Jeff Potts from Optaros has published another excellent tutorial, this time on adding custom behaviors to Alfresco to support “rating/scoring” of content.
Link: http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2007/09/26/770
Add comment September 28th, 2007
Just a quick note to share that PowerPoint slides from the Alfresco + Liferay Meetup are available at: http://web.meetup.com/44/files
Add comment August 14th, 2007
I presented a web-based demonstration of Alfresco:
You can also download a higher-quality version (Caution, it’s 200 MB).
3 comments August 6th, 2007
Dave Caruana has posted a little article that very succinctly outlines the ease by which new “web services” (in the non-SOAP sense) can be developed using our Web Scripts.
To that article, I add the following illustration, which I hope captures how Web Scripting implement a light-weight Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern:
With Web Scripts, the sky’s the limit as to the kinds of things you can do. Some ideas to get the creative juices flowing:
Here’s a screenshot of one of the new “widgets” that we’ve developed using Web Scripts:
Cool stuff, eh?
I’ll put up some more posts on the subject along with some “recipes” over the next few weeks.
In the meantime, Alfresco 2.1 Community is just about to come out the door so Happy Web Scripting!
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Alfresco + Liferay: West Coast Community Meetup
Join us on July 18th, 2007 in Ontario, California for our first CMS and Portal community event. Learn more at: http://alfrescoliferay.osmeet.com
Add comment June 28th, 2007
Just a quick note to let readers know that in an effort to encourage communication with the community and to help people make new connections, I’ve created two channels on Jaiku.com:
For those of you wondering what this is about, think of Jaiku as a mini-blog that adds the notion of channels where multiple people can post messages, thoughts, ideas, stories, links, etc. in very short form (140 characters).
Jaiku supports RSS feeds and there are a variety of “widgets” and desktop tools for posting and reading Jaiku posts.
On a more personal note, I’ve revived my personal blog and have started a personal Jaiku as well. In both I’ll discuss topics that are less Alfresco-centric and of more general interest to me and potential readers. Please join me there!
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Alfresco + Liferay: West Coast Community Meetup
Join us on July 18th, 2007 in Ontario, California for our first CMS and Portal community event. Learn more at: http://alfrescoliferay.osmeet.com
Add comment June 25th, 2007
I’m very excited to share with you that we’re up to 78 members of which 54 have registered to attend our humble meetup in Ontario California. I’m really excited about the amount of interest and along with Russ Danner and the folks from Liferay, we’re making every effort to ensure that everyone comes away having learned tons about the practical applications of Alfresco and/or Liferay.
I wish to remind readers that this meetup is open to anyone who’s interested in either Alfresco, Liferay or both. At the end of the day, we’re open to anyone and everyone who wishes to learn and contribute their knowledge to the rest of the members.
Now that we have broken the 50 attendee mark, we’ll be breaking up the discussions into four tracks:
These tracks will run in parallel and attendees are welcome to attend as many as they want. We’ll be making an effort to record the discussions, but can’t make any promises yet.
We’re one month away from the event and I’d like to remind readers that there’s still time to RSVP. I also invite you all to suggest ideas for discussions and to let me know if you’d like to be a discussion leader.
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Alfresco + Liferay: West Coast Community Meetup
Join us on July 18th, 2007 in Ontario, California for our first CMS and Portal community event. Learn more at: http://alfrescoliferay.osmeet.com
Add comment June 19th, 2007
I’m heading off to the UK for business, I don’t know how much I’ll be able to blog, but before I left, I wanted to share this little gem from Jeff Potts:
I’ve written a new article (with sample files) that talks about how to extend Alfresco
with your own content model and how to work with content that leverages
that model via the Web Services API. All of the examples are written in
Java but I do include one in PHP just for grins.Most of the code is based on the Alfresco SDK Web Services sample
code, but I’ve tweaked it here and there and I break it down into
smaller chunks with commentary. I also think it is good to have one
example to follow that takes you from designing the content model to
implementing it to writing code that might leverage it.
As an exercise to readers, I’d like to suggest that after going through the tutorial and the Web Services API, to try out the upcoming Web Scripting capabilities of Alfresco 2.1(dev). You’ll need to download and compile the source code then deploy and write some scripts, but I think you’ll be amazed at what you can do. I’ll be writing more about web scripts in the near future.
Many thanks to Jeff, especially for licensing it under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
1 comment June 9th, 2007
I’m out in Mexico City training our new partner, Buserdi, who specializes in document imaging but is exploring how to expand their market by adopting Alfresco and applying it to many different types of customers.
I’m continously impressed by several things:
If you’re in Mexico or Latin America, I suggest you give these guys a call (and treat them to a big “lunch” at 4pm).
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Alfresco + Liferay: West Coast Community Meetup
Join us on July 18th, 2007 in Ontario, California for our first CMS and Portal community event. Learn more at: http://alfrescoliferay.osmeet.com
Add comment May 30th, 2007
This is our inaugural episode featuring Brian Chan, CEO of Liferay and Russ Danner, Software Architect at the Christian Science Monitor.
In this episode we discuss the Monitor’s new site and future plans. We also talk about the upcoming Alfresco/Liferay integration portlet(s) as well as a few other topics of interest.
Please leave any suggestions in the comments section of the blog.
Add comment June 22nd, 2006
Yes, I know I suck at posting on a regular basis. I could use excuses like “I’m very busy”, “I’m traveling alot”, “My wife is pregant”… Oh! Did I just say that out loud? Well, if things go well, I’ll be a daddy sometime in late January.
The real reason for this post is to notify my 7 subscribers (of which my RSS readers count for 3 of them) that in the next week or so I’ll be recording and posting my first “Fresh Talk” Podcast!
Episode 1 will feature guests from Liferay and one of our customers who’s been getting alot of buzz in the press because of their adoption of Open Source technology.
The goal is to have a fun, informal discussion on the state of Open Source (not just Alfresco), and how it is being utilized out there.
I hope to do these podcasts at least every month, and maybe every two weeks if things go well.
If we get enough interest, we can also do a live Skypecast whereby people can listen to the show as it’s being recorded and even participate on the conversation.
In the meantime, please send me your suggestions on topics that we can talk about.
Until then… Stay tuned!!!
Add comment June 16th, 2006
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