Jeff Potts

Jeff Potts
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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Jon Udell's got a dream job. Check out his lastest screencast that showcases some of his cool hacks.

Content, services, and the yin-yang of intermediation. Today's four-minute screencast is about content, services, AutoLink, LibraryLookup, Greasemonkey, Google Maps, and OpenSearch. ... [Jon's Radio]

12:24:12 PM

Customizing XML Application Behavior with Java and Type based Business Objects (TBOs). Sometimes it's necessary to customize the operations supported by Documentum XML Applications to apply business logic and enforce object-specific business rules. Often this can be implemented only by developing additional code. This article discusses writing Java code that can be called from within an XML configuration file and implement a TBO to satisfy these needs. [EMC Documentum Developer Program - New Content]
12:00:39 PM

Transformation Service (BOF 1.0 Service-based Object). This service provides an interface to apply an XSL stylesheet to an XML document. It uses the DFC Transformation APIs to achieve its purpose and provides the result of the transformation as raw data that can be used by presentation layer for display. In the example provided, the output is saved to an HTML file. UPDATED 31 March, 2005 [EMC Documentum Developer Program - New Content]
12:00:20 PM

Learning about content management with Typo3. One of the social benefits of open source packages is that anyone can download them and start learning -- not just about that platform -- but about content management systems in general. In our experience, this is particularly valuable for developers. For example, you can easily download Typo3, a popular PHP-based system, and run it on your laptop or local network (the installer will unpack Apache and MySQL if you don't already have). By playing around with the tool, you can learn a lot of CMS concepts, such as templating, user management, applying pre-set functions and components, embedding custom code snippets, and so on.... [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
11:58:35 AM

Continuing the open-source riff. A major competitor to Typo3 is Mambo CMS. The two projects are organized rather differently, but both run on a LAMP platform and each boasts a worldwide following. Here is a nice story on the history of the Mambo project, with additional perspective on their recent legal travails...... [CMSWatch Trends and Features]
11:58:00 AM

Documentum has announced that their new major release, 5.3, has shipped.

The most noteworthy bullets from the new release:

- Linux support across the stack
- Content Rendition Services re-architected and rolled up with other "transformation" products into Content Transformation Services
- Integration of eRoom into the Content Server including the ability to associate a discussion with any object
- Integration of records management retention policies into the core content server
- WDK usability changes (Note: They call them "enhancements" but I'll wait until I've seen them for myself before I use that word!)

9:06:12 AM