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I’ve had a lot of feedback with my article Exactly what is Alfresco?. A recurrent question I’ve received was where to find more info about WCM with Alfresco. You can Download Alfresco Web Content Management 2.1 under Download Alfresco Community Network. There you can find Alfresco 2.1 Web Content Management Product Evaluation Guide which is a very complete guide about the WCM module. Hope this helps.…

Alongside with the IE6/IE7 Application Compatibility VPC Images (VPC Hard Disk Image for testing websites on IE on Windows XP SP2), Microsoft now provides an IE8 version. This is a great way to test your web applications since the IE8 Beta1 installation overwrites the previous IEs present in your system.…

I’m really impressed about Microsoft responding to their customers and to the community. Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards Company outlines new approach to make standards-based rendering the default mode in Internet Explorer 8, will work with Web designers and content developers to help with standards behavior transition.   Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8 We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.…

Microsoft has created Code Gallery. Code Gallery is a place for projects sharing, created to demonstrate .NET key features with a primary focus on C#.…

Inspired by the Spring with Stripes integration I decided to make one for Java EE: Stripes Injection Enricher. Stripes Injection Enricher enriches Stripes Framework objects by satisfying injection points specified declaratively using annotations. There are three injection-based enrichers provided by Stripes Injection Enricher out of the box: @Resource - Java EE resource injections @EJB - EJB session bean reference injections @Inject - CDI injections The source code is available on GitHub at StripesFramework/stripes-injection-enricher.…

For those who are tired of the JSCalendar available skins, check my JSCalendar white theme. Preview: Demo: JSCalendar white theme…

In my current web project I was having some performance issues, I needed a tool that allowed me to do some testing so I can see what’s wrong and what I can do better so my application perform faster. My search lead me to High Performance Web Sites and YSlow, a very good talk by Steve Souders the Chief Performance Yahoo! at Yahoo! YSlow is an easy-for-use plugin that allows you to inspect any web page just clicking a button.…

You probably have already heard about Yousif Al Saif’s Multiple IE installer which makes possible to run Internet Explorer 6 in standalone mode. The problem is that Multiple IE doesn’t work on Microsoft Vista (still you can use an Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image). Hopefully Yousif Al Saif is making progresses in getting Internet Explorer 6 run natively under Windows Vista. More news to come……

Microsoft announced today the release of the .NET Framework source code under the Microsoft Reference License. Find more at Open Source: The .NET Framework.…

After googling a bit for error “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” I found many sites talking about that problem. Some tried passing command line arguments to the JVM or changing the size of the PermGen space, others end up recommending using a VM from BEA or IBM, all without success. But after a closer look at their comments I ended up at Frank Kieviet blog. Frank explains what really is a PermGen error…