Here is my Google Buzz module for Joomla! based on Google Buzz ER GNU/GPL code of Ivan Lazarevic. Note that I did convert it into a Joomla! module in less than 15 minutes!

• Native module for Joomla! 1.5
• Use latest PHP5
• Caching
• CSS layout and style
• Dead simple code that use www.simplePie.org RSS parser

Links

• Download HERE
• Documentation
• Support Forum

ENJOY

I am on Google Buzz, here is my Public feed:

http://buzz.googleapis.com/feeds/cedric.walter/public/posted

My public profile being at

http://www.google.com/profiles/cedric.walter

Buzz is a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting.

• Share updates, photos, videos, and more.
• Start conversations about the things you find interesting.
• You're already following the people you
• email and chat with the most in Gmail.
• Follow your friends and get recommended
• buzz from others — all within Gmail.
• Comments appear right in your inbox so it's
• easy to keep the conversation going.

This issue has turn me upside down a long time. In fact in the official Google Group http://groups.google.de/group/maven-for-php/ I was not the only one to have this issue.

I did try the following, and it is always good to check first

• Checking PHP version,
• Starting Maven with -X for having more debug information
• Testing it in Eclipse + M2Eclipse on windows, was working there,
• Comparing calculated PHP include path on Windows and Linux: they were identical in this case

Only my Linux box was not working. . .(http://teamcity.waltercedric.com)

After that I did materialize the eclipse project of maven-php-plugin and even built a custom version that I’ve deployed without any effort to my Artifactory (http://maven.waltercedric.com)

And what is the solution?

it my server configuration and paranoia :-)

open your php.ini, ideally the right one, don’t put your server at risks: You may have many under Linux, especially if you use plesk or cpanel 

• cli at /etc/php5/cli/php.ini
• apache2, /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
• fastcgi at /etc/php5/fastcgi/php.ini

location most of the time

/etc/php5/cli/php.ini

and add the directory where your build server make a checkout...

; open_basedir, if set, limits all file operations to the defined directory
; and below.  This directive makes most sense if used in a per-directory
; or per-virtualhost web server configuration file. This directive is
; *NOT* affected by whether Safe Mode is turned On or Off.
open_basedir = /www/vhosts:/tmp:/xxxx/yyyy/

Next step is to put Joomla! 1.6 and all their PHPUnit tests a run along with Selenium. May also need to  patch Maven for PHP to better support Tests reporting like Surefire.

Starting from now on, I will deliver all my latest (unstable) extensions versions through  my continuous build server. All request or bugs discovery that are requested in my forums and solved will lead to a new build that you will be able to download a lot faster than before.

Thanks to Maven for PHP, I can now commit, 60 seconds later, unit test run and  the result is a direct download for my extensions snapshots.

Here is an example with the module mod_related_thumb_items

Head to http://teamcity.waltercedric.com/teamcity/guestLogin.html?guest=1

Locate the module or component you are interested in:

Click on the latest build, must be  Success

If this build is a direct answer to a support request in my forums, or solve an issue, You should be able to see in changes the commit description, and even which file have been changed after and before the commit.

http://teamcity.waltercedric.com/teamcity/viewLog.html?buildId=217&buildTypeId=bt3&tab=buildChangesDiv

But Hey! you want to download this latest build now, go to artifact

Staying  on the edge by using RSS

You can monitor any build by using the RSS icon in your browser toolbar, or example with this module, it would be

http://teamcity.waltercedric.com/guestAuth/feed.html?buildTypeId=bt20&itemsType=builds&userKey=guest

This way of downloading the latest extensions do not replace the page http://www.waltercedric.com/joomla-releases-mainmenu-269.html where there is there only stable versions.

The next step is to make the maven phase “site” work (I have issue with phpdocumentor not found), this will create automatically a internet site in one of my sub-domains ad hide this complexity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZS8HqOGTbA

In this small post, you will learn how to install Atlassian Confluence in no more than 15 minutes. It do not replace the online installations manual (The Confluence Installation Guide is for people who are installing Confluence for the first time. Check the requirements and supported platforms, then download and install Confluence), but mainly complement it, with some of the best Linux practices (ADDED points).

How to install Atlassian Confluence in 15 minutes

Create user and user group

ADDED: Better run these web applications with their own user group and user for more security…This is not required, but follow Linux best practices, thus highly recommended.

The groupadd command creates a new group account using the values specified on the command line and the default values from the system.

# groupadd confluence

The useradd command allow a super user or root to create a new user or updates default new user information.

# useradd -g confluence -c 'confluence user for confluence' -m confluence

Be that user, for all next operations

# su – confluence

You are now in the new home of user confluence.

/home/confluence /#

Install Confuence

Get the latest standalone version

# wget http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/downloads/binary/confluence-3.1.1-std.tar.gz

Unpack it

# tar –xvf confluence-3.1.1-std.tar.gz

ADDED: To avoid having version number and make software updates easier, create a symbolic link (symlink). This will avoid to have in all your scripts a reference to the version number, thus keeping them more or less generic.

# ln –s /home/confluence/confluence-3.1.1-std /home/confluence/confluence

Customization of profile

ADDED: I do not like to type too much, that why all server where I went are full of aliases. This help also other developers to locate quickly interesting functions on the system.

# cd

Open the Bashrc and put at the end

# vi .bashrc

At least these 4 alias, you are free to define more. Think also that they may be seen as documentation.

alias rel='cd /home/confluence/confluence/'
alias logs='tail -F /home/confluence/confluence/logs/*'
alias cstart='/home/confluence/confluence/bin/startup.sh'
alias cstop='/home/confluence/confluence/bin/shutdown.sh'

To make you life easier, you’ll be able now to start and stop Confluence by issuing a cstart or cstop, watch logs by typing logs

Prepare database configuration

Go to confluence home

# cd

If you are using MySQL (most of the time you are), you’ll have to get the driver from internet due to licensing issues

# wget http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/mysql/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.zip

Install unzip if not available on your system

# apt-get install unzip

Unpack drivers in current directory

# unzip mysql-connector-java-5.1.10.zip

Search the driver file. I do this to avoid searching or typing for it

# find /home/confluence/ -name mysql*.jar

This should return something like mysql-connector-java-5.1.10/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10-bin.jar.

Copy this drivers into tomcat shared lib, aka into /home/confluence/confluence/lib

# cp mysql-connector-java-5.1.10/mysql-connector-java-5.1.10-bin.jar /home/confluence/confluence/lib

Create new database schema and user

# mysql –u root –p
mysql> create database confluence character set utf8;
mysql> CREATE USER 'confluence'@'localhost'
        IDENTIFIED BY 'xxxxxxxxxx';
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON confluence
        TO 'confluence'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;
mysql>  FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

Configure Confluence to connect to this new database

Open /home/confluence/confluence/conf/server.xml and add in yellow the configuration for your database.

username="confluence"
password="xxxxxxxxxx"
driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/confluence?autoReconnect=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF8"
maxActive="20"
maxIdle="7"
validationQuery="select 1" />

Start Confluence

Issue a

# cstart; logs

and check logs to see if there is no fatal error occurring before visiting your browser http://yourserverIP:8081/confluence to continue installation.

Scripts (optional)

Create a new init.d script for Confluence

ADDED: Are for starting and stopping easily Confluence, in a standard way. This is something missing currently in the manuals. Here I present you maybe the most basic script ever made, but its purpose is just to be called later on by a rc.d as you will see later.

# vi /etc/init.d/confluence

And place inside the following

 
#!/bin/bash 

RETVAL=0 
NORMAL_PORT=8009 

start() { 
su -l confluence -c '/home/confluence/confluence/bin/startup.sh' 
} 

stop() { 
su -l confluence -c '/home/confluence/confluence/bin/shutdown.sh' 
} 

status() { 
echo "not implemented" 
} 

findShutdownPort() { 
SHUTDOWN_PORT=`netstat -vatn|grep LISTEN|grep $NORMAL_PORT|wc –l` 
} 

case "$1" in 
start) 
start 
;; 
stop) 
stop 
;; 
restart) 
stop 
start 
;; 
redebug) 
stop 
debug 
;; 
status) 
status 
;; 
*) 
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|redebug|status}" 
exit 1 
esac 
exit $RETVAL

# chown u+x /etc/init.d/confluence

Rc.d scripts

ADDED: This will start automatically Confluence in runlevel 5 if machine if ever restarted

# cd /etc/rc5.d

Create a symbolic link to the Init.d script for starting

# ln -s ../init.d/confluence S20confluence

And stopping

# ln -s ../init.d/confluence k20confluence

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine and application framework. This lightning fast browser has some interesting hidden page only available by typing some special URL in the navigation bar.                                     

1. about:version
2. about:memory
3. about:cache
4. about:network
5. about:dns
6. about:stats
7. about:histograms
8. about:plugins
9. about:internets
10. about:dns
11. about:crash

about:version

Show information about version of Google Chrome and its internal components.

about:memory

about:cache

about:dns

about:histograms

about:plugins

about:crash

This is how Google Chrome look like when it crash

about:internets

In previous versions of Google Chrome, this should have start the screensavers pipe on windows platform only.

Following pages are no more working in Google Chrome 3.x and 4.x

about:network

about:stats

In this small post, I’ll show you how to reset the MySQL password in case you lost it.

You’ll need at least the root access of the machine where MySQL run.

Reset the MySQL root password

Resetting the root password of a MySQL database in case you lost it, is really easy.

Now start the database in the background, via the mysqld_safe command. Start MySQL with a flag to tell it to ignore any username/password restrictions which might be in place.

# /usr/bin/mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
[1] 8705
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql mysqld_safe
[8345]: started

Now that the server is running, you can connect without any password

Stop the server,

# fg

hit CTRL_C to kill the process and start normally MySQL

# /etc/init.d/mysql start
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld.
Checking for corrupt, not cleanly closed and upgrade needing tables..

You should now be able to connect to your server using the password

Reset the MySQL root password

If you've got access to the root account already, because you know the password, you can change it easily:

# mysql --user=root --pass mysqlpassword Enter password:
mysql> update user set Password=PASSWORD('newpassword') WHERE User='root';
Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.04 sec)
Rows matched: 2 Changed: 2 Warnings: 0
mysql> flush privileges; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
mysql> exit Bye