Jeff Potts is widely know within the Alfresco community, not least for his acclaimed Alfresco Developer Series Tutorials, and his book, Alfresco Developer Guide (2008). His company, Metaversant Group, Inc. specializes in open source content management, search, and workflow. We assemble solutions from open source components for clients around the world including NASA/JPL, Southwest Airlines, Red Hat Software, and Duke University.
Project Lead: Jeff Potts
Project Title: Alfresco Developer Series Tutorials Upgrade & Markdown Transformer
Aim of Project: For the Alfresco Developer Series Tutorials Upgrade, the goal was to get them upgraded to the latest version of the SDK. These tutorials are a very popular way for developers to get introduced to the platform, so it is important that they be up-to-date.
The goal of the Markdown Transformer was to add Markdown support to Alfresco so that you can do Markdown-to-HTML transformations.
Project Outcome: Yes, both goals were achieved. The tutorials can be viewed at https://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series.
The Markdown Transformer has been tested on both 5.2 and 6.2. It installs as a repository-tier AMP. The source code is available at https://github.com/jpotts/alfresco-markdown-transformer. If there is interest I will push the artifacts to Maven Central to make them easier to include in projects as a dependency.
Project Repo: https://github.com/jpotts/alfresco-markdown-transformer.
To do: On the Markdown Transformer, maybe there are other Markdown features that could be added to Alfresco for full Markdown support. For example, a GUI editing widget.
HIghlighting that Hackthon is not just about the code, Jeff said it was really good to see folks from the Alfresco Community again, especially without an in-person event.
