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Alfresco Community 5.0.b

I'm pleased to announce that the Alfresco Community 5.0.b release is planned within the next few days. This will be the second Alfresco Community 5.0 release and is based on very latest public community code-line.Alfresco 5 is built with maven. All a...

Configuring the Alfresco 5 Activity Stream

IntroductionIn Alfresco 5 we have added two new types of events to the activity stream - for document Download and Preview events. Some concerns have been raised about the number of activities that may be added to the site or user streams and also co...

Alfresco Community 5.0.a

I am very happy to announce another Alfresco Community release is planned within the next few days. This will be the Alfresco Community 5.0.a release and is based on very latest public community code-line. This is the same code base that our Alfresco...

Using Apache Reverse Proxy and Tomcat Session Replication with an Alfresco Share cluster

IntroductionIn a previous post I showed how to use an Apache reverse-proxy with a Hazelcast enabled Alfresco Share cluster to load-balance between multiple Share instances in Tomcat. Since moving to Linux as a development platform I thought I would r...

Community Edition Usage Tracking

It helps Alfresco to make better decisions about Community Edition if we have a general idea of how the product is used. This information has been useful in situations such asrioritizing work on Community Editiondeciding when a security fix should be...

Beginner Guide - Content Modeling

The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.comThis page serves as a guide to the Alfresco Wiki and external resources related to Content Modeling. Wiki ArticlesFor an overview article describing content modeling, including an example tut...

Bulk Importer

The official documentation is at: http://docs.alfresco.com4.0Table of Contents1 Introduction1.1 What it does2 Types of Bulk Import2.1 In-Place Bulk Import (Enterprise Only)2.2 Streaming Bulk Import (available in Community and Enterprise)3 Importing3....

chef-alfresco has a new home!

Important Disclaimer!Chef-alfresco is part of the Alfresco Community offering thus is not supported.It is not guaranteed to work and we are not accountable for any problem it may cause in your running environments. You can use it at your own risk and...

The role of the Scrum Master in empowering the team

by Christine ThompsonSelf-directed, cross-functional teamsHere’s one of the things that I love about Scrum. Scrum is a simple system which allows people to be intelligent within it. It assumes that team members do the best they can within the constra...

Why Alfresco 5.0.d will be a game changer for UI development

IntroductionIt was recently announced that Alfresco 5.0.d has been released. There is lots of great stuff in this release for the Alfresco Community to enjoy - but the thing that I'm most excited about is that 5.0.d has a dependency on artefacts crea...