALSA error: cannot find the slot for index 0

Carlo Sciolla — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 10:57:59 +0000

Since the last kernel upgrade (now running a slightly customized 2.6.28) I started to experience a nasty issue with my audio configuration. I haven’t had the time to look at it since today, and it actually took a bit to figure out what was going wrong. Actually, my integrated audio card was no more visible

Apache Meetups – Day #1

Carlo Sciolla — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:11:32 +0000

Got there, eventually. It was not easy to make it up to be there, but it was definitely worth the hustle Yesterday was the first of two evening meetups which are part of the ApacheCon 2009, with two main tracks to geeky-chat with some smart guys on Portals or Maven quirks. I’m still working on

Tutorial: Corkscrew on Leopard

Carlo Sciolla — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:32:53 +0000

As I usually work at the client premises, I need to access the Net through their HTTP proxy. It’s a common need and I expect to deal easily with it for every task my job needs me to accomplish. But I’m wrong… Though most tools and software which access HTTP hosts around the Net offer

Tutorial: Vodafone UMTS modem on a Debian lenny

Carlo Sciolla — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:02:25 +0000

Today I finally had the time to give it a try to have my Vodafone UMTS modem running on my [not so] old Debian lenny/SID which is actually powering my desktop PC. I was a little scared, I must admit, since I never dealt with PPP stuff with linux… I always avoided it actually â˜º

GoboLinux vs MacOSX 1-0

Carlo Sciolla — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:46:20 +0000

Be aware that the title is nothing but provocatory: it’s not really about what’s best between the two opponent, but they’ve some stuff similar to each other, and the former follows a better path. Let’s see what’s all about… Recently I ran into a weird Linux distribution I never heard of: GoboLinux. The (most innovative)