Archive for 2007

Goodbye 2007 and Welcome 2008!

December 30, 2007 1:00 PM

As we say goodbye to 2007 and welcome the new year, I would like to thank our employees and clients who have contributed to CityTech's success and growth in 2007. I can't say enough on how fortunate I feel to have the opportunity to work with such great people on a daily basis.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

Writing to the Windows Event Viewer the Easy Way

December 21, 2007 5:03 AM

While working with Hyperic (http://www.hyperic.com) I found that to help control the Hyperic alerting, I could write a message to the Windows Event Viewer. LOG4J (http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/index.html), has a built-in appender called NTEventLogAppender. This makes it very simple.

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posted by Jeff Schwartz

Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) workaround for Apani Nortel VPN Client

November 16, 2007 12:27 AM

 This is huge news for those that use Ubuntu Linux, or want to, but are limited by the need to also use the Nortel VPN client.  The folks over at the Ubuntu forums have a workaround that works on Ubuntu Gutsy  (7.10) and the Apani 3.5 client.

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posted by Jeff Brown

Ubuntu JEOS (Just Enough Operating System)

November 8, 2007 3:57 PM

Ubuntu finally released the files for the JEOS version of Linux. More information can be found here in the press release: http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-jeos The download is here: http://ftp.heanet.ie/disk1/ubuntu-cdimage/jeos/releases/7.10/release/ubuntu-7.10-jeos-i386.iso

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posted by Jeff Schwartz

Great things from the Alfresco Community Conference

November 8, 2007 12:49 PM

Just returned from New York City where we attended the inaugural Alfresco Community Conference. The conference was attended by both community and enterprise Alfresco customers as well as Alfresco integration partners. We flew out late Tuesday night, attended the conference Wednesday and then flew back Wednesday night. Not even time to have dinner at a great NYC restaurant!

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posted by Jeff Brown

I Found a Bug in Pocket Excel

October 22, 2007 10:13 PM

Now that I am commuting to work via the metra train, I figured it would be useful to have the train schedule on my Treo 700w.  I pull out Microsoft Pocket Excel to input the train schedule into a new spread sheet - only to find an annoying bug.  I put the times in as strings such as 512 for 512pm.  When I put num-lock on for a cell, and then started typing the numbers, the num-lock automatically shut-off after the first number.  For example, if I tried to input 512, I would end up with 5er.  This happens on every cell and made data entry very painful.

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posted by Jeff Schwartz

Useful Software Downloads

October 18, 2007 10:06 PM

This posting is as much for me as anyone else.  I seem to rebuild enough machines that it is helpful to have a list of all my commonly used apps in one place. Applications Firefox http://getfirefox.com

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posted by Jeff Schwartz

Apple to open iPhone to developers

October 17, 2007 11:58 PM

I just read on Apple Hot News that Apple is going to release a developer SDK for the iPhone in February of 2008.  This is great news for the mobile smart phone market as it will lead to some amazing innovation.

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posted by Jeff Schwartz

Getting Started with Hyperic Custom Auto-Discovery Plug-ins

October 15, 2007 5:11 PM

After reading through the documentation on the Hyperic website, I found it easy to get started writing custom scripts for monitoring, but not for writing custom plugins using Java.  This posting will walk you through setting up your development environment and writing a plugin that will be auto-discovered by Hyperic.  I assume that the reader is comfortable with Eclipse IDE, reading & writing Java code, and working with the Hyperic system.   You will need to have the Hyperic Agent and Server setup and configured correctly.  Additionally, the Hyperic Agent will need to be unzipped on the local machine.

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posted by Jeff Schwartz

A reason to celebrate!

October 6, 2007 3:46 AM

This is huge news.  By popular demand Microsoft is releasing the source code for the v3.5 release of the .net framework.  This is a great move by Microsoft and provides users a reason to upgrade immediately.

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posted by Pat McLoughlin

Alfresco web scripts on BEA Service Bus.

October 5, 2007 12:32 PM

We are just wrapping up a project where there was the need to expose Alfresco Web Scripts via the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus. This was a fairly simple process; however, there were a couple settings we had to tinker with. I will go over the details and hopefully it will save someone else some time down the road.

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posted by Jeff Brown

Records Management is for Everyone

July 7, 2007 4:44 PM

Records Management According to AIIM, Records Management can be defined as: “The application of systematic and scientific control to recorded information required in the operation of an organization’s business, standardizing access to complete information through common classification and indexing methods and ensuring the preservation of records in accordance with regulatory and operational business requirements.”. Wow, what a mouthful. Records Management as simply a process in which an organization follows for managing the lifecycle of documents used within an organization’s business context. These documents are of special interest because they have been used to make a business decision or were a by product of a business process.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

Alfresco WCM 1.0

March 13, 2007 4:56 AM

The 2.0 release of Alfresco’s successful ECM product includes the long awaited Web Content Management (WCM) module. In this blog I summarize a couple key features I believe are worth noting which could set traditional web content management solutions into playing catch up. Try it for yourself by downloading the Community Edition, in a matter of minutes you will be up and running.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

.NET 2.0 Control Rendering

March 8, 2007 12:21 PM

In the movie Rounders Mike McD said “Listen, here’s the thing. If you can’t spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker” and in this case I am the sucker!

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posted by Pat McLoughlin

A Day in the Life!

March 8, 2007 11:00 AM

Hey All! For my first blog I thought that I would describe a typical day for me working as a consultant (for CityTech, Inc.) in Chicago. Normally my day starts around 4 am when i bounce out of bed crank out 100 situps and 50 pushups. 30 minutes of yoga and a protein shake later and I am out the door. The 40 minute commute on the L allows me a chance to catch a couple unbiased podcasts and read the morning edition of the Journal which is my favorite read.

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posted by Pat McLoughlin

Alfresco 2.0 Released

March 4, 2007 12:14 AM

Alfresco has released the 2.0 version of their successful ECM platform. The release has been issued to the community (free) and via the Alfresco Enterprise Network (24/7 support) which includes top notch support from Alfresco’s development engineers. This will be the beginning of a series of posts that I will be writing on the Alfresco 2.0 product.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

Web Content Management Presentation

February 27, 2007 11:00 AM

Tomorrow I am giving a presentation on Web Content Management with a focus on Day Communique/FileNet WSM and the City of Chicago Intranet Portal. I’m hoping to have the slides up shortly afterwards and I’ll post another entry here summarizing it. As a little preview, here are a few of the topics that will be covered:

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posted by Shane Johnson