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Alfresco is an open source platform for Enterprise Content Management solutions. ECM includes things like Document Management, Web Content Management, Collaboration/Enterprise 2.0, Digital Asset Management, Records Management, and Imaging. At its core is a repository for rich content like documents, web assets, XML, and multimedia. The repository is surrounded by a services layer (supporting both SOAP and REST) that makes getting content into and out of the repository a breeze, which is why so many next generation Internet solutions are built on Alfresco.

Implementing Alfresco usually involves extending the repository to accommodate your business-specific metadata and business logic. These extensions are done using some combination of Java, JavaScript, XML, and FreeMarker.

This book takes you through a set of exercises as if you were rolling out and customizing the platform for a fictional organization called SomeCo, which wants to roll out Alfresco enterprise-wide. Each department has a set of requirements that need addressed. We will show you how to extend Alfresco to meet these requirements. By the time you've worked through the entire book, you will be familiar with the entire platform. You'll be prepared to make your own customizations whether they are part of a Document Management solution, a web site that uses Alfresco for content storage, or an entire custom application built on Alfresco's REST API. This book will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to make Alfresco do what you need it to do.

Appoach

This book focuses on teaching by example. Every chapter provides a bit of an overview, and then dives right in to hands-on examples so you can see and play with the solution in your own environment. All code samples run on both the latest Enterprise and Labs release.

Audience

This book will be most useful to developers who are writing code to customize Alfresco for their organization or who are creating custom applications that sit on top of Alfresco.

This book is for Java developers, and you will get most from the book if you already work with Java but you need not have prior experience on Alfresco. Although Alfresco makes heavy use of open source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, JavaServer Faces, and Lucene, no prior experience using these is assumed.

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This well-crafted and easy-to-use book is a complete guide to implementing enterprise content management in your business using Alfresco It guides you through creating smart, collaborative content repositories, and shows how to use Alfresco to create more elegant document sharing, better collaborative working, and reliable automated workflow processes.

Alfresco offers Enterprise Content Management (ECM) aspires to be "Documentum fast and free", and was founded by a former Documentum executive. Alfresco is Java based, and can store a wide range of digital content in flexible, smart "spaces". Content is accessible through a web interface, shared network folders, FTP, WebDav, and other methods. Users can set up Alfresco to process content in certain ways, according to business rules and workflow requirements. It can also apply version control to documents automatically, making it easy and safe to collaborate and update documents.

Alfresco is regarded as the most powerful open-source enterprise content management system. Using Alfresco, administrators can easily create rich, shared content repositories. This book shows you how to unleash this power to create collaborative working systems in your enterprise. This book will take you through the complete cycle of planning, implementing and customizing your ECM installation.

Among the many topics covered are :
Working with users and membership accounts, including LDAP integration Using Alfresco as a Smart document repository
Working with automatic version tracking and control, and accessing the repository from the Web, shared network folders, or FTP
Making content easy to find using search, content categorization, and metadata
Automating document management tasks with business rules and complete workflows
Working together using Alfresco's collaboration and syndication features to create effective working groups
Customizing the user interface, creating your own dashboard layouts
Presenting content in custom ways relevant to your business

Munwar Shariff is an experienced software trainer for CIGNEX Inc. He has trained many users, administrators, and developers in Alfresco and many other systems. This book distils the hands-on approach of his training courses into a concise, practical book. The emphasis is on getting up and running fast and discovering the scope and power of Alfresco incrementally through practical discovery.

This book is designed for system administrators, experienced users or developers who want to install and use Alfresco in their teams or businesses. Because Alfresco is free many teams can install and experiment with its ECM features without any upfront cost, often without management approval. The book assumes a degree of technical confidence but does not require specialist sysadmin or developer skills to get a basic system up and running. Alfresco is particularly suitable for IT consultants who want or need to set up a flexible enterprise content management system for their clients, be that for demonstration, development, or as a mission-critical platform. This book gets you to that result quickly and effectively.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction to Alfresco
Chapter 2: Installing and getting started with Alfresco
Chapter 3: Planning
Chapter 4: Implementing Membership and Security
Chapter 5: Implementing Document Management
Chapter 6: Implementing Business Rules
Chapter 7: Extending the Alfresco Content Model
Chapter 8: Search
Chapter 9: ImplementingWorkflow
Chapter 10: Collaboration and Syndication
Chapter 11: Customizing User Interface
Chapter 12: Maintaining the System
Chapter 13: Implementing Imaging and Forms Processing.
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When the weather gets warmer, everyone wants to get outside—especially to dine alfresco So spread a blanket on the grass, set out some simple, delicious food and refreshing drinks, and enjoy the sunshine! In Picnics, you’ll find everything you need to put together a beautiful outdoor meal: easy recipes for spring and summer, tips on what to pack (and how to pack it), and even themed menus for truly special feasts.

Fresh, tasty picnic ideas include:

• Easy, enticing starters like Smoked Salmon with Caper Sour Cream and Black Bread, Mini Crab Cakes with Wasabi Mayonnaise, and Coriander Peanut Sauce with Crudités

• Neat-to-eat wraps and sandwiches, including Chilled Meat Loaf Sandwiches with Spicy Ketchup, Grilled Chicken and Swiss with Pesto on Sourdough, and Vegetarian Pita Pockets with Hummus, Marinated Eggplant, and Baby Greens

• Refreshing salads such as Red Potato Salad with Bacon and Fresh Herbs, Minty Cucumber Salad, and Sesame-Glazed Shrimp Salad with Sugar Snap Peas

• Savory dips and spreads like Tangy Roasted Red Pepper Dip and Sweet-and-Hot Mango Chutney, plus the breads that go with them, including Parmesan Cheese Twists, Garlic-Rosemary Focaccia, and Cheddar Corn Bread with Green Chilies

• Portable classic desserts such as Chocolate-Dunked Coconut Macaroons, Strawberry-Almond Scones, and Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

From an all-American Fourth of July picnic to the perfect beach party or poolside snack, Picnics simplifies all the details so you can relax and have fun!.
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The Way We Live Alfresco combines Stafford Cliff's unerring eye with the remarkable photography of Gilles de Chabaneix to present a marvelous portrayal of the delights of living alfresco. An indispensable reference for getting the best of living outdoors, this book is organized into five specific sections: Outside the Home, Transitional Spaces, Rooms Outside, Bringing the Outside In, and Living Outside.

Each fully illustrated section brings the reader to the heart of what it means to live and dine alfresco-in the open, but closely in touch with the good things of life. From buildings specifically created away from the main home, to the decorative use of natural objects such as stones and leaves inside the home, this book will provide an endless source of inspiration for those seeking to bring comfort and style to their outdoor living.

With 300 full-color photographs that take advantage of every opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons and connections, The Way We Live Alfresco is sure to dazzle every reader with the beauties of the alfresco lifestyle.

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"The latest fashion among young city-dwellers, providing a new advertising niche for manufacturers of luxury products, is the good old family picnic."-Le Monde

"An upper-class English ritual traditionally confined to rural French life, the picnic has been rebranded."-The Economist

"The great charm of this social device is undoubtedly the freedom it affords. . . . To eat cold chicken and drink iced claret under trees, amid the grass and the flowers."-Appleton's Journal of Literature, Science, and Art, 1869

Urban picnics are a hot foodie trend right now; from The Economist to Le Monde, food journalists and lovers the world around are jumping on the blanket. Like so many of us, they want to put their hectic city lives on hold and enjoy themselves-without having to head off into the hinterland. The Urban Picnic is designed for modern gourmands and kitchen newcomers alike to inspire them to introduce a little pleasure and picnickery into their lives. With an irreverent and highly opinionated history of the picnic, strange accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, original illustrations and over 200 recipes-many contributed from renowned chefs such as Nigella Lawson, Mark Bittman, Regan Daley and Bob Blumer-it's the essential how-to (and how-not-to) for anyone who was ever looking for a tasty little morsel to eat under that tree that grows in Brooklyn. Two-color throughout.

Recipes include:

Barbecued Lemon Chicken (Anne Lindsay)
Banana-Strawberry Layer Cake (Regan Daley)
Mint Julep Peaches (Nigella Lawson)
Chicken Liver Crostini (Umberto Menghi)
Ahi Tuna Salad with Green Papaya (Rob Feenie)

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Walking home late one night from a party, Napa Valley restaurant owner Sunny McCoskey happens upon the shocking sight of a murdered woman, bound and hanging from the tree of a local vineyard Shortly before, she'd seen a truck leaving a local winery, driving without its headlights on. Was it the murderer? And did the murderer see her as well? Sunny's investigation introduces her to a whole new array of colorful characters and suspects, including a hardy contingent of Northern California surfers and a shady community of houseboaters. With the help of her lively and irreverent crew of friends, Sunny uncovers dark motives amid the cool chardonnays, and finds herself the focus of the killer's unwelcome attention..
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What better way to enjoy the great outdoors than to pack a picnic full of fresh and tasty treats to share with good friends?

The Picnics Deck by Food Network star Robin Miller provides everything you need for putting together gourmet spreads that are not only easy to prepare and transport but also bursting with delicious flavors. Featuring recipes for scrumptious salads, sandwiches, dips, desserts, and more, this deck also includes a section of indispensable tips for planning your next picnic in the park, at the beach, or anywhere. Alfresco dining has never been this delectable, elegant, and enjoyable!.
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Returning from a party late one night, chef Sunny McCoskey is the first to discover the body of a murdered woman left outside a local winery, and she may even have witnessed the killer driving away.

Thrust into the center of a crime that has rattled the tranquil Napa Valley, Sunny pursues her own investigation, a journey that takes her from Northern California's wine country to the insular houseboat community along the San Francisco Bay. Uncovering a tangle of secret liaisons, Sunny closes in on the murderer, who responds with one more desperate act.

With Murder Alfresco, author Nadia Gordon again takes us into the heart of the food and wine culture of the Napa and Sonoma Valleys, and introduces us to an array of irreverent characters. As the Los Angeles Times said, "Sunny is a welcome, energetic heroine. . . . She and her pals are fun to be around.".
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