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Welcome the Alfresco Favorites API

You'll recall that in October of 2012, Alfresco announced the availability of the public Alfresco API. This simple RESTful API makes it possible for developers to build exciting custom applications with your choice of programming language and tool...

Site Membership Request API joins the Alfresco Public API

Yesterday, I posted about the new Alfresco Favorites API. As I mentioned, that was the first of a set of API improvements we've introduced. Another new API is one that makes it possible to request membership in an Alfresco Site. Let me tell more...

Alfresco Announces Hipster-compatible Enterprise Content Management SDK

In a game-changing move aimed at increasing adoption among young, hip, Internet-native developers, Alfresco today released a CMIS client library for the popular brogramming language LOLCODE.'Everyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I spend most ...

SharePoint Protocol (Talk)

This seems not to work for me. I have Word 2007 and a demo account with share.alfresco.com: When I try to add 'http://share.alfresco.com' to the trusted sites in IE, it says that only httpS addresses can be added. When I enter 'http://share.alfresco....

Community Translations (Talk)

OverviewThis page will document the conversation around the best practices discussed in the main article.A big thank you to Oksana (aviriel) for setting us up on CrowdIn and maintaining that infrastructure!Many of the ideas for best practices in tran...

Multilingual Document Support (Talk)

Page Needs Work: This page was written to apply to version 3.x of Alfresco. It needs to be checked for accuracy and it should be updated for version 4.x Should be categorized based on the versions it applies to.--Resplin (talk) 20:08, 14 March 2013 (...

Introducing the IFramePolicy in Alfresco Share

A few weeks back we added a new config section called IFramePolicy into the alfresco-security-config.xml file. This is a config section that describes which pages that Alfresco Share should allow to be '(i)framed', in other words be included inside A...

General Upgrade Process (Talk)

Page Needs Work: Needs a section about upgrading Community Edition --Resplin (talk) 18:13, 11 March 2013 (GMT)

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...

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...

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