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Mousetrap Mania!

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 by Enrico

The fine folks behind TOJam have finally posted all of the games from this year’s jam. Among them is the game we created that weekend: “Mousetrap Mania“. We’re quite proud of how it turned out.
The game was semi-inspired by “ChuChu Rocket!“, a quirky puzzle game for the Sega Dreamcast that was developed by [...]

Reddit goes Open Source!

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 by Enrico

Michael and I very often browse Reddit for interesting articles on all sorts of topics, including computer science and IT.  Today, I was looking through Programming Reddit as usual and the link at the top of the front page was to this site.  Reddit has made their code available through a public git repository and [...]

Initial Impressions of Alfresco 3: Slingshot and WCM

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 by Enrico

I attended the first of Alfresco’s Tech Talk Live sessions for this summer and much of the discussion was demonstrations, though I did get to ask some pointed questions about Alfresco’s road map with regard to web content management.
By the way, a recording of the talk is available here. The next one is on [...]

One of us! One of us!

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by Jeff

Today, I found myself cursing at a web application, to which Enrico replied, “Now you’re one of us.” I truly feel like a web programmer.
Being the new guy involves a lot of catching up. I feel like I’ve read so much documentation that my eyes are ready to bug out of my head. [...]

Ingres/Alfresco: Installing WCM

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 by Enrico

We’ve had a chance to play around with the Ingres/Alfresco bundle a bit more. One of the first things we did was install the WCM extension, which was easier than I imagined. Here are the steps:

Download the WCM extension (zip or tarball) for Alfresco Community 2.1.0.
Extract the archive into the installation directory for [...]