Maven: Project management tool (for Eclipse)

Following our target, create a XP Software Development Environment, today we add another tol for the box.

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Generating code from UML with Eclipse

Eclipse has a project called EMF (Eclipse Modelling Framework) cool for drawing UML2 Diagrams. But my goal in this post is to draw UML2 class diagrams and create the java skeleton for the classes.

In the application architecture is recommended separate the domain model from services, business logic etc. EMF gives you the tool to create class diagrams and to generate the code with them.

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Video Streaming with Apache

In this post I will show you how I have mounted a streaming video server like youtube with my Apache server. Nwadays is one choice to do pseudostreaming that we know . The idea was inserting a video in a customer page, and show my video cv at my web curriculum.

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Installing SVN on Debian

In order to build an XP environment, I will start with Control Version System. I choose Subversion CVS because have sufficient maturity, good integration with Eclipse via Subclipse, and I have experience using it at my job.

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IZPACK.org: Packaging your apps

IZPACK: OpenSource product which you can use to package and automate installs in your client’s computers.

  • Cross-platform: it is Java; you only needs the JVM on the client.
  • Translations: installation in some languages.
  • Uninstaller: make the uninstall script at the same time.
  • License: Warn for license type on installation.

No more zip packages with README.txt, if you want somebody automated your software installation.

Eclipse for Oracle

OEPE (Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse), is a Eclipse distro built by and for Oracle products. In order to connect to its Data Bases and to develop with their technologies.

  • It comes with the Data Base Management Perspective, it can recreate all objects (packages, views, synonims,…).
  • Weblogic preloaded, to install by clics. And facilitates the develop of deployment plans over it.
  • JSF libraries (myfaces), and SCA Spring connectors with the apps server.

If you develop Java over Eclipse, with Oracle products backed (DBMS and WebLogic), you must know this Eclipse distro.

Testing Chrome OS

Thanks to Lifehacker and @Tweakt.

You can download he Chrome OS torent.

Mount the image in your favoritevitualization aplication:

  • Make a virtual machine with VMPlayer…. Put as hard disk image (.vmdk), which you downloaded from torren.
  • I always recommend VirtualBox. Just create a virtual hard disk with the vmdk file, and build a linux machine with it.

Login as mark, with no password.

Then you can login to your gmail account, and play cool.

The system seems very simple (like a notebook linux), and oriented to be web applications client only.

See the following snapshot of the system:

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Agile Open Spain 2009, Agile Passion

Congratulations for the team of Agile Spain, for the Computer Sciencce School which lend its resources, and for the speakers who let to begin the conversation.The Open Space was a heavy success. Let the public choose the tracks more interested in, and create a great number of tracks (30):

This let you create a conference which fits your level, interests, curiosities,… So, sue to the people professionalism, who has something to share speak, and who has not learn.

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Virtualize your XP partition from Ubuntu with VirtualBox

vbox_logo2_gradient.png In order to show you the VirtualBox potential, and make easy the migration to Ubuntu for the users of XP, who want to use it from Ubuntu. We are going to see how you can virtualize an made XP partition from Ubuntu 8.04 suing VirtualBox.

We can find the same solution with VMware Workstation at Kript贸polis (Spanish), but this product can be used 30 days. I probed with the free VMware Server product, but it do not provide the partition virtualizing property.

Then with no doubt we can say that VirtualBox is the most durable solution, although Open Source.

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Installing VirtualBox

vbox_logo2_gradient.png VirtualBox is the virtualization tool with one GPL edition, as we speak bellow.

It is becaming as an attractive choice against VMware products, with propietary code philosophy.

VirtualBox was acquired on 2008 February by SUN Microsystems.

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Installing VMware Server

server_05.gif We are going to install the VMware’s product, the earliest company in the Virtualization issue.

VMware Server is one of their free products, it creates and manage virtual machine containers like its payment brother, VMware Workstation. But in this case we find the Administration interface at a web breowser. Then we get the whole possibilities create/erase/administer/use virtual machines from a simple web browser, from any site, having access to the host machine.

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Some Wordpress useful plugins

Today I will comment some useful plugins I have found for Wordpress. Depending on your web purpose they could help you.

In my case, blog for technical purposes, the most useful plugin is the WP-Syntax.
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Updating your Maemo to OS2008

At the end of the year 2007 was resleased the new version of this operating system Debian based for mobile terminals.

Here we have the official noticed for the new release of the OS2008 Maemo version.

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LDAP authentication for your Wiki

In the MediaWiki CMS we have an extension for the LDAP authentication: LDAP_Authentication.

Then I we have an Directory Server (LDAP or Active Directory), we can use our wiki with our global authentication services.

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Compiz-fusion with Ubuntu: My Graphic Card in the Blacklist

I am going to talk about a little problem that I found installing Compiz over Ubuntu in my laptop.

There are graphic cards in a Compiz Blacklist, because of they did not enough tested, or did not use standards, with Compiz can grant a good software performance.

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Integrating FCKEditor in MediaWiki

The target for this post is to embed at our MediaWiki an editor as Wordpress wysiwyg editor. For editing visual and no-problem with the back language.

With Wiki applications this language is not HTML, because of the complexity or the reference systems used. They use a tagged language, Wikitext, which we could do not need or do not our users learn.

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Connecting Netbeans to your Data Base

At this post we are going to see how to connect Netbeans IDE to your Database. In my case I work over Oracle SGBD, then I will access to this SGBD.

We will use the JDBC standar, java based for remote DDBB connections purposes.

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Installing NetBeans

NetBeans is an excellent IDE (Integrated Development Environment) developed by Sun MicroSystems. Early to develop J2EE applications and later to develop Ruby, PHP, C, C++,…

Today we will install this software and show any links to start to develop Java web applications.

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MediaWiki installation

At this article we will see how to install MediaWiki over a LAMP server, in my server, over Debian Etch.

MediaWiki is a software to mount wikis, PHP developed. A wiki is a collaborative web site hich can be edited by some people at same time. My interests is due to manage my documentation and index it efficiently. Concrete, writing the big texts, the little ones serve this blog.

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Joomla! installation

joomla_logo_black.jpgIn this article i explain how do I install joomla, it is a CMS (Content Management System) for general purpose portals based on PHP+MySQL technologies.

Warning: if you want install th Joomla version with spanish administration system, download entire opackage from here: Joomla_1.0.13-spanish-premium.tar.gz, here.

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