I managed to install WebSphere Portal 6.1.5 (with a DB2 database, not Derby) in Ubuntu Linux 10. Now I can (almost*) say goodbye to the Windows VM I used to work on WebSphere projects.
It was not a straightforward, easy task for a novice like me. The good news is I have documented the full procedure, and you can read it in the Base22 wiki.
I will attempt the same setup for WebSphere Portal 7, and of course will be posting my results.
* The sad truth is, if you work in the web industry, you will not be completely Windows free for a long time, thanks to that web cancer old browser called Internet Explorer.
From the new terms of use of Facebook:
You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.
Via ALT1040.
Update:
Mark Zuckerberg has clarified the reasons for the new legal terms on sharing content in Facebook:
Our philosophy is that people own their information and control who they share it with. When a person shares information on Facebook, they first need to grant Facebook a license to use that information so that we can show it to the other people they’ve asked us to share it with. Without this license, we couldn’t help people share that information.
Read the full post here:
http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54434097130
Wikipedia states:
In computing, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication (read the full article).
ESET Latinoamérica has reported fake invitations to Facebook; when you click on the links in the invitation mail, you get a page that looks identically to the Facebook website, but is coming from another source, and expects to get your credentials to gain access to your Facebook account and profile. This would compromise the personal and private information stored in the profile of the user being attacked.
We are used to know about these phishing attempts with banking websites, eBay, Paypal, etc. but I think this is the first report of a phishing massive attack to social network users.
The solution to avoid this attacks is to keep eyes wide open: Always look at the address bar of your browser, and identify if the shown URL really corresponds to the website you are supposedly visiting. Also you could use web browsers with anti-phishing methods, like Firefox 3.
Natalie Jost wrote a very interesting article about how to override inline styles from the CSS style sheet.
Why would you need something like this?
Well, let’s say you are working with some old CMS with poor render techniques that insist on create and style HTML “on the fly”, without template flexibility (Yes, I have found a lot of these being used with my clients)… Or a worst case: You have to publish documents that were exported to HTML from a crappy desktop word processor (Some companies have this kind of procedures to publish press statements, financial reports and other documents).
So, here’s the magic sentence:
/* override inline styles */
span[style^=""]{
color: inherit !important;
font-size: inherit !important;
}
But please, go to Natalie’s blog and read the explanation.
I really hope you don’t need this, but it is good to have these tools handy, just in case.
If you are not reading this blog on an RSS aggregator, you’ll notice the graphic layout has gone.
That’s because this year, April 9 is CSS Naked Day, when a lot of websites around the world just strip their clothes styles and show of their markup au naturel, with the objective of vindicate XHTML as a markup language and not a graphical design platform.
So, being a defender of web standards, XHTML+CSS and all that, I decided to join the party and show off my naked <body>. And well… I just noticed my templates need some workout.