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As we near the release of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 5.0, Community Edition has evolved a lot. Community Edition 5.0.a was an opportunity for the Engineering team to get feedback on the improvements in the 5.0 source tree. Though it was a solid release, there was still a lot of new development to complete on the ...
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I have been slow to share my thoughts on the Alfresco community since taking over for Jeff Potts two months ago. I am excited about my new role as Alfresco's "Head of Community", but I have been very busy managing my responsibilities while also completing our preparations for Alfresco Summit. I thought I would ...
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I had to update my Windows 7 Virtual Machine this week in order to do some demo videos. It is always painful to renew my frustration with that operating system. I dug out my old list of gotchas related to connecting to Alfresco from a Windows machine. I updated them, and decided to post them ...
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Two Alfresco tips that I keep meaning to write down.
New machine, fresh install of Alfresco, and the repository won't start.
Very early in the log file, after the sysAdmin few subsystem has loaded, this error shows up:
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'avmRemoteService' defined in class path resource [alfresco/remote-services-context.xml]: Invocation ...
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Jeff Potts and I have been hosting various Alfresco related conversations on Google Hangouts for about a year. It is so much better than our previous webinar platform that I a gratefully accept the many curiosities of the system. We have found that the broadcasts go much more smoothly if we prepare all the panelists ...
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My family invested in the complete set of the Avatar cartoon series (both the Last Airbender / Legend of Aang and the Legend of Korra season 1). If you haven't seen the series, I highly recommend you watch it; it is a masterpiece in nearly every way.
I don't often buy DVD's because the ...
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An important part of my job the last few years has been helping Jeff Potts make Alfresco DevCon successful. With the expansion of DevCon into Alfresco Summit, my role has expanded too. This year we are planning a much bigger event which has consumed my work life for the last 8 months. We have one ...
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At Alfresco, we often refer to "the Dropbox problem". It doesn't look like anyone has written a clear explanation of what that means, so I will do the honors.
Dropbox is a very popular service for cloud-based file storage and sharing, coupled with a simple way of keeping files synchronized across all of a user's ...
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This is my next article providing an introduction to Enterprise Content Management (ECM). This article introduces the most important standard for building content solutions: Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS). When a developer is given a task that involves content, it will save time and energy to leverage the CMIS standard when interacting with that ...
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In my last ECM post, I provided an introduction to the discipline of Enterprise Content Management. Many developers confuse Web Content Management (WCM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM). When they are told about a content repository, they think of the tool they use to build web sites instead of the tool they use ...