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. Earlier this year they had a nomination process which resulted | View post »

People new to Alfresco are often unaware of the existence of two different repository implementations within the product. One, which I’ll call the “DM Store”, is the classic store, the one that’s been used by Alfresco since the beginning. The other, the “WCM Store” or, as it is often referred to in API-speak, the “AVM | View post »

Man, I don’t miss delivering solutions on top of Documentum. After reading Laurence Hart’s post on Documentum Developer Edition, I’m reminded how much I take for granted working exclusively in the open source content management world. Laurence’s post was intended to discuss the ins and outs of Documentum’s efforts to make it easier for developers, | View post »

I originally wrote the Alfresco Developer Guide source code for Alfresco 2.2 Enterprise and Alfresco 3 Labs. The code was pretty much the same regardless of which one you were running. For things that did happen to be different, I handled those with separate projects: one for community-specific stuff and one for enterprise-specific stuff. This | View post »

The Alfresco-Django code I demo’d in the screencast yesterday is available at Google Code. It includes the core Django integration, the sample site, an AMP file you can use to deploy the web scripts and the sample site bootstrap data to Alfresco, and documentation which you can build using Sphinx. This should work with Alfresco | View post »

I’ve created a screencast over at Optaros Labs that shows a simple web site, powered by Django, that pulls all of its content from Alfresco. At Optaros, we see Django and Alfresco as a powerful combination for building content-centric applications. The integration shown in the screencast is based on work we did for our friends | View post »

Optaros has worked on some of the largest and most complex Alfresco implementations anywhere. Projects where multi-node read-write clusters are required have been particularly challenging. So when Alfresco announced clustering improvements in 3.1 my interest was piqued. I decided I’d do a simple test: Get a two-node read-write Alfresco 3.1 cluster running using a shared | View post »