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MeshCMS is an online editing system written in Java. It provides a set of features usually included in a CMS, but it uses a more traditional approach: pages are stored in regular HTML files and all additional features are file-based, without needing a database.

MeshCMS has been thought as a quick tool to edit pages online, manage files and create some common components like menus, breadcrumbs, mail forms, image galleries and so on. It requires few resources: the default 64MB heap is enough to host a dozen of sites.

Main features are:

The English part of my blog is mainly technical. If you can read Italian, check the Italian section for articles of other kind.

This page shows some screenshots taken from a default installation (with samples) and from this site.

I use a VMWare virtual machine to run my favorite software anywhere. It is a very nice solution, nevertheless when I run it at home I feel quite frustrated for not being able to run it on real hardware.

The easiest solution is to mount it as a local drive and access files from a real Linux installation. VMWare server provides a tool to mount vmdk files, but I don't want to install it just to be able to use that command.

Fortunately, I'm using a flat VMWare image, and this makes possibile to mount the image vithout any special tool. After all, the flat vmdk file is just a raw image of the disk, so you just need to…

Note: this article is very old and was part of my website more than ten years ago. I got it back again due to my affection for that wonderful programmable calculator.

I'd like to share tricks and programs suitable for this excellent pocket computer by CASIO. I've discovered a lot of hidden features of this calculator. Do you want to try some new BASIC commands? These are not documented on the User Manual, but they are extensively used in the Scientific Library. I can also tell you how to connect your calculator to your PC with a few money.

Here are some of my programs for the FX-880P.

The first is a game:…