Month: May 2014

Alfresco Community Edition 4.2 : Step-by-step manual installation

Alfresco is an open source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) system that manages all the content within an enterprise and provides the services and controls that help manage this content.

This is an entirely Java-based application and can run on any OS that can support a JRE and the Community Edition is fully customizable/extensible as it is open-source.


Alfresco is available as an all-in-one installer (includes the core application, PostGreSQL, Tomcat, and all other bits and pieces). This is suitable for a fresh install on a new system. But if you already have a Tomcat server & a PostGRE DB running on your system, the all-in-one can complicate your installation. This tutorial shows how to install Alfresco using the packaged WAR file on an existing Tomcat installation and connect to an existing PostGreSql DB service.
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Setting up a VPN using LogMeIn Hamachi

Here is my requirement:

Comm Situation

 

  • I have regular servers running a bunch of enterprise apps sitting in a customer data center, BUT they do not have full access to the enterprise WAN (due to various management-level battles and project permissions).
  • The servers have access to the Internet only via a regular home-use-type modem sitting next to the rack. So the team needs to use TeamViewer/VNC/LogMeIn to hook up with them.

Obviously, not ideal! Where I work, we can’t afford to get a broadband line with a static IP for the servers, which is what is needed to set up a proper VPN with a firewall. In the meantime, LogMeIn Hamachi is what I use to access my server apps straight from my workstation. Hamachi can be used to create a virtual private network (VPN) over the Internet. It installs an adapter on every member of the network, which lets it create a relay tunnel to push traffic from point-to-point. (more…)

Tutorial: Connecting to Google Play Services

This tutorial assumes

  1. You have basic knowledge of getting up and running with Android.
  2. You have the Android SDK installed on your machine & configured with your IDE.

If not, the Android Developers Site is a great place to get started. Here you can get a very good idea of Google Play Services and how it works. 

In this tutorial, we’ll see the basics of how to connect an Android app with Google Play Services. This tutorial is put together using several online sources that I referred to when learning Android, including the ever-useful Android Developers Site. (more…)

Publish to WordPress straight from Microsoft Word

This afternoon, I was trying to copy-paste an article I’d written in Word with careful formatting & inline pictures, to WordPress. Of course, it didn’t work as well as I’d hoped. The formatting went awry and none of the pictures carried over. Then I did a bit of Googling and found an easy way to publish articles to my blog straight from Microsoft Word 2013. (more…)

Mobile Content Management Systems – Part 1

Looking for a content management system to handle everything from website content to multi-channel delivery? Here are some of the options available –

  1. Joomla
  2. WordPress
  3. Drupal
  4. Liferay
  5. Pimcore
  6. Magnolia CMS
  7. Open CMS
  8. Alfresco
  9. Ones listed here on SourceForge

However, my requirements are for something more along the lines of a consumer engagement platform, rather than a plain old content management system, especially considering that most of the above packages were designed with traditional web-based content in mind. So I ended up moving to a slightly different market segment. (more…)

Getting Fiddler to work with SoapUI

Fiddler is a great little free tool to trace HTTP/HTTPS requests. While it connects itself automatically to most browsers, thereby enabling you to trace all your browser web traffic, its not quite so automatic with other tools. Here are Fiddler’s instructions to configure it to work with different apps. For Java apps, the instructions say (more…)