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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 development [...]

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 an [...]

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 than [...]

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, Latitude / Longitude: 38.9048 LATITUDE, -77.0354 [...]

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 said [...]

Deploy your site on Nexusâ„¢ 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 ubiquity[1], [...]

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 some [...]

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 It [...]

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) idea [...]

VirtualBox’ed Ubuntu with KDE4 on a MacbookPro

Carlo Sciolla — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:09:27 +0000

Today I decided to spend a little of my time on configuring an Ubuntu VBox on my MacbookPro. I was bugged by a “your system is not supported by us” error message while connecting to a remote service, which in turn stated Linux was actually supported. (Un)Fair enough, I love Linux much more than Macs [...]

Tribal Trouble 2

Carlo Sciolla — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:21:47 +0000

One of the best way i found to trash my time during these days of sad loneliness, apart from trying to shape this blog the best I can, is Tribal Trouble 2. It’s a 3D fast paced strategy game, and the best things are that it’s entirely written in Java™ and with JNLP it starts [...]

Encode videos for the Philips SA3325 with mencoder

Carlo Sciolla — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:06:25 +0000

I got it!! It took me a while to figure out how the hell to make it work but it definitely was worth it. Firstly, the problem: my ex-coworkers gave me this nice portable MP4 reader, with a tear-jerker video they made to salute me*. They said “we made sure it’s Linux friendly, you’ll not have [...]

GOTO’s spirit still haunts Java…

Carlo Sciolla — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:02:22 +0000

Some days ago I was debugging some LDAP-related customizations I made on Alfresco, and I run into an odd piece of code which made my eyebrow raise: labeled break (and continue) statements. Believe it or not, labels are still there, and someone still uses them. Here’s a dumb example: String[] someStrings = getStringsFromSomewhere (); String[] patterns = [...]