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

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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

Forrester says 2010 looks good for ECM
Veröffentlicht 16 Dec 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Forrester has released the results from its 2009 Global Enterprise Content Management Online Survey. Here are a few of the things that jumped out at me… + Read more

New Tutorial: Getting Started with CMIS
Veröffentlicht 23 Nov 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

I’ve written a new tutorial on the proposed Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) standard called, “Getting Started with CMIS“. The tutorial first takes you through an overview of the specification. Then, I do several examples. + Read more

WordCamp NYC, WPBook, WordCamp Boston
Veröffentlicht 14 Nov 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Here’s the slides from my presentation this morning at WordCamp NYC. It was in the “beginning developer” track so I tried to focus on the overall structure of how the plugin does what it does and the hooks/actions/filters used. Hard to fit the talk into 30 minutes with time for questions and roadmap – there’s so much more I want WPBook to do – hopefully I can find the time soon. + Read more

Top Five Alfresco Roadmap Takeaways
Veröffentlicht 12 Nov 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Now that the last of the Alfresco Fall meetups has concluded in the US, I thought I’d summarize my takeaways. Overall I thought the events were really good. The informative sessions were well-attended. Everyone I talked to was glad they came and left with multiple useful takeaways. Everyone has their own criteria for usefulness–for these events my personal set of highlights tend to focus on the roadmap. So here are my top five roadmap takeaways from the Washington, D.C., Atlanta, and LA meetups. + Read more

Django + Alfresco was a winning combination for retailer’s intranet
Veröffentlicht 05 Nov 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Last week I spent some time with one of our clients talking about what it’s been like to live with their Intranet platform based on Django and Alfresco. The conversation got me really excited about what they’ve been able to do since the original implementation and where they are heading. + Read more

Drupal/Alfresco Webinar Redux
Veröffentlicht 21 Oct 2009 von Chris Fuller

People want intranets that are fun and easy to use, full of compelling content relevant to their job, and enabled with social and community features to help them discover connections with other teams, projects, and colleagues. IT wants something that’s lightweight and flexible enough to respond to the needs of the business that won’t cost a fortune. + Read more

Alfresco Share microblogging component released as open source
Veröffentlicht 19 Oct 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Back in February (I know, it’s been simmering on the back burner for too long), I did a couple of screencasts on Optaros Labs showing a demo of Alfresco Share (part 1, part 2). + Read more

Screencast: Basic Alfresco-Kaltura integration
Veröffentlicht 16 Oct 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Bryan Spaulding, Media Practice Lead at Optaros, and I have been thinking about lightweight digital asset management and Alfresco. Alfresco can manage any kind of asset, including rich media. + Read more

Screencast: Drupal Open Atrium with Alfresco CMIS
Veröffentlicht 13 Oct 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

I recorded a quick screencast of a simple integration we did to show Open Atrium leveraging Alfresco as a formal document repository via CMIS. + Read more

Free as in What, Exactly?
Veröffentlicht 02 Oct 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

Free Software advocates have for a long time worked to draw a distinction between free of cost (“Free as in Beer”) and free of restrictions (“Free as in Speech” or as I prefer “Free as in Freedom”). The challenge stems from the fact that we use, in idiomatic English, the same word “Free” to refer to both concepts, whereas in romance languages (based on latin) there’s a clearer distinction between gratis and libre. + Read more

The Assembled Web: Notes Toward a Manifesto
Veröffentlicht 22 Sep 2009 von John EckmanTags: Open Source

In the spirit of (and heavily inspired by) the original Cluetrain Manifesto and the recent 10th anniversary edition, I offer the following definition and 10 principles of what we at Optaros have been calling the Assembled Web. + Read more

Drupal + Alfresco webinar slides available
Veröffentlicht 15 Sep 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

People want intranets that are fun and easy to use, full of compelling content relevant to their job, and enabled with social and community features to help them discover connections with other teams, projects, and colleagues. IT wants something that’s lightweight and flexible enough to respond to the needs of the business that won’t cost a fortune. + Read more

Packt Author of the Year Award
Veröffentlicht 11 Sep 2009 von Jeff PottsTags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

I mentioned it on Twitter yesterday but I definitely wanted to spend more than 140 characters saying thanks. If you missed the tweet, what I’m talking about is that Packt announced that I won the Author of the Year Award for the Alfresco Developer Guide. + Read more