Updates, including Node 0.8

Upgraded ..

• Node.js on velvet to 0.8.4
• BaseX on velvet to 7.4 beta
• RAIDiator on readynas to  4.1.9  (required add index.xml to /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf
• RAIDiator on velvet to 4.2.21 

XQuery http session modules

 A list..

• 28msec advanced-sessions
• eXist-db session
• Marklogic AppServerBuiltins session
• BaseX Request

At the Java level

Extracting metadata using Apache Tika

Looking at using Apache Tika to pull metadata from photos and mp3 files. It is a single jar that runs as a command line, GUI or http server.

MP3

JPEG

Looking good.

Upgrading to dojo 1.7

Starting to upgrade the places website to dojo 1.7  migration-17
And trying to get to grips with the build system 

Issues

• dojox.widget.Calendar  not AMD compatible
• Require declare vs define

Web based code editors

Looking for a nice web based code edit component. I wanted XQuery and  Sparql  in addition to the usual suspects. The choice seems to be between Codemirror and Ace.

Codemirror supports both Sparql and XQuery out of the box.

Ace has very nice XQuery support initially developed for the eXide feature of eXist by Wolfgang Meier and then enhanced, and pushed back to the main  Ace project, by William Candillon. Ace currently has no official Sparql mode, but I spotted Callimachus  has the code  for a slightly earlier Ace release.

For me the deciding factor is that ACE is built with  AMD support, whereas Codemirror is not. There is a project to convert/wrap Codemirror for use with Dojo, which means using AMD,  but it looks like a lot of work.
Related projects to watch:   Treehugger and Dojo Widget for Ace

BaseX on Debian

Current install strategy:

• unzip to /usr/local/share/basex-x.y 
• link basex to basex-x.y

velvet:/usr/bin# 
ln -s /usr/local/share/basex/bin/basexclient
ln -s /usr/local/share/basex/bin/basexserver
ln -s /usr/local/share/basex/bin/basexhttp
ln -s /usr/local/share/basex/bin/xquery 

TODO init.d

Marklogic 5

I picked up a MarkLogic USB drive with 5.0.2 at XML Prague 2012. I installed this on Ubuntu but I wanted to get it to run on my Readynas Pro 2. This wish resulted in a factory reset on my first try, while attempting to install alien.

Older and wiser I tried again using chroot with a Debian Sarge image. The source file from the USB was MarkLogic-5.0-2.i686.rpm. Instructions based on
http://developer.marklogic.com/download#comment-354202122

To install

After doing debootstrap to create /c/home/squeeze

chroot /c/home/squeeze 

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien --to-deb --verbose MarkLogic-5.0-2.i686.rpm
sudo dpkg -i marklogic_5.0-3_i386.deb

To run

mount proc /c/home/squeeze/proc/  -t proc
cp /etc/resolv.conf /c/home/squeeze/etc
cp /etc/hosts /c/home/squeeze/etc
chroot /c/home/squeeze
/etc/init.d/MarkLogic start

The result