I’m testing a build and install issue that was preventing me from using the NextGEN plugin for Wordpress. Hopefully there should be a load of  photos here from my post-Chicago ride.

and with a little luck, the XML Google Maps plugin will pick up on the gallery and the geotags in the photos

…job done.

Posted: February 8th, 2009 under AJAX, Content Management, Cycling, Geospatial.
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Note to self:  You really do need to take a proper look at Alfresco for EDRM and WCM purposes.  It’s been too long and you should have had a VM built a long time ago to do this stuff.

Posted: March 10th, 2008 under Content Management, Development, Information Management.
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On the back of getting Confluence up and running on Glassfish, on a Mac Mini, I’m now going to attempt to cram Liferay and Alfresco on there too, as I’d quite like to get a handle on the performance and footprint of the the two products. If it’s relatively low-fat, I can see that we could leverage this for rapid deployment point solutions – again on Glassfish as our chosen J2EE server.

Update: I was talking nonsense. I looked at the installers for Liferay and they made me cry real tears at how horrid the distributions were. I’ve resolved to go and ‘do’ Open Portal instead, just as soon as I can extract myself from Facebook (which will be some day real soon now that I’m all Facebooked out).

Right – apology time. I’ve pulled my head out of Facebook and come back to thinking about the Liferay / Alfresco post I originally made. I stand corrected on the ease of deployment front – I think I must have been in a very tired and dejected place then. Lucikly, Eduardo posted a little snippet saying that all was good with the world and that Liferay are distributing an official Liferay / Glassfish bundle.

As recompense, I’ll run a review asap [I have to for work sanity anyway ]

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Posted: October 11th, 2007 under Content Management, J2EE, Portal.
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Mwwwwhahahahaha. All I need now are 3 servers to get started with an installation and I’ll have a beta environment setup that will mean saying ttfn to Roller @ work (before it even gets anywhere).

Posted: May 16th, 2007 under Collaboration Tools, Content Management, Development, Hardware.
Comments: 1

I’ve posted (very briefly) about Kapow Technologies before (specifically about Robosuite – which is now seemingly rolled-up and rebranded as part of the Mashup Server). Sadly, when we tried to run Robosuite as a demo, we had no end of problem with it running on the Sparc(s) that we had available at the time

Anyway, an initiative that Kapow have released seems to be getting a fair bit of attention. OpenKapow is proving pretty popular at the moment, emulating the same sort of services offered by Dapper and to some extent by Yahoo Pipes – although discussion at work today has tended to be around how much ‘Pipes’ is aimed at your consumer blogger market than at anyone who knows has a terminal open on their desktop 24 hours a day.

On openkapow web developers can freely download and use our RoboMaker visual scripting tool, which allows for an easy point and click interface to mashup anything on the web that has a URL. RoboMaker creates robots that can be deployed, shared and run for free non-commercial use as REST, RSS, ATOM or HTML services on openkapow. Everyone that has ever tried RoboMaker has been amazed by its power.

Sadly, we’re talking Windows or Linux only here, which kind of puts a dampner on me being to download it at home and run it on anything sensible right now. That is, of course, unless I can have a muck about with the archive that’s distributed to see if the Java app will extract OK on an Intel Mac. Looking at the forums on the site, then folks have deployed on Mac, but with a ‘lot of work’. Bet it’s not *that* difficult (check the time of the next post to see how long it takes).

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Posted: February 15th, 2007 under Content Management, Development.
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