Ax & The Crew

Here it comes..
This is a new meshup project/idea that everyone could use in his freeflux weblog.
This time everything seems to fit like in a Lego^_tm castle!
Here is how it started..
I have an account on Flickr.. but with just one pic..
I mean.. I have my weblog.. why putting my pics on flickr?
Here, those swiss guys allow me to do whatever I want..(they even gain space, if you are kind with them :-))
I did my custom ajax gallery.. Works great for me..
...so I am happy with Freeflux!

Anyway..I discovered that many many friends of mine have a flickr account with many pics.. then.. why don't make them (somehow) meet each other on my weblog.. with their favourite pictures!
Is it possible?..yes it is.. or at least.. I am trying to.

I've just opened a new section, Ax & The flickErS.. and I am planning to spend some time in improving it
So it could change in the upcoming.. ages, you know.. work..private life..friends.. the netherlands :-)



It's Powered by FLICKR RESTful web services.. and, of course, the great Flux CMS.
Then..javascript "Parasitic" inheritance,XSL, ajax..gnip gnap..flip flop..etc

Have a look..and if at that time won't work.. well I said.. I am trying to :-)!

Hi,

I`m starting, together with other colleagues, the design of a new web portal for scientific applications (seismology), that will be part of a new eu-project.

The idea is to set up a distributed internet infrastructure, in order to give access to several services within one federated web site.
It seems that the available OS portal frameworks, based on portlets and web services, fit this issue in a good way


I`ve just setup an enviroment based on Jetspeed2, Pluto Portal, and WSRP4J.
Well.. I must say, positive results until now.


Anyway, at some point you I had to face on a real everyday life problem.. how to develop, test, and debug portlets without loosing minutes for compiling and redeploying your code for each small change!

Well, there`s the Pluto plugin for Eclipse.. but seems quite outdated, and not really working on my Eclipse 3.2.
Googling and googling.. nothing really useful and complete showed up, until now.
There`s a "infant" Jetspeed plugin project for Eclipse, but ok.. it is "infant"!!
I tried to use Java CreatorII.. no comment.

So.. maybe nothing new, but I found a personal solution that I think could be customized and applied in other enviroments.

This is the software list.

- Eclipese 3.2, wtp plugin 1.5
- Tomcat 5.5.20
- PlutoPortal 1.0.2, checkout here

svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/portals/pluto/branches/pluto-1.0.2/ pluto

Note: In this release this bug http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PLUTO-219 is fixed
(Needed for standard JSF 1.1 portlets deployment with jsr-porltet.jar bridge)

- Maven 1.0 (for pluto building and portlet deployment)
- Maven 2.0 with Eclipse Maven2 plugin for portlets .war packaging.

I suppose you already have Pluto deployed into tomcat (so also maven 1 should be well configured), M2 eclipse plugin installed and.. yes, knowledge how to use maven2...
yep, that`s it, I think.

Well in the box you can see the the content of a README file that I`ve prepared for the other developers of the project, we don`t even work in the same institute, we don`t even work in the same country!!.. (and also for me of course, memory fail safe)




Now, I am waiting for comments like.. You are fool.. you can easily use this or that OS tools for the same task!
I really hope so!

Anyway, in the mean time, it seems to work for me, and the development should be quick enough. I hope !

Check this out (Better with Firefox)

Ok, I`ve just noticed that someone is starting to surf around the web to have a look to my ajax image gallery.. but there`s lack in documentation.. so I worked a bit on it and here you go.. this is a brief gallery description with the sourcecode (css excluded at the moment).. HTML:


Of course everything could be improved here.. anyway.. I wanted to handle different indipendent galleries and for this reason I`m using javascript prototypes to handle a each gallery as a single indipendent object.. in this way you can have more than one gallery in the same page just adding this piece of html.

The numbers used to complete the id labels are for the proposal I have just mentioned, they must be different for each gallery. I tried also to do a full dinamic gallery..(ths html code shouldn`t be there.. but ok.. some cross browsing issue made me a bit sick :-) )




..Ok.. not so easy to comment, but if you need.. contact me!

Just one thing.. maybe someone could think.. ok and how ajax is used here?
Ajax has been used to load the xml desciption of a Flux cms folder (where I stored the images for a specific gallery) this xml is given by a trick thanks to chregu`s help, that enable the cms to make public the xml code.. I suggest to read the forum topic..

http://forum.freeflux.net/index.php?t=rview&goto=764

bye!