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CSS Data Image Support In Spring Surf

IntroductionIn my last blog post I described the new DependencyHandler service that has recently been added to Spring Surf. Whilst its primary purpose was for appending checksums to JavaScript and CSS dependency requests to ensure that browsers did ...

Customizing Share JavaScript Widget Instantiation (Part 4)

IntroductionIn the past three posts in this series I've introduced some of the new custom FreeMarker directives that we've added to Surf and how we're going to use them to make it easier to customize the client-side JavaScript widgets that are instan...

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...

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