Articles written in 2009
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Generate RSS in JSP? Set the locale!
The RSS pubDate fields contain dates in a format that may be human readable, but not very handy in a programmer’s point of view. According to the RSS specification the date must conform to the RFC822 specification. A typical RSS snippet looks...
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Generate the robots.txt from Hippo CMS
The robots.txt is a response from your website that is unimportant for your human visitors but very important for search engine crawlers. That’s why we created a Hippo CMS / Hippo Site Toolkit (HST) plugin to manage the robots.txt in the CMS and...
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The Google Future
It’s 2012. EU regulations require a choice between at least 2 operating systems when buying a new computer. Since the introduction of these regulations the Windows market share dropped to 15% on new computers, against 65% for Google Chrome OS...
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Hippo Site Toolkit Query interface and pagination
Today an interesting question came from a developer of one of our implementation partners. He wanted to list items from our JCR repository and use pagination. In this post I tried to make a summary out of the conversation. The query was: HstQuery...
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I don’t want to register before downloading
Okay I just wanted to try the “community edition” of some software. So I clicked on the big download button and then… I had to login. Because I don’t have an account yet I had to register first. So I filled in all required field like my email address...
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Hippo developer training
Hippo let me follow the three day developer training for CMS 7 and Hippo Site Toolkit 2 (HST2) by Jeroen Reijn. I don’t live inside a cocoon so I knew already which new products had been developed. Until now I hadn’t done any implementation yet with...
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My Friday at ApacheCon Europe 2009
Last Friday I went to the third conference day of ApacheCon Europe 2009. Becoming a Tomcat superuser In this “Geeks for geeks” session Mark Thomas explained about the Subversion structure of the Apache Tomcat project and how to build the several...
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ApacheCon Maven Meetup: Eclipse IAM and Maven Release plugin
Tools like Maven should make life easier for a developer, but it can be even easier. Maven is mainly a command line tool, but most developers use some kind of IDE like Eclipse to speed up development. With Eclipse IAM, Maven gets integrated into...
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Attending ApacheCon EU 2009
Welcome everyone in Amsterdam for the ApacheCon EU 2009. Apologies for the typical Dutch weather, it will be raining all week. I will attend the Maven Meetup this evening and the last conference day (Friday). I’ll try to blog about it and take some...
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Switching to fibreglass
This weekend I switched to XMS fibreglass for Internet, radio/TV and phone. They only charge 50 Euro per month for a 50 Mbps (up and down) internet connection, 40+ TV & 30 radio channels and a phone line. The fibreglass modem and my Fon WiFi...
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How to add the YouTube plugin in Hippo CMS 7
The YouTube Template Plug-in is a very small, but cool project in the Hippo ECM forge. The plugin was created by our former intern Jeroen Tietema. With this plug-in you can easily add YouTube videos to your documents. In this blog I’ll explain how to...
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Superfast Wifi
My FON Wifi router made Windows think it had a 150 Mbps connection. Pretty fast! Too bad the connection did not work and I had to reboot the FON router. Wifi connection status: 150 Mbps
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Overpriced memory
Curious how much an upgrade of my iMac’s memory from 2×1 to 2×2 GB memory would cost I went to the online Apple store. Apple asks €140 for 2 GB of RAM. Thinking it would be a tiny bit overpriced I googled for other online stores and found out that...