08 Feb 10 Apple’s iPad launch aroused so…
Apple’s iPad launch aroused some thoughts. I see http://bit.ly/cBglCq as a kind of right (positive) evolution of http://bit.ly/a7riFz
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08 Feb 10 Apache Chemistry walks with giant steps
In the recent times, there has been a project in Apache moving some huge steps: Apache Chemistry.
Chemistry aims to provide a Java implementation for the so much buzzed CMIS specification.
If you look now at people being a part of the project, you can definitely be impressed by the heterogeneity of parties involved; but that is the finale of this short story, and I’ll jump shortly there.
Nov 2008 - jcr-cmis sandbox (org.apache.jackrabbit.dev)
The first hint about CMIS within Apache can be tracked down in a discussion raised by David Nuescheler, Day CTO, in the Jackrabbit mailing list; that was a proposal for a new sandbox called ‘jcr-cmis’ in Jackrabbit.
People from Day and Sourcesense (a european system integrator) were initially involved in the sandbox.
Feb 2009 - ‘Working on CMIS‘ (Nuxeo gets involved)
This thread marked the beginning of the first big code entry, since Florent Guillaume from Nuxeo, revealed their existing interest in CMIS and determination in contributing to its implementation within Apache.
And so he did! Florent has been the most active contributor to the CMIS Apache effort since then.
The same thread also served as a discussion for the new name of such an effort; the winner was Chemistry, from a suggestion by Torgeir Veimo
Apr 2009 - ‘Incubating Chemistry‘
The original plan of managing the CMIS related effort within Jackrabbit had to be changed, since a lot of interest was growing around it and both new code and new potential committers might need help from the Apache Incubator infrastructure.
For this reason, Jukka Zitting proposed such a ‘graduation’; Apache Chemistry was born, as a new incubated project on Apr 30th 2009.
Jul 2009 - ‘Contributing Client Test Harness‘ (welcome David Caruana from Alfresco).
The fact that Alfresco proposed (and did) the contribution of their client test harness was another very important step. Having a TCK within an aggregative effort is the only way to provide a transparent, vendor agnostic, compliance testing infrastructure.
Can you already see, at this point, the spontaneous flourishing of the healthy ecosystem, where a standard should be moulded?
Jan 2010 - ‘Contribution of python cmislib to Chemistry‘
One of the two big new updates for Chemistry has been the initiative from Jeff Potts from Optaros, who announced his wish to contribute his Python CMISlib. Apart from saying how much value is jumping in the project with Jeff’s entry, who is one of the most experienced and well known experts in both the Open Source and Content Management scenarios, this is changing (and evolving) a little bit the vision of Chemistry of being a Java ‘pond’, turning it pretty much in a multi language ‘playground’ (don’t take me wrong, this is all about a serious (play)ground).
I hope that some other Python guys, out there, will appreciate the idea of joining Jeff’s work and contributing to such part of the Chemistry project.
Jan 2010 - ‘OpenCMIS contribution to Chemistry‘
And here comes the last blast for Chemistry; the other big thing of the beginning of 2010. The OpenCMIS project, developed by Alfresco, OpenText and SAP, decided to join Apache Chemistry, requesting for a merge of the two codebases within the Apache infrastructure. Such a merge will be about different areas of the project, including low/high client libraries, server impl., test tools and web based tools.
But the most relevant implication of that, in my opinion, is the new involvement coming from Open Text and SAP, with more code and people coming from the already present Alfresco.
From what we could see, in the last, intense, 14 months, no name was more spot-on than this for an Open Source project. It looks like the chemical mixture keeps growing and getting the right potential for becoming a reference for the CMIS global initiative.
08 Feb 10 @andrewserff about @daysoftwar…
@andrewserff about @daysoftware CRX’s Tar PM file format: my top ranked why’s: Future proof and Point-in-time recoverable.
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06 Feb 10 Studying banks web marketing s…
Studying banks web marketing strategies can lead you here: http://promotions.bankofamerica.com/mbc - entertaining and effective!
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06 Feb 10 Agile Online Marketing with CQ…
Agile Online Marketing with CQ5 http://bit.ly/agile-marketing-cq5
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05 Feb 10 “No posts to display.” is my n…
“No posts to display.” is my new #facebook page message. Weird. But not disappointed about it.
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05 Feb 10 Synchronizing posts with Twitt…
Synchronizing posts with Twitter for Wordpress http://bit.ly/twitter4wp
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18 Oct 09 My first Month @ Day
I have been working @ Day Software for 1 month, and it has literally flown away. You know that time runs fast when there’s plenty of things to do, and this was the case; again.
As a first approach I met, together with my Italian colleagues, our partners, and started thinking with them about the best for our next collaborations. I could find a very good foundation out there, on top of which to create very strong, efficient and productive partnerships.
One of those partners is, of course, Sourcesense, my former employer; we have already closed a good opportunity with those guys and we are already working on it for a successful implementation.
Spending 4 days in Basel, in our headquarters, made me get the fastest learning pace since when I started meeting Day’s technology. And it’s always so good to work together with such a top quality engineering group (but don’t ever forget I’m in the sales one! 
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Finally, last week, I took part to Ignite 2009, in Zuerich. Ignite is Day’s Customer Summit, where partners and customers meet, from all over Europe, to exchange their experiences, feelings and wishes around CQ5 and CRX.
I really hope that things will keep going in the same exciting, challenging and fast-growing way they did in this first month!
28 Mar 09 Wordpress upgrade: totally painless!
7 minutes! This took me to upgrade Wordpress from version 2.2.2 to 2.7.1. I was a little bit alarmed because I had not been upgrading it for a long time… today I wanted to get a more recent version in order to install the good AddThis plugin… and it was totally smooth!
Thanks WP for being so ‘cheap’ for my time 
29 Jan 09 Vancouver bobsleigh track, out of corner 13, CRASH!
Today I’ve had the pleasure of a new experience, for me. What my collegues had already had, and not me: a crash with my bobsleigh, down the track.
It was on the second run of the day, when you are more confident, after having passed the first without (say) any problem. They know that corner 13 here is very tough, because it’s the fastest point of the track (145km/h) and 13 is very tight; no error is admitted there, and one error we made.
Being the brakeman, you don’t really understand well what is happening, until your helmet hits the wall and you can hear a bad noise.
We haven’t any big problem apart from:
- Our Sled broken on the right-back part
- My helmet broken
- My shoulder’s skin burnt in a 5 centimeters area
- Fabrizio’s rib… he doesn’t know what…
The most important thing, they say, is not to think about it and go down as soon as possible, to leave phantoms out of your head
