Author: Hashim

There are 3 levels of git config; project, global and system. project: Project configs are only available for the current project and stored in .git/config in the project’s directory. global: Global configs are available for all projects for the current user and stored in ~/.gitconfig. system: System configs are available for all the users/projects and stored in /etc/gitconfig. Create a project specific config, you have to execute this under the project’s directory. $ git config…

Alfresco is using acegisecurity, so every running thread has a security context associated and every line of code runs with the executing user’s credentials. However sometimes you need to run a custom code with admin credentials or other system user’s credentials. For example in a current project that I am involved in, we created a configuration utility to store our configuration on Alfresco as content nodes, however in order to read the configurations you have…

For those who follow/use Alfresco content management platform, it is no secret that the product team is heavily working around this new phrase (social content management) and they are planning to release features starting with version 3.4. When I first heard the word social content management –in the same sentence as alfresco–, I let the intuitive side of my brain to understand what it might mean. What does social content management mean or rather what…

It is no news that having a corporate POM for a group of projects is a maven best practice for standardization purposes and avoiding repetition. And just like any other project a parent POM is also a living project and you need to update it from time to time. When the parent POM is updated, you also need to make the inheriting projects receive this update. There are two ways to do this; We can…

I just applied for access to upload my maven plugin to Maven Central Repository and I would like to outline the steps I have followed. There is already a couple of HowTo pages on the subject but mine will be much shorter. You just have to follow the steps given below in order to have your artifact on the Maven Central. First of all you need to have a PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) signature known…