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Arje Cahn (Hippo) — What's wrong with portals?

March 11, 2010

This post clearly describes the problem that I see with all current portal implementations: they treat content as “just another application running

Vijay Kiran (Hippo) — Updated: Related Documents Plugin for Hippo CMS 7.3

March 08, 2010

The Related Documents plugin for Hippo CMS allows the editors of the documents to select “related” documents of the current document. The plugin provides automatic suggestions using Similarity Search and Referring documents. Also, the document editors/authors can hand-pick the related documents.

The plugin is now updated for CMS 7.3(released last week). You can get the plugin from the Hippo Forge, the demo project is also now updated to 7.3. If you are already using the plugin, then there are no changes required in the plugin configuration to make it work with 7.3. Just update the plugin version in your pom.xml to 2.05.00 and you’ll be good to go.

Vijay Kiran (Hippo) — Smart Console now on Hippo Forge

March 01, 2010

Finally I got sometime to move the Smart Console project out of sandbox. The project is now hosted at Hippo Forge. There are two things that are aimed with this project . One – to provide a simple, user friendly JCR Explorer and Console for any repository. Obviously, I’ll add Hippo Repository specific features to the project soon. The second is experimenting with REST interface for the Repository. I’m using JBoss RESTEasy for providing the REST service implementation and ExtJS as the front end.

Currenlty the project is in pre-alpha, and during the next couple of weekends I’ll try to add more features – most , if not all – buttons in the UI do nothing at the moment. But the application in its current state can connect to the repository and display the node tree, and node properties (in a tab) when clicked.

Stay tuned for updates, or if you want to help, just join the project at Forge. Though the project is still in cowboy-coding phase, contributions are welcome, as always.

To see it action, check out the code and run mvn jetty:run. Make sure that your Hippo CMS/Repository is running on localhost.

Vijay Kiran (Hippo) — The First Golden Hippo

February 27, 2010

Yesterday I joined the hippo professional services team for a fun filled team event with go karting evening and the first ever Golden Hippo Award event. The evening started with go karting fun, we were competing with each other. This was the first time I ever did this, I failed miserably in the

Tjeerd D. Brenninkmeijer (Hippo) — Five golden rings, four golden Hippos and one platinum Hippo

February 26, 2010

Today we will leave the office by taxi to a secret 'kart' location where we will be treated to some (non alcoholic) drinks, some "bittergarnituur" and a presentation by Stefan. Later on we will get a short introduction in how a kart works (probably only useful for myself) and do a training lap. Thr