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Hi, my name is Luciano Vernaschi and this site is my point of presence in the virtual world. It is also the home for MeshCMS and other software I wrote.

Here are the most viewed pages on this website:

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…

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Project status: MeshCMS 3.6 has been released on May 26, 2011. Version 3 will be updated in case of bugs or security holes, but no new features will be added. Version 4 development has stalled: I'm adding new features based on my own needs, but I need to find a good amount of time (or someone willing to help) to convert current code into a solid release before making it public. Code is on SVN anyway. All the pages in this website describe the latest release, i.e. 3.6.

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…

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There's a mailing list about MeshCMS, but it's full of SPAM at this time, so I prefer to use this very page for discussion. I'm going to close the mailing list soon, so if you have questions, suggestions or anything else to say, leave a comment below. I will be notified via email.

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