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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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CMIS Interoperability

March 2nd, 2009 · 10 Comments · CMIS, Content management, Open source, Standards, Technology

CMS Wire recently picked up the development of CMIS Explorer by Shane Johnson (@shane_dev) at CityTech. CMIS Explorer (download) is a browser application written in Adobe AIR and Flex that uses the RESTful AtomPub binding of the proposed CMIS standard to interact with CMIS-compliant repositories. Already early access support for CMIS is available from EMC, [...]

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Outliers

December 4th, 2008 · 7 Comments · Ideas, Inspiration, Lessons, Life, Non-fiction, Open source, Random, Site

Since reading Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking and The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, I’ve been looking forward to Malcolm Gladwell‘s next book. Outliers: The Story of Success didn’t disappoint, and I recommend reading it yourself. As the book’s title suggests, Gladwell’s text is about success and outliers; [...]

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Omea is open to the community

March 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Content management, Open source

Now that Michael has publicly posted the official news in the Confluence wiki for Omea and in the newsgroups (i.e. coyly here via a three-part post featuring Esperanto and Alice in Wonderland), I want to also draw attention to this important open source event: http://svn.jetbrains.org/omeaopen. I caught word of this milestone coming via Jeff Loftus. [...]

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Spell checking Java source code

October 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Open source, Technology

If your engineering team is like mine, it’s geographically distributed. Chances are that English is not everyone’s first language either. (To be clear, if you compare my Russian, Chinese or Indian to “their” English, I’m the one that comes up short!) So, I’ve been trying to determine an automated way to spell check Java-based source [...]

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