Von Montag, den 24.09 und Dienstag, den 25.09, fanden in Köln die OpenCms-Days 2012 statt. Gemeinsam mit dem ehemaligen synyxer Florian Hopf haben sich Oliver Messner, Fabian Buch und ich…

Having a newly installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my machine, I noticed that building the OpenCms project I am currently working on is a very time consuming process: oli@rikit:~/develop/projects/foo$ time mvn…

With the redesign of our current homepage there was the chance to re-evaluate our requirements and make pragmatic decisions filling our needs. Our previous websites were always implemented in OpenCms…

Die Synyx Hompage wird mittels dem Content Management System OpenCms umgesetzt; unser Blog mit WordPress. Um neue Blogposts auch auf der Homepage anzuzeigen, musste bisher beides parallel bearbeitet und gepflegt…

Matching the time of my talk at this years OpenCms Days we released our module for integrating Solr with OpenCms. A few days have passed now and we had the…

From May 9 2011 to May 10 the third OpenCms Days took place in Cologne. The topic of the conference was “The OpenCms 8 User Experience”, targeting the release of…

Synyx wird wieder die OpenCms Days besuchen. Dieses Mal hält Florian Hopf einen Vortrag über ein Open Source Modul für OpenCms. Dieses Modul integriert Solr in OpenCms. Der Such Server…

I previously mentioned that setting up a development environment for OpenCms can be quite hard. Besides our Netbeans module we are using a custom maven plugin for some time now.…

Vom 09. bis zum 10. Mai finden, rechtzeitig zum Release von OpenCms 8, die 3. OpenCms-Days in Köln statt. Synyx unterstützt die Entwicklerkonferenz wie in den vergangenen Jahren gerne, wir…

OpenCms ships with a shell script for accessing the virtual file system from the command line. This is useful for a lot of administrative tasks like importing modules or exporting…

OpenCms stores all its content like JSP-templates, images and CSS files in a virtual file system which makes it impossible to use normal development models. As we are using it…

CmsShell is a neat tool to access the OpenCms VFS from the command line. This can be extremely useful when your system can’t be accessed anymore using the web interface…

We are currently in the process of cleaning up our internal wiki. A lot of information is quite outdated but it also contains some useful snippets that we would like…

I have just been fighting with the sql-maven-plugin while trying to import an OpenCms MySQL dump automatically. The module wasn’t really verbose with an error message: [ERROR] Failed to execute:…