Jan

2

Installing Zope and Plone from source on Ubuntu in 10 easy steps

Filed Under devs, CMS, Ubuntu, Zope, Plone | 6 Comments

Here are my notes for installing Zope and Plone from source in Ubuntu. I took this notes installing on 7.10 (Gutsy) but should work without problems for earlier Ubuntu versions, and for other Linux platforms

-1- install libraries needed for build (build-essential) and Zope

sudo apt-get install build-essential python2.4-dev python-lxml python-elementtree python-imaging

-2- download zope 2.10.5 and plone 3.0.4

wget https://launchpad.net/plone/3.0/3.0.4/+download/Plone-3.0.4.tar.gz
wget http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.5/Zope-2.10.5-final.tgz

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Apr

30

Cuyahoga: "Hello World" sample module tutorial

Filed Under devs, .NET, OOAD, CMS, Cuyahoga, Tutorials, Cuyahoga Tutorial | 6 Comments

Cuyahoga is an impressive open source web site framework (and CMS) with many impressive features like:

  • RDMBS indipendency via NHibernate
  • Enterprise architecture
  • Plug-in architecture
  • Deployable, using Mono, to platforms different from Windows, like Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, unlike other popular .NET CMS
  • Search engine based on DotLucene
  • Full ASP .NET 2.0 engine
  • logging system via log4net (the same logging engine in zigGIS)

People willing to deeply dig in Cuyahoga may download the latest release (1.5.0) source code and this basic tutorial for developing Cuyahoga modules.

The problem with this tutorial is that is a bit out of date (is based on VS 2003 and on a old release of Cuyahoga) so I thought to make this post to update the tutorial to VS 2005 and to the current stable release of Cuyahoga.

Here I am assuming that you are using VS 2005 IDE and Cuyahoga 1.5.0. You can of course use other IDEs without problems, but my post is concerned about using VS 2005.

We will create a very simple module, just showing the classic "Hello World" text. In my next posts I will write a longer tutorial with data management.

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Jan

19

Full OSS solution vs OSS/commercial solution mix

Filed Under GIS, PostGIS, ArcObjects, devs, .NET, Java, ZigGis, CMS | 5 Comments

I wanted to leave a comment in this Bill Dollin's post, but after that it came out to my mind to leave a trackback to it, and going with a my own post on this subject as far as I have several things to discuss about.

In the OSS jungle, it looks there are in the last times more and more solutions and projects based on commercial closed-code software. For example zigGIS, the Open Source ArcGIS connector for PostGIS, in which I am involved, is by itself an OS project tied to proprietary frameworks (Microsoft and Esri). This is many times not so good, as I cannot dig, for example, in Esri ArcObjects core code for understanding why a particular issue is coming out.
At my office we are in the process of taking an important strategic decision.
We are going to replace our actual commercial closed-source CMS (Content Managment System) - that we were using for some portals we manage for several years - for an Open Source solution.
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