The Related Documents plugin for Hippo CMS allows the editors of the documents to select “related” documents of the current document. The plugin provides automatic suggestions using Similarity Search and Referring documents. Also, the document editors/authors can hand-pick the related documents.
The plugin is now updated for CMS 7.3(released last week). You can get the plugin from the Hippo Forge, the demo project is also now updated to 7.3. If you are already using the plugin, then there are no changes required in the plugin configuration to make it work with 7.3. Just update the plugin version in your pom.xml to 2.05.00 and you’ll be good to go.
Finally I got sometime to move the Smart Console project out of sandbox. The project is now hosted at Hippo Forge. There are two things that are aimed with this project . One – to provide a simple, user friendly JCR Explorer and Console for any repository. Obviously, I’ll add Hippo Repository specific features to the project soon. The second is experimenting with REST interface for the Repository. I’m using JBoss RESTEasy for providing the REST service implementation and ExtJS as the front end.
Currenlty the project is in pre-alpha, and during the next couple of weekends I’ll try to add more features – most , if not all – buttons in the UI do nothing at the moment. But the application in its current state can connect to the repository and display the node tree, and node properties (in a tab) when clicked.
Stay tuned for updates, or if you want to help, just join the project at Forge. Though the project is still in cowboy-coding phase, contributions are welcome, as always.
To see it action, check out the code and run mvn jetty:run. Make sure that your Hippo CMS/Repository is running on localhost.
A discourse on the process of designing for real people – a terrific blog by Joshua Brewer the Director of User Experience at Socialcast.com and Joshua Porter is an interface designer and co-founder of Performable.
Who’s the man behind the sound you hear, every time you startup your Mac? One More Thing onemorething.nl went down to San Jose to track him down: Jim Reekes. He worked for Apple for over 12 years, during which he left his mark on everything sound at Apple.
The Codeorgan works by analysing the body content of any web page and translates that content into music. The Codeorgan uses a complex algorithm to define the key, synthesiser style and drum pattern most appropriate to the page content.Have a go at http://www.codeorgan.com/
LESS is an extension of CSS. You can write LESS code just like you would write CSS, except you need to compile it to CSS. LESS extends CSS with: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules.
LESS, written in Ruby, is available as a gem. Just do a ’sudo gem install less’ – if you are using any sane operating system.
Developer Sahil Lavingia is working on building a complete iPhone application in one week. The effort started from Sunday and so far seems to be going to be at a nice pace. Along the way he’s also sharing some nice tips on how is implementing the features.
Your weight, your kill-to-death ratio in a first-person shooter, your daily intake of water (eight glasses a day, they say!), or your daily workout which you must… not… missed, again. There are individual apps for all of these things. But why? Think about this: tracking your weight is recording down a single number, daily. So is your kill-to-death ratio. So is your daily intake of water. So is whether or not you go to the gym today (either a 0 or a 1). If you reduce activities down to the numbers that represent them, it’s easy to see that one app can manage them all. Meet Dayta.
People seem to want to know if HPHP is widely useful outside of Facebook, and some people are saying “no”. I disagree strongly. In order for HPHP to be useful, you need to have a PHP application which is suffering due to PHP interpreter performance. That matches Facebook perfectly, and they’ve always been the canonical example I use to explain why PHP compilers are interesting. But you don’t have to be Facebook size or scale to have performance problems.
