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Ben is an IT Consultant and Architect specializing in web applications, online marketing and content management.
Author Archives: Ben Peter
Generating aggregate content-packages for CRX
Your typical CQ or CRX project is multi-module, right? You have the typical collection of modules = artifacts = bundles and content packages: content, samplecontent, uiapp, core, taglib – you name them. For cutting releases, it’s convenient to have just … Continue reading
FireCurl: copy a cURL command line from the Firebug net panel
I want exactly what my browser gets – at exactly the same price
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Building an XPI using Maven
For FireCurl, I wanted to use maven to do the packaging of the resulting XPI file. Following below suggestions, you’ll be able to use the following for your Mozilla Extension project: # to build a new XPI mvn package … Continue reading
Installing a jar file to your local maven repository (fast)
There’s mvn:install-file, yes. But it happens pretty often that the jar file you want to install already has a pom.xml in it that contains the information required on the command line and can be reused so that all you really … Continue reading
Content cake with data raisins
(This post is also available on dev.day.com) In your typical CMS setup, most of the content is actively managed as such. But you often come across scenarios where other data needs to appear on a page, e.g. prices or product … Continue reading
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Exploiting Firefox Bookmark Keywords and %s for CQ5, CRX (and whatever)
Having a hard time bookmarking all the relevant URLs to CRX, CRX Explorer, Felix Console, &c. for all of those dozens of development, staging, production, stresstest, and so on environments? Here’s a simple hack for Firefox: create a bookmark to … Continue reading
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Poor man’s Voice 2 RTM on the iPhone (non-Jott)
We buggers in the old world can’t use Jott. Sigh. I wish I could talk to my phone and have a task appear on RTM. Just that alone. I tried to sign up, as my mobile plan gives me free … Continue reading
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.bat Scripted Content Backups in CQ 5.x
Here’s just a trivial bit of script that builds a defined content package and pulls it from the server. The curl part is pretty easy and didn’t take much after a brief look in Firebug (although I do miss a … Continue reading
Social Media: don’t invade, don’t shout or babble
After I checked in at the airport on foursquare recently, I received a reply from the airport via twitter, wishing me a good flight. OK, thanks @Airport_FRA – have a great day and take care. This interaction was one permutation … Continue reading
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Location based DRM: just a bad dream?
Last night, I went to see Sting in Frankfurt. He’s currently on tour with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, and it was a great concert. As usual, audio and video recording was forbidden, and just as usual everyone ignored it, … Continue reading
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