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Engineering Brown Bag - Languages of Love at the Office

Christine Thompson‌ presents a brown bag entitled "Languages of Love at the Office".We look at how we can apply lessons from "The Five Love Languages" (a book by Gary Chapman) to our relationships in the workplace.

Engineering Brown Bag - The Link To What You Think

Christine Thompson presents a Brown Bag entitled "The Link to what you Think: Discovering NLP".In this session, we’ll take a look at what Neuro-Linguistic Programming is, the techniques it uses and the unique ways it gives us to develop a fresh view ...

Engineering Brown Bag - The Responsibility Process

Christine Thompson presents a brown bag entitled "The Responsibility Process".Agile teams are empowered to resolve their own problems but how do we take responsibility for, and own, the issues that we face?

So, when is Alfresco moving to GitHub? Part 2

A few years ago Samuel wrote a blog post entitled “So, when is Alfresco moving to GitHub?” In it he presented a number of reasons why it was difficult to move our code from SVN to Git. Given the recent move of Share to GitHub, I thought it would be w...

Alfresco Share, Surf and Aikau projects on GitHub

I’m excited to announce that we’ve completed the move of Share’s entire codebase to GitHub. The observant amongst you will notice that a couple of months back we moved the old Share GitHub mirror and stopped updating it - that’s because we’ve been tr...

Rekognising and Comprehending

At the end of my last post I alluded to an improved ingestion pipeline using Step Functions, this post looks at how we can use the recently announced AWS service Comprehend to analyse text files.The updated architecture is shown below (click to enlar...

Alfresco Search and Discovery - The Overview

This post is a short technical overview of Alfresco Search and Discovery. It accompanies the related Architect/Developer Whiteboard Video. In a nutshell, the purpose of Search & Discovery is to enable users to find and analyse content quickly regardl...

Architecture changes for Alfresco Content Services version 6.0 and beyond

Following the successful release of Alfresco Content Services in 2017, we have been planning our next round of innovation. In this blog post, we share some of our plans so that you can prepare for the next release and provide feedback. At the end you...

Steps to Rekognition

In my last post we looked at a potential out-of-process extension that analysed images using AWS Rekognition. The solution used a single large Lambda function, in this post we're going to examine an improved approach using Step Functions.The architec...

Aikau 1.0.66 - Angular 2 Integration

IntroductionOne of the greatest misconceptions about Aikau is that it is somehow aiming to compete with other UI frameworks and libraries such as Angular and React. This really isn’t the case - Aikau is designed to address specific use cases that no ...

Java Foundation API

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comJava_APIOverviewTable of Contents1 Introduction1.1 Java Foundation API Reference1.2 Access to Java Foundation API1.3 Alfresco ServiceRegistry1.4 User Transaction1.4.1...

Custom Uploads with Aikau

IntroductionThis question came up on the forums which highlights a couple of issues worth exploring. First of all is that people occasionally don't know how to approach Aikau development because of the different approach it takes towards UI developme...

Customizing the Share Header Menu (Part 1)

IntroductionNow that Alfresco Community 4.2d has been released I thought it would be useful to begin providing some examples of how to customize the new header bar. The new header bar is the first feature in Share to use the updated widget processing...

Engineering Brown Bag - Unknown Error Occurred - 20 UI Writing Tips For Developers

Andy Healey presents a Brown Bag entitled "Unknown Error Occurred - 20 UI writing tips for developers". Everyone likes software that's easy to use. Unclear instructions annoy us.

Community Coding Standards

Obsolete Pages{{Obsolete}}The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comDevelopingCommunityTable of Contents1 Scope2 Project Standards3 Best Practices and Examples4 IDE Specific Instructions4.1 EclipseScopeAlfresco does not mandate coding...

Live API Explorer updated to ACS 5.2.1

Edit: please now refer to https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2017/11/22/live-api-explorer-updated-to-acs-522 Hi,Just a short post to announce that the "live sandbox" (*) of the Alfresco Content Services REST API Explorer has been upgra...

Live API Explorer updated to ACS 5.2.2

Hi, Just a short post to announce that the "live sandbox" (*) of the Alfresco Content Services REST API Explorer has been upgraded to Alfresco Content Services (ACS) 5.2.2. This means you can now explore and "try out" in a shared playground (*) the n...

Records Management Community 2.6.c

As promised in our last release post, RM 2.6.c follows hot on the heels of 2.6.b. RM 2.6.c is compatible with Alfresco Platform 5.2.g and Share 5.2.f.What's in 2.6.c?Due to the short period and a focus on enterprise features, there isn't a huge amou...

Alfresco Java Client SDK - Usage Part 2 - Navigation

Following the Alfresco Java Client SDK introduction in my last post it's now time to dive in and start using the SDK. We will follow Gavin Cornwell https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2016/10/17/v1-rest-api-part-2-navigation examples a...

Alfresco Community Edition 201711 EA file list

Alfresco Community 201711 EA is available for Windows x86_64 bit and Linux x86_64 bit. For further information, refer to the release notes:Alfresco Community Edition 201711 EA Release Notes ‌Complete Installation 64-bit Windows Installer (aft...

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