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Getting started with setting up an Alfresco clusterTuesday 3rd January 2012
In this article I will try and get you started on clustering the Alfresco application. I will setup a basic Alfresco cluster with 2 nodes and for this I will use 2 Windows laptops and an Ubuntu workstation that I have at home.
The Importance of Testing in AgileThursday 15th December 2011
I have noted in the past that with Agile, many processes are mutually supporting. A good example of this is testing and its relationship to the development iteration.
Using Browser Push in GrailsThursday 8th December 2011
Browser Push is the collective term for techniques that allow a server to send asynchronous data updates in near real time to a browser. This article provides an overview of browser push and then provides a sample of Grails usage.
Online Publishing Revenues Beginning to Beat PrintThursday 1st December 2011
It seems the tide is beginning to turn in the Publishing industry – prominent US publisher, Atlantic Media, is reporting that its digital advertising revenue is now beating print advertising revenue.
- Companies using Enterprise CMS technologies over 5 years old should update, says Gartner
Monday 21st November 2011
Within the fast-moving worlds of business and technology, every year brings changes, and that’s exactly what makes industry analysts such as Gartner such valuable resources. So when even they are saying “this year’s different” and advising not to compare this year’s reports against last year’s, you know it’s time to sit up and take notice.
- Relevancy Driven Development with Solr
Wednesday 16th November 2011
The relevancy of search engine results is very subjective so therefore testing the relevancy of queries is also subjective.One technique that exists in the information retrieval field is the use of judgement lists; an alternative approach discussed here is to follow the Behaviour Driven Development methodology employing user story acceptance criteria – I’ve been calling this Relevancy Driven Development or RDD for short.
- Using JMS in Grails
Tuesday 18th October 2011
The Java Message Service (JMS) API is one of the cornerstones of the Java Enterprise Edition that allows applications to reliably communicate using asynchronous messages sent via a message broker. This article provides an introduction to JMS, the JMS support in the Spring Framework and then provides practical examples of usage within Grails using the JMS plugin
- Document Migration Tips and Tricks
Tuesday 11th October 2011
In this blog entry I want to document and recommend a few ways of migrating content into Alfresco. Depending on whether you are importing content from the file system, other CMS, or from another Alfresco instance there are going to be a number of ways to go about it. The trick is to know which migration method to choose so you don’t have to do more work than necessary. When I talk about the different migration methods, I use a flowchart as a way of deciding what method to use in a particular situation. The flowchart could also be used separately to decide which migration method to use
Alfresco Node LifecycleWednesday 28th September 2011
The lifecycle of your average Alfresco 'node' isn't that complicated is it? A node (perhaps a document) is created, it gets changed, hangs around for a while, and is finally deleted at some point. End of story, right? From a user perspective that's correct, but what's actually going on under the abstraction that is the 'Object Content Repository'?
- Customising the Upload File(s) dialog in Alfresco Share
Tuesday 13th September 2011
In a recent project that I was involved in I was asked to customize the Upload File(s) dialog in Alfresco Share. This is the dialog where you can upload one or more documents into the Document Library via Flash. The dialog looks as follows (if you have not seen it before):
