Blogs
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Alfresco Share Customisation – The Ixxus Application18 Nov 2009.
One requirement often asked in relation to Alfresco Share is “can we make it look a bit more like this….”
Replacing Open Text with Alfresco28 Oct 2009.
Open Text clients are migrating to Alfresco, to avoid large Annual Support and Maintenance costs.
Alfresco Records Management – certification and beyond!11 Aug 2009.
I have been having a look at Alfresco’s new records management functionality that will be available in Alfresco v3.2. They are heading towards testing against the DoD 5015.2 (Department of Defense) specification in September. Here I look at the issues raised.
Including Common XML Schemas Across Alfresco WCM Web-Forms and Web-Projects 29 Jul 2009.
Fancy a bit of schema re-use when designing your alfresco web-forms? Following on from a previous article, this tip might prove useful to those unused to XML Schemas, but would still like a well-modelled WCM data model.
- Debugging Alfresco in Eclipse
6 Jul 2009.
I recently needed to setup a new development environment for myself, to setup the ability to debug the code I had to workout how to setup Eclipse to remotely connect to Tomcat. This is a question I had been asked before so thought I would document the process.
- Inline Callouts in Alfresco WCM
23 Jun 2009.
A common requirement in metadata capture is for the user to choose values from a list. In Alfresco WCM these lists are supplied via the XSD definition, an enumeration is included in the XSD of the Web Form with the values required. Sometimes we want this list to be dynamic and pulled in from another source.
Lucene – the de-facto OEM search engine19 May 2009.
This article looks at an open-source product that’s rapidly infiltrating all parts of the content management market – Lucene.
Creating and publishing customized content with MarkLogic19 May 2009.
Ixxus recently worked on a project for a client utilising MarkLogic Server’s capabilities for content aggregation and custom publishing of XML content. Using a combination of standard XQuery and MarkLogic built-in and module extensions we built an application that takes structured XML content, allows the user to browse or search the content and pull out relevant snippets of information to create their own documents tailored to their needs.
Creating event driven JavaScript objects18 May 2009.
Creating your own event driven JavaScript objects can be very simple. The important thing is to ensure you are not reinventing the standard DOM event model. Here I show an approach that provides a quick and powerful mechanism for creating event driven objects.
- Privacy Issues Associated with Web Tracking
14 May 2009.
These days most web savvy organisations use some form of web tracking and/or analytics tool to monitor site traffic, statistics and visitor behaviour.
Recently there has been a lot of press about potential breach of privacy issues in Britain arising from the use of tracking tools such as Phorm, which can track a user's web browsing behaviour, and then use this information to deliver targeted advertisements back to the user which are categorised as being relevant or of potential interest.
