Daily newspaper download with curl

April 19th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Fabio Strozzi

This post is about the script I wrote to downoad the daily newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. I wrote it many months ago and today I found that the new Debian Project Leader did something similar. This really means it’s time to talk about it :-)

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LinkedIn survey

March 22nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Fabio Strozzi

Yesterday I contributed to a short questionnaire made by a LinkedIn client which made me 10 euros. The questions fell within the scope of software development tools and languages with special emphasis on Microsoft, Oracle and IBM tools. Also opensource tools were covered, Eclipse and Java in particular.
I guess the small incentive of 10 euros [...]

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Sudo like tool for Alfresco – security aspects

January 16th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Fabio Strozzi

The sudo tool for Alfresco raises some security issues that are worth to be discussed. In this post I propose how to reduce these risks.

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Customizing the Alfresco login webscript

January 3rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Fabio Strozzi

Customizing Alfresco services can be easy thanks to the Spring framework. In this post I’ll show how to override the default behaviour of the login webscript.

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Sudo like tool for Alfresco webscripts

November 23rd, 2009 / 9 Comments » / by Fabio Strozzi

Integrating external softwares with Alfresco means facing with different permission models. Sometimes extending the Alfresco’s permission model is not enough. That’s why I wrote a sudo like javascript object to escalate privileges in webscripts.

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