Blogs
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The Business Case for Enterprise Search and Information Access TechnologyTuesday 6th September 2011
Information sources are proliferating rapidly, incorporating more and more forms of unstructured data such as emails, images and multimedia, with social and web-based content on top of that. This escalation of data and of data types can be an enormous boon to a business, diversifying information and helping them to build a richer picture of their own organisational mechanisms, internal and external communications, and customer/client behaviours. However, with these advantages come many challenges, especially when it comes to managing and controlling data
From the trenches - Troubleshooting Solr implementationsTuesday 30th August 2011
We were recently assisting a leading UK media publisher with a search relevancy issue. The powerful Apache Solr search service was utilised by their e-commerce package but their implementation suffered from a few common problems. On top of this were some more challenges caused by the umbrella package and, in particular, how it abstracted Solr
Configuring Alfresco for SSO with CAS and Securing TomcatTuesday 23rd August 2011
In my last Alfresco project I had to implement Single Sign On (SSO) with a CAS server (http://www.jasig.org/cas). This turned out to be a bit trickier than I initially thought. I found some resources about the subject that looked promising
- The Business Case for Social Content Management
Friday 29th July 2011
Businesses and organisations are facing increasing pressures when it comes to managing social content. With more and more of their competitors “going social”, there is a growing need for companies to engage simply in order to keep up, and to do so effectively in a way that promotes and raises awareness about their brand
- Setting up a build project for Alfresco Explorer, Share, and WQS extensions
Wednesday 27th July 2011
Setting up a build project for Alfresco Explorer, Share, and WQS extensionsWhen I wrote my book I setup a build project that I used to build both Alfresco Explorer/Repository extensions (AMPs) and Alfresco Share extensions (JARs). Since then I have been using this build project quite a lot in several projects, making minor updates and additions to it. I have also added support for building Alfresco Web Quick Start (WQS) extensions.
- The Second Wave of Unstructured Data & Ixxus Social Content Platform
Monday 25th July 2011
First, a very brief overview of what unstructured data actually is – you may want to skip this bit, if you’re already familiar with the concept. ‘Unstructured data’ is basically a generic label which describes any corporate data or information that is not contained within a database; for example, textual data generated within email, Word, PowerPoint, instant messaging services, and non-textual data such as images, audio files and video files.
Navigating the social graph – Developing with the Social Content PlatformFriday 22nd July 2011
The Ixxus Social Content Platform enables web developers to implement an Alfresco-based content management solution that is tightly integrated with social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Options for Alfresco StorageWednesday 20th July 2011
Alfresco's muliti-tier structure allows a great deal of flexibility on system design and implementation architecture. With options (http://www.alfresco.com/services/subscription/supported-platforms/) for differing operating systems, databases and content location, the number of options can become overwhelming.
Externalising Alfresco Configuration – One Step furtherTuesday 12th July 2011
It is good practice to externalise configuration, to allow for changes to be more flexible, and remove the requirement of code changes, compile and redeploy.For example it’s not good practice to have a hard coded batch size which determines the size of batches of transfers between two Alfresco instances. Also, how often does it happen where a customer states they’d like everything to be batched in groups of x, to then, later down the line say they would now like it to be y.
- There's no such thing as Social Media
Thursday 7th July 2011
It’s time we all accepted the inevitable: social media isn’t going to go away. It is not a fad. It is here to stay. And – bear with me here, whilst I go out on a limb – it doesn’t really, actually, exist. At least, not in any truly meaningful way.
