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Administering Alfresco via JMX at the command line
Veröffentlicht 18 Aug 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Jared Ottley has a cool post on using jmxterm from CyclopsGroups.org. It lets you query and operate on Alfresco’s JMX beans from the command line. One of the examples he gives uses JMX to show how many users are logged in to Alfresco, a list of the logged in users, and then how to log off a specific user. + Read more

After more than a year, I’m still in love with my Bacchetta recumbent
Veröffentlicht 15 Aug 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

It’s been about a year and a half since I bought my Bacchetta recumbent. I’ve put about a thousand miles on it so far and I still love it. I ride as much as my schedule will allow, which, unfortunately, isn’t enough. + Read more

Adobe acquires Day Software for $240 million
Veröffentlicht 28 Jul 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

I’ll admit it. I did not see this one coming: Adobe announced today that it will acquire Day Software for $240 million USD. (Thanks, @pmonks, for the heads-up tweet). + Read more

Reminder: Last Thursday CMS Geekup DFW is next week
Veröffentlicht 22 Jul 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Don’t forget that one week from tonight, CMS geeks from around the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex will be descending on The Flying Saucer in Addison to have a couple of drinks and to talk shop. The event is free to attend, but if you RSVP I’ll be able to give them a heads up on how many are coming. + Read more

Alfresco, NOSQL, and the Future of ECM
Veröffentlicht 07 Jul 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Alfresco wants to be a best-in-class repository for you to build your content-centric applications on top of. Interest in NOSQL repositories seems to be growing, with many large well-known sites choosing non-relational back-ends. Are Alfresco (and, more generally, nearly all ECM and WCM vendors) on a collision course with NOSQL? First, let’s look at what Alfresco’s been up to lately. Over the last year or so, Alfresco has been shifting to a “we’re for developers” strategy in several ways: + Read more

Introducing the Alfresco Community Committer Program
Veröffentlicht 18 Jun 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

It’s been a little over two years since I wrote a blog post entitled, “Is Alfresco the ‘near beer’ of open source?“. In that post, I lamented the fact that the Alfresco code line is entirely closed to community developers and that Alfresco seems unwilling to relinquish any amount of control over the development of their open source product. + Read more

Metaversant is up-and-running
Veröffentlicht 07 Jun 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

First off, thanks so much to my readers, clients, colleagues, and other friends in the community who have provided a wealth of support in terms of well-wishes and congratulations on the forming of my new company, Metaversant. Several people have asked how things are going so here’s a brief update… + Read more

Review: Professional Alfresco, Wrox
Veröffentlicht 11 May 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

I recently finished reading Professional Alfresco, the new Alfresco book written by some of the Alfresco engineers and John Newton, Alfresco’s CTO. + Read more

Custom Data Lists in Alfresco Share Community 3.3
Veröffentlicht 25 Apr 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

One of the new features of Alfresco 3.3 Community is Data Lists. The ability to create an arbitrary list within a team collaboration site is a feature so loved by SharePoint users, it is often cited as one of the things holding back a migration to Alfresco. I agree that it’s a useful feature and I’m glad to see it making its way into Alfresco Share. Let’s take a look at the new feature, then we’ll lift up the hood to see how it works so you can implement your own custom data lists. + Read more

Using cmislib to migrate digital assets to CMIS repositories
Veröffentlicht 26 Mar 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

The follow-on to my introduction to cmislib, published on developerWorks earlier in the week, is now live. + Read more

New developerWorks article on cmislib
Veröffentlicht 23 Mar 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

If you would like to learn more about cmislib, an open source CMIS client API for Python that works with any CMIS-compliant repository such as Alfresco, FileNet, Nuxeo, OpenText, and others, check out my new developerWorks article. + Read more

Drupal Open Atrium and Alfresco CMIS files
Veröffentlicht 22 Mar 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

A lot of people have been asking for the files we used to integrate Alfresco CMIS with Drupal Open Atrium (See ecmarchitect.com blog post). I’ve happily mailed those to whomever asked. + Read more

WPBook 1.5 Released – Let the Streaming begin!
Veröffentlicht 07 Mar 2010 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

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Vote to include my CMIS session at Drupalcon
Veröffentlicht 16 Feb 2010 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Fellow Optaros colleague, Chris Fuller, and I want to present on the Alfresco-Drupal integration at Drupalcon in San Francisco (April 19-21). If you’re interested in Alfresco, Drupal, and CMIS (any or all of the above), please vote for our session. + Read more

Cmislib: A CMIS client library for Python
Veröffentlicht 18 Dec 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

I’ve started a new project on Google Code called cmislib. It is an interoperable client library for CMIS in Python that uses the Restful AtomPub Binding of a CMIS provider to perform CRUD and query functions on the repository. + Read more