Host Tracey Welson-Rossman and I discuss Dr. De Mars' history in remote working, from when she started by using modems, dial-up and tools like telnet and FTP, and today, with cloud-based services such as Google Apps and Dropbox. A good introduction for those who are not yet using cloud-based tools for their businesses, we discuss some of the unexpected consequences of relying on the cloud, including the fact that it is never a good idea to stop backing up your data!

Ken Rimple

Magnolia CMS is a content management system written in Java that has a long history. Created more than a decade ago, it has evolved into a platform with a significant user base and a large number of third-party extensions that the team dubs 'modules'.

In this podcast, we speak to Magnolia CMS's CTO, Boris Kraft, and to Magnolia engineer Tobias Mattsson.

We first speak with Boris Kraft about the history of Magnolia CMS, and discuss some of the basics of the platform.

Then we interview Tobias, who is the author of the Blossom module. This package provides a Spring MVC web context, which can export content to the CMS from non-traditional sources such as enterprise application data. It uses Spring MVC and annotation-driven classes to expose any data you'd like as content for your project

Tobias is speaking at the upcoming SpringOne/2GX summit in Santa Clara, CA. His topic will be Spring and Web Content Management.

More Resources

• Magnolia's Spring Integration via Blossom
• Magnolia 5 and Blossom Q&A Seminar

• Six technologies you should learn this year
• Yeoman 1.0 is official (1.0.3, actually) - The future of Yeoman.
• In the vista of Ballmer's Microsoft, famous failures but also solid success.
• Keith Gregory - a visit to the kingdom of verbs. This is a funny commentary, which references back to Steve Yegge’s Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns is the source material for Keith’s character’s letter to the Verb Kindgom. Check out Keith's programming resources page for some in-depth reading. (His articles on Git workflow are especially good reads!)
• New Spring releases:
• Spring Batch 3.0 Milestone 1 released - JSR-352 compatibility features, more...
• Spring Security 3.2.0 RC 1 released - adds CSRF support, more via headers and Spring security 3.2.0 RC1 CSRF protection.
• Spring Boot - what, another rapid framework for Spring? - This one is focused on quick starts of projects that can be run as Groovy scripts or JAR projects. A project to watch for 2014.
• Fantastic view into Twitter's re-architecture. This platform reached a new Tweets per second record, and how! And it gave us a really interesting new remoting meta-protocol API.
• It’s Official: The Era of the Personal Computer Is Over - and we don't mean that everyone's gonna get a box of greenbar.

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A recent SSL / TLS vulnerability causes temporary panic in the recording room when Joel knocks over the headphone mixer... But seriously folks, it's a doosie, one we'll be watching over the next few weeks. The mixer mishap is pretty funny though.

Our news items this week:

• 1 http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ - What, another one? I just got over becoming a craftsman, and that’s after I became more Agile? What’s next, the hyper reactive manifesto? I’m getting it, I’m getting it, geez!!!
• 2 Candy Chat - Javascript multi-user chat (Jabber) client http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/
• 3 Bower recommends you check in your dependencies - Addy Osmani - http://addyosmani.com/blog/checking-in-front-end-dependencies/
• 4 AngularJS - great article on using filters - http://suhairhassan.com/2013/07/25/angularjs-in-depth-part-2.html#.UfpMhKm9KK0 his Part 1 article on the basics is also good http://suhairhassan.com/2013/06/07/angularjs-in-depth-part-1.html#.UfpOY6m9KK0
• 5 REAL-TIME APPLICATION: MULTI-USER CHAT APPLICATION USING NODE.JS, SOCKET.IO, AND EMBER.JS http://blog.jtmoon.com/real-time-application-multi-user-chat-application-using-node-js-socket-io-and-ember-js/
• 6 Don Coleman's bluetooth serial plugin is now approved for PhoneGap Build. https://build.phonegap.com/plugins/23
• 7 Docker Jenkins plugin - https://github.com/georgebashi/jenkins-docker-plugin
• 8 More security nightmares - the HTTPS, SSL and TLS attack that hacks key secrets of an encrypted connection in 30 seconds or less (or the meal is free?) http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/gone-in-30-seconds-new-attack-plucks-secrets-from-https-protected-pages/

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