Alfresco on OS X Mavericks

Basically, I had a ton of issues getting Alfresco 4.2 onto OS X Mavericks and I finally looked up "alfresco 4.2 mavericks install fail" and found that tons of other people had the same problem.

Upon searching "alfresco 5 mavericks install" nobody complained about it not working, so I downloaded it from the link below.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/alfresco/?source=typ_redirect

Now reading the docs http://docs.alfresco.com/5.0/concepts/dev-repo-extension-points.html

Cheers.

Create services in *nix systems using chkconfig

Hello there.

Long time no see because I've been messing around with Ghost blogs on localhost. However, I'm currently on a machine that doesn't have Ghost and I don't want to create another one here due to fragmentation. Eventually I'll be hosting my own Ghost server so I can use that...

I'm installing Tomcat7 on this box. Standard install location is /opt.

I want to make it a service so I can run

service tomcat start|stop|restart.

I remembered there was something called chkconfig to do that, so I looked it up.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/06/chkconfig-examples/
Whoops, this doesn't exist on Mac OS X. Unsure if it's worth learning how to create services/daemonize things in Mac.

http://batsov.com/articles/2012/12/09/from-linux-to-osx-meet-your-new-apps/
In OS X, you use launchctl...

sencha cmd, skip theme build.

Found Newbridge Green's bootstrap theme for Extjs4. Looks pretty good.

Except, he understands how this crap actually works and wrote the thing in plain sass. (not the extjs theme extension thing). So, I can't really add it to the framework generated by
sencha generate app

So, I don't. Now I need to figure out how to automatically copy his css over when I do
sencha app build
and figure out how to get rid of the stupid ruby compass compilation thingy that takes forever anyways.

I also want to not use YUI to compress, but rather uglifyjs2. This can be put into a grunt task.

Here's how you get rid of the sass build and slicing.
Go to
.sencha/app/sencha.cfg
and add the lines
skip.sass=1
skip.slice=1

Finally got rid of that crap.
Now, we want to stop using YUI.
Go to
.sencha/app/build.properties
and set the following lines.

build.compression.yui=0

build.compression.closure=1

build.compression.uglify=0

When I tried to use Uglify, I got the following error:

[ERR] 

[ERR] BUILD FAILED

[ERR] java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Not Yet Implemented

[ERR] 

[ERR] Total time: 10 seconds

Laughable.

Since closure takes forever, the best option is probably just to not use compression, and just use a grunt task to build after everything is concatenated. That includes uglifying the concatenated app.js file, copying the bootstrap theme to the build folder, and gzipping both of those files.

Here's the gruntfile config:

module.exports = function(grunt) {

  grunt.initConfig({
    pkg: grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),

    shell: {
      sencha_app_build: {
        command: 'sencha app build'
      }
    },

    jshint: {
      options: {
        reporter: require('jshint-stylish')
      },
      main: ['Gruntfile.js', 'app/**/*.js']
    },

    uglify: {
      options: {
        banner: '/*\n Copyright <%= pkg.author %> \n <%= pkg.name %> <%= grunt.template.today("yyyy-mm-dd") %> \n*/\n'
      },
      main: {
        files: {
           'build/production/<%= pkg.name %>/app.js': 'build/production/<%= pkg.name %>/app.js'
        }
      }
    },

    copy: {
      main: {
        src: 'resources/css/bootstrap.css',
        dest: 'build/production/<%= pkg.name %>/resources/'
      }
    },

    compress: {
      options: {
        mode: 'gzip'
      },
      js: {
        expand: true, //use whole filename
        src: ['build/production/<%= pkg.name %>/*.js'],
        dest: '.'
      },
      css: {
        expand: true,
        src: ['build/production/<%= pkg.name %>/resources/*.css'],
        dest: '.'
      }
    }

  });

  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-uglify');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-cssmin');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-copy');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-compress');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-shell');  //or grunt-exec, unsure which is better

  grunt.registerTask('default', ['shell', 'uglify', 'copy', 'compress']);


};

And that will do it! Just make sure that

1. your package name in package.json is the same as your Sencha project name
2. bootstrap.css is under resources/css
3. you have all the dependencies in npm and run npm install!

New server, nginx + nodejs, github

Got a new AWS server.

Decided to switch from apache to nginx.

Had to figure out how to configure it.

Default inst. locations on RedHat are:

• webroot at /usr/share/nginx/html
• config file at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf

I followed some other tutorials to figure out how to configure the reverse proxy for node and nginx. The current method that I'm using is probably not THE best, but certainly works.

Needed to learn how to clone a private repo from a new machine. Also trying to actually learn how to use Github.

And check out this nice site: https://www.atlassian.com/git/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2505096/cloning-a-private-github-repo
Oh, so cloning private repos uses the git@github.com:username/repo.git format...
You also need to generate SSH keys to authenticate with Github:
https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys#platform-linux

Terse.

Securing RESTful APIs with Node and Passport

Stated pretty well

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14572600/passport-js-restful-auth

Really crappy post on Jakarta Connectors

https://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc-archive/jk2/jk2/confighowto.html

/etc/httpd/modules/mod_jk2.so

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

LoadModule jk2_module modules/mod_jk2.so

workers 2 properties

Putting node and apache together.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9831594/apache-and-node-js-on-the-same-server