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About Tech Talk Live
Alfresco Tech Talk Live is a series of regularly scheduled sessions where attendees get to guide the discussion. Alfresco will host the sessions along with a panel of subject matter experts who will be prepared to answer your questions. While the bulk of the discussions will focus on Alfresco technology, we'll also be dedicating some time to open source and the technology space in general.
How do I attend?
The sessions are held using WebEx. To attend, please visit the Alfresco Events page, find the Tech Talk Live you are interested in, and sign up.
Schedule
Note Tech Talk Live is now on a monthly schedule. We usually meet on the first Wednesday of each month at 8am PT / 11am ET/ 4pm UK/ 5pm CET. Because of public holidays or the schedules of our guests, this occasionally slips to the second week.
All sessions will be recorded and posted to this wiki page after the event.
NEXT SESSION
Wednesday May 1, 2013: Alfresco Business Reporting (Episode 65).
Join us for episode 65 of Tech Talk Live to learn more about reporting inside Alfresco. Many people want to report against the data in their Alfresco repository. Examples of questions that might be answered are: ‘what time did users access the system’, or, ‘which sites have Site Managers who are external to my org’, or ‘which sites have not been modified for 6 months or more’. Then, of course there are business-specific reports that have nothing to do with out-of-the-box Alfresco data.
There are many approaches to reporting against Alfresco. Community member Tjarda Peelen, who works for Alfresco partner Incentro, has created a new open source project called Alfresco Business Reporting which uses an open source reporting platform called Pentaho to create and run reports against data extracted from Alfresco. The resulting reports are stored back into Alfresco.
We'll look at a demo of the new project, dig into some coding examples, and find out from Tjarda what alternative approaches he explored before he settled on this one.
Register now https://www.alfresco.com/events/webinars/tech-talk-live-alfresco-business-reporting-episode-65
Episode Guide
2013
Episode 64
Date: April 03, 2013
Title: Alfresco Public API
Panel: Greg Melahn, Peter Monks and Jeff Potts
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_64
Slide Deck: http://slidesha.re/13RElPh
Show notes:
In October of 2012, Alfresco announced the availability of the public Alfresco API. This simple RESTful API makes it possible for developers to build exciting custom applications with your choice of programming language and tools.
Come to this tech talk to hear Peter Monks and Greg Melahn explain how Alfresco is expanding this API and see examples of the API in action [81 mins running time].
Episode 63
Date: March 06, 2013
Title: Custom Metadata and Actions in Alfresco Share 4.1
Panel: Mike Farman and Jeff Potts
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_63
Slide Deck: http://slidesha.re/ZjGlaO
Show notes:
This episode of Tech Talk Live picks up where Will Abson left off in Episode 62. Join Mike Farman and Jeff Potts for even more options for customizing Share, including working with custom metadata in the document library and adding custom actions using configuration over code.
Because of technical difficulties with the demo on the day, this is a re-record of the original session [65 minutes running time].
Episode 62
Date: February 13, 2013
Title: Share Customization
Panel: Will Abson and Jeff Potts
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_62
Slide Deck: http://slidesha.re/WmJYhv
Show notes:
If you didn't catch Dave Draper's Tech Talk last May, join Will Abson for this episode on Share Customization.
He'll walk you through document library custom views, and show you the site geotagged content add-on example that takes advantage of this new extension point in Alfresco Share.
Interactive discussion with lots of lovely live code and a demo [64 minutes running time].
Episode 61
Date: January 9, 2013
Title: How http://saks.com uses Alfresco to deliver content-as-a-service
Panel: Aaron Heath from Saks Fifth Avenue and Jeff Potts from Alfresco
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_61
Show notes:
Join us for this episode of Tech Talk Live, with our special guest from Saks.com, Aaron Heath. Aaron will be talking about Web Content Management with Alfresco at Saks, and how this premier and luxury retailer uses Alfresco to deliver content as a service to the millions of end users of their e-commerce website and mobile applications. In this Tech Talk, Aaron will share how Saks.com:
- Defines custom types in their content model;
- Creates and uses these types;
- Edits content directly from their pre-production website using custom web scripts;
- Is able to share and serve content to web and mobile using a RESTful content API [70 minutes running time].
2012
Episode 60
Date: December 5, 2012
Title: Tech Talk Live on Migrating from AVM-WCM to DM-Web Content Services
Panel: Jeff Potts and Rich McKnight
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_60
Show notes:
Join us for the December broadcast with Rich McKnight to hear more about some of the technical considerations around migrating off of the AVM, including:
- Review Alfresco Web Content Services;
- Discuss the key differences between AVM based WCM solutions and ADM based Web Content Services Solutions including the advantages of the *new* way;
- Overview of Web Content Services Patterns -- how Web Content Services can be integrated in to a web application;
- Some technical pointers;
- Converting from XSD to DM style content models;
- Converting from the XSD defined widgets and forms to the newer forms engine;
- Changes in Deployment;
- Discussion around content migration strategies [56 minutes running time].
Episode 59
Date: October 3, 2012
Title: New Alfresco API
Panel: Jeff Potts and Peter Monks
Web Recording: http://bit.ly/RSTo1y
Show notes:
Alfresco has just announced the Alfresco API. But you've been developing apps on top of Alfresco for years. Watch October's Tech Talk Live to find out from Peter Monks and Jeff Potts what the Alfresco API is, how it works with Alfresco, and how you can get started using it today [58 minutes running time].
Episode 58
Date: September 5, 2012
Title: Custom Document Views in Share
Panel: Jeff Potts and Will Abson
Web Recording: http://bit.ly/TTL_Episode_58
Presentation Slides: http://slidesha.re/R9cOBJ
Show notes:
In September's episode of Tech Talk Live, Will Abson presents an overview of the web preview component used by Share to display inline views of a variety of document and file types directly within the web browser, and shows how it is possible to define your own custom viewers, using Share customization modules. Will is a Senior Integrations Engineer and founder and lead of the Share Extras project, which offers over 30 add-ons for download from http://sharextras.org/ [61 mins running time].
Episode 57
Date: August 1, 2012
Title: Solr
Panel: Jeff Potts and Andy Hind from Alfresco and Bergljung from Ixxus
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_57
Presentation Slides: http://slidesha.re/M47dKL
Demo Script: Alfresco Solr Demo Script
Show notes:
Most new Alfresco projects use Alfresco 4.0 with Solr as a search engine. This 67-minute episode of Tech Talk Live is aimed at system administrators and architects who have experience using Alfresco with Lucene, but have not yet dived into what Solr is and how it works together with Alfresco 4.0.
- What Apache Solr is;
- Why Alfresco is using it;
- What Solr cores are;
- How Solr is integrated with Alfresco;
- What the Solr Admin UI is and how to access it;
- How to turn on Solr query Logging;
- What tool to use to analyze the index;
- To understand the Solr related directory structure and files;
- Solr Core configuration;
- Solr Alfresco Schema and how to extend it;
- How to run Solr on a separate box;
This session will bring you up to speed on Solr and how it is integrated with Alfresco 4.0.
Episode 56
Date: July 11, 2012
Title: Mobile SDKs
Panel: Jeff Potts, Gavin Cornwell, Jean-Marie Pascal and Peter Schmidt
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_56
Presentation Slides: http://slidesha.re/S6EZ1B
Show notes:
In this Tech Talk episode, we discussed Alfresco's soon-to-be-released mobile SDKs for iOS and Android. With these SDKs, you can easily add to your applications the ability to work with content hosted in your Alfresco server or in the Alfresco Cloud.
Episode 55
Date: June 13, 2012
Title: Records Management
Panel: Richard Esplin and Roy Wetherall
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_55
Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/alfresco/alfresco-tech-talk-live-records-managment-20
Show notes:
In this Alfresco Tech Talk, we introduce Alfresco's Records Management Module 2.0. We talk about the highlight features of the new release, demonstrating multi-level FilePlan support via the Share UI integration. Following this will be a discussion of the long term roadmap for Alfresco Records Management, digging into the details of the higher priority feature sets.
Episode 54
Date: May 2, 2012
Title: New Client Config & Extension Points in Share
Panel: Jeff Potts and Dave Draper
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode54
Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/alfresco/tech-talk-live-on-share-extensibility
Show notes:
Our topic for May was New Client Config and Extension Points in Share.
Watch this episode of Tech Talk Live to learn more about how Spring Surf has been updated to allow increased customization and extensibility. This recording demonstrates how new capabilities can and have been used in Alfresco Share to add, remove and modify its appearance without needing to copy and paste code.
Episode 53
Date: April 4, 2012
Title: Content Type and Form Design Tools
Panel: Jeff Potts and Mike Priest from Abstractive
Web Recording: http://bit.ly/episode53
Presentation Slides: http://slidesha.re/HgBAYO
Show notes:
Our topic for April was content type and form design tools. We discussed the tools freely available at addons.alfresco.com that can help you create and maintain content models and forms quickly and easily without hand-coding XML.
Episode 52
Date: March 7, 2012
Title: Alfresco and Drupal Integrations
Panel: Jeff Potts, Ian Norton and Richard Esplin
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_52
Presentation Slides: None
Show notes:
Watch this episode of Tech Talk Live to find out more about the interoperability between Alfresco and Drupal, which allows developers to build systems that take advantage of the complementary strengths of both systems. As you can imagine, there are a number of different ways to integrate the two platforms. Some of the decision points that need to be considered are: push vs pull, CMIS vs custom webscripts and when to align the users between Alfresco and Drupal instances.
Episode 51
Date: February 1, 2012
Title: Alfresco Add-ons
Panel: Jeff Potts, Gab Columbro and Rich McKnight
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/TTL_Episode_51
Presentation Slides: None
Show notes:
Alfresco's Chief Community Officer, Jeff Potts and colleagues Richard Esplin, Gabriele Columbro, Rich McKnight and Jared Ottley discuss packaging, distributing and finding Alfresco Add-ons in this episode of Tech Talk Live.
Topics will include an overview of the new Alfresco Add-ons directory, plans for Alfresco Mavenization, the future of AMPs, and other packaging recommendations as recorded in this updated wiki page.
2011
Episode 50
Date: October 5, 2011
Title: Metadata Extractors and Content Transformers
Panel: Nick Burch, Will Abson
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/l/1234/2011-10-05/R27U2
Presentation Slides: None
Show notes:
None
Episode 49
Date: September 7, 2011
Title: Web Quick Start
Panel: Brian Remmington, Jeff Potts
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/l/1234/2011-09-07/QXNO2
Presentation Slides: None
Show Notes:
None
Episode 48
Date: August 3, 2011
Title: CMIS
Panel: Florian Mueller, Jeff Potts
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/l/1234/2011-08-03/QS28B
Presentation Slides: None
Show Notes:
None
Episode 47
Date: July 6th, 2011
Title: Share Extras
Panel: Will Abson, Jeff Potts
Web Recording: http://www2.alfresco.com/l/1234/2011-07-07/QMNMR
Presentation Slides: None
Show Notes:
None
2010
Episode 46
Date: May 7th, 2010
Title: Alfresco Community Site
Panel: Appnovation Technologies
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p40421964/
Presentation Slides: http://[placeholder]
Show Notes:
Appnovation Technologies is a web application and intranet application development company in Vancouver, Canada. We specialize in developing applications using the Drupal, Alfresco and iPhone platforms. By combining the Alfresco and Drupal platforms, we have been able to develop applications that combine the flexible Drupal front-end and extensive community building modules, with the powerful Alfresco repository based document management functions. Some of our clients include MTV, NBC Universal and the World Wildlife Fund.
Description: Appnovation Technologies demonstrated how Drupal and Alfresco can work together to power the new Alfresco Community web site. In the demo, Appnovation Technologies showed how Drupal can be leveraged to provide both a front-end and community platform for the Alfresco system. The Alfresco community site uses Drupal for both the interface and for powering various community modules such as user profiles. The Alfresco backend allows for a complete file management system and allows for complex approval work flows for user uploaded files. The integration between Alfresco and Drupal is made possible by the CMIS module.
Episode 45
Date: April 23rd, 2010
Title: Use Alfresco Share and Zoho to edit Office Documents online
Panel: Dan Hopkins and Mike Mahon
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p52563369/
Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/quyong2000/alfresco-tech-talk-live-zohoalfresco-integration
Show Notes:
Dan Hopkins, an ECM Architect at Zia Consulting in Boulder, Colorado and Mike Mahon, President at Zia Consulting gave us a tour of using and implementing Zoho in Alfresco Share. Zoho provides a seamless solution for online Office document editing that helps to increases Share usage and provides document editing to any OS (Mac, Linux, Windows).
Dan and Mike's presentation includes:
- Demo of common usage scenarios.
- Architecture overview of Zoho Services with specifics about saving documents.
- Flow diagram of Alfresco integration.
Zoho/Alfresco features include:
- Online editing of common documents, spreadsheets and presentation.
- Edit documents in Share with multiple users simultaneously editing documents.
- Zoho integrates directly into Share: Share users don’t need to configure users accounts or even know of Zoho’s existence.
- Saving automatically handles versioning of documents in the repository.
Episode 44
Date: April 9th, 2010
Title: Getting Started with the Web Editor
Panel: Ben Hagan
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p50811914/
Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/quyong2000/alfresco-tech-talk-liveweb-editor-33
Show Notes:
Ben Hagan introduced the new Alfresco Web Editor product.
Ben demonstrated how to download Alfresco Community release, got it up and running and then built out a test site page from scratch and “enabling†the web editor.
Ben also did a high level overview of the editor components,custom tabs and buttons.
Episode 43
Date: April 2nd, 2010
Title: Spring Surf Project
Panel: Michael Uzquiano and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p41413596/
Presentation Slides: http://[placeholder]
Show Notes:
Michael and Yong talked about new features in the coming 1.0.0.M3 release of Spring Surf project.
The topics they have covered include
1) Webscript development/documentation.
2) Spring Surf Roo Addon.
3) Spring Surf Documentation Plugins and more.
Episode 42
Date: March 22nd, 2010
Title: Combining BPM and ECM for better process applications
Panel: Mike Moniz, product manager, Active Endpoints and Yong Qu, chief solutions architect, Alfresco
Presentation Slides: N.A.
Show Notes:
Two of the most important technology trends in enterprise software are business process management (BPM) and enterprise content management (ECM). Until now, combining business processes containing both human workflow and system tasks with the content required for those processes has required compromises or been much too difficult.
In this special edition of Alfresco Tech Talk Live, Mike and Yong talked about how to achieve seamless integration between ECM and BPM using an important new standard called Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS). Using CMIS, Alfresco ECM and ActiveVOS BPM users can combine a high-performance content repository with a model-driven BPM system to create a new generation of process applications.
Episode 41
Date: February 5th, 2010
Title: Frevvo Alfresco Integration
Panel: Yuri de Wit
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p66027461/
Presentation Slides: N.A.
Show Notes:
Yuri de Wit is a co-founder of frevvo, based in Connecticut, USA. He has over 15 year’s expertise in software architecture and development for commercial products using Web- and Java-based technologies. Prior to frevvo he was an architect at Metaserver, Inc., a firm selling a Business Process Management (BPM) product into the insurance and financial industries.
Yuri demonstrated frevvo’s capabilities and how its inherent XML and XML Schema capabilities can be used to create and edit content schemas in Alfresco, and possibly more.
2009
Episode 40
Date: December 18, 2009
Title: Jibe Project
Panel: Denis Halupa and Daniel Gradecak
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p48127670/
Presentation Slides: http://[placeholder]
Show Notes:
Denis Halupa and Daniel Gradecak are founders of Icodix, company based in Croatia specialized in providing complex enterprise solutions based on Alfresco. Driven by customer demands for more responsive UI and better agility during development process we started development of an application framework recently known as Jibe framework. As strong supporters of open source business model all our development efforts were publicly available under a GPL license from the very beginning.
During presentation, Denis and Daniel first described the architecture behind the framework; they presented Content manager which is a reference application built on top of framework. At the end they also described development model using few simple examples like
- customizing the form or the grid - wiring additional actions - exposing a server side java method for invocation from the client
Episode 39
Date: December 4, 2009
Title: Maven and Alfresco using the Maven Alfresco Repository
Panel: Gabriele Columbro
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p31061669/
Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/mindthegab/20091204-alfresco-community-maven-tech-talk
Show Notes:
SPEAKER BIO
Gabriele Columbro is a Solution Engineer at Alfresco EMEA Professional Services, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He's a long time open source contributor and recently involved in the CMIS open source implementation as Apache Chemistry committer. In his long ECM experience he architected and implemented complex enterprise solutions based on Alfresco, powered by Apache Maven to scale out development processes (http://ur.ly/3EYc), while working for an Alfresco pan european system integration partner.
You can read more about Gabriele's work (mostly around Alfresco, CMIS and Maven) at http://www.mindthegab.com.
PRESENTATION
We will be introducing the new Alfresco Maven Repository (http://maven.alfresco.com/) for Alfresco Community artifacts, which is meant to consolidate the growing interest and work around managing Alfresco applications and integration using Apache Maven (see http://ur.ly/3F4p). Based on the new repository, we'll be demoing of usage of Maven Alfresco Lifecycle to develop Alfresco Extensions and AMPs and of the CMIS Maven starter toolkit.
Also we'll discuss Maven perspectives also taking into account the Surf Spring extension evolutions.
Open discussion is more than welcome to help us better shape this new important developers resource and understand new opportunities using Maven.
Episode 38
Date: October 30, 2009
Title: iPhone native App, CMIS and the Cloud
Panel: Mike Mahon and Mike Muller
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p16042660/
Presentation Slides: http://[placeholder]
Show Notes:
Mike Mahon, President and Mike Muller, Director, Software Consulting at Zia Consulting talk about a native iPhone application Zia has developed that allows mobile access to an Alfresco document repository. This application runs against the most recent Alfresco releases; no additional software needs to be installed on the servers and no configuration of Alfresco is required. It is configured by default to run against an Alfresco instance running in the Cloud. All of the calls to Alfresco to authenticate and pull content are utilizing Alfresco's CMIS API.
Episode 37
Date: October 16,2009
Title: Adding Pepper: A WCM and marketing toolkit for Alfresco
Panel: Nathan Kurtyka and Scott Rovegno
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p59143141/
Presentation Slides: N.A.
Show Notes:
SPEAKER BIO
Nathan Kurtyka, VP of Technology, has been conceptualizing and implementing cutting-edge web applications for over a decade. With a unique blend of architecture, user experience, and marketing strategy, Nathan has led commercial and open source CMS integrations for some of the world’s strongest brands, including many Fortune 500’s. He’s spearheaded the development of Pepper to solve some of the most challenging WCM issues facing today’s developers, allowing marketers to easy implement web 2.0 strategies.
COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Vodori specializes in delivering state-of-the-art online marketing solutions. By crafting flexible, enterprise-grade platforms, we empower marketing teams, cutting time-to-market while delivering measurable results. With unparalleled expertise in global website portfolios, we partner with Fortune 100 companies and non-profit organizations alike to define, execute, and support winning online strategies. To learn more, please visit: http://www.vodori.com/alfresco
PRESENTATION
We will be unveiling Pepper, a marketing and web content management (WCM) product that runs on Alfresco. Pepper provides features like in-context editing, templating, auto-translations, and rich UI widgets that all run on a “pluggableâ€, extensible architecture. We’ll demonstrate how quickly new templates can be created how easy it is to add custom functionality.
Episode 36
Date: October 2,2009
Title: WCM Performance
Panel: Jared Ottley and Brian Robinson
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p65647098/
Presentation Slides: http://[placeholder]
Show Notes:
Jared Ottley, Alfresco Director of Solutions Engineering, and Brian Robinson, Alfresco Director of Services. Jared and Brian talked about Alfresco WCM Performance. They also covered topics such as testing framework, performance tuning of ASR, FSR and Authoring etc.
Episode 35
Date: September 18, 2009
Title: 3.2 Forms Service
Panel: Gavin Cornwell and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na5.acrobat.com/p44022505/
Presentation Slides: http://code.google.com/p/alfresco-forms-service-examples/
Show Notes:
Gavin Cornwell, Alfresco Senior Developer, and Yong Qu, Alfresco Chief Solutions Architect, introduced Alfresco 3.2 Forms Service with focus on extension and customization.
Episode 34
Date: August 21st, 2009
Title: Alfresco Drupal Integration
Panel: Rich McKnight and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p39276522/
Presentation Slides: N/A
Show Notes:
Our guest speaker was Rich McKnight, Alfresco Senior Consultant. Rich is a Senior Technologist with over 25 years of technology experience in a number of different disciplines including enterprise content management, web site development, telecommunications, equity trading systems and computer aided engineering.His demo will show how it is possible to take content managed in Alfresco as web forms and deploy it to a web site running as a Drupal instance. In this demo all web form content being deployed to the Drupal web site will be stored in Drupal as native Drupal nodes.
Episode 33
Date: August 7, 2009
Title: Alfresco Subsystems
Panel: David Ward and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p59982378
Presentation Slides: N.A.
Show Notes:
David Ward, Alfresco Senior Developer, and Yong Qu, Alfresco Chief Solutions Architect, introduced Alfresco Subsystems. David and Yong talked about how this new feature significantly simplifies system configuration and administration with a demo on configuring LDAP Authentication Chain.
Episode 32
Date: July 24th, 2009
Title: Alfresco Daeja Integration
Panel: Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p11654204/
Presentation Slides: http://[placeholder]
Show Notes:
Yong Qu, Alfresco Chief Solutions Architect, introduced Alfresco/Daeja( http://www.daeja.com) integration. Yong talked about how the Daeja ViewONE Pro is integrated as custom viewer and content annotation tool for Alfresco DM, Alfresco Share and Alfresco Workflow.
Episode 31
Date: Friday July 17th, 2009
Title: Alfresco Community 3.2
Panel: Mike Farman
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p41365109/
Podcast Recording: N.A.
Show Notes:
Mike Farman, Alfresco Product Manager, introduced Alfresco Community 3.2. Mike talked about new features, enhancements, upgrade path etc.
Episode 30
Date: June 10
Title: Collaborative Editing for Alfresco
Panel: Jason Harrop
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p10455067/
Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/quyong2000/plutext-alfresco-tech-talk
Show Notes:
Jason Harrop of Plutext demonstrated and explained the workings of an AMP which adds collaborative editing to Alfresco, so everyone in a team can work on a Word document at the same time, without having to make copies and manually reconcile changes. For those interested in wikis, the AMP also supports a wiki made up of Word documents.
Episode 29
Date: June 10
Title: Introduction to ActiveVOS
Panel: Victor Chan and John Judy
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p39834805/
Presentation Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/quyong2000/final-alfresco-active-endpoints-tech-talk-live-june-12-2009
Show Notes:
Victor Chan and John Judy , Senior Solutions Architects at Active Endpoints, talked about how you can use the ActiveVOS http://www.ActiveVOS.com Business Process Management System (BPMS) and the Alfresco CMS to deliver integrated, end-to-end applications. With its ease-of-use, standards-compliance and affordability, Victor and John demonstrated how ActiveVOS can be used to rapidly incorporate advanced workflows within existing installations and solutions, including process governance, task management and rich process visibility.
Demo download link: http://www.activevos.com/alfresco-download.php
Episode 28
Date: June 5
Title: Alfresco Share Extensions
Panel: Russ Danner
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p63714195/
Podcast Recording: N.A.
Show Notes:
Russ Danner, Senior Architect at Rivet Logic, talked about how the Alfresco DM repository, Share and WCM can be used in concert with one another to create a superior authoring and management solution for enterprise and Web content. Russ demonstrated how, through simple extensions to Share, Alfresco provides first-class collaboration around content that is intended for many consumption channels including the Web, wire feeds, PDF, print and so on.
Episode 27
Date: May 15st, 2009
Title: CMIS Dashlet
Panel: Ugo Cei
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p78863633/
Podcast Recording: N.A.
Show Notes:
Ugo is Principal Consultant at Sourcesense, Europe’s leading Open Source systems integrator. He has more than 15 years’ expertise in enterprise software architecture development using Web- and Java-based technologies.
His passion for Open Source was ignited when curiosity caused him to install a Linux distribution received in error; today he is an active committer and Project Management Committee member on several initiatives at the Apache Software Foundation.
Ugo is an Alfresco Certified Trainer and is continuously delivering Alfresco courses in Italy, Holland and United Kingdom.
He is a regular presenter at Open Source events and conferences, such as OSCON, RailsConf, and ApacheCon.
Ugo showed us how to leverage CMIS in a portal environment to build a generic repository browser portlet.
Episode 26
Date: May 1st, 2009
Title: Web Scripts Testing Framework
Panel: Hernan Seoane
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p99379474/
Podcast Recording: N.A.
Show Notes:
Hernan Seoane is a Java Developer at Globant (Argentina) currently working as a contractor for Orbitz Worldwide. He’s been developing in Java for 3 years, mainly focusing on Web applications, and especially Content Management Systems. Since last year, he’s been working with the Orbitz team to develop customizations of Alfresco that provide advanced features to handle their site content.
Hernan talked about a Web Script Testing Framework which he designed with Martin Moreyra (Developer, Globant). The testing framework is an Alfresco extension that allows developers to test their Alfresco Web Scripts using what they refer to as Test Web Scripts.
Episode 25
Date: April 17th, 2009
Title: FSR Callbacks
Panel: Peter Monks
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p10687876/
Podcast Recording: N.A.
Show Notes:
Peter talked about the WCM deployment forge project that he has been working on. His presentation and demonstration were focused on the best practices in using FSR Callbacks.
====Episode 24====
Date: April 3rd, 2009
Title: Surf Deployment
Panel: Ben Hagan
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p76035939/
Podcast Recording: N.A.
Show Notes:
Ben talked about using WCM with a SURF web application – A demonstration of configuring Alfresco WCM for deploying and consuming WCM content from a SURF web application.
Episode 23
Date: March 20th, 2009
Title: Adobe AIR-based Share Activity Feed App and Lightweight Tracking System
Panel: Luis Sala and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p23672517/
Podcast Recording: N.A
Show Notes:
Luis demoed his Adobe AIR-based desktop app that retrieves activity feeds from Alfresco Share. Yong showed his light weight tracking system he built for Alfresco Share.
Episode 22
Date: March 6th, 2009
Title: Kofax/Alfresco Integration
Panel: Jason Jolley
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p14235762/
Show Notes:
Jason Jolley is Director of Application Development at Micro Strategies, Inc. He demoed a new Alfresco Kofax Release Script built upon the power of Alfresco’s Web Script Framework. The presentation includes a detailed architecture discussion and a demonstration of how to configure and customize the release script.
Episode 21
Date: February 20th, 2009
Title: CMIS Explorer
Panel: Shane Johnson
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p95488711/
Show Notes:
Shane Johnson, a senior consultant at CITYTECH, demonstrated the CMIS Explorer as a means of showcasing CMIS. He talked briefly about ATOM. For each functional item in the explorer Shane showed the CMIS services called behind the scenes. After the demo, he also discussed a few more services in detail. Finally, he wrapped it up by discussing how/why/when CMIS should be used.
0. ATOM 1. CMIS Explorer a. Repository Info (Properties & Capabilities) b. Types c. Browser (Children) I. Drag n Drop (Create Document) II. Dran n Drop (Get Content Stream) d. Search (Query) 2. Additional Services a. Create Folder b. Delete Object c. Set Content Stream d. Check-In/Out e. Cancel Check-Out f. Get All Versions g. Get Type Definition h. Get Checked-Out Documents 3. Why CMIS?
Episode 20
Date: February 6. 2009
Title: Developing Web Studio Components
Panel: Luis Sala
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p88069283/
Show Notes:
Luis Sala goes through the process of developing a basic component for Web Studio.
Episode 19
Date: January 23, 2009
Title: Alfresco Workflows
Panel: Brian Robinson
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p55771091/
Show Notes:
Brian Robinson walks us through the details of Alfresco's workflow features.
Episode 18
Date: January 9th, 2009
Title: FlexSpacesAir and Calais Integration
Panel: Steve Reiner
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p54262181/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
Steve Reiner, Architect and Founder of Integrated Semantics (flex for enterprise 3.0 blog ) which is developing an open source suite of Flex apps / Flex UI platform (FlexSpaces, FlexibleShare+BI, etc.) for open source enterprise software products.
Steve talked about and demoed the Calais Integration as well as FlexSpacesAir, an Flex-based UI for Alfresco.
Note from Steve: good screen sharing on the correct screen starts at time 10:30 in the recording
2008
Episode 17
Date: December 19th, 2008
Title: Alfresco on PHP Day
Panel: Luis Sala and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p23092708/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
Luis Sala talked about and demoed the Joomla/Alfresco Integration which has just been available to the community. Luis also showed the latest MediaWiki integration.
Yong Qu demoed some initial work for Alfresco/Drupal Integration.
Episode 16
Date: December 5th, 2008
Title: Alfresco Zimlet and Webscript for Web Form
Panel: Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p51575719/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
Yong demoed some new features of Alfresco Zimlet which allows users to archive email into Alfresco repository through drag-n-drop and also search Alfresco documents directly from Zimbra web interface.
Yong also demoed a WCM extension that was developed by Peter Monks, Alfresco Director of Service, which enables WCM Web Forms to generate dynamic schema components through webscripts instead of JSPs on Virtualization Server
Episode 15
Date: November 21st, 2008
Title: Web Studio Update
Panel: Michael G. Uzquiano and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p22333671/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
Michael G. Uzquiano gave us an update on Web Studio, Alfresco’s Visual Web Development Tool for SURF Framework.
Yong Qu demoed an extension that does transformation for WCM documents and images.
Episode 14
Date: November 7st, 2008
Title: Cloud Computing and CMIS Dashlet
Panel: James Urquhart and Richard Im
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p46691391/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
James talks about Cloud Computing. Richard shows his CMIS based dashlet for Alfresco share.
Episode 13
Date: October 24th, 2008
Title: Alfresco Community Updates, Rule Condition Customization and Google Gadget Dashlet.
Panel: Nancy Garrity, Jean Barmash and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p14964978/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
Nancy Garrity, Alfresco Community Manager, gives us an update on Alfresco Community. Jean Barmash talks about ARMA conference and show a custom rule condition for Javascript. Yong Qu shows a Google Gadget dashlet for Alfresco Share.
Episode 12
Date: October 10th, 2008
Title: Alfresco S3 Connector and Share Customization
Panel: Luis Sala and Yong Qu
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p42397884/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
Luis Sala presents the Alfresco Amazon S3 connector he developed and did a short demo on the connector. Yong Qu showed the looking-n-feel customization he did on Alfresco share including a custom theme, a drag-n-drop and resizable layout, a custom chrome which enabels dashlet resizing and a custom page.
Episode 11
Date: September 19th, 2008
Title: CMIS Talk
Panel: Jean Barmash, Luis Sala, David Caruana
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p27619337/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
We discuss the recently introduced CMIS draft specification.
Episode 10
Date: September 5. 2008
Title: Resources Galore
Panel: Jean Barmash & Co.
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p28942424/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 available
Show Notes:
Jean goes through an overview of Alfresco's online resources for the community.
Episode 9
Date: August 29, 2008
Title: Java-Backed Web Scripts and Orbeon Integration
Panel: Lee Faus
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p83023930/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 Available.
Show Notes:
Lee Faus takes us through a Web Script that masquerades as an admin user and leverages that script to integrate with the Orbeon XForms tool.
Episode 7
Date: August, 7th 2008
Title: Surf & Share
Panel: Jean Barmash, Yong Qu, Peter Monks, others.
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p81993176/
Show Notes:
We review Alfresco Labs 3, Alfresco Share, look at a few components created with Alfresco Surf, and talk about how to create dynamic drop downs in Alfresco, as well as answer a few questions.
Episode 6
Date: TBD
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p23762131/
Show Notes:
Overview of Zimbra integration, Optaros' Custom UI and Alfresco Share (aka Slingshot)
Episode 5
Date: June 27th, 2008
Web Recording: http://alfresco.na3.acrobat.com/p24609688/
Episode 4
Date: June 13, 2008
Title: So much to say, so little time!
Panel: Luis Sala, Jean Barmash, Steve Reiner
Web Recording: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/p86643473/
Podcast Recording: http://s3.alfrescodemo.com/ttl/TechTalkLive0004.mp3
Show Notes:
In this session, we talk about
- Alfresco email integration
- Alfresco Cluster Images for Amazon EC2 - http://ihatecubicle.blogspot.com/2008/05/alfresco-cluster-in-compute-cloud.html
- FlexSpaces - http://www.integratedsemantics.org
- Alfresco 3.0 / Slingshot
Episode 3
Date: June 6th, 2008
Title: Acrobat and Slingshot
Panel: Luis Sala, Jared Ottley, Michael Uzquiano
Web Recording: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/p96891573/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 is currently available
Show Notes:
In this session we talk about Acrobat.com, Google Gadgets, Simple Wiki, and Alfresco 3.0 / Slingshot.
Episode 2
Date: May 16, 2008
Title: Clusters and clusters, Oh My!
Panel: Luis Sala, Michael Uzquiano, Peter Monks, Michael Farman, Jean Barmash
Web Recording: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/p93254932/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 is currently available
Show Notes:
In this episode we discuss the NYC Meetup, clustering tips and tricks, a little about WCM and some miscellaneous Alfresco topics.
Episode 1
Date: April 25, 2008
Title: Can you hear me now?
Panel: David Caruana, Luis Sala, Scott Davis, Jared Ottley, Jean Barmash, Richard Im, Jeff Potts
Web Recording: http://alfresco.acrobat.com/p18701924/
Podcast Recording: No MP3 is currently available.
Show Notes:
Aside from a few minor audio issues, our first episode went quite well. We talk about the Barcelona Community Conference, the 3.0 roadmap, WCM, ADW, LDAP, and Backups.
Questions Addressed (in rough order):
- Is it possible to let users be created on the fly when using Kerberos Authentication? I am asking because I have more than 100000 accounts where only a few will be using Alfresco. Now when I enable LDAP sync it will sync all accounts (including creating home spaces for them). This takes a long time.
- With regards to WCM and deploying on a remote server, I believe the remote server needs an Alfresco instance running on it - does that instance need access to the same DB as the authoring Alfresco instance?
- Are web forms going to be available on the DM Side?
- How do you do archiving with Alfresco?
- How do you backup Alfresco without shutting it down? (Hot Backups)
- Is it possible to list the users in workflow without having to sync them?
- We are thinking of deploying Alfresco on a Virtual Server running Centos with 4GB of RAM, 250GB Oracle DB, and 1TB Filestore. Is 4GB adequate for that?
- Is there a way to run a script with "admin" authority? So we can move a document to the folder that the user running the script does not have access to?
Episode X
Date: TBD
Title: TBD
Panel: TBD
Web Recording: http://[placeholder]
Presentation Slides: http://[placeholder]
Show Notes:
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