Running Cache on a Linux VM

Download SUSE.
• Login: vmplanet
• Pass: vmplanet.net
• RootPass: vmplanet.net

Download the SUSE Cache install from InterSystems.
Install is rather easy with the RPM sw management system on SUSE.
Set the network connection on the VM to "Bridged" to allow the VM to use the host's network.
The ports have to be enabled on the Linux VM:

su root
iptables -F INPUT (Delete all the INPUT rules)
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT

To enable remote access from the Cache toolset:
• port: 1972
• web port: 57772
• login: ... the usual, _system or SuperUser



To connect from Terminal:
• enable telnet service on VM
• create a .session.sh script to launch Cache session, chmod +x
Cache must already be running (su ccontrol start cache if it is not)
• in .profile for vmplanet user add line to invoke session.sh

More useful appliances.


Studio connected to Cache running on a SUSE VM:




A view from the Linux VM:


Remote terminal connection:

Google Analytics API

Very basic GA API project (very poorly hosted too!)

CMS everywhere

This is old news, but it is interesting to see how ASP.MVC follows the same principles as, for example, Django or Zope; it contains the building blocks for a CMS, and supersedes the ASP.NET paradigm.

That being said, there are conceptual differences - Zope is middleware-centric (the database is customized for it), Django is database-centric (you start with the db definition, even if it is done at the ORM level: you start with the classes in Python which then get mapped to relational tables) and ASP.MVC is purely database centric (using LINQ to SQL - the classes are generated from the relational tables).

Finally you have something like eZ Publish where objects exist somewhere between PHP and the CMS, and are stored in a bit bucket (relational database, but with no relational features per se, so they might be better off using Mongo or Cache for speed).

Other than that, same features - URL mapping, templates, etc.

Next, I'll delve into ZODB, it would be interesting to see how much is actually stored there and how much in /var.

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Speaking of ASP.MVC, here are a couple of links on SEO, relevant to other CMS as well (especially to migrations!):

• SEO features of ASP.MVC
• SEO Toolkit
• URL routing in ASP.MVC

CMSRDBMSWT..?

There seems to be precious little information on data management in the context of CMS (Content Management Systems). To me, this would seem very important - data admin, modeling, etc, all should be hugely important, and yet some of the CMS I come across are little more than bit buckets with a data dictionary. While web-based CMS have certainly driven the development of NoSQL (due to performance reasons, given the underoptimal use of the RDBMS by the CMS), certainly some thought has gone into the data layer of the CMS... where is it at?

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Speaking of CMS: Here's Plone, which is running on a NoSQL incidentally.

Collaboration tools

Great info:

NHS Choices on GoogleApps

Here is the Google Apps version of the (Python) NHS Choices application I discussed in the previous posts.

I can't even begin to say how cool this is. 3 hours in Notepad (hence the crudeness) and we get the hospitals in the UK, from anywhere. This is really amazing.

The source code.

Internet, 247

This is tiresome. I've complained about it before. Until there is a seamless Internet experience, where things work most of the time, I won't buy into the Internet platform. It's unreliable.

Open Source, Cloud-based Approach to Describing Solution Architectures

Mike Walker discusses in a recent issue of the Microsoft Architecture Journal a set of tools that can be used to document solution architectures - based, not surprisingly, on Microsoft tools. Together, these make up the Enterprise Architecture Toolkit.

Since I don't have a Windows Server to run Sharepoint (I could, presumably, use Azure), I came up with a similar application setup using open source or cloud-based tools:




The only thing that needs to be built is the manager ("gateway", in the chart above) which can be a RIA application whose role is to tie everything together. Sounds simple enough?

Over mashed-up

It occurred to me that I started this blog to, well, blog about my thoughts on various aspects of computing. A while ago though, this became my testing ground for various mashups, widgets, embedded code, and so on - mainly because Blogspot Blogger allows for all kinds of code to be inserted, which Wordpress (free hosted Wordpress, that is) doesn't. Anyway, this doesn't make for a nice reading experience, so perhaps it is time I should refocus on writing and move the coding elsewhere.

Moolah

Nice, Wordpress. To redirect a WP-hosted blog, one must pay $10/year. To use a custom CSS (I hate the font used by the current one I have there), it's another $15. I understand they have to make a living. They should understand I can use Blogger instead.