Comments on: Review: Alfresco Developer Guide [Part I]

By: Pie

Pie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:35:33 +0000

Thanks Johnny. Looking forward to you getting back into blogging. I’ll try and keep the reviews churning to try and keep a useful pace for you to comment upon as I go.

By: johnnygee

johnnygee — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:48:54 +0000

Great minds must think alike! I just finished reading “Alfresco Enterprise Content Management Implementation” and just got “Alfresco Developer’s Guide” in the mail yesterday.

The Enterprise Content Management book has a good overview and was useful for me in introducing the architecture and overall concepts. The security model is entirely different than DCTM, but I guess it has to be to make it less complex. I’m looking forward to reading the Developer’s Guide and start playing around with Alfresco configuration and customization.

One of these days, I’ll get back to blogging, instead of just commenting on your blog. I do appreciate your continual contribution to the community PIE.

By: Pie

Pie — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:55:23 +0000

Thanks for the links, advice, and encouragement. I’ll look at the other reviews, after I am done reading. I try for a clean slate on these things.

By: doquent

doquent — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:37:38 +0000

It is heartening to see you explore Alfresco. Even though Documentum has been earning my bread-and-butter for some time now, two years ago I started exploring Alfresco for couple of reasons. I am fond of open source options when they are good. Further, at that time, I had walked away from the safety of a paycheck (had steady jobs over previous ten years). I needed to diversify my skills to keep them marketable to a larger customer base. I found that it could serve core content management needs for many organizations. The platform has been evolving and I am really glad to see it on the world stage with the big players. As far as reviewing this book goes, some reviews exist today (see this post and reviews on Amazon). Though you should not let them influence your review it might be worth corroborating or challenging the statements made in those reviews. Thanks for taking the time for an in-depth review of this book and sharing with others.