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Adobe, Customer Experience Management and Day Software

July 27th, 2010 · No Comments · CMIS, Content management, Inspiration, Open source, RIA, Uncategorized

Adobe has just announced a definitive agreement stipulating its intent to acquire Day Software. This acquisition will bolster Adobe’s leadership in Customer Experience Management, bringing Day’s industry-leading Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management and Social Collaboration applications, better known collectively as CQ, and Web scale content application infrastructure (CRX) together with Adobe’s LiveCycle, Connect and [...]

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Understanding LiveCycle ES2′s application model

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Adobe, Content management, LiveCycle, Services, Technology

Note: If you’re visiting this blog from the Adobe LiveCycle Developer Center or from the Adobe LiveCycle Blog, welcome to my musings. You’re invited to tell me what you want to know about LiveCycle via a comment. Thanks in advance! This longer-than-usual post is intended to help customers understand why the new application model exists [...]

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Rich Internet Applications

December 29th, 2009 · No Comments · Adobe, Inspiration, LiveCycle, RIA, Smart clients

During the MAX 2009 conference, Duane Nickull was interviewed by DZone on the subject of RIA architectures. As an architect, I appreciated Duane’s comments about the responsibility of architects, versus developers, where RIAs are concerned (e.g. focusing on and valuing interaction design and user experience, distilling key business requirements by working closely with those the [...]

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Submitting VMware Workstation 7 to install

November 29th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Development Toolbox, Technology

Roughly a month ago, VMware released a new major version of its Workstation (and Fusion) software (i.e. 7.0 (and 3.0, respectively)). So, it seemed like a good time to upgrade from version 6.5.3. Past protocol suggested the following approach: uninstall old, reboot, and install new. Unfortunately, and unexpectedly, this approach failed to result in an [...]

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PDF from Confluence

November 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Content management, Development Toolbox

Atlassian’s Confluence software offers a decent collaboration canvas in the form of an enterprise wiki. For example, Confluence can support the practice of “living and active” specifications (instead of, for example, obsolete-once-authored-in-Word specs). Often, though, it’s good to have a more self-contained snapshot in hand (e.g. increase traceability from one review-based state to another, support [...]

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