Screencast: Basic Alfresco-Kaltura integration
Bryan Spaulding, Media Practice Lead at Optaros, and I have been thinking about lightweight digital asset management and Alfresco. Alfresco can manage any kind of asset, including rich media. It has...
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Alfresco Share microblogging component released as open source
Back in February (I know, it’s been simmering on the back burner for too long), I did a couple of screencasts on Optaros Labs showing a demo of Alfresco Share (part 1, part 2). In part 2 of that...
View Articlecmislib: A CMIS client library for Python
I’ve started a new project on Google Code called cmislib. It is an interoperable client library for CMIS in Python that uses the Restful AtomPub Binding of a CMIS provider to perform CRUD and query...
View ArticleAlfresco Share Status microblog component now supports 3.2 Enterprise
I’ve posted a new release of the Alfresco Share Status microblog component (original post). There are no new features–it’s just a few bug fixes. But one of the bugs was keeping it from working on 3.2...
View ArticleUpdated Python CMIS library released
I’ve tagged and released a new version of cmislib, the Python CMIS client library. What’s cool about this release is that it is the first one known to work with more than one CMIS provider. Yea for...
View ArticleIntroducing the Alfresco Community Committer Program
It’s been a little over two years since I wrote a blog post entitled, “Is Alfresco the ‘near beer’ of open source?“. In that post, I lamented the fact that the Alfresco code line is entirely closed to...
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Apache Chemistry cmislib 0.4 incubating now available
The Apache Chemistry development team is pleased to announce that the 0.4 incubating release of cmislib, the Python client API for CMIS, is now available for download. You may have to use one of the...
View ArticleNow available: Alfresco Fivestar Ratings add-on for Alfresco Share
A couple of weeks ago I posted a survey asking if anyone saw any value in a five star ratings widget for Alfresco Share. Honestly, it would have only taken one or two positive responses–even if no one...
View ArticleWill Abson’s Wonderful World of Dashlets
Back when Alfresco first launched Surf, the framework on which Alfresco Share is based, a handful of us went to Chicago to hang out in a conference room on a ship in the harbor where we did a deep dive...
View Article5 drivers of your decision to pay for commercial support
DISCLOSURE: I work for a commercial Open Source Software company called Alfresco that earns revenue by selling commercial support for the software we freely distribute under an OSI-approved license. A...
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Kids these days: Learning to code then and now
This little beauty is an Epson HX-20. It’s one of the first laptop computers. What makes it special to me is that its 4 line LCD screen is where I took my first coding steps in the early 1980′s. My Dad...
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How my teen-aged son became a Mozilla contributor
Jeff and Justin zip-lining during Mozilla Work Week in WhistlerI’m in Orlando for Mozilla Work Week, which is an event that happens a couple of times a year aimed at bringing the organization’s...
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Would the commercial open source software you depend on survive a zombie...
Pick a commercial open source software product that’s important to you. Now imagine that there’s been a global zombie attack. Fortunately, after much heroics and stylized cinematic violence, the attack...
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Using Hubot and Watcher to automate Elasticsearch admin tasks via chat
Almost all of my client work is remote. For many projects, that means chat is an essential communication tool. When you and your team essentially live in a chat window it’s nice when your tools can...
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Using Elasticsearch to more effectively target dynamic content
Photo credit: viZZZual.com One of my clients came to me with a problem: Despite being a much-admired Fortune 500 company that leads its competitors in the travel industry in customer satisfaction and...
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Why Alfresco follows the same strategy as closed source commercial software...
My friend and colleague, Peter Löfgren, recently wrote a blog post on what he sees as the two possible strategies Alfresco could pursue. He describes the two approaches as follows: Vertical: You try to...
View Article5 drivers of your decision to pay for commercial support
DISCLOSURE: I work for a commercial Open Source Software company called Alfresco that earns revenue by selling commercial support for the software we freely distribute under an OSI-approved license. A...
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Kids these days: Learning to code then and now
This little beauty is an Epson HX-20. It’s one of the first laptop computers. What makes it special to me is that its 4 line LCD screen is where I took my first coding steps in the early 1980’s. My Dad...
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How my teen-aged son became a Mozilla contributor
Jeff and Justin zip-lining during Mozilla Work Week in WhistlerI’m in Orlando for Mozilla Work Week, which is an event that happens a couple of times a year aimed at bringing the organization’s...
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Would the commercial open source software you depend on survive a zombie...
Pick a commercial open source software product that’s important to you. Now imagine that there’s been a global zombie attack. Fortunately, after much heroics and stylized cinematic violence, the attack...
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