I attended the first of Alfresco’s Tech Talk Live sessions for this summer and much of the discussion was demonstrations, though I did get to ask some pointed questions about Alfresco’s road map with regard to web content management.
By the way, a recording of the talk is available here. The next one is on [...]

We’ve had a chance to play around with the Ingres/Alfresco bundle a bit more. One of the first things we did was install the WCM extension, which was easier than I imagined. Here are the steps:

Download the WCM extension (zip or tarball) for Alfresco Community 2.1.0.
Extract the archive into the installation directory for [...]

Alfresco and Ingres recently announced a partnership, the first product of which is an all-in-one installer with GUI that installs Apache Tomcat, Java, Ingres, and Alfresco. This gives developers and end users a very easy way to get started with the two technologies, which together form a fully enterprise-ready open source content management solution.
We [...]

It’s official. Tenthline is a now an official Alfresco partner.
Overall, I’m very pleased with the software. The documentation is still the sticking point, but it seems Jeff Potts of ecmarchitect.com will be writing a book. Everything he’s put out so far has been very useful is understanding the software, so I’m looking [...]

Alfresco is turning out to be a very interesting CMS. It seems to have its roots in managing enterprise documents, and that sort of enterprise feel permeates the design, even when one is using web content management.
So far, learning it has been a rapid roller coaster of being impressed and being frustrated. The [...]

Since working at Tenthline, I’ve been involved in three major projects. The first, and the largest of these, was working with a heavyweight content management system put out by Fatwire. I hadn’t had much web experience at that point, so working with Content Server was a challenge, but it wasn’t until I played [...]