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Will Abson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:13:45 +0000

I’ve recently been working with the web team here to improve the partners section of the Alfresco site, the last part of which requires me to write a web form to allow content authors to easily add new partners, and modify existing ones. Until now our partner listings have been manually edited using our generic page [...] Read More

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Code Movement vs Content Movement

Peter Monks — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:32:31 +0000

Seth Gottlieb has written a great post entitled “Code moves forward. Content moves backward.” that, by strange coincidence, echoes an Alfresco KB item authored by Alfresco’s very own Ben Hagan last year. What’s interesting to me is that there is an alternative world view that asserts that code and content are two sides of the same [...] Read More

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WCM Top Resources

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:25:31 +0000

There is a wealth of different resources available for Alfresco WCM including the Alfresco Wiki, the Content Community, forums, pre-recorded webinars to name but a few. The following is a moving list of various resources for Alfresco WCM. Please add a comment with your suggestions if you have found a valuable resource. I aim to [...] Read More

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Alfresco Tech Talk Live New Episode @ 12pm EST, Friday June 26th, 2009

Dr. Q — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:39:25 +0000

We will have our bi-weekly Alfresco Tech Talk Live @ 12pm EST, Friday June 26th, 2009. Jason Harrop of Plutext will demonstrate and explain the workings of an AMP which adds collaborative editing to Alfresco, so everyone in a team can work on a Word document at the same time, without having to make copies and [...] Read More

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Alfresco CMIS Implementation - Now and Next

David Caruana — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:06:44 +0000

While we’re closing the last few tasks for our imminent Alfresco Labs 3.2 release, I thought I’d give another status update on our Draft CMIS Implementation. The Now Alfresco Labs 3.2 will include our next official CMIS drop. Those of you following SVN HEAD already know we’ve been busy and thanks must go to you for continuing to [...] Read More

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Enterprise Content Management - The Single Platform Approach

Michael Uzquiano — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:31:31 +0000

Alfresco 3.2 Labs is due out in a couple of days and I wanted to share some thoughts on where we’re headed with the product. Alfresco 3.2 Enterprise (due in August) will be a significant release, the development of which has provided us the opportunity to step back a bit and invest further into our [...] Read More

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Open Source ECM Transparency in the Twitter Age

Nancy Garrity — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:19:16 +0000

One of the primary benefits of open source software over closed-source vendors is the degree of transparency. Open source roadmaps are developed with input from this community. Closed-source vendors, on the other hand, will typically protect their roadmaps as fiercely as they protect their “intellectual property”. At Alfresco we publish our roadmap on the [...] Read More

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The Alfresco forums need your help

jpotts — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:31:45 +0000

I was looking at the “unanswered posts” view in the Alfresco Forums today and was surprised to see it was 40 pages long. I know the growing list of unanswered posts has been a problem for quite a while because Nancy Garrity has mentioned it multiple times and I don’t know what the high water [...] Read More

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Open Source Testing Tool Smackdown for REST Web Services

brian — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:16:29 +0000

Recently I’ve been working on a REST API for reporting workflow status information in Alfresco. After getting some of the functionality nailed down, it really bothered me that I wasn’t able to use Test Driven Development (TDD) in the process. So I went looking, and I found quite a few open source tools out there [...] Read More

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Learning Alfresco Web Forms by Examples (Part 9)

Dr. Q — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0000

Multi Media This is a simple type for media related files with a few extra metadata such as title, author and description. Just like the image file picker, we can configure our own file widget appearance option to limit the file selections to certain mime types by setting the filter_mimetypes parameter. In this case, it [...] Read More

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Alfresco-Django integration now available on Google Code

jpotts — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:43:42 +0000

The Alfresco-Django code I demo’d in the screencast yesterday is available at Google Code. It includes the core Django integration, the sample site, an AMP file you can use to deploy the web scripts and the sample site bootstrap data to Alfresco, and documentation which you can build using Sphinx. This should work with Alfresco Labs [...] Read More

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Can Wolfram Alpha Answer this? Where does the UK Government Spend its IT Budget?

Open source hearts & minds — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:29:00 +0000

The Hidden Extras Pricing Model - Like Buying a Car with No Steering Wheel

Open source hearts & minds — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:32:00 +0000

Alfresco Tech Talk Live: Leveraging Alfresco Share for Collaborative Enterprise Authoring

Russ Danner — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:17:35 +0000

Tomorrow (Friday June 5th, 2009) at 12pm EST I have the pleasure of presenting and leading a discussion for the bi-weekly Alfresco Tech Talk Live hosted by Dr. Yong Qu of Alfresco. We’ll be exploring how Alfresco Share, with some basic modifications, can be leveraged to create a collaborative authoring and management environment for your [...] Read More

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Extending the Alfresco Workflow Javascript API

brian — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:30:49 +0000

As I was testing the functionality of the user based workflow status reporting API that I posted about recently, I discovered that the Javascript API for workflow in Alfresco only enabled viewing workflow related information for the authenticating user. I however would like to enable monitoring by other users who are either administrators or members [...] Read More

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First Maven Alfresco baby wails

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:06:20 +0000

Some random note, mostly to myself, to remember, in some dark Maven time, how cool this technology is and that sometimes, at a certain point sure, you CAN have success stories with it. For now, as I anticipated I’m just playing around with Alfresco core modules, to see how they fit with Maven and how tough [...] Read More

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The infinite tail of TODO

admin — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:00:12 +0000

How come writing is always the last thing? Before it was blogging, now fashion says we must micro-blog, and we even don’t have time to spend a few words on what we do. Effective as business, but blogging gave us a bit of writers pride, isn’t it? But it goes much earlier than that…the vast majority [...] Read More

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Markets and Mergers

ntyson — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:44:39 +0000

The software industry is changing more rapidly today than at any time since its inception as a serious standalone part of the IT landscape in the 1970s. I personally have worked in pure play software companies since 1981, including the likes of Oracle and BusinessObjects (now part of SAP). One of the key forces driving this [...] Read More

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Host your own cloud storage array with Parascale

Luis Sala — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:52:00 +0000

Last Friday, I visited with Parascale where I met with Mike Maxey (Dir. of Product Management), Sajai Krishnan (CEO), and Cameron Bahar (CTO and Founder). Parascale has developed software that allows you to turn 2 or more Linux servers into an Amazon S3-like cloud storage array that runs in userspace and can be easily mounted [...] Read More

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Alfresco in the Cloud: GoGrid

Luis Sala — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:05:08 +0000

I spent a few hours this weekend installing and configuring an Alfresco cluster on GoGrid and ran a 200,000 document Alfresco Benchmark against the cluster. Setup was pretty easy, I simply used the graphical tools to drag 4 Linux servers (1 benchmark client, 1 MySQL, and 2 Alfresco) plus a load-balancer and a cloud storage [...] Read More

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Alfresco Community Meeting in NYC 2009

Russ Danner — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:49:20 +0000

Last week I attended the Alfresco community meetup in New York City. The turn out was impressive. Nancy Garrity (Alfresco Community Manager) told me that the event was completely “sold-out” and that there was not enough room for everyone that wanted to come. I was sorry to hear that we were not [...] Read More

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Disabling Auditable Properties from Being Set Automatically

Jean Barmash — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:46:13 +0000

When performing content ingestion, it is often needed to set some system properties that are governed by the Auditable Aspect. These properties are cm:created, cm:creator, cm:modified, cm:modifier. In 3.0 and 3.1, there is no explicit option to turn these off. If this issue affects you, please vote [...] Read More

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The Start of Open Source

John Newton — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:01:42 +0000

I have been researching the origins of open source recently and realized that I had missed an important anniversary last year. On a very rainy day in early February 1998, a group of people very familiar with free software met... Read More

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Twittering My Life Away

John Newton — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:00:38 +0000

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round I really love to watch them roll! John Lennon - Watching the Wheels, 1980 Earlier this year, I said that I would blog more, what I should have said,... Read More

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How Can I Miss You if You Won’t Go Away?

Nancy Garrity — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:25:02 +0000

When I was running the Documentum Developer Program, customers used to tell me that one of the main reasons that they came to the annual developer conference (DevCon) was the access it provided to the engineers. Instead of holding the conference across the bay in much more tourist-friendly San Francisco, I made our attendees trek [...] Read More

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