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JUnit tests made easy with Guice

Fabio Strozzi — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:54:14 +0000

Guice is an open source tool by Google that aims at simplifying the construction of software components especially when complex relationships exist between its parts. It is an easy way to make use of several patterns like dependency injection, factory methods, builders and aspect orient programming. In this post I'll explain how to take advantage of Guice capabilities in JUnit tests.

Ubuntu 10.10 on Sony Vaio VPCF13V5E: work in progress

Fabio Strozzi — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:30:01 +0000

Some weeks ago I bought a new notebook Sony Vaio F-series VPC-F13V5E which I'm going to use mainly for programming. Of course the first I tried was installing the new Ubuntu 10.10 64bit. Unfortunately, I run into unexpected problems some of which I'm still trying to work out. In this article I'm going to describe what works and what doesn't so far.

Improving TIFF preview in Alfresco Share

Fabio Strozzi — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:21:58 +0000

In my experience I've noticed that one of the great features of Alfresco Share that is much appreciated by the users is the documents' preview in the document library page. Recently I came across some TIFF documents whose preview quality was pretty poor if not completely unusable. This was caused by ImageMagick doing a ugly conversion from multi-page TIFF to PNG. In this post I'll explain how tweak Alfresco 3.3.x to get a better preview of TIFF documents.

Improving Confluence with Greasemonkey

Fabio Strozzi — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:52:43 +0000

A simple Greasemonkey script that speeds up page editing in Confluence.

Daily newspaper download with curl

Fabio Strozzi — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:32:28 +0000

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 :-)

LinkedIn survey

Fabio Strozzi — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:20:00 +0000

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 …

Sudo like tool for Alfresco – security aspects

Fabio Strozzi — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:20:44 +0000

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.

Customizing the Alfresco login webscript

Fabio Strozzi — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:35:25 +0000

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.

Sudo like tool for Alfresco webscripts

Fabio Strozzi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:55:34 +0000

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.