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Web CMS's Dissected

It's no secret that Content Management Systems (CMS) are a pretty heterogeneous bunch of technologies, covering everything from paper document imaging systems through to portal servers through to desktop productivity apps - applying some Tufte to the...

Customizing Alfresco Share i18n Properties

IntroductionIn previous blog posts I have described how to customize Alfresco Share through the use of Component extensions. This is only one of the new extensibility features that are currently available in the Alfresco Community source (and will be...

New Notice Dashlet and Improvements for Developers

Following hot on the heels of the 4.2.a release from last week, it's great to see 4.2.b going out this week with another bunch of improvements before DevCon. I've been able to help get a few more changes into the this release, which provide a new das...

It's time to put the coffee on

About 2 years ago we released our first eLearning class. This was a self-paced and online class which has since been updated to keep up with Alfresco's new product releases. We’ve found that this approach works well for our introductory topics, becau...

Alfresco and ImageMagick on OSX

Since I migrated away from Windows on my development machine a couple of months back, I've not looked back. One of the main benefits I've found is being able to build software packages locally, and Homebrew makes that easy. Now I can easily grab the ...

Alfresco Community 4.2 - Shiny. Fast. Awesome.

There hasn't been a release of Alfresco Community for a while, and that's a shame, but the good news is one is coming soon, very soon in fact - and it will have a lot of new and improved features! Also many, many bug fixes from all the 4.X.Y Enterpri...

SpringSurf - Authenticating users against an Alfresco repository

IntroductionAn example of how to modify the SpringSurf quickstart application to authenticate users against an Alfresco server, ready to retrieve data from Alfresco REST APIs.For simplicity in this article, I have renamed the spring-surf-application-...

Media Viewers and Quick Share

Peter helpfully put together a summary of a couple of the many different content viewers that are now provided by the Media Viewers project. His blog post is well worth checking out if you're not familiar with the Embed and PdfJs viewers, or if you h...

ALFRESCO DEVCON 2012 (mi experiencia asistiendo)

Alfresco DevCon es la conferencia anual de desarrolladores de Alfresco que se realiza en el Otoño. (Para más info visita http://devcon.alfresco.com/). Esta es una excelente oportunidad para desarrollar conocimientos de Alfresco, para conocer lo nuevo...

DevCon Berlin rocked, now to San Jose

So with last week's DevCon event in Berlin over and the second event in San Jose about to kick off, I wanted to share a few of my highlights so far, in addition to what Jeff already posted.Last week kicked off with a full-day hackathon building on to...

Share Document Previews in Alfresco 4

One of the improvements introduced in Share's Document Library as part of Alfresco 4 was the refactoring of the web-preview component, which is responsible for rendering the in-line document views in the Document Details page.These preview capabiliti...

Web Content Management (Talk)

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Web Content Services (Talk)

Is there an updated product eval guide for WCM 3.0 to which this page should link? If so, I can't find it.

Alfresco Web Content Management

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New Web Content Management Plan

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Alfresco Community 4.2.a Release Notes (Talk)

Which Solr version is bundled with this version?

Create a New Surf Application With One Command

This is going to be just a quick post to announce the availability of a new Spring Surf application archetype that is now available on artifacts.alfresco.com. I'd like to say a big thank you to my colleages Samuel Langlois and Gabriele Columbro for p...

S3 Content Store (Talk)

Interesting project...Has any progress been made on this project? I looked at this over a year ago with a view to deployment at a 30k user French org but found the Alfresco filesystem layer semantics to be fairly unix-centric if I remember well, whic...

Amazon E3 File-Store

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Customizing Share JavaScript Widget Instantiation (Part 2)

IntroductionIn the last post I provided a simple example of how to customize the instantiation of a client-side JavaScript widget in Alfresco Share without really explaining what has been done to make this possible. In this post I will try to explain...

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