We had an incredible Day 1 at Alfresco DevCon London that ended with a reception at Vinopolis. On Day 2 the attendees were up early and ready for the sessions and sponsors hit the ground running with demos of creative solutions in the exhibit hall. In thinking back about DevCon in both San Diego and London, [...]
Alfresco DevCon 2011 kicked off in San Diego at the end of October. If you missed that event, you can read the recap here: Day one and Day two. The next stop was in United Kingdom, where Alfresco is headquartered. London was the city chosen so Alfresco engineers, partners, community members, current and future clients from [...]
We had a wonderful event in London last week. Everyone that attended both agrees: The two cities and venues were very different, but the Alfresco vibe of openness, collaboration, and innovation was going strong at both DevCon events. If you missed a session in either location, we now have the DevCon presentations uploaded to SlideShare, [...]
Our case study series continues with a spotlight on Fatminds. An enterprise customer for over seven months, Fatminds has developed an interesting solution using Alfresco that seeks to serve the continuing education industry. Adult students looking to continue their education are often shocked when the search process turns out to be frustrating and time-consuming. Alternatively, [...]
Our annual developer conference took place in late October in San Diego. The event was a huge success. To paraphrase how Martin Musierowicz, our VP of Americas, described it…”it was hip, fun, and highly professional”. The Hard Rock Hotel’s loungy style and pool bar terrace helped to make this technical deep dive a fun and [...]
The summary from the first day can be found here: Alfresco DevCon San Diego Day 1 Summary – Level Up. The second day of Alfresco DevCon in beautiful San Diego started with Jeff Potts making some announcements, and asking the audience to make pledges to help the community for a chance to win some of the “attitude” T-shirts. [...]
We just wrapped the 1st day at Alfresco DevCon in San Diego, and what a day! So if you missed, here are some of the highlights… To give you some perspective in the overall setup of the event, I have to start saying that the conference is looking amazing… Level Up is the theme this year and it plays with [...]
Our Partner Spotlight series continues with a Q&A from Arnold Leung, founder and CEO at Appnovation Technologies. A partner for over two years, Appnovation is one of a handful of Platinum Partners in Canada and has recently launched an Alfresco/Drupal integrated solution called Canopy. Question from Joe: What do you like most about open source [...]
I’ve been at Alfresco for four months now and I thought it was about time that I introduced myself. My name is David Gildeh, and my official title is ‘Director of Cloud Services’ – which means I am charged with the exciting task of managing Alfresco’s cloud strategy. Prior to joining Alfresco, I actually built [...]
A few weeks ago Alfresco released an application for iOS devices. It’s available for free right now in the Apple App Store. If you’ve ever used Zia’s FreshDocs, a mobile app that demos hitting an Alfresco repository via CMIS, you’ll recognize a…
I finished reading Alfresco 3 Cookbook, by Snig Bhaumik, a while ago and I’ve been remiss in getting my review posted. Disclosure: Packt sent me the book for free. Alfresco 3 Cookbook is the latest entry in what is now a fairly voluminous catalog of …
I’ve just added a new AMI for Alfresco 4 onto my Alfresco EC2 Images list. Running these files is now even easier, based on the method used by Eric Hammond’s alestic.com, with a link next to each image that allows you to click directly through to t…
Alfresco recently presented at the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit in London, UK. The summit is designed to help IT and business execs optimize their investment in cloud-based systems. Topics ranged from the consumerization of IT and social content management, to case study examinations of security and governance issues. We presented “Alfresco’s Guide to Anger [...]
Alfresco and Ephesoft are poised to deliver the best integrated Document Capture and ECM (Enterprise Content Management) solution available on the market today where you can Learn Ephesoft Mailroom = Document Tracking + Scanning + OCR + Classificat…
Watch this webinar to find out more about some of the really cool features in Alfresco 4 such as drag and drop, social channel publishing, Activiti workflow, Apache Solr indexing and multi-lingual website support. With Paul Hampton, Product Marketing…
If you’ve not come across the project before, Share Import-Export provides a set of Python scripts to export sites and their supporting data into a standardised structure based on ACP and JSON, and can also then import these definitions into another …
Introduction This blog post explains how you can speed up the development of creating pages in Alfresco Share by using a couple of ”out of the box templates”. The idea is that when creating a “simple” page in Share with 1, 2 or 3 column you s…
Last week Alfresco announced the availability of Alfresco 4 (Community version). This is a significant release for Alfresco and includes some exciting and important new features. I have been working with Alfresco 4 for some time, so I thought I would list out my favourite new features. Remember that this is a personal list and [...]
Alfresco 4 Community was released last week. There’s a nice presentation on slideshare that summarizes what’s new in Alfresco 4, so I’m not going to give a comprehensive list here. And we’re going to be covering the technical details on all of …
