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technical blogs and other things related to what i’m doing at Exist..

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  • BarCamp in Manila tonight!

     
    BarCamp in Manila tonight at the G2VC Innovation Center, starts at 7pm..  Sign up now!
    For more details, visit barcamp.org/BarCampManila
    See you there!  

  • Groovy Users Group First Meetup Tomorrow!

    The first meetup of the Groovy Users Group will be held tomorrow 7pm at the Orange and Bronze office in Makati.
    Topics to be presented:

    Intro to Groovy by Michael Mallete
    Grails + Acegi walkthrough by Melvin Dave Vivas

    For more details, visit groups.google.com/group/philippine-groovy-users/browse_thread/thread/a835c5c84b6f9679
    See you there!
     

  • Maven @ the POSS

     
     Last June 23-24, the Philippine Open Source Summit (POSS) was held in Cebu and I got to do a technical session about Maven. For those who didn’t get to attend, here’s a short summary of what was presented and discussed in the session =) 
     

    What is Maven?

    It is a software project management and comprehension tool that […]

  • IP in Opensource - a Case Study

     
    Last Thursday, I was given the opportunity to do and present a case study on Intellectual Property (IP) in Opensource for the PSIA — Philippine Software Industry Association. My subject was the Apache Software Foundation. I thought I’d give a summary of my presentation here.. enjoy! ;-)  (I’d also like to take this opportunity to […]

  • Tinkering Around with Elgg..

    A few weeks back, our company started using a new application called Elgg. Elgg  is an open source social platform aimed to provide an environment for interaction and collaboration amongst individuals. It has some nice features like: blogging, file repositories, RSS support, podcast support and of course, social networking. What I liked most about it […]

  • Archiva 1.0.1 Released!

    Archiva 1.0.1 has just been released!
    JPOX was upgraded from 1.1.7 to 1.1.9. Other changes for this release include an improvement for maven 1 artifact resolution, validation in the legacy artifact mapping form and revisions in the documentation.
    To download, visit http://maven.apache.org/archiva 
    Short background on Archiva:
    Archiva is a build artifact repository manager for use with build […]

  • Archiva’s Big 1.0!

    After two years of hard work from the Maven Archiva team, Archiva 1.0 is finally out (with a cool new site to boot) =) It’s now readily available here:
    maven.apache.org/archiva/
    Cheers to everyone! =)

  • The Hype About Repository Managers

    Repositories have become an essential part of software development nowadays. Great importance are being given to the use of repositories, and because of this, a lot of open source tools for managing them are now available. As an Archiva developer, I wanted to compare the features that each has (even if I may be biased).
    Archiva
    Archiva […]

  • Archiva 1.0 Beta 1.. released!

    Finally..
    After a few weeks of preparation, we have released Archiva 1.0 Beta 1 (yay! to the Maven Archiva team).  This was the first release I’ve ever done, and what can I say.. it was fun!
    There were a lot of preparation on my part (had to generate my key pair and have them signed, then setup […]