Enable secure LDAP container based authentication with JSPWiki
A quick follow up on my post here. I will describe below the steps needed to enable secure LDAP authentication (both LDAPS and HTTPS). This is not intended for production use, obviously. I’m using the...
View ArticleEnable Nuxeo Live Edit with LibreOffice and Firefox
Following is a quick how-to, as apparently Live Edit with Nuxeo DM 5.5, LibreOffice, Firefox, and the Nuxeo-provided plugins doesn’t work that well out of the box. My example platform is Ubuntu 10.04...
View ArticleThunderbird RSS, QuickFolders, Sync, and other niceties
I continue to be impressed by Thunderbird which goes from strength to strength with every release. After playing around with RSS feed functionality (described here), I’m now using Thunderbird as my...
View ArticleFun with JSPWiki skins
I really love JSPWiki. It’s super-easy to install, doesn’t require any additional configuration for a back-end database, the native interface is quick and fast to use, and it just runs and runs. Great...
View Articleblog.davekoelmeyer.co.nz is now WordAds-enabled
Some changes to the site which you may have noticed – my blog is now displaying embedded advertising as part of WordPress’ WordAds programme. Part of the change involved choosing a new...
View Article“Open Source vs. Jive” – part 2
As a belated follow up to these posts, late last year looks like eBay ditched Jive Software for Drupal on their e-commerce platform, as reported by Wired:...
View ArticleGoogle “Data Liberation”
Spied while checking out a Google Group I’m a member of (which Google has applied the “suck” setting to as well): Couldn’t have picked a more apt phrase than “data liberation” myself – as it implies...
View ArticlePrevent the “List of attachments” from appearing in documents printed from...
In a default installation of JSPWiki files attached to a JSPWiki page are printed in a list along with the rest of the document. If one has a large amount of attached files in a wiki page, this leads...
View Articleheliod – Oracle iPlanet Web Server forked as open source
Prior to the Oracle acquisition, I used to be a fan of Sun Microsystems’ web server product, Sun Java System Web Server. It had serious enterprise lineage, a terrific web admin BUI which beat the pants...
View Articleheliod web server: fast then, still fast today
Quick post – as an update to my post here, Jyri Virkki has published a comprehensive set of benchmarks, comparing heliod’s out-of-the-box performance to all the other current popular HTTP servers out...
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