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Open Source and Design: Ideologies Clashing (SXSW Extended Content)
Posted 17 Jun 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Open Source

One of the panels I proposed for SXSW Interactive 2009 was on the intersection of open source and design: Thesis: Open Source and Design are fundamentally philosophically incompatible. Antithesis: Open Source and Design are profoundly similar in core beliefs and approaches. This talk works to articulate a meaningful synthesis between these two positions. Read more ...

Alfresco-Django integration now available on Google Code
Posted 12 Jun 2009 by Jeff Potts | Tags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

The Alfresco-Django code I demo’d in the screencast yesterday is available at Google Code. Read more ...

Screencast: Alfresco Django integration
Posted 11 Jun 2009 by Jeff Potts | Tags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

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. Read more ...

Alfresco 3.1 clustering easier with JGroups
Posted 08 Jun 2009 by Jeff Potts | Tags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

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. Read more ...

Keeping your Alfresco web scripts DRY
Posted 01 Jun 2009 by Jeff Potts | Tags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

One of my teammates thoroughly drenched our under-the-desk development server with a giant cup of coffee once. Somehow, disaster was avoided, although the client’s carpet had a nice coffee-stain outline of the server’s footprint long after the app rolled out which afforded the rest of us endless opportunities to mercilessly haze the clumsy coder. Read more ...

Weaving Identity into the Browser
Posted 14 May 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Open Source

(via Dion Almaer and ReadWriteWeb) Mozilla Labs posted a screencast yesterday of a new feature as part of the Weave project, which enables OpenID at the browser level, which will have potentially significant impact on adoption and use of portable identity technology. Read more ...

Save 15% on Alfresco Developer Guide
Posted 11 May 2009 by Jeff Potts | Tags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Forgive this temporary transgression into a blatant sales pitch, but I’m trying to save you some money. Packt Publishing is offering ECM Architect readers 15% off my book, the Alfresco Developer Guide. To take advantage of the discount: Read more ...

Highlights from the Alfresco Meetup in Chicago
Posted 07 May 2009 by Jeff Potts | Tags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

Other than the drenching I received between the blue line and the hotel (both coming and going) I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Chicago with the Alfresco crew last week. Read more ...

What are Communities Made of? Northeast User Group Leader Summit
Posted 05 May 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Open Source

    Making Ice Cream (Photo by Rachel J) Read more ...

Alfresco User Interface: What are my options?
Posted 20 Apr 2009 by Jeff Potts | Tags: cms, Content Management, Open Source

People often need to build a custom user interface on top of the Alfresco repository and I see a lot of people asking general questions about how to do it. There are lots of options to consider. Here are four options for creating a user interface on top of Alfresco, at a high level: Read more ...

Zeldman on the maturity of Open Source CMS
Posted 20 Apr 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Open Source

Quick excerpt from an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman which includes some discussion of the impact of Open Source, and particularly open source CMS’s, on the process of designing and building web applications: Although I think it’s important to draw a distinction between simple, relatively cheap licensing (the Expression Engine model) and Free and Open Source software, I generally agree that Read more ...

An Online Community is More Than a Place
Posted 16 Apr 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Open Source

Community minus people = empty (Photo by marilynpratt) Read more ...

Leveraging APIs to Grow Your Digital Footprint
Posted 13 Apr 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Advertising, API, application syndication, Assembled Web, Business Model, Community, Content Management, content syndication, Crowdsource, Digital Media, Distributed Development, long-tail, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Online Advertising, Open Innovation, Open Source, publishing, Social Networking, syndicate, User Experience, Web 2.0

While non-profit, community-oriented public radio stations aren't usually seen as being at the forefront of Internet technology, National Public Radio has been quietly making very impressive moves in adjusting to a new set of user expectations and technologies we've termed the Assembled Web. Read more ...

Multiple Communities, Multiple Platforms?
Posted 13 Apr 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Open Source

Found this interesting comment in a blog post by Tony Byrne from CMS Watch on the social software marketplace and the fact that Intel leverages multiple community software vendors: Read more ...

Media Cloud(s) On the Horizon
Posted 11 Apr 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Open Source

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society launched Media Cloud in early March, though it had been quietly available for a few months before that. It’s an exciting concept, limited in its current implementation but sure to grow in utility as more features get added. Read more ...

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