tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89239832696164787692012-01-26T18:08:04.592-08:00Change is the only inevitable constant...and so is Technology when it comes to change. It's become a journey that a developer takes to discover the circle of life in todays cyberworld. I dedicate this to all the explorers in us.Ani Daduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13098689796744153579noreply@blogger.comBlogger291100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8923983269616478769.post-11620427048392154232011-12-20T09:00:00.000-08:002011-12-20T09:00:09.948-08:00

I was using the big thuderbolt display with Mac book pro, and have connected USB mouse to the display. Now I wanted to operate the Mac pro in closed clam shell mode. Basically closing the lid and screen, but not letting it go to sleep and keep working on the big display. This did work earlier in Leopard and Tiger with Apple Cinema display by simply closing the lid as mentioned in http://

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Solaris is different from Linux (obviously) and so are the most of the admin commands. I was faced with the a situation in which I had to implement port forwarding. Privileged ports like smb, cifs (138,139) which only root has access to, had to opened up by a process run by an unprivileged user account. For this here are the steps. 1. Enable ip filtering or NATting. svcadm enable ipfilter 2.

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Eclipse offers to configure the way we use JRE with eclipse per project in a few different places. This is hard to remember when we don't use it so frequently, since we don't create project frequently as much as we create the files in them. Hence this blog. The first place where we can tell eclipse about different JREs we have in the system and make them available to eclipse for giving them to

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What are the timings involved in calculating above 99% uptime for any system? Defining time in a common unit of seconds we have, 1 day = 86,400 seconds (24 Hours) 1 week = 604,800 seconds (7 Days) 1 month = 2,592,000 seconds (30 days) 1 quarter = 7,862,400 seconds (91 days) 1 year = 31,536,000 seconds (365 days) Here are a few pointers. Maximum allowed downtime Days:Hours:

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Recently I encountered a problem while connecting an ftp server running behind a router, which was behind a modem (typical setup now-a-days). Connecting to the server internally from the network works fine (including router and modem) however from the external WAN address yields something like this... Command: PWD Response: 257 "/" is current directory. Command: TYPE I

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Here's a collection of a few links which instruct how to install/uninstall google software. This is very useful for developers. Installing/Uninstalling Google Gears http://code.google.com/apis/gears/install.html Uninstalling GoogleSoftwareUpdater http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?answer=100386 command : sudo /Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/GoogleSoftwareUpdate.bundle/

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How to download, install, setup and get running with MySQL1> Download mysql from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ I got the mysql-5.1.40-osx10.5-x86.dmg2> Create a user account mysql Login: _mysql Uid [#]: 74 Gid [# or name]: 74 Generated uid: FFFFEEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA0000004A Home directory: /var/empty Shell: /usr/bin/false Full Name: MySQL Server

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Continuation to the earlier post...configuring HSQLDB in Netbeans turns out to be very simple.Here are the steps (my usual style of writing blogs that never goes out of style)1> Open Netbeans2> Make sure you have the Services window available (if not select it from the Window menu)3> Right click on the Drivers folder and select New Driver...4> Add the hsqldb.jar from the hsqldb/lib folder and let

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I wanted a quick, light weight database to just run and get started with, HSQLDB satisfied my needs instantly with a delightful approach.Download hsqldb-1.9.0-rc6.zip from hsqldb.org's sourceforge.net page.Unzip it copy hsqldb/sample/server.properties to hsqldb folder (since i am running the server from this directory)modify the line server.database.0 file:db0/db0 by replacing db0 to your

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LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (or Perl/Pythton)Ubuntu 9 (Jaunty) now has a command utility called 'tasksel' which displays the packages that can be installed on top of the OS.Issuing the command in sudo mode will start a GUI based application (similar to old file manager or BIOS setup utility).Just scroll down to LAMP Server hit the spacebar to select the option and the application

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Draft blog (work in progress)Get the SVN Subclipse plugin for Eclipse as documented in http://subclipse.tigris.org/ and follow the Update mechanism for Eclipse. I noticed one thing that mylyn dependency on eclipse does not work well with the Europa build and windows vista. It crashes eclipse during random copy-paste operations. Hence I deselected it during the plugin installation.Once installed

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How to setup an XMLBeans project in Eclipse.The target is to have a sample XMLBeans project setup in eclipse and access an XML via java objects.As always, this blog is for techie people, so I will get right to the steps, since that's what we are interested in rather than what the technology is. If we did not know what it is, we would not have googled and reached here.Download XMLBeans from apache

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What is a RAMDisk? Consider it as your harddisk (HDD) in RAM. So you can access it just like another directory on your system only that it is much much faster since it is in RAM has no hardware disk operations. For those who prefer the long version refer - Ram Disk on Wikipedia Ok now that we know what it is and the advantage of having one, how do we create it? I haven't created one on windows,

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CVS is very simple (for the experienced user) at the same time very confusing (for the novice user). With a plethora of tools available on windows, a task like changing the Repository location or repointing to a new server (in the event of a server change) for an already existing (checked out) project; is pretty straightforward.For example in Eclipse for an existing project checked out from CVS,

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Target: To have Yahoo messenger running on Ubuntu.Now, Yahoo is not available for any linux flavor, so I searched for Yahoo equivalent IMs and found a ton of them, although they do not support integrating with Yahoo's webcam and voice. The only one that I came across is Gyache/Gyachi/Gyachl.The following is painfull, and recommend to only those who like to enjoy pain once in a while. Building

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Having X server really helps. Download CVS from http://ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/cvs/binary/stable/x86-sunos/ I downloaded the x86 build since I have Solaris 10 on x86. The name of the file is cvs-1.11.21-SunOS-5.8-i386.gz. If in X mode, double click the file to open the extractor and extract the file. Otherwise use gunzip. Rename the extracted file to simply ... cvs chmod 777 cvs And optionally chown

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Having multiple admin logins is very easy in alfresco.Just add an entry in the adminUsers property listed in tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco/authority-services-context.xml file. This entry will be the username which will carry the admin role.simple and short (like this post)

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Alfresco comes by default with HSQL (HyperSonic) configured as the JCR database (DB). It also comes equipped with MYSQL configuration files, such that enabling these files will now make MYSQL as the JCR DB and leave HSQL aside.Production environments can have DBs apart from MYSQL and HSQL. One such DB is PostgreSQL. This is an advanced DB, rivaling biggies like Oracle. Here i will be listing down

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How to setup Eclipse IDE for ECM projects.Alfresco Development SetupDownload form the customer portal alfresco-enterprise-tomcat-2.1.1.zipMake a folder {projectname} under your main drive.Create 2 folders under the {projectname} folder, workalfresco and deployalfresco.Extract the downloaded zip file in both these folders.Run Alfresco once before proceeding further.Download & Extract the SDK

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Download the V1Pro.zip from www.daeja.com. Give a legitimate email address as the trial license key will be mailed to this address and there's no way to install without this key.Extract the zip file, this will yield a directory structure, out of which v1files is the folder that has all the necessary files for configuring ViewOne.Double Click on the index.htm file in the parent directory, click on

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Running Ant From Eclipse We can run Ant targets from build.xml files from within Eclipse, but there's a little setup you have to do. Create a new Simple Project (not a Java Project), I call mine "ANT_ProjectName". Right click on the Ant project and select New > File Click the Advanced button Select the option Link to file in the filesystem Browse for the build.xml file, if you expanaded to

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I went thru the Wiki page and was trying desparately to make sense out of the explanation, however unlike other Wiki pages this one http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Metadata_Extraction didn't lead me to a straight answer.So I did some investigation in the source, and XML metadata extraction turned out to be a breeze.The concept of extraction that I am following isI have my own Content Type 'License'

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Unix is flavorful and many flavors of Unix have different recipes. The dish is the same, the ways to get there are different. Setting Environment variables on UbuntuThese can be set in the windows style (once for all) in the /etc/environment file. First change the permission of the file by chmod 755 environment and then modify or change the env variables in there. I had to log off and log in for

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I am almost writing a Tutorial on Alfresco. What the heck !! so be it.And if so, I should say that this would be the most interesting one so far. "The Workflow".Alfresco folks call it the Advanced Workflow and the Wiki dedicated to this is WorkflowAdministrationThe Wiki is simple and does a great job for anyone who wants to get started on Workflows. What follows is the trail of my experience

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Content is typically almost anything that you want store and retrieve. Its like a generic Object.Like an object, Content also has attributes and can have behavior associated with it.You can define your own Content (typically called Content Types) in Alfresco. Most of which is done via XML.Any kind of customization in Alfresco should be done and kept in the tomcat\shared\classes\alfresco\extension

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Building Alfresco source code is quite simple, all the ant tasks are preconfigured and worked almost out of the box for me.StepsGet the source code from Alfresco's repository by issuing this commandc:> svn co svn://svn.alfresco.com/alfresco/HEADFor this command to work you will need svn (1.4.4 or higher) installed and in the pathIssue this command from the directory where you want your code. I

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Before this blog gets blacklisted for talking about WARs let me clarify....that a WAR is a WAR is a Web Archive File as defined by Sun's Java Specification.Sometimes when a product is so 'all set' and working for millions of years, we tend to forget the basics, the foundations of starting from scratch, and start scratching all over the place.So following are the basics to get well equipped '

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jBPM is supposed to be a very strong workflow engine and significant tool in the graph oriented programming model. There is a lot of documentation available on jBoss's sites and wikis about this.Here are some simple steps to get jBPM setup. These steps are for programmers new to jBPM, who want to cut thru the chase of reading the first 3 chapters, get into programming and then later get the

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Hello World !This is the official start of any newbie or a seasoned professional on any new technology. And this is precisely the way to start the Techie Techie section of my blogsite. I am already feeling the 'chi' all around me, to fill in this section.

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