Sceneric Thinking

At the current progress in 2013 China is anticipated to overtake the USA for the number one position as the world biggest ecommerce market.

First of all, Sceneric congratulates the Magnolia team for running such a great event – Definitely worthwhile, and we look forward to next year’s.
It was good to see so many different groups represented, the whole range through users, customers, integrators (even competitors ?!?!).
Whilst it’s nice to see all these people, from a business perspective it [...]

As well as being System Integrators, Sceneric also have a Software Development arm, currently developing products for the Financial Services industry.
Therefore, at the Magnolia Conference, it was interesting to see the proposition the guys from NRG Edge are putting together. They are currently building an online banking solution, the Marketing Portal aspect of which [...]

So, I’ve seen it on the Magnolia website, but this was the first time I’d seen in detail the On Air solution.
I’m not the editor of a large scale Broadcast website, so may not be the best person to comment, however, from Peter’s demonstration, it was possible to see the ease with which the Rich [...]

A superb blog article here:
http://alt-tag.com/blog/archives/2006/11/integrating-mantis-and-subversion/
describes how to integrate SVN and Mantis, however the post-commit hook is for linux.  To do this on windows:
post-commit.bat
SET REPOS=%1
SET REV=%2
SET TMP_LOG=%TEMP%.\svnfileTMP-%REV%
D:\<svnhome>\bin\svnlook log -r %REV% %REPOS%>%TMP_LOG%

D:\<phphome>\php.exe -q D:\<mantishome>\core\checkin.php < %TMP_LOG%

Social Commerce is a new phrase which is a mash up of two of the internet’s most pervasive technologies – ecommerce and social networks, but is it a real phenomenon and what’s the size of the market?

As an SME consulting company, we often come up against large offshore development set-ups and the classic accountancy argument “We’ll use them as their day rates are a fraction of yours”.  There is an obvious problem with this – software development is complicated and expertise gained over years of coding, integrating and testing can lead [...]

A few months ago we created a proof of concept to access the Magnolia JCR container using Webservices so that a PHP based site we were building could access new items within an Enterprise Class CMS.  It turned out to be remarkably easy:
To integrate Axis 1.4 into Magnolia:

Download the Axis distribution
Copy the jars into the [...]

As a Java teccy who has spent a significant proportion of the last few years designing, building, specifying, analysing and frequently criticising CMS solutions it was pleasing to watch the development of the Java Content Repository (JSR 170 and JSR 283) Specification – It felt as though it was a significant step towards standardising what [...]

One of the things that is a constant surprise is finding clients with slow Java systems that spend a tonne of cash on new hardware but don’t configure their systems to make full use of it.  A classic problem is leaving the application server settings as per first install, with very low JVM heap size [...]