Reflections

My favourite font: Gentium

By Yannick Loth, on March 10th, 2008

Some weeks ago, I was looking for a free, beautiful and easy to read font, which I can use in my documents. I usualy used Sylfaen, but as I have no idea of the licensing of this font, I prefered to search a new one. And I found one that is complete (the full set of . . . → Read More: My favourite font: Gentium

MySQL and xampp (CentOS)

By Yannick Loth, on March 2nd, 2008

When installing MySQL with xampp for Linux (lampp), the folder /opt/lampp/var/mysql/ should be linked to /var/lib/mysql to ensure good working of the mysql command:

Remove the existing directory: sudo rm -Rf /var/lib/mysql
Make the link: sudo ln -s /opt/lampp/var/mysql /var/lib/mysql

This is especially necessary when you try to install Alfresco using a MySQL database.

If you don’t do this, there . . . → Read More: MySQL and xampp (CentOS)

Alfresco JSF

By Yannick Loth, on February 29th, 2008

The implementation of JSF used in Alfresco is MyFaces, and as such, it is incompatible with some J2EE application servers which come with some other implementation.

In JBoss, depending on the AS version, some actions must be done to disable the standard implementation. These actions are described in the JBoss Wiki, follow this URL: http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=Running2.6WithJBossAS4.2.xAndMyFaces

The easiest is . . . → Read More: Alfresco JSF

Chuck Norris

By Yannick Loth, on February 28th, 2008

I apologize for those who don’t understand french and for the fans of Chuck Norris:

Chuck Norris ne porte pas de montre. Il décide de l’heure qu’il est.
C’est Chuck Norris qui décide de ce que Jacques a dit.
Chuck Norris peut diviser par zéro.
Jésus Christ est né en 1940 avant Chuck Norris.
Avant . . . → Read More: Chuck Norris

The best Java books I’ve read

By Yannick Loth, on February 26th, 2008

I’m currently reading the Core Java books (for Java 6, Eighth Edition), written by Cay S. Horstmann and Gary Cornell.

I must say these are the best books on the Java programming language I ever read.

I recommend these to anyone who wants to become an expert on Java . . . → Read More: The best Java books I’ve read

OpenOffice.org Fedora / CentOS

By Yannick Loth, on February 25th, 2008

After having installed the OpenOffice.org RPMs from the http://www.openoffice.org/ site on Fedora or CentOS, no application starts in graphical mode because the SELinux security context is not set correctly.

To correct this, execute, as root, in the “program” directory of your openoffice installation, the following command:
# chcon -t textrel_shlib_t libvclplug_gen680li.so.1.1

Or simply set SELinux to permissive.

The error . . . → Read More: OpenOffice.org Fedora / CentOS

Create a SVN repository

By Yannick Loth, on February 20th, 2008

I just created a new SVN repository on my private server.

Basically, the only command to call is svnadmin create /srv/svnrepo, if we assume that the repository will be located in /srv/svnrepo.

But there are some issues: a normal user generally does not have write access to this folder.

For this purpose, we create a svnusers group, which contains . . . → Read More: Create a SVN repository

Hello World

By admin, on February 13th, 2008

It’s done. My first post is born. I’ll call this the “Hello world” . . . → Read More: Hello World