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Alfresco Tech Talk – CMIS

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

What went right?

  • I was able to demo the CMIS explorer live.
  • I was able to demo Sten’s CMIS visualizer live.
  • I was able to walk through my prepared OO presentation.

What went wrong?

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Flex/AIR, CMIS, & Alfresco

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Intro

Last week I started building a CMIS browser with Adobe AIR.

I have built POCs with Flex before, but that was about it. Then, I downloaded thwirl and I remembered why I like AIR so much. It was easy to install, the UI is nice, and I imagine it was not too difficult to write. This is also a great example of why I like RESTful services too. I believe in the physical separation of the presentation tier, and working with RESTful services is a breeze. So is writing them for that matter. Twitter is a great example of building a social services platform and allowing for the development of third party applications to utilize it. It is a win, win situation. Perhaps ‘platform’ is the key word there. I’d like to shift from building web applications to building web platforms.

So, I decided to build a CMIS browser with AIR.

Update: The CMIS Explorer is now available for download. See this post.

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