Alfresco and Ingres recently announced a partnership, the first product of which is an all-in-one installer with GUI that installs Apache Tomcat, Java, Ingres, and Alfresco. This gives developers and end users a very easy way to get started with the two technologies, which together form a fully enterprise-ready open source content management solution.
We [...]

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When I was teaching myself HTML and CSS, I used to refer to Webmonkey, a site filled with tutorials, references, and resources on just about everything to do with web design and development. This was back in the late nineties or so, before the web standards movement gained the traction that it has today. [...]

You might remember my post about JSR-666 from April, where I asked whether the funny proposals to extend Java (for example, by adding a yoda keyword) were just a joke or a thinly veiled statement about the dangers of trying to shoehorn features into Java. So imagine my surprise when I saw another horrific [...]

TOJam was great fun, though I felt a little like a fish out of water. I haven’t used C++ in a while, and the last time I did anything serious with Visual Studio I had not yet gone to university.
As a result I spent most of my time writing game logic, the things which [...]

We’re back from TOJam!
It really was a crazy weekend. We worked day and night from Friday evening all the way up to the Sunday evening deadline. There were the highs and lows throughout: sometimes things were going well and on schedule and we were feeling extremely productive and sometimes we were pushing through [...]

The Sun Identity Management Buzz blog updated with an IDM-based game. The objective is to become an “Identity Hero” and save the enterprise money by provisioning users, implementing single-sign-on, locking out disgruntled former employees, doing battle with SarBox monsters and auditors, and federating with partners. I played it for a bit and I [...]

Michael and I are registered for TOJam 3, an indie game development jam held annually in downtown Toronto. The jam is a mad three-day dash to create small, polished, fun games. The games need to follow a theme (this year’s theme is cheese) and must incorporate some images and sounds, such as a [...]

It’s official. Tenthline is a now an official Alfresco partner.
Overall, I’m very pleased with the software. The documentation is still the sticking point, but it seems Jeff Potts of ecmarchitect.com will be writing a book. Everything he’s put out so far has been very useful is understanding the software, so I’m looking [...]